Kingdom Animalia Order Lepidoptera Genus Parnassius Higher classification Parnassius | Phylum Arthropoda Family Papilionidae Scientific name Parnassius phoebus Rank Species | |
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Similar Parnassius, Butterflies and moths, Butterfly, Swallowtail butterfly, Apollo | ||
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Parnassius phoebus, known as the Phoebus Apollo or small Apollo, is a butterfly species of the family of swallowtail butterflies (Papilionidae) found in Eurasia and North America.
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- Description
- Larval foods
- References
P. phoebus is found in the Alps, Urals, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Alaska and Canada south through the United States to Utah and New Mexico.
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Description
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 half-moons, 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.
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