Allancastria caucasica

Taxobox
name = Allancastria caucasica

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image_size = 230px
image_caption = Museum specimen.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Papilionidae
subfamilia = Parnassiinae
genus = "Allancastria"
species = "A.caucasica"
binomial = "Allancastria caucasica"
binomial_authority = Lederer, 1864

"Allancastria caucasica" is an Old World papilionid butterfly whose geographical range extends from the Black Sea and southern Russia (southern Caucasus Mountains) to Georgia and northeast Turkey. It exhibits several geographical variants.

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.

External Links

* [http://tolweb.org/Allancastria_caucasica TOL]
* [http://rusinsects.com/a-cau.htm Rusinsects]