Cuba (1975)

Date of issue: November 25th, 1975
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

I really enjoy this series on vetenary medecine. In the circle, you have the cycle of the parasite and beside the animal infected!

Michel #: 2096
Yvert #: 1895
sub-class: Acari
family: Ixodidae
*Rhipicephalus microplus (Canestrini, 1888)
(Boophilus microplus on stamp)

Other stamps of the series:

Cuba - Acari

Date of issue: November 25th, 1975
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

Michel #: 2096
Yvert #: 1895
sub-class: Acari
family: Ixodidae
*Rhipicephalus microplus (Canestrini, 1888)
(Boophilus microplus on stamp)

For more information on this series, click HERE

Cuba (2021)

Date of issue: 2021

Name of issue: Aracnidos endémicos de Cuba (Endemic arachnids of Cuba)

Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/7

I never thought this would happen, but this is the ultimate arachnid series. There are seven stamps showing seven arachnid orders! 

Well kind of, the souvenir sheet has a uropygi on it, but not on the actual stamp. However, that stamp has fake perforation, so I decided to cheat and count it as a whole stamp. The fake perforation is extremely disappointing to say the least.

Who could have said that one day, there would be a ricinulei stamp! That means schizomida and palpigradi are the only arachnid order to have never been presented on some postal material.

Unfortunately, horrible photographs were used instead of artwork. Very disappointing, this series could have become my all time favorite. Still, credit is due to show us such diversity.

Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones
family: Buthidae
Heteroctenus junceus (Herbst, 1800)

Michel #: ?
order: Amblypygi
family: Phrynidae
Paraphrynus robustus (Franganillo, 1931)

Michel #: ?
order: Ricinulei
family: Ricinoididae
Pseudocellus silvai (Armas, 1977)

Michel #:?
order: Opiliones
family: Cosmetidae
Trinimontius darlingtoni Šilhavý, 1970

Michel #: ?
order: Pseudoscorpion
family: Bochicidae
Antillobisium tomasi 
Barba Díaz, Zaragoza & López Iborra, 2018

Michel #: ?
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Micrathena cubana (Banks, 1909)

Michel #: ?
order: Araneae
family: Theraphosidae
Cubanana cristinae Ortiz, 2008

Souvenir sheet:

Michel #: ?
order: Uropygi
family: Thelyphonidae
Mastigoproctus baracoensis Franganillo, 1931

Cuba - Scorpions

Date of issue: 2021

Name of issue: Aracnidos endémicos de Cuba (Endemic arachnids of Cuba)

Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/7

Michel #: ?
order: Scorpiones
family: Buthidae
Heteroctenus junceus (Herbst, 1800)

For more information on this series, click HERE

Cuba - Amblypygi

Date of issue: 2021

Name of issue: Aracnidos endémicos de Cuba (Endemic arachnids of Cuba)

Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/7

Michel #: ?
order: Amblypygi
family: Phrynidae
Paraphrynus robustus (Franganillo, 1931)

For more information on this series, click HERE

Cuba - Ricinulei

Date of issue: 2021

Name of issue: Aracnidos endémicos de Cuba (Endemic arachnids of Cuba)

Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/7

Michel #: ?
order: Ricinulei
family: Ricinoididae
Pseudocellus silvai (Armas, 1977)

For more information on this series, click HERE

Cuba - Opiliones

Date of issue: 2021

Name of issue: Aracnidos endémicos de Cuba (Endemic arachnids of Cuba)

Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/7

Michel #:?
order: Opiliones
family: Cosmetidae
Trinimontius darlingtoni Šilhavý, 1970

For more information on this series, click HERE

Cuba - Pseudoscorpion

Date of issue: 2021

Name of issue: Aracnidos endémicos de Cuba (Endemic arachnids of Cuba)

Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/7

Michel #: ?
order: Pseudoscorpion
family: Bochicidae
Antillobisium tomasi 
Barba Díaz, Zaragoza & López Iborra, 2018

