''Archon bostanchii''Described by Josef De Freina & Alireza Naderi 2003. Reclassified vide Atalanta 34:431 is a species of false Apollo

butterfly 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 ...

(genus ''Archon'') belonging to the

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 ...

or snow Apollo subfamily. This recently described papilionid is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

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References

*Carbonell, F., 1991. Contribution à la connaissance du genre ''

Archon ''Archon'' ( gr, ἄρχων, árchōn, plural: ἄρχοντες, ''árchontes'') is a Greek word that means "ruler", frequently used as the title of a specific public office. It is the masculine present participle of the verb stem αρχ-, mean ...

'' Hübner 1822: Découverte de zones de sympatrie pour ''

Archon apollinus ''Archon apollinus'', the false Apollo, is a species of butterfly belonging to the Parnassinae subfamily. The species is found in Central and Eastern Europe and West Asia. They are found in Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Lebanon ...

'' (Herbst) et ''

Archon apollinaris ''Archon apollinaris'' is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.Seitz states-In the North-East of Asia Minor, Goman Olti (Pontus, at an altitude of about 1500 m), and in Armenia a usually ...

'' Staudinger (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Linneana Belgica 13: 3-12. *Carbonell, F. and Michel, M., 2007. Une espèce jumelle méconnue du genre ''Archon'' Hübner, 1822 (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 112 (2), 2007 : 141-150. Papilionidae Endemic fauna of Iran Butterflies of Asia Butterflies described in 2004 {{Papilionidae-stub