| Parnassius phoebus | (Fabricius, 1793) |
TL: Russia, Altai (1600 - 2800 m.)
Male: the costal spots of forewing usually without red, the anterior one sometimes with white pupil; submarginal band faint and abbreviated or interrupted ; no spot at hind margin ; hindwing with red ocelli which are usually small, and sometimes with a submarginal row of feebly marked black spots; the veins often marked with well-defined elongate black punctures.
Female: with better defined and more extended markings; vitreous margin of forewing separated from the submarginal band by large white uniform spots ; the second costal spots often pupilled red, connected with one another by black scaling, on disc sometimes blackish shadows; on hindwing a greyish vitreous marginal band, distinct submarginal halfmoons, which are contiguous, forming a band, two larger red ocelli, the posterior one occasionally with white pupil; anal spots sometimes intensified and one of them filled in with red.
Habitat
- Gorges
- Mountain meadows
- Rocky slopes
45-55 mm
- Local names
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Language Vernacular name 
DeutschAlpen-Apollo DeutschHochalpen-Apollo 
EnglishPhoebus Apollo EnglishSmall Apollo 
FrançaisPetit Apollon 
ItalianoFebo 
MagyarSvájci apolló-lepke 
NederlandsKleine apollovlinder 
SuomeksiVuoriapollo 
РусскийАполлон Феб 
ქართულიალპური აპოლონი 
中文福布绢蝶
- Synonyms and other combinations
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Latin name Author Parnassius clarius Eversmann, 1843 Parnassius ariadne Lederer, 1853 Parnassius sacerdos Stichel, 1906
- Subspecies
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Species Author Parnassius (Parnassius) phoebus bajangolus Yakovlev, 2006 Parnassius (Parnassius) phoebus bulawskii Gluschenko & Martynenko, 2000 Parnassius (Parnassius) phoebus chingizid Yakovlev, 2006 Parnassius (Parnassius) phoebus corybas Fischer de Waldheim, 1824 Parnassius (Parnassius) phoebus halasicus Huang & Murayama, 1992 Parnassius (Parnassius) phoebus interposita Herz, 1903 Parnassius (Parnassius) phoebus phoebus (Fabricius, 1793) Parnassius (Parnassius) phoebus tsenguun Churkin, 2003 Parnassius (Parnassius) phoebus uralensis Ménétriés, 1859
- Links
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Language Website Authors Butterflies and Moths of North America Butterflies of America A.Warren, K.Davis, M.Stangeland euroButterflies Matt Rowling Lepidoptera and their ecology Wolfgang Wagner Lepiforum e. V. Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa Paolo Mazzei Noctuidae of North America North American Moth Photographers Group Russian insects Ilya Osipov Schmetterling - Raupe Walter Schön UK Butterflies Peter Eeles
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