''Parnassius arcticus'', the Siberian Apollo, is a high-altitude butterfly which is found in Northeastern

Yakutia Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia, and the largest federal subject of Russia by area. It is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million ...

, Russia. It is a member of the snow Apollo genus (''

Parnassius ''Parnassius'' is a genus of northern circumpolar and montane (alpine and Himalayan) butterflies usually known as Apollos or snow Apollos. They can vary in colour and form significantly based on their altitude. They also exhibit altitudinal mel ...

'') of the swallowtail family,

Papilionidae Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful Butterfly, butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includ ...

. The taxonomic status of this butterfly is uncertain. It was originally described from females only as a Siberian

subspecies In Taxonomy (biology), biological classification, subspecies (: subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (Morphology (biology), morpholog ...

of '' Parnassius simo'', a species which does not occur in Siberia. Eisner, the author of the subspecies later decided it was conspecific with '' Parnassius tenedius''. Korshunov & Gorbunov (1995) regard it as a good (full) species with ''ammosovi'' Korshunov as a

junior synonym In taxonomy, the scientific classification of living organisms, a synonym is an alternative scientific name for the accepted scientific name of a taxon. The botanical and zoological codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. ...

. ''P. ammasovi'' lives on

scree Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall. Landforms associated with these materials are often called talus deposits. The term ''scree'' is ap ...

at 1,500 m. The adult flies mid-June to early July. Eggs are laid on stones around the host plant, ''

Corydalis ''Corydalis'' (from Greek ''korydalís'' " crested lark") is a genus of about 540 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere and the high mountains of tropical ...

gorodkovi''.

External links

Parnassius of the World
Photos of male and female ''ammasovi'' identified by Professor Andrew V. Timshenko.-->

Holotype A holotype (Latin: ''holotypus'') is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of s ...

and

paratype In zoology and botany, a paratype is a specimen of an organism that helps define what the scientific name of a species and other taxon actually represents, but it is not the holotype (and in botany is also neither an isotype (biology), isotype ...

of ''ammosovi'' (sic)
''Parnassius arcticus'' on Rusinsects
(text and photographs). arcticus Butterflies described in 1968 Taxa named by Curt Eisner Butterflies of Asia {{Papilionidae-stub