Archon bostanchii

Archon bostanchii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Archon
Species: A. bostanchii
Binomial name
Archon bostanchii
(de Freina & Naderi, 2004)

Archon bostanchii[1] is a species of false Apollo butterfly (genus Archon) belonging to the Parnassiinae or snow Apollo subfamily. This recently described papilionid is endemic to Iran.

Footnotes

  1. Described by Josef De Freina & Alireza Naderi 2003. Reclassified vide Atalanta 34:431

References

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