''Allancastria'' is a genus of Palaearctic swallowtail butterflies in the subfamily

Parnassiinae 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 ...

. Five species are known. The genus has a complex history.

Taxonomy

The genus consists of the following species: * '' Allancastria caucasica'' - (Lederer, 1864) * '' Allancastria cerisyi'' - ( Godart, 1824) eastern festoon * '' Allancastria cretica'' - (Rebel, 1904) * '' Allancastria deyrollei'' - (Oberthür, 1869) * '' Allancastria louristana'' - (Le Cerf, 1908)Le Cerf, F. (1908) Description d'une variété nouvelle de Thais Cerisyi God. (Lép.). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 1908 (2): 21-22.

Food plant

Species in this genus feed on '' Aristolochia'' species.

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Nomenclature. Papilionidae Butterfly genera Taxa named by Felix Bryk {{Papilionidae-stub