Parnassius baileyi
| Bailey's Apollo | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Parnassius |
| Species: | P. baileyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Parnassius baileyi South, 1913 | |
Bailey's Apollo, Parnassius baileyi, is a high altitude butterfly which is found in S.W. China (Sichuan, northern Yunnan and eastern Tibet). It is a member of the snow Apollo genus Parnassius of the swallowtail family, Papilionidae.
The taxonomic status of this butterfly is uncertain. Parnassius baileyi was originally described as a subspecies of Parnassius acco, later as a subspecies of P. rothschildianus Bryk, 1931 and also P. przewalskii(Alpherakyi 1887), and now also treated as a separate species (Weiss 1992), (Chou, 1994). molecular studies suggest it is the sister species of Parnassius acco.
The butterfly was named for Frederick Marshman Bailey who collected the first specimens.
Subspecies
- Parnassius baileyi baileyi
- Parnassius baileyi bubo Bryk, 1938
- Parnassius baileyi rothschildianus Bryk, 1931
References
- Chou, I. (ed) 1994. Monographia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium (Monograph of Chinese Butterflies) [in Chinese]. Henan Scientific and Technological Publishing House, Zhengzhou.
- Weiss, J.-C. 1992. The Parnassiinae of the World. Part 2. Sciences Nat, Venette; 87 pp.
- Chen, Yong-Jiu et al. 1999 The Phylogeny of 5 Chinese Peculiar Parnassius Butterflies Using Noninvasive Sampling mtDNA Sequences Journal of Genetics and Genomics 26(3): 203-207
External links
- NRM Holotype of baileyi in the Swedish museum of Natural History where it is regarded as a subspecies of Parnassius acco
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