Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/12
*Abkhazia is a disputed territory. The majority of the world's governments consider Abkhazia a part of Georgia's territory. Therefore, their stamps are not valid for international postage. There are several other local issues from former Soviet territories, visit my entries about Batumi, Khakassia & Chuvashia.
I had this issue for a while, but I just discovered while examining the scans closely that the species names are written at the buttom of the stamps.
Looks like most of the spiders artworks on this series are taken out of Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature) from Ernst Haekel. I have used that plate's identification for the species of the spiders on the stamps (most only have the genus, except Eris tricolor, that is note on that Ernst Haekel work).
This series is also available as imperforate.
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| Michel #: none order: Araneae family: Araneidae Micrathena furcata (Hahn, 1822) |
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| Michel #: none order: Araneae family: Araneidae Gasteracantha sp. |
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| Michel #: none order: Araneae family: Araneidae Micracantha arcuata (Fabricius, 1793) |
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| Michel #: none order: Araneae family: Salticidae Eris tricolor (C. L. Koch, 1846) |
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| Michel #: none order: Araneae family: Araneidae Micrathena schreibersi (Perty, 1833) |
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| Michel #: none order: Araneae family: Araneidae Gasteracantha sp. |
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