Under Construction

This is an archived version of a Tree of Life page. For up-to-date information, please refer to the current version of this page.

Containing group: Archon

Introduction

The life history of A. apollinaris has been studied by De Freina (1985), Carbonell (1991) and Hesselbarth et al. (1995). De Freina (1985) and Carbonell (1991) also discuss the taxonomy of A. apollinaris in detail and provide characters from male and female genitalia and life history that differentiate it from A. apollinus.

Geographical Distribution

A. apollinaris is known from northeast Turkey (Erzincan), west and northwest Iran, and northern Iraq. For localities see Carbonell (1991), Hesselbarth et al. (1995) and Nazari (2003).

Geographical Variation

In addition to the nominal A. a. apollinaris Staudinger, [1892] (Type locality: Goman Otti; NE. Turkey), a recently discovered small population, A. a. bostanchii De Freina and Naderi, 2003 (Type locality: Pol-e-Dokhtar, Lorestan, Iran), living on Aristolochia olivieri (observed by the second author), is the only population to have received a formal subspecific name.

Larval Food Plant

Like A. apollinus, this species feeds on Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae). Host species recorded so far are A. maurorum (Ackery, 1975), A. bottae (Koçak, 1982), A. olivieri and A. paecilanthea (Hesselbarth et al., 1995).

References

Ackery, P.R., 1975. A guide to the genera and species of Parnassiinae (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. Ent. 31: 71-105, plates 1-15.

Carbonell, F., 1991. Contribution ? la connaissance du genre Archon H?bner 1822: D?couverte de zones de sympatrie pour Archon apollinus (Herbst) et A. apollinaris Staudinger (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Linneana Belgica 13: 3-12.

De Freina, J.J., 1985. Revision der Gattung Archon H?bner 1822 mit Angeben zur Biologie, Verbreitung, Morphologie und Systematik von Archon apollinus (Herbst 1798) und Archon apollinaris Staudinger [1892] 1891 (stat. nov.) (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae). Nota Lepidopterologicae 8: 97-128.

De Freina, J. J., Naderi, A.R., 2003. Beschreibung einer neuen Unterart von Archon apollinaris (Staudinger, (1892) aus dem suedwestlichen Zentral Zagros, bostanchii subspec. nov., mit ergaenzenden Angaben zur Gesamtverbreitung der Art (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae, Parnassiini). Atalanta (Marktlruthen) 34: 429-434, 474-477.

Hesselbarth, G., van Oorschot, H., Wagener, S., 1995. Die Tagfalter der T?rkei. 1. 754 pp. Bocholt, Selbstverlag Sigbert Wagener.

Ko?ak, A.?., 1982. Notes on Archon apollinus (Herbst, 1798) (Papilionidae, Lepidoptera). Priamus, 2: 44-64.

Nazari, V., 2003. Butterflies of Iran. Dayereye-Sabz Publications, Tehran.