Parnassius honrathi

Honraths's Apollo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Parnassius
Species: P. honrathi
Binomial name
Parnassius honrathi
(Staudinger and A.Bang-Haas,1882

Parnassius honrathi, or Honrath's Apollo, is a high-altitude butterfly which is found in Tajikistan and Afghanistan. It is a member of the snow Apollo genus (Parnassius) of the swallowtail family (Papilionidae).

The butterfly was named to honour Eduard Honrath. It flies on mountain slopes at 2,500-3,000 m above sea level. The larva feeds on Pseudosedum.

Diagnostic characters

It bears a very distant similarity to P. apollonius on account of the external spots of the forewing and the basal one of the hindwing being filled in with red; it differs, however, from that insect specifically in the marginal pattern of the wings. Special distinctions the black venter, legs and antenna are mentioned, the fringes being chequered black and white or entirely black.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Stichel in Seitz, 1906 (Parnassius). Die Groß-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Die Groß-Schmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes. Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, Stuttgart.

Further reading


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