Sunday, July 31, 2016

New Caledonia (1999)

Date of issue: March 19th, 1999
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 4/4

This has to be one of the best and most perfect series ever. The art work is sublime, attention was paid to reproduce the right kind of webbing and the positionning of the spiders are right except maybe for the Argiope that should possibly have been upside down.

Michel #: 1163
Scott #: 813
Yvert #: 784
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Argiope aetherea (Walckenaer, 1841)


















Michel #: 1164
Scott #: 814
Yvert #: 787
order: Araneae
family: Barychelidae
Barycheloides alluviophilus Raven, 1994


















Michel #: 1165
Scott #: 815
Yvert #: 786
order: Araneae
family: Theridiidae
Latrodectus hasselti Thorell, 1870


















Michel #: 1166
Scott #: 816
Yvert #: 785
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Cyrtophora moluccensis (Doleschall, 1857)

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