Archon apollinus

Taxobox
name = False Apollo

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image_caption = Photograph of a specimen from Syria
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Papilionidae
subfamilia = Parnassiinae
genus = "Archon"
species = "A. apollinus"
binomial = "Archon apollinus"
binomial_authority = (Herbst, 1789)The False Apollo, "Archon apollinus" is a species of butterfly belonging to the Parnassinae Subfamily. The species is found in Central and Eastern Europe and West Asia. They are found in Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Lebanon, and like others of the family show considerable variation with four or five subspecies. A morphologically similar species "Archon apollinaris" has been recently separated and has been found to by sympatric and reproductively isolated.

Older individuals often lose their scales, especially on the forewings, and appear very transparent.

The larvae feed on species of "Aristolochia" including "A. poecilantha", "A. parviflora", "A. bodamae", "A. hirta", "A. bottae", "A. auricularia", "A. rotunda", "A. sempervirens", "A. maurorum" and "A. billardieri".

References

* Nazari, Vazrick and Carbonell, Frédéric. 2006. "Archon apollinus" (Herbst, 1789). Version 07 July 2006 (under construction). [http://tolweb.org/Archon_apollinus/65403/2006.07.07] in The Tree of Life Web Project, [http://tolweb.org/]