Mozambique (1980)

Date of issue: January 29th, 1980
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/6

This has to be one of my favourite issues of all time. I am always delighted when I find at least a stamp with something different than a spider or a scorpion. This series "honours" or good friends the wonderful ticks! They even show the animals that they parasite.

Michel #: 737
Yvert #: 731
sub-class: Acari
family: Ixodidae
Dermacentor circumguttatus cunhasilvai Neumann, 1897

Michel #: 738
Yvert #: 732
sub-class: Acari
family: Ixodidae
Demacentor rhinocerinus Denny, 1843

Michel #: 739
Yvert #: 733
sub-class: Acari
family: Ixodidae
Amblyomma hebraeum Koch, 1844

Michel #: 740
Yvert #: 734
sub-class: Acari
family: Ixodidae
Amblyomma pomposum Dönitz, 1909

Michel #: 741
Yvert #: 735
sub-class: Acari
family: Ixodidae
Amblyomma theilerae*
Synonym of Amblyomma hebraeum Koch, 1844 ?

Michel #: 742
Yvert #: 736
sub-class: Acari
family: Ixodidae
Amblyomma eburneum Gerstäcker, 1873

Mozambique - Acari

Date of issue: January 29th, 1980
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/6



Michel #: 737
Yvert #: 731
sub-class: Acari
family: Ixodidae
Dermacentor circumguttatus cunhasilvai Neumann, 1897

For more information on this series, click HERE

Mozambique - Acari

Date of issue: January 29th, 1980
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/6

Michel #: 738
Yvert #: 732
sub-class: Acari
family: Ixodidae
Demacentor rhinocerinus Denny, 1843

For more information on this series, click HERE

Mozambique - Acari

Date of issue: January 29th, 1980
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/6

Michel #: 739
Yvert #: 733
sub-class: Acari
family: Ixodidae
Amblyomma hebraeum Koch, 1844

For more information on this series, click HERE

Mozambique - Acari

Date of issue: January 29th, 1980
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/6

Michel #: 740
Yvert #: 734
sub-class: Acari
family: Ixodidae
Amblyomma pomposum Dönitz, 1909

For more information on this series, click HERE

Mozambique - Acari

Date of issue: January 29th, 1980
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/6

Michel #: 741
Yvert #: 735
sub-class: Acari
family: Ixodidae
Amblyomma theilerae*
Synonym of Amblyomma hebraeum Koch, 1844 ?

For more information on this series, click HERE

Mozambique - Acari

Date of issue: January 29th, 1980
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/6

Michel #: 742
Yvert #: 736
sub-class: Acari
family: Ixodidae
Amblyomma eburneum Gerstäcker, 1873

For more information on this series, click HERE

Mozambique (1989)

Date of issue: March, 23rd, 1989
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/6

Michel #: 1156
Scott #: 1074
Yvert #: 1117
order: Scorpiones
family: Scorpionidae
Pandinus sp.

Michel #: 1159
Scott #: 1077
Yvert #: 1120
order: Araneae
family: Theraphosidae
Paraphysa sp.

Other stamps of this series:

Mozambique - Scorpions

Date of issue: March, 23rd, 1989
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/6

Michel #: 1156
Scott #: 1074
Yvert #: 1117
order: Scorpiones
family: Scorpionidae
Pandinus sp.

For more information about this series, click HERE

Mozambique - Spiders

Date of issue: March, 23rd, 1989
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/6

Michel #: 1159
Scott #: 1077
Yvert #: 1120
order: Araneae
family: Theraphosidae
Paraphysa sp.

For more information about this series, click HERE

Mozambique (2007)

Date of issue: 2007
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/189?

Another never ending series with tons of sheets. I had seen this one listed on a German dealer website. It was listed as frogs and scorpions. I could not understand why as the theme of the stamps is clearly frogs. I finally found a higher quality scan and discovered there is a scorpion at the tip of the African continent on the map. On the last stamp, the scorpion is partially hidden by the frog.

Anyhow, since I am also fascinated by frogs, I did not mind so much aquiring this series. Also note that there is a Pompilidae stamp on a different sheet.

Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones

Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones

Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones

Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones

Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones

Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones

Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones

Souvenir sheets:

Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones

Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones

Pompilidae stamp:

Michel #: ?
order: Hemynoptera
family: Pompilidae
Pompilus sp.

Souvenir sheet:

Mozambique - Scorpions

Date of issue: 2007
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/189?

Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones

For more information on this series, click HERE

Mozambique - Scorpions

Date of issue: 2007
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/189?



Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones

For more information on this series, click HERE

Mozambique - Scorpions

Date of issue: 2007
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/189?




Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones

For more information on this series, click HERE

Mozambique - Scorpions

Date of issue: 2007
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/189?




Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones






















For more information on this series, click HERE

Mozambique - Scorpions

Date of issue: 2007
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/189?



Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones























For more information on this series, click HERE

Mozambique - Scorpions

Date of issue: 2007
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/189?



Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones
























For more information on this series, click HERE

Mozambique - Scorpions

Date of issue: 2007
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/189?



Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones
























For more information on this series, click HERE

Mozambique - Pompilidae

Date of issue: 2007
Number of pompilidae related stamps in issue: 1/189?

Michel #: ?
order: Hemynoptera
family: Pompilidae
Pompilus sp.

For more information on this series, click HERE

Mozambique (2012)

Date of issue: 2012
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/189?

Another mish mash series with all kinds of themes all over the place. Anyhow, on the souvenir sheet honoring G. H. Cunningham there is a spider. I find this issue to be very boring, it just gets frustrating when there is no focus and they try to cram as many themes to lure as many thematic collectors. It is quite typical of African stamps.

Crop:

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

Souvenir sheet:

Mozambique - Myriapoda

Date of issue: 2012
Number of myriapod related stamps in issue: 0/?

Michel#: none (souvenir sheet only)
subphylum: Myriapoda
family: Scolopendridae
Scolopendra sp.

Mozambique (2013)

Date of issue: 2013
Number of arachnid stamps in issue: 1/150?

Great news, here is another amblypygi stamp! Phrynichus lunatus (Pallas, 1772) is nomen dubium, it is said to be from Suriname from some sources, another one says Cayenne (French Guiana) and some Antilles Islands, but it is presumably an error. It's distribution is unknown.

The art work of the amblypygi is the exact copy of an old print from Drapiez (1853). My friend Alex Hooijer offered me one of those prints as a gift (thank you Alex!).

original print

As you can see, the artist was very liberal with the coloration. The description that came with the prints states that the animals is maroon-brown!!! As we know, amblypygi are not known to be very colourful, aside from a few exceptions.

Michel #: ?
order: Amblypygi
family: Phrynichidae
Phrynichus lunatus (Pallas, 1772)
*Phrynus lunatus on stamp

Souvenir sheet:

The amblypygi also appears on the second souvenir sheet of this series

 

 

Other stamps of this series: