''Allancastria'' is a genus of Palaearctic
swallowtail butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
in the subfamily
Parnassiinae. Five species are known. The genus has a complex history.
Taxonomy
The genus consists of the following species:
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Allancastria caucasica
''Allancastria caucasica'', sometimes referred to as ''Zerynthia caucasica'', is an Old World papilionid butterfly whose geographical range extends from the Black Sea and southern Russia (southern Caucasus Mountains) to Georgia and northeast Tur ...
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(Lederer, 1864)
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Allancastria cerisyi
''Allancastria cerisyi'', the eastern festoon, is an Old World papilionid butterfly whose geographical range extends from the Balkans to include Turkey and the near Middle East. It exhibits several geographical variants.
It is named for Alexand ...
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( Godart, 1824) eastern festoon
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Allancastria cretica
''Allancastria cretica'' is a butterfly belonging to the family Papilionidae. It was described by Rebel in 1904. It is found only on the Greek island of Crete where it is, then, an endemic species
Endemism is the state of a species being fou ...
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(Rebel, 1904)
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Allancastria deyrollei
''Allancastria deyrollei'' is a butterfly belonging to the family Papilionidae. It was described by Oberthür in 1869. It is found only in western Iran, Turkey, Syria, northwestern Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel.
References
*Carbonell, F., ...
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(Oberthür, 1869)
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Allancastria louristana
''Allancastria lourisitana'' is a butterfly belonging to the family Papilionidae. It is found only in western Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It ...
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(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
''Aristolochia'' () is a large plant genus with over 500 species that is the type genus of the family Aristolochiaceae. Its members are commonly known as birthwort, pipevine or Dutchman's pipe and are widespread and occur in the most diverse clima ...
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References
External links
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TOLNHM
Nomenclature.
Papilionidae
Butterfly genera
Taxa named by Felix Bryk
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