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. The snow Apollos are high-altitude butterflies and are distributed across Asia, Europe and North America.

Tribes

This subfamily consists of the following tribes:

• Luehdorfiini

• Parnassiini

• Zerynthiini

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References

Further reading

• Glassberg, Jeffrey Butterflies through Binoculars, The West (2001)

• Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. Butterflies of British Columbia (2001)

• James, David G. and Nunnallee, David Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies (2011)

• Pelham, Jonathan Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (2008)

• Pyle, Robert Michael The Butterflies of Cascadia (2002)

External links

• Tree of Life Parnassiinae

• Fauna Europaea

• Butterflies and Moths of North America

• Butterflies of America