Abkhazia* (1999a)

Date of issue: 1999
Name of issue: Rainforest
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/9

*Abkhazia is a disputed territory. The majority of the world's governments consider Abkhazia a part of Georgia's territory . Therefore, their stamps are not valid for international postage.

The stamp in the lower left part of the sheet contains a scorpion, a spider and also a centipede. The funniest thing happened the other day. I brought my kids to their daycare and I discovered that they have that poster on one of the walls. Interestingly, all the animals are "identified" on the poster, so I am now able to pinpoint what is what!

The scorpion is labeled as Pandinus imperator, the spider as Avicularia avicularia and the centipede as Scolopendra gigantea. It is kind of funny since P. imperator is from Africa and the later two from South America.



Michel#: none

order: Araneae
family: Theraphosidae
Avicularia avicularia (Linnaeus, 1758)

order: Scorpiones
family: Scorpionidae
Pandinus imperator (C. L. Koch, 1841)

Souvenir sheet:

Abkhazia* - Spiders

Date of issue: 1999
Name of issue: Rainforest
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/9




Michel#: none
order: Araneae
family: Theraphosidae
Avicularia avicularia (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Abkhazia* - Scorpions

 Date of issue: 1999
Name of issue: Rainforest
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/9



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

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Abkhazia* - Myriapoda

 Date of issue: 1999
Name of issue: Rainforest
Number of myriapod related stamps in issue: 1/9

Michel#: none
subphylum: Myriapoda
family: Scolopendridae
Scolopendra gigantea Linnaeus, 1758

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Abkhazia* (1999b)

Date of issue: 1999
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/12

*Abkhazia is a disputed territory. The majority of the world's governments consider Abkhazia a part of Georgia's territory. Therefore, their stamps are not valid for international postage. There are several other local issues from former Soviet territories, visit my entries about Batumi, Khakassia & Chuvashia.

I had this issue for a while, but I just discovered while examining the scans closely that the species names are written at the buttom of the stamps.
Looks like most of the spiders artworks on this series are taken out of Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature) from Ernst Haekel. I have used that plate's identification for the species of the  spiders on the stamps (most only have the genus, except Eris tricolor, that is note on that Ernst Haekel work).

This series is also available as imperforate.

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Micrathena furcata (Hahn, 1822)

 

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Gasteracantha sp.

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Micracantha arcuata (Fabricius, 1793)

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Salticidae
Eris tricolor (C. L. Koch, 1846)

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Micrathena schreibersi (Perty, 1833)

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Gasteracantha sp.

Souvenir sheet:

Other stamps of this series:

Abkhazia* - Spiders

Date of issue: 1999
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/12

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Micrathena furcata (Hahn, 1822



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Abkhazia* - Spiders

Date of issue: 1999
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/12



Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Gasteracantha sp.

For more information on this issue, click HERE

Abkhazia* - Spiders

Date of issue: 1999
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/12

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Micracantha arcuata (Fabricius, 1793)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Abkhazia* - Spiders

Date of issue: 1999
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/12



Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Salticidae
Eris tricolor (C. L. Koch, 1846)

For more information on this issue, click HERE

Abkhazia* - Spiders

Date of issue: 1999
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/12



Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Micrathena schreibersi (Perty, 1833)

For more information on this issue, click HERE

Abkhazia* - Spiders

Date of issue: 1999
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/12



Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Gasteracantha sp.

For more information on this issue, click HERE

Abkhazia* (2001)

Date of issue: 2001
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/3

I am thrilled I finally found this issue. I had discovered it on a Russian site some time ago, but could not source out a dealer that had them. They seem to be quite uncommon.

Even though they are not official post stamps, I could not consider my collection complete without them. It is the only pseudoscorpion stamp that I know of and only the second opiliones depicted on a souvenir sheet. I am normally not keen at all about photographs on stamps (I much prefer art work), but for these seldom shown orders of arachnids, I am willing to take anything!

Sadly, the pseudoscorpion is not properly identified, the genus Nesticus is a spider genus of the Nesticidae family and the species listed on the stamp is now changed to Carpathonesticus birsteini (Charitonov, 1947).

There is a gimmicky holographic version of the souvenir sheet as well (see below). Also to be noted, the non-arachnid stamp is a myriapoda stamp.

Michel #: none
order: Pseudoscorpion
**species listed is a spider
(see text from blog entry)
 

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Nesticidae
Carpathonesticus zaitzavi (Charitanov, 1939)
*Nesticus zaitzavi on stamp

Souvenir sheet:

Michel #: none
order: Opiliones (on souvenir sheet)
family: Nemastomatidae
Nemaspela abchasica (Lyovushkin & Starobogatov, 1963)

3D holographic version

Other stamp of this series:




Michel #: none
subphylum: Myriapoda
order: Julida
family: Julidae
Archileucogeorgia abchasica Lohmander, 1936

Abkhazia* - Pseudoscorpion

Date of issue: 2001
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/3

This used to be the only pseudoscorpion stamp that I knew of but sadly, it is not properly identified, the genus Nesticus is a spider genus of the Nesticidae family and the species listed on the stamp is now changed to Carpathonesticus birsteini (Charitonov, 1947).

Michel #: none
order: Pseudoscorpion
**species listed is a spider
(see text from blog entry)

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Abkhazia* - Spider

Date of issue: 2001
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/3

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Nesticidae
Carpathonesticus zaitzavi (Charitanov, 1939)
*Nesticus zaitzavi on stamp

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Abkhazia* - Opiliones

Date of issue: 2001
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/3

Michel #: none
order: Opiliones
family: Nemastomatidae
Nemaspela abchasica (Lyovushkin & Starobogatov, 1963)

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Abkhazia* - Myriapoda

Date of issue: 2001
Number of myriapoda related stamps in issue: 1/3



Michel #: none
subphylum: Myriapoda
order: Julida
family: Julidae
Archileucogeorgia abchasica Lohmander, 1936

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