''Allancastria cerisyi'', the eastern festoon, is an Old World papilionid

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whose geographical range extends from the

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to include

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and the near

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. It exhibits several geographical variants. It is named for

Alexandre Louis Lefèbvre de Cérisy Alexandre Louis Lefebvre de Cérisy (14 November 1798, Paris – 2 December 1867, le Bouchevilliers, near Gisors) was a French entomologist. De Cérisy worked as clerk to a solicitor. It was Jean Baptiste Godart (1775-1825) who introduced him to ...

. The

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is . The butterfly flies from March to July depending on the location. The larvae feed on various ''

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Synonymy/subspecies

''Allancastria cerisyi'' (Godart, 1824) *''Thais cerisyi'' Godart, 1824; ''Ency. Methodique'' 9: 812 *''Thais cerisy'' Godart, 1822; ''Mém. Soc. linn. Pa''ris 2: 234, pl. 20, f. 3-4 ''Allancastria cerisyi cerisyi'' *''Thais cerisyi martini'' Fruhstorfer, 1906 ''Soc. Ent''. 21 (19): 147, Type locality

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*''martini'' Abadjiev, 2002, ''Neue Ent. Nachr''. 23: 8 *''A. c. dalmacijae'' Sala & Bollino, 1994 Dalmatia (Makarska) Type Locality Makarska, Dalmatia, Croatia *''A. c. huberi'' Sala & Bollino, 1994 N.Greece Type locality Greece,

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*''A. c. ferdinandi'' Stichel, 1907 Albania Bulgaria Type locality

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*''A. c. mihljevici'' Sijaric, 1990 Hercegowina Type locality

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References

* Sala, G., Bollino, M., 1994. Allancastria cerisyi Godart, 1822 in the Balkans: new subspecies and critical notes on the existing populations (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). ''Atalanta'' (Würzburg) 25: 151-160, Plates II, III.

Literature

* Abadjiev, 2002 Types of Balkan butterflies in the collection of The Natural History Museum, London'' Neue Ent. Nachr''. 23: 3-53 * Fruhstorfer, 1906 Eine neue Thais von Rhodos Soc. Ent. 21 (19): 147-148 * Sala & Bollino, 1994 Allancastria cerisyi Godart, 1922 in the Balkans: News subspecies and critical notes on the existing populations ''Atalanta'' 25 (1/2): 151-160 * Sijaric, 1990 Taxonomska istrazivania i nove podvrste vrsta roda ''Zerynthia'' ne nekim podrucijima Jugoslavije Glasn. zemelj. ''Mus. Bosni Herceg''. (n.s.) 28 (1989): 177-208 * Stichel, 1907 Neue Unterarten von ''Zerynthia cerisyi'' God. ''Ent. Z.'' 21: 177-178

External links

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