title: Parnassiinae
text: # Parnassiinae
  
  The Parnassiinae or snow Apollos are a subfamily of the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae. The subfamily includes about 50 medium-sized, white or yellow species. The snow Apollos are high-altitude butterflies and are distributed across Asia, Europe and North America.
  
  ## Tribes
  
  A proposed phylogeny of the Parnassius and related groups. :
  
  This subfamily consists of the following tribes:
  
  * Luehdorfiini
  * Parnassiini
  * Zerynthiini
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Hypermnestra helios tribe Parnassiini
  * Mountain Apollo (Parnassius apollo) tribe Parnassiini
  * Clouded Apollo (Parnassius mnemosyne) tribe Parnassiini
  * False Apollo (Archon apollinus) tribe Luehdorfiini
  * Japanese luehdorfia (Luehdorfia japonica) tribe Luehdorfiini
  * Southern festoon (Zerynthia polyxena) tribe Zerythiini
  * Eastern festoon (Allancastria cerisyi) tribe Zerythiini
  * Bhutan glory (Bhutanitis lidderdalii) tribe Zerythiini
  