Parnassiinae

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.^[1] The snow Apollos are high-altitude butterflies and are distributed across Asia, Europe and North America.^[2]

Parnassiinae
Small Apollo (Parnassius phoebus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Subfamily:	Parnassiinae
Tribes
See text

Tribes

Parnassinae Parnassiini Hypermnestra Parnassius Luehdorfiini Archon Doritites bosniackii Luehdorfia Zerythiini Sericinus Bhutanitis Zerynthia Allancastria ? Thaites

A proposed phylogeny of the Parnassius and related groups.[3]

This subfamily consists of the following tribes:

• Luehdorfiini
• Parnassiini
• Zerynthiini

Gallery

• 
  Hypermnestra helios
  tribe Parnassiini
• 
  Mountain Apollo
  (Parnassius apollo)
  tribe Parnassiini
• 
  Clouded Apollo
  (Parnassius mnemosyne)
  tribe Parnassiini
• 
  False Apollo
  (Archon apollinus)
  tribe Luehdorfiini
• 
  Japanese luehdorfia
  (Luehdorfia japonica)
  tribe Luehdorfiini
• 
  Southern festoon
  (Zerynthia polyxena)
  tribe Zerythiini
• 
  Eastern festoon
  (Allancastria cerisyi)
  tribe Zerythiini
• 
  Bhutan glory
  (Bhutanitis lidderdalii)
  tribe Zerythiini