Parnassius felderi

Taxobox
name = "Felder's Apollo"'
regnum = Animalia


phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Rhopalocera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Papilionidae
genus = "Parnassius"
species = "P. felderi"
binomial = "Parnassius felderi"
binomial_authority = Bremer, 1861

Felder's Apollo "Parnassius felderi" is a high altitude butterfly which is found in Amur, Ussuri and China, North Korea and Japan. It is a member of the Snow Apollo genus "Parnassius" of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family.

"P. felderi" is considered conspecific with "Parnassius eversmanni" by most authors but a good species by Weiss (1999).

References

Weiss, J.C., 1999. "The Parnassiinae of the world" Part 3. Sci. Nat. Venette, France.

External Links

* [http://rusinsects.com/p-feld.htm Rusinsects]