Allancastria cretica | |
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Museum specimen. Crete. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Papilionidae |
Genus: | Allancastria |
Species: | A. cretica |
Binomial name | |
Allancastria cretica Rebel, 1904 | |
Allancastria cretica is a butterfly belonging to the family Papilionidae. It was described by Rebel in 1904. It is found only on the Greek island of Crete where it is, then, an endemic species. The taxon was originally described as a variation of Allancastria cerisyi , then treated as its subspecies.
The Allancastria cretica imago is a medium-sized ( 50–60 millimetres (2.0–2.4 in) long., [1] white to ochre-white butterfly with black markings, a line of submaginal scallops, and a few red dots on the hindwings. Seitz_-cretica Reb. (9e) occurs on Grete and some Greek islands; a sparsely marked form in which the three teeth of the hindwing mentioned above (A.cerisyi) are indicated only by black curved lines, the edge of the wing not being distinctly excised. Not so common as cerisyi. [2]
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