On 15 May 2008, Sweden Post issued the stamp set which featured the wing of butterfly. The issue stamp depicts the species of butterfly, Apollo or Parnassius apollo, and Dark Green Fritillary or Argynnis aglaja.
Apollo
The Apollo butterfly or Mountain Apollo (Parnassius apollo), is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family.It is found on mountains in Europe usually above 1,000 metres up to 2,000 m , preferring flowery meadows and mountain pastures.The Apollo is listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.
The Apollo butterfly (Parnassius apollo) is a beautiful white butterfly, decorated with large black "eye" spots on the forewings and red eye-spots on the hind wings. Its shown on the above stamp and complete view (besides stamp). The picture of Apollo taken from Wikipedia.
Dark Green Fritillary
The Dark Green Fritillary (Argynnis aglaja) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. The insect has a wide range in the Palearctic ecozone - Europe, Morocco, Iran , Siberia, Central Asia, China, Korea and Japan.The characteristic habitat of this butterfly is open, windswept calcareous grassland. However, in some areas it can also be found in woodland clearings and coastal dunes.
The Dark Green Fritillary is a large, powerful, orange and black butterfly. It can be seen flying rapidly in a range of open sunny habitats.The Dark Green Fritillary has an extra row of orange-ringed 'pearls' on the underside of the hind wing. Its seen in the above stamp and full picture which taken from Wikipedia.
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