United Nations (1996)

Date of issue: November 20th, 1996
Name of issue:  50e anniversaire de l'UNICEF
                          (50th anniversary of UNICEF)
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

Michel #: 302 (Geneva)
Category: Folklore

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United Nations - Folklore

Date of issue: November 20th, 1996
Name of issue: 50e anniversaire de l'UNICEF
                         (50th anniversary of UNICEF)
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

Michel #: 302 (Geneva)
Category: Folklore

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United Nations (2003)

Date of issue: June 20th, 2003
Name of issue:  International year of freshwater
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

This one is almost impossible to find. Thanks to the listing of a very zealous vendor. I could not confirm 100% from the scan he provided, so I decided to take a leap of faith (the stamp was cheap). When I received the stamp, I could still not confirm it, I had to look at the high resolution scan to make sure that indeed there was a spider there on the left side.

Michel #: 923 (New York)
order: Araneae

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United Nations - Spiders

Date of issue: June 20th, 2003
Name of issue: International year of freshwater
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

This one is almost impossible to find. Thanks to the listing of a very zealous vendor. I could not confirm 100% from the scan he provided, so I decided to take a leap of faith (the stamp was cheap). When I received the stamp, I could still not confirm it, I had to look at the high resolution scan to make sure that indeed there was a spider there on the left side.

Michel #: 923 (New York)
order: Araneae

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United Nations (2009)

Date of issue: April 16th, 2009
Name of issue: Endangered species
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/12

It is my understanding that every year (for quite a few years now), the United Nations issue a series on endangered species. In 2009, they had one about arthropods.

Note the CITES logo on the full sheet. Unless it has been added recently, as far as I know, Dolomedes plantarius is not on CITES. But it is threatened by habitat loss.

Michel #: ? (Geneva)
order: Araneae
family: Pisauridae
Dolomedes plantarius (Clerck, 1757)

Michel #: ? (Vienna)
Scott #: 439
order: Scopriones
family: Scorpionidae
Pandinus imperator (C. L. Koch, 1841)

Michel #: ? (Vienna)
Scott #: 441
order: Araneae
family: Theraphosidae
Brachypelma smithi (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1897)

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United Nations - Spiders

Date of issue: April 16th, 2009
Name of issue: Endangered species
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/12

Michel #: ? (Geneva)
order: Araneae
family: Pisauridae
Dolomedes plantarius (Clerck, 1757)

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United Nations - Spiders

Date of issue: April 16th, 2009
Name of issue: Endangered species
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/12

Michel #: ? (Vienna)
Scott #: 441
order: Araneae
family: Theraphosidae
Brachypelma smithi (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1897)

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United Nations - Scorpions

Date of issue: April 16th, 2009
Name of issue: Endangered species
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/12

Michel #: ? (Vienna)
Scott #: 439
order: Scopriones
family: Scorpionidae
Pandinus imperator (C. L. Koch, 1841)

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United Nations - Spiders

Date of issue: 2009
Name of issue: Endangered species
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/12



 

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Pisauridae
Dolomedes plantarius (Clerck, 1757)

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United Nations - Spiders

Date of issue: 2009
Name of issue: Endangered species
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/12



Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Theraphosidae
Brachypelma smithi (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1897)

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United Nations - Scorpions

Date of issue: 2009
Name of issue: Endangered species
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/12

Michel #: none
order: Scopriones
family: Scorpionidae
Pandinus imperator (C. L. Koch, 1841)

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United Nations (2010)

Date of issue: 2010
Name of issue: Biodiversity
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

Looks like the spider artwork on this stamp is taken out of Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature) from Ernst Haekel.

Identification of the species is based on the species listing on that plate.

Michel #: ? (Geneva)
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus, 1758)

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