The monarch butterfly or simply monarch (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Other common names, depending on region, include milkweed, common tiger, wanderer, and black-veined brown.Zerene cesonia, the southern dogface, is a North and South American butterfly in the family Pieridae, subfamily Coliadinae.Anthocharis cardamines, the orange tip, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae, which contains about 1,100 species. A. cardamines is mainly found throughout Europe and temperate Asia The males feature wings with a signature orange pigmentation, which is the origin of A. cardamines’ common name. Interestingly, on the stamp, the word “Belasek” means simply ‘the white type”The Mission blue is a blue or lycaenid butterfly subspecies native to the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States. The butterfly has been declared as endangered by the US federal government. It is a subspecies of Boisduval’s blue. The word Modrasek” on the stamp means “blueberry”
Libellula depressa, the broad-bodied chaser or broad-bodied darter, is one of the most common dragonflies in Europe and central Asia. It is very distinctive with a very broad flattened abdomen, four wing patches and, in the male, the abdomen becomes pruinose blue.
It can be hard to keep track of all these beauties when there are so many different names! I’m glad you found the name on the US stamp – it’s annoying that they don’t list a name in either Latin or English.
Very colourful, as butterflies are! We have coincided in one stamp 🙂
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😊🦋
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It can be hard to keep track of all these beauties when there are so many different names! I’m glad you found the name on the US stamp – it’s annoying that they don’t list a name in either Latin or English.
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yes!!! Thank goodness for google image 😀
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Thank you for sharing your stamps, and joining Sunday Stamps.
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Thank you for hosting it!! I wish there was something similar for postcards too 😁
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