Parnassius patricius

Taxobox
name = Parnassius patricius


image_caption = Parnassius patricius
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Papilionidae
genus = "Parnassius"
species = "P. patricius"
binomial = "Parnassius patricius"
binomial_authority = Niepelt, 1850

"Parnassius patricius" is a high altitude butterfly which is found in Kirghizia and Turkmenistan (Turkestanin older literature). It is a member of the Snow Apollo genus "Parnassius" of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family. The larva feeds on "Cysticorydalis fedtschenkoana".