Allancastria cerisyi, the eastern festoon, is an Old World papilionid butterfly whose geographical range extends from the Balkans to include Turkey and the near Middle East. It exhibits several geographical variants.
Thais cerisy Godart, 1822; Mém. Soc. linn. Paris 2: 234, pl. 20, f. 3-4
Allancastria cerisyi cerisyi
Thais cerisyi martini Fruhstorfer, 1906 Soc. Ent. 21 (19): 147, Type locality Rhodos
martini Abadjiev, 2002, Neue Ent. Nachr. 23: 8
A. c. dalmacijae Sala & Bollino, 1994 Dalmatia (Makarska) Type Locality Makarska, Dalmatia, Croatia
A. c. huberi Sala & Bollino, 1994 N.Greece Type Locality Greece, Florina
A. c. ferdinandiStichel, 1907 Albania Bulgaria Type locality Bulgaria
A. c. mihljevici Sijaric, 1990 Hercegowina Type Loality Hercegovina
Literature
Abadjiev, 2002 Types of Balkan butterflies in the collection of The Natural History Museum, London Neue Ent. Nachr. 23: 3-53
Fruhstorfer, 1906 Eine neue Thais von Rhodos Soc. Ent. 21 (19): 147-148
Sala & Bollino, 1994 Allancastria cerisyi Godart, 1922 in the Balkans: News subspecies and critical notes on the existing populations Atalanta 25 (1/2): 151-160
Sijaric, 1990 Taxonomska istrazivania i nove podvrste vrsta roda Zerynthia ne nekim podrucijima Jugoslavije Glasn. zemelj. Mus. Bosni Herceg. (n.s.) 28 (1989): 177-208
Stichel, 1907 Neue Unterarten von Zerynthia cerisyi God. Ent. Z. 21: 177-178
