Parnassius stenosemus

Taxobox
name = "Parnassius stenosemus"
regnum = Animalia


phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Rhopalocera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Papilionidae
genus = "Parnassius"
species = "P. stenosemus"
binomial = "Parnassius stenosemus"
binomial_authority = (Honrath, 1890)

"Parnassius stenosemus" is a high altitude butterfly which is found in India. It is a member of the Snow Apollo genus "Parnassius" of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family."Parnassius stenosemus"was originally described as a "subspecies" of "P. delphius" and has also been regarded as conspecific with "P. stoliczkanus".

It was treated as a good species by Bryk (1935), a view accepted by many later authors including Weiss (1992).

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 Parnaasius of the World] Text and photos.