Biology:Parnassiinae

Short description: Subfamily of butterflies

Parnassiinae
Small Apollo (Parnassius phoebus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Subfamily:	Parnassiinae
Tribes
See text

The Parnassiinae or snow Apollos are a subfamily of the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae. The subfamily includes about 50 medium-sized, white or yellow species. The snow Apollos are high-altitude butterflies and are distributed across Asia, Europe and North America.

Tribes

Parnassinae Parnassiini   Hypermnestra     Parnassius     Luehdorfiini     Archon     Doritites bosniackii       Luehdorfia     Zerythiini   Sericinus       Bhutanitis       Zerynthia     Allancastria           ? Thaites

A proposed phylogeny of the Parnassius and related groups.

This subfamily consists of the following tribes:

• Luehdorfiini
• Parnassiini
• Zerynthiini

Gallery

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  Hypermnestra helios
  tribe Parnassiini
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  Mountain Apollo
  (Parnassius apollo)
  tribe Parnassiini
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  Clouded Apollo
  (Parnassius mnemosyne)
  tribe Parnassiini
• 

  False Apollo
  (Archon apollinus)
  tribe Luehdorfiini
• 

  Japanese luehdorfia
  (Luehdorfia japonica)
  tribe Luehdorfiini
• 

  Southern festoon
  (Zerynthia polyxena)
  tribe Zerythiini
• 

  Eastern festoon
  (Allancastria cerisyi)
  tribe Zerythiini
• 

  Bhutan glory
  (Bhutanitis lidderdalii)
  tribe Zerythiini

Further reading

• Glassberg, Jeffrey Butterflies through Binoculars, The West (2001)
• Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. Butterflies of British Columbia (2001)
• James, David G. and Nunnallee, David Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies (2011)
• Pelham, Jonathan Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (2008)
• Pyle, Robert Michael The Butterflies of Cascadia (2002)

External links

• Tree of Life Parnassiinae
• Fauna Europaea
• Parnassius gallery
• Butterflies and Moths of North America
• Butterflies of America

Wikidata ☰ Q773859 entry