Archon apollinaris

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Archon apollinaris
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Archon
Species:
A. apollinaris
Binomial name
Archon apollinaris
(Staudinger, 1892)

Archon apollinaris is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.Seitz states-In the North-East of Asia Minor, Goman Olti (Pontus, at an altitude of about 1500 m), and in Armenia a usually smaller, pale and in both sexes sparsely marked mountain-form of Archon apollinus occurs, which is moreover characterized bya reduced marginal band of the hindwing; this is apollinaris Stgr. (= pallidior Spuler) (10 d); a dwarfed form of the female which is very deeply coloured in contrast to the ordinary form of the female of this subspecies may be called -ab. mardina (Stgr. i. I.), under which name it is already known in collections. [1]

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References

  1. Hans Stichel in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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