Parnassius Simo

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Black-edged Apollo Parnassius simo is a high altitude butterfly found in the Himalayas which belongs to the Papilionidae (swallowtail) family.Male upperside: dull white, the veins black. Fore wing at base and along the costal margin lightly irrorated with black scales ; a black medial transverse bar with even parallel sides across the cell, and a broader black bar on the discocellulars, this latter with a more or less outwardly curved exterior edge; beyond this a bisinuate discal and an outwardly curved postdiscal transverse black band, both extended from the costa to vein 1; the discal band generally more or less obsolescent and ill-defined below veins 3 or 4, but well marked between veins 1 and 2; the outer edge of the postdiscal band with a tendency to be very narrowly continued outwards along the veins; terminal margin dusky subhyaline black, bounded by an anticiliary jet-black slender line; cilia dusky black.