abstract:The Postman Butterfly, Common Postman, or simply Postman (Heliconius melpomene) is one of the heliconiine butterflies found from Mexico to northern South America.Heliconius melpomene, funet.
Geographicmosaics of multiple colour-pattern RACES, such as in Heliconius melpomene (Fig. 1), convergetosimilar mosaics inotherspecies, and this led to the hypothesisof mimicry2.