Parnassius phoebus (Fabricius, 1793)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Papilionidae → subfamily Parnassiinae → tribe Parnassiini → genus Parnassius → species Parnassius phoebus

Species name(s)

Parnassius phoebus (Fabricius, 1793) = Parnassius delius = Papilio phoebus Fabricius, 1793 = Papilio delius Esper, [1803] = Parnassius phoebus (Fabricius, 1793). [9, 10, 85]

Small Apollo.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 4.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic, Nearctic.

Russia regions

#15. Severo-Uralsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #21. Severo-Yeniseisky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #30. Vostochno-Yakutsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #33. Severo-Okhotomorsky; #34. Kamchatsky; #35. Sredne-Okhotsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #40. Primorsky.

Primary colors

Red, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Parnassius delius. [85].

Distribution

Austria, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union - the European part of, Switzerland. [1].
Austria, Germany, Italy (mainland), Russia ?, France (mainland), Switzerland. [10].
Regions of Russia: Eastern Yakutia, Gorno-Altai, Kamchatka, Krasnoyarsk, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, the North-Yenisei, North Okhotsk Sea, the North-Ural, Mid-Amur, Average Okhotsk, Mid-Ural, South Yakutia . [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Saxifraga, Saxifraga aizioides, S. calycina, S. nivalis, Sempervivum montanum, S. tectorum, Sedum, S. album, S. debile, S. lanceolatum, S. obtusatum, S. stenopetalum, S. wrightii, Rhodiola rosea. [28].

Subspecies of Parnassius phoebus

Parnassius phoebus alaskensis Eisner, 1956. [9]
P. p. apricatus Stichel, 1906. [9]
P. p. confederationis. [9]
P. p. corybas Fischer von Waldheim, 1824. [9]
P. p. elias Bryk, 1934. [9]
P. p. fortuna Bang-Haas, 1912. [9]
P. p. golovinus Holland, 1930. [9]
P. p. intermedius Ménétriés, 1851. [9]
P. p. interpositus Herz, 1903. [9]
P. p. ochotskensis Bryk & Eisner, 1931. [9]
P. p. phoebus Fabricius, 1793. [186]
P. p. sacerdos (Stichel, 1906). [10]
P. p. sauricus Lukhtanov, 1999. [9]
P. p. sedakovi Ménétriés, [1850]. [9]
P. p. uralensis Ménétriés, 1859. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Svyatoslav Knyazev, Mario Maier.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[186] Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database, http://www.itis.gov