Rich and diverse is the fauna of Primorye and the Far East. Of special beauty are butterflies of which there are more than 2,000 species.
Many of them are endemics. One of them is Luehdorfia puziloi, a brightly colored soft yellow butterfly with black bands of the Papilionidae family. Only one plant is a food plant for it: Siebold's asarum. The caterpillars feed intensively all through the summer, pupate by autumn and overwinter to close the cycle next year.
June is the beginning of the flight of Mimathyma schrenckii, named in honor of the 19th century ethnographer L. Schrenck who discovered it. It inhabits the Lower Amur, Primorsky and Middle Amur Regions, as well as Korea. Forage plants are hornbeam and elm. Usually these butterflies live high in tree crowns and come down to water bodies only on hot days.
Sericinus montela is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family. In Russia, it is represented by subspecies amurensis, which inhabits the south of Primorsky Krai. The butterfly is found mainly in riverside biotopes, on steep low slopes of river terraces in areas with herbaceous twisted birthwort, which is a food plant for Sericinus montela.
Epicopeia mencia belongs to the family Epicopeiidae; it is common in the south of Primorye and Khabarovsk Territory. It inhabits valley-growing broad-leaved liana forests. Caterpillars live in communities, pupate in the upper layer of soil in a cocoon. They overwinter in the pupal stage.
The postage stamps provide images of butterflies Luehdorfia puziloi, Mimathyma schrenckii, Sericinus montela and Epicopeia mencia.
The composition of the souvenir pack in cover “Fauna of Russia. Butterflies” is included:
- block of four stamps №3414-3417 “Fauna of Russia. Butterflies”;
- FDC with cancellation in Moscow “Fauna of Russia. Butterflies”;
- vignette.
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