New subspecies of the rarest Palaearctic butterfly found in the Arctic Circle of Yakutia

2020-09-08 16:29
An isolated population of the rarest Palaearctic butterfly species: the Arctic Apollo (Parnassius arcticus), turned out to be a new to science subspecies with distinct looks as well as DNA. Named Parnassius arcticus arbugaevi, the butterfly is described in a …