Butterflies of the World - St. Vincent and The Grenadines 1998

St. Vincent and the Grenadines depicted the nine species of butterflies on the miniature stamp sheet in 1998. The species were depicted are Heliconius erato, Danaus plexippus, Papilio phoracas, Morpho peleides, Pandoriana pandora, Basilarchia astyanax, Vanessa carduii, Colobura dice, and Heraclides cresphontes ( picture direction: from top-left move ward to botom-right) .

Themone Pais on stamps

Themone pais is one species of riodinid butterfly.The riodinids are a diverse group of small-bodied butterflies that show analmost entirely neotropical distribution.

This souvenir sheet part of butterflies series have issued by St Vincent and The Grenadines on 1996.

Adelpha Abia on stamp

Adelpha abia, one genus of Adelpha in the Nymphalidae family.The Nymphalidae is widespread species of butterflies and distributed throughout most of the world. They are medium sized to large butterflies. Most species have a reduced pair of forelegs and many hold their colourful wings flat when resting. They are also called brush-footed butterflies or four-footed butterflies. Many species are brightly colored and include popular species such as the emperor, admirals, tortoiseshells and fritillaries.

Butterflies of St. Vincent and The Grenadines

This mini sheet part of series has been issued by St. Vincent and the Grenadines on 1996.
The sheet is depicted 9 species of butterfly with beautiful background orchid flower. The species are depicted (from top to bottom, left to right direction) Papilio lycophron, Prepona buckleyana, Parides agavus, papilio cacicus, Euryades duponchelli, Diathria dymena, Orimba jansoni, Polystichia siaka, and Papilio machaonides.

Butterfly of St Vincent and The Grenadines

The four species of butterflies, Anteos menippe, Eunica alcmena, Doxocopa lavinia,Tithorea tarricina has depicted on the St Vincent and The Grenadines's stamps.This stamp was issued on 1996 as single series part of butterflies series one mini sheet and 2 souvenirsheet

Anteos menippe is one species of genus of Pieridae butterfly commonly called as angled-sulphur.
Eunica alcmena is genus of nymphalid butterfly and found in the Neotropical ecozone.
Doxocopa lavinia is a genus of neotropical butterfly in the family of Nymphalidae.
Tithorea tarricina is a genus of the Nymphalidae family. They are highly variable and have many distinctive identification, large size, broad wing and many spot

Colia Eurytheme on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines stamp

Colias eurytheme or The Orange Sulphur, also known as the Alfalfa Butterfly and in its larval stage as Alfalfa Caterpillar, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, where it belongs to the "yellows and sulphurs" subfamily Coliadinae. It is found throughout North America from southern Canada to Mexico, but is absent from the central and southeastern USA.
Colias eurytheme belongs to a lowland group of clouded yellows, Colias. The Orange Sulphur's caterpillars feed off various species in the pea family (Fabaceae) and are usually only found feeding at night. Occasionally this species multiplies to high numbers, and can become a serious pest to Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) crops.

Everes comyntas on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines stamps

Everes comyntas or the Eastern Tailed-blue (Cupido comyntas) is a common butterfly of eastern North America. Males are generally blue on the upper side of their wings while females are lighter blue to brown or charcoal in colouring, but there are also varieties of purple and pink found in both sexes. The underside coloration ranges from bluish-white to tan. The butterfly is 21 to 29 mm wide with wings outstretched and slightly shorter in length. Eastern Tailed-blue butterflies feed on various legumes and are known to secrete a substance which is favoured by some ant species.