zare-IN-thee-uh pol-ee-ZEE-nuh
Checklist Number
56.0002
A single specimen was caught by two boys on 27th May 1884 near Exeter, Devon, and it is believed that it was originally purchased as a pupa from a natural history dealer.
This species was first defined in Denis & Schiffermüller (1775) as shown here (type locality: Vienna, Austria).
Family: | Papilionidae | Latreille, 1802 |
Subfamily: | Parnassiinae | Duponchel, 1835 |
Tribe: | Luehdorfiini | Chapman, 1895 |
Genus: | Zerynthia | Ochsenheimer, 1816 |
Subgenus: | Zerynthia | Ochsenheimer, 1816 |
Species: | polyxena | ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775) |