Best Postman Butterfly or Heliconius Melpomene Pictures and Informations

Best Heliconius Melpomene Pictures and Informations
Heliconius Melpomene
Heliconius Melpomene
Heliconius Melpomene
Heliconius Melpomene
Heliconius Melpomene
Heliconius Melpomene
Heliconius Melpomene



The Postman butterfly has large long wings with an orange stripe down each forewing. It is poisonous and has red patterns on its wings. They tend to look similar to the species Heliconius erato. Two features found on the underside help to distinguish H. erato from 'H. melpomene—H. erato has four red dots where the wing attaches to the thorax while H. melpomene has three and the yellowish white stripe on the underside reaches the margin of the hindwing in H. erato but ends early in H. melpomene.

There are many forms of this Postman butterfly. The variation in patterns has been studied using crossing experiments and it has been found that the patterns are associated with a small number of gene loci.