Parnassius apollo (Linnaeus, 1758) - Apollo.

A larva of an internationally protected species (details are not too familiar to me). It is sriously endangered in Europe and the lowland West Siberia, in the mountains of Asia still seems to flourish.

Range: Europe, Anterior Asia, Iran, Caucasus, the southern Siberia east to Central Yakutia and Transbaikalia, the mountains of E Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tien Shan.

ssp.: sibiricus (Nordmann, 1851); range: the elevation Salairskii Kryazh, Kuznetskii Alatau Mts., the Sayans.

A mature larva.

A rocky south-exposed slope of the right board of the Berd' River valley 13 km SE of the village Novososedovo (on the elevation of Salairskii Kryazh), Iskitim District, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 10th May 1996. O. Kosterin