Niger (1999)

Date of issue: december 12th, 1999
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/20

Common name written on this stamp "scorpion empereur" (emperor scorpion). This series is also available as imperforated.

The spider stamp of this series has to be one of the most horrible art work I ever seen! That sheet shows animals sent on space programs. Spiders in space... the last frontier! For more information on animals sent in space, click HERE

Michel #: 1719
Yvert #: 1411
order: Scorpiones
family: Scorpionidae
Pandinus imperator (C. L. Koch, 1841)

Michel #: 1728
Scott #: 1035d
order: Araneae

Souvenir sheets:

Niger - Scorpions

Date of issue: december 12th, 1999
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/20



Michel #: 1719
Yvert #: 1411
order: Scorpiones
family: Scorpionidae
Pandinus imperator (C. L. Koch, 1841)

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Niger - Spiders

Date of issue: december 12th, 1999
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/20

Michel #: 1728
Scott #: 1035d
order: Araneae

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Niger - Scorpions

Date of issue: december 12th, 1999
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/20

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

Souvenir sheet:

Michel #: 1717-1720

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Niuafo'ou (Tonga) (1993)

Date of issue: August 10th, 1993
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/5

The spider is hard to find on this one!





Michel #: 253
order: Araneae



Other stamps of this series:











Complete sheet (cancelled):

Complete sheet (specimen):

 
 

Niuafo'ou (Tonga) - Spiders

Date of issue: August 10th, 1993
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/5


Michel #: 253
order: Araneae

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Norfolk Island (2004)

Date of issue: May 11th, 2004
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 5/5

Each spider is also printed in the gutter of the complete sheets. Unfortunately, I do not have the complete sheets, but please see the gutter pairs at the end of this entry.



Michel #: 865
Scott #: 813
Yvert #: 814
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Cyrtophora sp.

*Note: For the second stamps, I cannot locate Nephila ornata in the catalogue.




Michel #: 866
Scott #: 814
Yvert #: 813
order: Araneae
family: Nephilidae
Nephila ornata*

*Note: Original spelling of "Argiope" (Argyope on stamp)





Michel #: 867
Scott #: 815
Yvert #: 815
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
*Argiope kayserlingi Karsch, 1878
Argyope kayserlingi (on stamp)



Michel #: 868
Scott #: 816
Yvert #: 816
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Gasteracantha westringi Keyserling, 1864



Michel #: 869
Scott #: 817
Yvert #: BF 49
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Gasteracantha westringi Keyserling, 1864

Souvenir sheet:

Michel #: 869
Yvert #: BF 49

Gutter pairs:

Norfolk Island - Spiders

Date of issue: May 11th, 2004
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 5/5



Michel #: 865
Scott #: 814
Yvert #: 814
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Cyrtophora sp.

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Norfolk Island - Spiders

Date of issue: May 11th, 2004
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 5/5

*Note: I cannot locate Nephila ornata in the catalogue.



Michel #: 866
Scott #: 813
Yvert #: 813
order: Araneae
family: Nephilidae
Nephila ornata*

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Norfolk Island - Spiders

Date of issue: May 11th, 2004
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 5/5

*Note: Original spelling of "Argiope" (Argyope on stamp).



Michel #: 867
Scott #: 815
Yvert #: 815
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
*Argiope kayserlingi Karsch, 1878
Argyope kayserlingi (on stamp)

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Norfolk Island - Spiders

Date of issue: May 11th, 2004
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 5/5



Michel #: 868
Scott #: 816
Yvert #: 816
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Gasteracantha westringi Keyserling, 1864

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Norfolk Island - Spiders

Date of issue: May 11th, 2004
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 5/5



Michel #: 869
Scott #: 816
Yvert #: BF 49
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Gasteracantha westringi Keyserling, 1864

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Norfolk Island - Spiders

Date of issue: May 11th, 2004
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 5/5



Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Gasteracantha westringi Keyserling, 1864

Souvenir sheet:

Michel #: 869
Yvert #: BF 49

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National Wildlife Federation

Date of issue: 1986

Michel #: none - cinderella
order: Araneae
family: Theridiidae
Latrodectus sp.

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National Wildlife Federation

Date of issue: 1975

Michel #: none - cinderella
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Argiope sp.

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Palau (1991)

Date of issue: July 9th, 1991
Name of issue: 10th Anniversary of the Republic of Palau
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/9

The symbol of the spider recalls the story of the famous spider god who taught Palauan women natural childbirth, ending the tradition of cutting open the mother's abdomen to extract the child from the womb.



Michel #: 478
order: Araneae
category: Art & Folklore






Michel #: 481
order: Araneae
category: Art & Folklore





Other stamps of this series:

 Souvenir sheets:

Palau - Spiders

Date of issue: July 9th, 1991
Name of issue: 10th Anniversary of the Republic of Palau
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/9

Michel #: 478
order: Araneae
category: Art & Folklore





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Palau - Spiders

Date of issue: July 9th, 1991
Name of issue: 10th Anniversary of the Republic of Palau
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/9

Michel #: 481
order: Araneae
category: Art & Folklore





 

 

 

 

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