Parnassius apollo is in Southern Europe confined to high mountain areas mostly in the Pyrenees where it was confined at the end of the glacial era. It is a large, shiny, translucid and friendly species with a very distinctive flight behaviour.


Parnassius apollo is in Southern Europe confined to high mountain areas mostly in the Pyrenees where it was confined at the end of the glacial era. It is a large, shiny, translucid and friendly species with a very distinctive flight behaviour.


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Keywords: animal, apollo, apolo, arthropod, big, butterfly, esp=spain, friendly, insect, invertebrate, lepidoptera, mountain, papilionidae, parnassius, pyrenees, season, spain, summer, zoological, zoology