7th Definitive - R6.30 Green-banded Swallowtail   Date of Issue November 15, 2000 Denomination R6.30 Art Work Chris Van Rooyen, Joan Van Gogh Designer Thea Swanepoel Size 24 x 40.6mm Sheet 50 Perforation 13.25 x 13.75 Perforator Bickel comb Paper De La Rue Gum PVA Phosphor 7% Green/yellow in paper coating Printing Process superlitho Printer The House of Questa, London Initial Quantity 25,000   Green-banded swallowtail (papilio nireus linnaeus) -  This is the only Southern African representative of the large, diverse and complex nireus species group. Locally this graceful butterfly with its dramatic black and blue colouring occur from the eastern areas of the Western Cape to the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, the Northern Province, Mpumalanga and the North-West Province.   Original information and image from South Africa Post