Parnassius maharaja

Maharaja Apollo
A male specimen from Taglang Pass, Ladakh, in the Ulster Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Parnassius
Species:	P. maharaja
Binomial name
Parnassius maharaja Avinoff, 1916

Maharaja Apollo Parnassius maharaja 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.

Range

North-Western India.

Status

Local. Not known to be threatened.

References

• Collins, N.M., Morris, M.G. (1985) Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World. IUCN. ISBN 2-88032-603-6
• Evans, W.H., (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
• Kunte, Krushnamegh (2000) Butterflies of Peninsular India. Universities Press,Hyderabad. ISBN 81-7371-354-5
• Wynter-Blyth, M.A., (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
• Sakai S., Inaoka S., Toshiaki A., Yamaguchi S., Watanabe Y., (2002) The Parnassiology. The Parnassius Butterflies, A Study in Evolution, Kodansha, Japan. ISBN 4-06-124051-X
• Weiss Jean-Claude, (1999) Parnassiinae of the World, Hillside Books, Canterbury, UK. ISBN 0-9532240-2-3, OCLC 41072974

See also

• Papilionidae
• List of butterflies of India
• List of Butterflies of India (Papilionidae)

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