Parnassius maximinus

Taxobox
name = "Parnassius maximinus"
regnum = Animalia


phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Rhopalocera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Papilionidae
genus = "Parnassius"
species = "P. maximinus"
binomial = "Parnassius maximinus"
binomial_authority = Staudinger, 1891

"Parnassius maximinus" is a high altitude butterfly which is found in Western ranges of the Tien Shan Mountains. It is a member of the Snow Apollo genus "Parnassius" of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family.Previously it was regarded as conspecific with "Parnassius delphius".

References

*Weiss, J.-C. 1992. "The Parnassiinae of the World". Part 2. Sciences Nat, Venette; 87 pp.

External Links

* [http://www.geocities.com/tgorw_sm/paindex.htm Parnassius of the World] Text and photos.
* [http://www.pteron-world.com/topics/classfication/papilionidae/parnassiini2.html#parnassius Pteron] Japanese text and photos.