Papilionidae
Baroniinae- Papilioninae
Parnassiinae
Luehdorfiini- Parnassiini
- Archon
- Hypermnestra
- Parnassius
- (Driopa)
(Kailasius)- P. autocrator
- P. charltonius
- P. davydovi
- P. imperator
acalanatha- aino
- alticola
- augustus
- aungsani
- cedermarki
- disjuncta
- dominikae
- dominus
- duohao
- evansi
- flava
- gigas
- haveli
- hoshinoi
- imperator
- imposantus
- interjungens
- irmae
- jiyetiani
- karmapa
- kawasakii
- luxuriosus
- mahamayuri
- musageta
- musetta
- namchawarwanus
- panna
- quaidami
- regina
- regulus
- rex
- soi
- sultan
- supremus
- takashii
- tara
- titus
- tyrannus
- uxorius
- vajramusti
venustus- P. inopinatus
P. loxias - (Koramius)
- (Parnassius)
- (Sachaia)
- (Tadumia)
- Pieridae
Species
Parnassius (Kailasius) imperator Oberth
augustus Fruhstorfer, 1903
Original Description
Parnassius imperator Obth. subsp. augustus Fruhstorfer, 1903
Type specimen(s)
Status: Syntype(s)
Specimen data: ST (♂, presumably coll. H. Fruhstorfer)
Additional information: "Syntype: ♀ [...]", "in the Zoological Museum of the Kiev University" (Tshikolovets, 1993: 15).
Current depository: BMNH, London ?; ZMKU, Kiev (1 ♀, syntype ?)
Type locality
Type locality as cited in original description: "von der Sikkim Tibetanischen Grenze, gefangen auf 18,000'"
Current country: China; India: Sikkim
Taxonomic history
Originally described as Parnassius imperator Obth. subsp. augustus Fruhstorfer, 1903
Treated as a subspecies of Parnassius augustus by Bang-Haas (1934: 109). Treated as a subspecies of Parnassius (Eukoramius) imperator Oberthür, 1883 by Weiss (1991: 44). Treated as a species of Parnassius by Sugisawa & Kawasaki (1997).
Treated as a subspecies of Parnassius augustus by Bang-Haas (1934: 109). Treated as a subspecies of Parnassius (Eukoramius) imperator Oberthür, 1883 by Weiss (1991: 44). Treated as a species of Parnassius by Sugisawa & Kawasaki (1997).
Remarks
No type specimen(s) mentioned as being in BMNH, London by Ackery (1973). Recently proposed as a separate species from P. imperator by Sugisawa & Kawasaki (1997) based on differences in male genitalia and wing pattern; regarded as conspecific with P. imperator by all previous authors, e.g., Ackery (1975), Bryk (1935), Collins & Morris (1985), Ohya (1990), Sorimachi (1995:166), and Weiss (1991); this view is accepted here as no truely sympatric occurence of the two taxa has yet been demonstrated.