For more information on this series, click HERE

Cuba - Spiders

Date of issue: 2021

Name of issue: Aracnidos endémicos de Cuba (Endemic arachnids of Cuba)

Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/7

Michel #: ?
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Micrathena cubana (Banks, 1909)

For more information on this series, click HERE

Cuba - Spiders

Date of issue: 2021

Name of issue: Aracnidos endémicos de Cuba (Endemic arachnids of Cuba)

Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/7

Michel #: ?
order: Araneae
family: Theraphosidae
Cubanana cristinae Ortiz, 2008

For more information on this series, click HERE

Cuba - Uropygi

Date of issue: 2021

Name of issue: Aracnidos endémicos de Cuba (Endemic arachnids of Cuba)

Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 7/7

Michel #: ?
order: Uropygi
family: Thelyphonidae
Mastigoproctus baracoensis Franganillo, 1931

For more information on this series, click HERE

Cyprus - 2019

Date of issue: 2019
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/2

Michel #: ?
category: web only / art

Full sheet:

Other stamp of this series:

 

Cyprus - Web

Date of issue: 2019

Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/2

Michel #: ?
category: web only / art

For more information on this series, click HERE

Czechia (2007)

Date of issue: 2007
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/4

A pure guess on my part here, but the drawing looks like it could be an Argiope sp. The spider is hard to find, it is located in the lower left corner, in the gutter (not an actual stamp).

Michel #: ?
Scott #: 3355
Stanley Gibbon: MS 514
Yvert #: BF 26
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae (?)
Argiope sp. (?)

Crop from lower left corner:




order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Argiope sp.



Czechia - Spiders

Date of issue: 2007
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/4

order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Argiope sp.

Souvenir sheet:

Michel #: ?
Scott #: 3355
Stanley Gibbon: MS 514
Yvert #: BF 26
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae (?)
Argiope sp. (?)

For more information on this series, click HERE

Czechia (2009)

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

I would like to thank my friend Ota Zimmermann for giving me this souvenir sheet as a gift. Once again, no spider stamp unfortunately, but a nice one located in the lower margin of the gutter.

Michel #: ?
Scott #: 3426
Stanley Gibbon #: MS 587
order: Araneae
family: Eresidae
Eresus sandaliatus (Martini & Goeze, 1778)

Crop from lower part of the sheet:

order: Araneae
family: Eresidae
Eresus sandaliatus (Martini & Goeze, 1778)

Czechia - Spiders

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

order: Araneae
family: Eresidae
Eresus sandaliatus (Martini & Goeze, 1778)

Souvenir sheet:

For more information on this series, click HERE

Dadahomeya* (2011)

Date of issue: 2011
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 12/12

This is a very exciting entry for me. Some time ago, while I was doing some "Google" spider stamp  research (yes, I think it is obvious by now, I am a dork), I found this lovely series of stamps.

The stamps are designed by artist Carl T. Chew of Triangle Post.  They were designed for Russian artist Gik Juri and his country "Dadahomeya".

I immediately thought how much these would make an amazing addition to my stamp collection. I do not only collect legal postage stamps, but also cinderellas, 5th world, art stamps, etc.

I much more rejoice at having the gorgeous artwork of these stamps then a lot of awful legal postage stamps that clearly no efforts were put in their creation.

Anyhow, apparently the Triangle Spider is the national arachnid of Dadahomeya. I think all countries should designate a national arachnid!!

The design looks inspired from the Micrathena genus. The sheet has 20 stamps, but only 12 are unique, some are repeated on the sheet.

I would like to sincerely thank Mr. Chew for sending me these amazing stamps. I even received a signed sheet with my name on it... like a kid on Christmas day!!!! The stamps were also sent in a gorgeous envelope and some spider stamps were used on it, with a special spider cancellation. This truly is among my favourite items in my collection!

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae ?
 

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae ?

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae ?

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae ?

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae ?

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae ?

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae ?

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae ?

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae ?

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae ?

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae ?

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae ?

Full sheet:

Envelope: