Allancastria cretica

Taxobox
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image_size = 230px
image_caption = Museum specimen. Crete.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Papilionidae
subfamilia = Parnassiinae
genus = "Allancastria"
species = "A.cretica"
binomial = "Allancastria cretica"
binomial_authority = Rebel, 1904

"Allancastria cretica" is a butterfly belonging to the family Papilionidae. It is found only on the Greek island of Crete where it is, then, an endemic species.

References

*Carbonell, F., 1996 Contribution à la connaissance du genre Allancastria Bryk (1934): Morphologie, biologie et écologie d’Allancastria cretica (Rebel, 1904) (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). "Linneana Belgica" 15: 303-308.
*Hürter, W., 2001. Ein Beitrag zur Biologie einiger Populationen des Zerynthia (Allancastria) Artenkreises in der östlichen Mediterraneis (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). "Entomologische Zeitschrift" 111: 8-17.

External Links

* [http://tolweb.org/Allancastria_cretica/65420 TOL]