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Butterflies
Southern Festoon
Catalogue Number:  267
Block Gutter Design:  Karol Felix
Block gutter Engraving:  Rudolf Cigánik
Date of Issue:  June 26, 2002
Printing:  Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic
Print Technology:  Rotary recess printing combined with recess printing
Size of Impression:  40.0 mm x 23.0 mm
Print Run:  100,000
FDC Design:  Karol Felix
FDC Engraving:  Rudolf Cigánik
Cancellation Design:  Karol Felix with Old World Swallowtail on the cancellation
FDC Printing:  Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic
FDC Print Technology:  offset
FDC Print Run:  6,000

Southern Festoon -Zerynthia polyxena (swallowtails family - Papilionidae)

It is common in the warmest areas of Central Europe, in steppe and forest-steppe stands up to 900 meters above the sea level, where the Calico Aower (Aristolochia) - foodplant for caterpillars - grows. Southem Festoon has a Iocal occurrence.
Butterfly is striking with its bright colours. It flies from March to June. Today, it is becoming extinct at many places because its foodplant appears rarely. It belongs to protected species.

RND llja Okáli, CSc

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