Parnassius charltonius | Gray, [1853] |
TL: China, West Tibet (2800 - 4200 m.)
Male:
Upperside: creamy-white. Fore wing irrorated with black scales at base, along costal margin narrowly and below the upper half of cell at base of interspaces 2 and 3; cell with the usual medial and apical short broad transverse black bars; a short broad, similar, but obliquely placed bar beyond apex of cell from costa to vein 4, its lower portion below vein 5 narrower and bent inwards at an angle; a postdiscal transverse black bar attenuated towards the dorsum and dislocated inwards below vein 5; followed by a broad, posteriorly narrowed, subhyaline terminal edging; cilia white. Hind wing: base and dorsal margin, for four-fifths of its length, broadly and densely irrorated with black scales; a short oblique pretornal dusky-black bar, rarely centred with pink or carmine; a very large pink to deep crimson ocellus, ringed with black and centred with white, in interspaces 4 and 5, crossing vein 5, and a much smaller black spot sometimes centred minutely with pink or crimson in middle of interspace 7; beyond this a postdiscal curved series of five velvety-black spots, each touched inwardly with silvery, superposed on a broad subhyaline dusky transverse band, which is broadest in the middle and is followed by a subterminal, somewhat narrow, dusky-black band, interrupted at the veins; cilia white. Underside similar, with a glassy appearance and similar markings, seen chiefly, however, by transparency from the upperside. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen black, antenna with some few minute white specks; beneath: head and thorax anteriorly with olivaceous pubescence, thorax posteriorly and abdomen covered with long white hairs, which also clothe the dorsal margin of the hind wing.
Female:
Upper and under sides similar to those in the male; differs in the black markings which are broader, the red ocelli on the hind wing that are considerably larger, and in the obliquely placed pretornal short bar that is always centred with red.
Habitat
- Gorges
- Rocky slopes
64 - 70 mm
- Local names
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Language Vernacular name English
Regal Apollo Русский
Аполлон Чарльтона 中文
姹瞳绢蝶
- Primary hostplants
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Family Latin name Vernacular name Papaveraceae Corydalis gortschakovi Papaveraceae Corydalis stricta
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- Synonyms and other combinations
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Latin name Author Koramius charltonius Gray, 1853
- Subspecies
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Species Author Parnassius (Kailasius) charltonius basharianus (Eisner, 1969) Parnassius (Kailasius) charltonius charltonius Grum-Grshimailo, 1885
- Links
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Language Website Authors Butterflies of India Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy Lepiforum e. V. Russian insects Ilya Osipov
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