Sunday Stamps: Butterflies, Dragonflies

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.

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  1. 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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