The dragonflies appeared over long time ago and they have developed into many different sub species. There are more than 5000 species of dragonflies existing in the world today. Now dragonflies have been included in the Vanuatu’s ecosystem as the valuable predators that eat mosquitoes, and other small insects like flies, ants and wasps .
Vanuatu Post pleased to launch a set of four stamps and one unique souvenir sheet features the species of Dragonflies which found in Vanuatu on February 22, 2012. The stamp set designed by Sue Wickison from Wellington, New Zealand. The depicted species are Yellow striped Flutterer Rhyothemis Phyllis , Globe Skimmer Pantala flavescens , Fiery Skimmer Orthetrum villosovittatum, and Painted Grasshawk Neurothemis stigmatizans.
