Parnassius apollo

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	ARTHROPODA	INSECTA	LEPIDOPTERA	PAPILIONIDAE

Scientific Name:

Parnassius apollo

Species Authority:

Linnaeus, 1758

Common Name/s:

English	–	Apollo, Apollo Butterfly, Mountain Apollo
Spanish	–	Apolo, Mariposa Apollo

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Vulnerable A1cde ver 2.3

Year Published:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Gimenez Dixon, M.

History:

1994	–	Rare (Groombridge 1994)
1990	–	Rare (IUCN 1990)
1988	–	Rare (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1986	–	Rare (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1985	–	Rare
1983	–	Vulnerable

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Native: Albania; Andorra; Armenia; Austria; Bulgaria; China; Czech Republic; Finland; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Italy; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Liechtenstein; Mongolia; Montenegro; Norway; Poland; Romania; Russian Federation; Serbia; Slovakia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Syrian Arab Republic; Turkey; Ukraine Regionally extinct: Latvia; Lithuania Presence uncertain: Azerbaijan; Hungary; Netherlands
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Countries:

Native:

Albania; Andorra; Armenia; Austria; Bulgaria; China; Czech Republic; Finland; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Italy; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Liechtenstein; Mongolia; Montenegro; Norway; Poland; Romania; Russian Federation; Serbia; Slovakia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Syrian Arab Republic; Turkey; Ukraine

Regionally extinct:

Latvia; Lithuania

Presence uncertain:

Azerbaijan; Hungary; Netherlands

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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:	Terrestrial

Systems:

Terrestrial

Bibliography [top]

	Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland. Collins, N.M. and Morris, M.G. 1985. Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World. The IUCN Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland and Cambridge. Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. Wells, S.M., Pyle, R.M. and Collins, N.M. (compilers) 1983. The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.

Collins, N.M. and Morris, M.G. 1985. Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World. The IUCN Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland and Cambridge.

Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Wells, S.M., Pyle, R.M. and Collins, N.M. (compilers) 1983. The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Citation:	Gimenez Dixon, M. 1996. Parnassius apollo. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 May 2012.
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