Allancastria

Taxobox
name = "Allancastria"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Papilionidae
subfamilia = Parnassiinae
genus = "Allancastria"
genus_authority = Bryk , 1932
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Allancastria lourisitana" "Allancastria deyrollei" "Allancastria cretica" "Allancastria cerisyi" "Allancastria caucasica"

"Allancastria" is a genus of Palaearctic swallowtail butterflies in the subfamily Parnassiinae. Five species are known.

References

*Nazari, V., Zakharov, E.V., Sperling, F.A.H., 2007. Phylogeny, historical biogeography, and taxonomic ranking of Parnassiinae (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) based on morphology and seven genes. "Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution", 42: 131-156. [http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/faculty/felix_sperling/uploads/pdfs/Nazari_etal07MBE.pdf] pdf

External Links

*commonscat-inline|Allancastria
* [http://tolweb.org/Allancastria/65401 TOL]
* [http://www.geocities.com/tgorw_sm/paindex.htm?20079 Parnassius of the World]
* [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/entomologydev/butmoth/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=987.0 NHM] Nomenclature.