Somalia (2000a)

Date of issue: June 13th, 2000a
Name of issue: Desert animals
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/5

Michel #: 824
Yvert #: 697
order: Araneae
family: Theraphosidae (?)

Michel #: 825
Yvert #: 698
order: Scorpiones
family: Buthidae (?)

Complete sheets:

Other stamps of this series:

Other complete sheets:

Somalia - Spiders

Date of issue: June 13th, 2000
Name of issue: Desert animals
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/5

Michel #: 824
Yvert #: 697
order: Araneae
family: Theraphosidae (?)

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Somalia - Scorpions

Date of issue: June 13th, 2000
Name of issue: Desert animals
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/5

Michel #: 825
Yvert #: 698
order: Scorpiones
family: Buthidae (?)

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Somalia (2000b)

Date of issue: December 12th, 2000
Name of issue: Carnivorous plants
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/4

I had a colleague who had told me that there was a spider in this series. I was never able to find it, the main problem is that I had no scan of the souvenir sheet.

Indeed, there is a spider in the lower pitcher plant on the souvenir sheet itself (not on the stamp). It is quite abstract, but I based my analysis on the fact that the ants on the art work have their three body segment and that arthropod in the pitcher plant clearly has two. Several limbs are missing, but arguably, it is possible that the plant started digesting it!

Michel #: B73
order: Araneae

Crop from souvenir sheet:

Other stamps of this series:

Somalia - Spiders

Date of issue: December 12th, 2000
Name of issue: Carnivorous plants
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/4

Michel #: none
order: Araneae



Souvenir sheet:



Michel #: B73

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Somalia (2002a)

Date of issue: December 16th, 2002
Name of issue: Spiders
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 4/4

This would have been a nice series if they would not have used this generic webbing for the background and they would have placed the black widow in a natural position (upside down). Also note the spelling mistake on Latrodectus mactans. Not to mention that horrible souvenir sheet.

Michel #: 991
Yvert #: 832
order: Araneae
family: Nephilidae
Nephila clavipes (Linnaeus, 1767)

Michel #: 992
Yvert #: 833
order: Araneidae
family: Oxyopidae
Peucetia viridans (Hentz, 1832)

Michel #: 993
Yvert #: 834
order: Araneae
family: Theridiidae
*Latrodectus mactans (Fabricius, 1775)
Latrodectus moctans (on stamp)

Michel #: 994
Yvert #: BF 91
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Argiope sp.

Souvenir sheet:

Full sheets:

Somalia - Spiders

Date of issue: December 16th, 2002
Name of issue: Spiders
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 4/4

Michel #: 991
Yvert #: 832
order: Araneae
family: Nephilidae
Nephila clavipes (Linnaeus, 1767)

 

 

 

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Somalia - Spiders

Date of issue: December 16th, 2002
Name of issue: Spiders
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 4/4

Michel #: 992
Yvert #: 833
order: Araneidae
family: Oxyopidae
Peucetia viridans (Hentz, 1832)

 

 

 

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Somalia - Spiders

Date of issue: December 16th, 2002
Name of issue: Spiders
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 4/4

Note the spelling mistake on Latrodectus mactans.

Michel #: 993
Yvert #: 834
order: Araneae
family: Theridiidae
*Latrodectus mactans (Fabricius, 1775)
Latrodectus moctans (on stamp)

 

 

 

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Somalia - Spiders

Date of issue: December 16th, 2002
Name of issue: Spiders
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 4/4

Michel #: 994
Yvert #: BF 91
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Argiope sp.

 

 

 

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Somalia - Spiders

Date of issue: December 16th, 2002
Name of issue: Spiders
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 4/4

Michel #: none
order: Araneae

Souvenir sheet:




Michel #: 994
Yvert #: BF 91

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Somalia (2002b)

Date of issue: 2002
Name of issue: Christmas
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/9

This series is a cinderella issue.

Michel #: none - cinderella
order: Araneae
categories: art & folklore

Michel #: none - cinderella
order: Araneae
categories: art & folklore

Michel #: none - cinderella
order: Araneae
categories: art & folklore

Souvenir sheet and other stamps of this series:

Somalia - Spiders

Date of issue: 2002
Name of issue: Christmas
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/9

Michel #: none - cinderella
order: Araneae
categories: art & folklore

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Somalia - Spiders

Date of issue: 2002
Name of issue: Christmas
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/9

Michel #: none - cinderella
order: Araneae
categories: art & folklore

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Somalia - Spiders

Date of issue: 2002
Name of issue: Christmas
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/9




Michel #: none - cinderella
order: Araneae
categories: art & folklore




























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Somalia - Spiderman

Date of issue: 2003
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/6

Michel #: Cinderella
category: Spiderman

Somalia - Spiderman

Date of issue: 2003
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/6

Michel #: Cinderella
category: Spiderman

Somalia - Spiderman

Date of issue: 2003
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/6

Michel #: Cinderella
category: Spiderman

Somalia - Spiderman

Date of issue: 2003
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/6

Michel #: Cinderella
category: Spiderman

Somalia - Spiderman

Date of issue: 2003
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/6

Michel #: Cinderella
category: Spiderman

Somalia - Spiderman

Date of issue: 2003
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/6

Michel #: Cinderella
category: Spiderman

Souvenir sheet: