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P. c. altaurus Dyar, 1903 •
P. c. shepardi Eisner, 1966 •
P. c. baldur Edwards, 1877 •
P. c. claudianus Stichel, 1907 •
P. c. incredibilis Bryk, 1932 •
P. c. menetriesii H. Edwards, 1877 •
P. c. pseudogallatinus Bryk, 1913 •
P. c. sol Bryk & Eisner, 1932 •
P. c. strohbeeni Sternitzky Parnassius clodius altaurus It lives in
Wyoming (
Grand Teton National Park and
Greater Yellowstone). It prefers
moist meadow habitats with an abundant population of
flowering plants. It’s host plant is the
longhorn steer’s head (
Dicentra uniflora). It has yellowish instead of red anal spots.
Parnassius clodius shepardi It is also known as the '''''Shepard's parnassian'''''. It lives in
Wawawai,
Snake River Canyon,
Washington Parnassius clodius baldur It is distinguished by reduced and less sharp markings. In the male the hindmarginal spot is mostly absent on the forewing and the anal spot on the hindwing; the posterior ocellus is reduced as a rule; the female has no submarginal crescents on the hindwing, the anal spot is rarely centred with red; in both sexes the white dusting very thin, somewhat transparent. Occurs in the mountains to the east of the district of the principal form. Varies rather considerably, and forms on the one hand transitions to the coast form, on the other hand there occurs a further reduction of the pattern. Specimens with point-like, reduced posterior ocellus are not rare. These are ab.
lusca Stichel. On the other hand, ab.
lorquini Oherth., in which the
ocelli are entirely absent, occurs sparingly. In the type of this form in addition all the black markings also are effaced except two narrow oblong spots in the middle and at the end of the cell of the forewing and some blackish dusting at the hindmargin of the hindwing. A further race from
Montana,
gallatinus Stich., is distinguished by the band-pattern of the male being in general weakly marked, while on the contrary there is a complete discal band outside the cell, as in the female of the typical form; hindwing without anal spot and with small ocelli; the female is more strongly marked, partly dusted over with black, the forewing with broader submarginalband, on the hindwing the submarginal lunulus and the anal spot strongly developed.
Parnassius clodius claudianus It lives in
British Columbia,
Vancouver Island. It is larger on the average, with much broadened marginal pattern on the forewing. Marginal and submarginal bands are merged into a broad stripe, through the middle of which runs only one row of small white crescents. In the female the black band-pattern is less intensive but broader, the connection of the costal spot and hindmarginal spot only shadowed as a narrow streak, on the hindwing very large marginal lunules, the anal spot without red dot. There are transitions to the typical form.
Parnassius clodius incredibilis It lives on
Mount St. Elias, Alaska
Parnassius clodius menetriesii It lives in Utah on the
Wahsatch Mountains. Its two ocelli only remain as
vestiges.
Parnassius clodius pseudogallatinus It lives on the
British Columbia Cascades of northern
Washington.
Parnassius clodius sol It lives in California (
Tulare to
Modoc and southern
Siskiyou) on Mount St. Elias. It lives at an elevation usually less than
Parnassius clodius strohbeeni It is an extinct subspecies that are similar to P. c. baldur in size. Their host larval plants is the
Pacific bleeding-heart (
Dicentra formosa). The live on the
Santa Cruz mountains of
California, specifically in
Redwoods, the bottoms of well-lit
canyons and streams. This is unusual as other subspecies tend to live at higher elevations. They are mainly white in color with black being present sparsely along its veins (median and internal) of the discal cells and its base of the wing. On its wings, there are red red spots that have black outlines. The body is not heavily covered in hairs. Scales that are located on the top of the thorax and abdomen are moderately elongated. The legs are brown with some white scales. It was first collected in 1923 by
John Strohbeen during a
fishing trip in the Santa Cruz mountains of California. Some days later,
James Wilson Tilden and
Edgar A. Dodge, both
entomologist and
Lepidopterist, collected another 50 specimens which would be sent off to other collectors. E. A. Doge would send a few to
Robert F. Stemitzky who would later describe the specimens as a new subspecies. However the species population and its host plant would drop due to habitat destruction (their collection locality was destroyed by road and
summer home construction), and the
nursery trade. The last known living member of this subspecies was spotted by J. W. Tilden near the vicinity of
Bonny Doon, Mount Len Lemond. ==References==