Korea (North) (1989)

Date of issue: March 23rd, 1989
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/7



Michel #: 3013
Yvert #: 2045
order: Scorpiones
family: Buthidae
Mesobuthus martensii (Karsch, 1879)

Souvenir sheets:

Note the scorpion silhouette (same as stamp) on the second souvenir sheet:



Michel #: Block 245
order: Scorpiones
family: Buthidae
Buthus martensis (Karsch, 1879)

Korea (North) - Scoprions

Date of issue: March 23rd, 1989
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/7



Michel #: 3013
Yvert #: 2045
order: Scorpiones
family: Buthidae
Mesobuthus martensii (Karsch, 1879)

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Korea (North) - Scorpions

Date of issue: March 23rd, 1989
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/7

This is simply the silhouette of the scorpion stamp from this series, that is how I know what species it is.

Michel #: none
order: Scorpiones
family: Buthidae
Mesobuthus martensii (Karsch, 1879)

Souvenir sheet:

Michel #: Block 245

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Korea (North) (1993)

Date of issue: May 10th, 1993
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

Michel #: 3418
order: Araneae
family: Theraphosidae

+ Tarantula Hawk
Cyphononyx dorsalis

Souvenir sheet with spider and web silhouettes in the gutter:

*crop from souvenir sheet

Other stamps of this series:

Korea (North) - Spiders

Date of issue: May 10th, 1993
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

Michel #: 3418
order: Araneae
family: Theraphosidae
 

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Korea (North) - Spiders

Date of issue: May 10th, 1993
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

Souvenir sheet with spider and web silhouettes in the gutter:

Michel #: none
order: Araneae

Souvenir sheet:

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Korea (North) - Pompilidae

Date of issue: May 10th, 1993
Number of pompilidae related stamps in issue: 1/6

Michel #: 3418
order: Hemynoptera
family: Pompilidae
Cyphononyx dorsalis

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Korea (North) (2000)

Date of issue: February 10th, 2000
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 4/60

This is a huge series that contains 15 blocks of four stamps each!

What is odd about this series is that they also specified the sex of the specimens for three of the four stamps. As far as I know, the only series to ever do that.

Michel #: 4325
Scott #: 4018
Yvert #: 2961
order: Araneae
family: Sparassidae
Micrommata virescens (Clerck, 1757)

Michel #: 4326
Scott #: 4019
Yvert #: 2902
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Araneus quadratus Clerck, 1757

 

Michel #: 4327
Scott #: 4020
Yvert #: 2963
order: Araneae
family: Pisauridae
Dolomedes fimbriatus (Clerck, 1757)

Michel #: 4328
Scott #: 4021
Yvert #: 2904
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Aculeipera ceropegia (Walckenaer, 1802)

Michel #: Block 460

Other stamps of this series:

Korea (North) - Spiders

Date of issue: February 10th, 2000
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 4/60

Michel #: 4325
Scott #: 4018
Yvert #: 2961
order: Araneae
family: Sparassidae
Micrommata virescens ♂ (Clerck, 1757)

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Korea (North) - Spiders

Date of issue: February 10th, 2000
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 4/60

Michel #: 4326
Scott #: 4019
Yvert #: 2902
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Araneus quadratus ♀ Clerck, 1757

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Korea (North) - Spiders

Date of issue: February 10th, 2000
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 4/60

Michel #: 4327
Scott #: 4020
Yvert #: 2963
order: Araneae
family: Pisauridae
Dolomedes fimbriatus (Clerck, 1757)

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Korea (North) - Spider

Date of issue: February 10th, 2000
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 4/60

Michel #: 4328
Scott #: 4021
Yvert #: 2904
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Aculeipera ceropegia ♀ (Walckenaer, 1802)

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Korea (North) (2009)

Date of issue: 2009
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/4

When this series came out, I could only find a poor quality scan of the full sheets. I thought there might be a spider in the gutter. When in doubt, I normally just get the series to verify, but this one was relatively pricy. I eventually kind of forgot about it, until I finally found a good quality scan. Sure enough, there was a spider out there!

Michel #: ?

Crop of lower portion:

order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Argiope sp.

Other stamps of this series:

Korea (North) - Spiders

Date of issue: 2009
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/4

When this series came out, I could only find a poor quality scan of the full sheets. I thought there might be a spider in the gutter. When in doubt, I normally just get the series to verify, but this one was relatively pricy. I eventually kind of forgot about it, until I finally found a good quality scan. Sure enough, there was a spider out there!

Michel #: ?

Crop of lower portion:

order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Argiope sp.

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