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Parnassiinae

Parnassiinae
Parnassius phoebus2.jpg
Small Apollo (Parnassius phoebus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Subfamily: Parnassiinae
Tribes

The Parnassiinae or snow Apollos are a subfamily of the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae. The subfamily includes about 50 medium-sized, white or yellow species. The snow Apollos are high-altitude butterflies and are distributed across Asia, Europe and North America.

The tribes recognized in the Parnassinae are Parnassiini, Zerynthiini and Luehdorfiini.

Hypermnestra

Parnassius

Archon

Doritites bosniackii

Luehdorfia

Sericinus

Bhutanitis

Zerynthia

Allancastria

? Thaites


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