Sunday, December 30, 2018

Indonesia (2004)

Date of issue: November 5th, 2004
Name of issue: Flora & Fauna
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/8

Twice the same stamp with different values. Also worth nothing the giant centipede stamp (scolopendra).

Information from the postal services booklet (please note that the information about the animals may or may not be accurate, I am simply re-typing the information).

The issue of flora and fauna stamps is meant to remind us of the important role of Indonesia as the castodian of the most important safehouse of tropical biological diversity in the world. Conservation of biological diversity is not concerened solely with the preservation of plants and animals that provide useful service. Even more important, protecting biological diversity relates to the range of genetic material provided by Nature.

in 2004 the Directorate General of Post and Telecommunications issues a series of flora and fauna special stamps depicting three sorts medicinal plants, two kinds of arachnids* and an insect. At the same time PT Pos Indonesia (Persero) issues a set of first day covers bearing the same theme.

*Scolopendra subspinipes is not an arachnid (mistake from the booklet)

Heterometrus cyaneus (C.L. Koch, 836)

This kind of large scorpion is locally called ketonggeng (Javanese) or langgir/langir (Sundanese), 13cm in length, of which the exoskeleton is shiny brown or dark green. The lobster-like body is provided with a poisonous stinger on its tail. Like the legs, the tail has brownish red color. The stinger can go as far as its mouth when it pounces on its prey. Though the sting is not as dangerous as that of the scorpion from Africa, Middle East and Tropical America, still it can cause a severe hurt. The predator kills and eats spiders, insects, invertebrates and house lizards. The body is devided into head, chest and abdomen. The head and the chest are united to anchor a pair of jagged pincers and four pair of legs. The abdomen is flat but the tail is cylindric formed. It gets adult by the age of 2-3 years during which it sheds skin 8-9 times. It breeds once or twice a year and each time produces 20-35 young ones. The mother carries the weak young ones on her back. The scorpion is both nocturnal and cannibal. It kills and eats another scorpion which is shedding its skin or a male one after mating game. It is used to live in dark and damp places, in tunnels, wood crack, under heaps of woods, rocks and ruins. The species spread as far as from India to South East Asia.


Michel #: 2374
order: Scorpiones
family: Scorpionidae
Heterometrus cyaneus (C.L. Koch, 1836)























Michel #: 2379
order: Scorpiones
family: Scorpionidae
Heterometrus cyaneus (C.L. Koch, 1836)































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Indonesia - Scorpion

Date of issue: November 5th, 2004
Name of issue: Flora & Fauna
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/8


Michel #: 2374
order: Scorpiones
family: Scorpionidae
Heterometrus cyaneus (C.L. Koch, 1836)



























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Indonesia - Scorpions

Date of issue: November 5th, 2004
Name of issue: Flora & Fauna
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/8


Michel #: 2374
order: Scorpiones
family: Scorpionidae
Heterometrus cyaneus (C.L. Koch, 1836)



























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Indonesia - Myriapoda

Date of issue: November 5th, 2004
Name of issue: Flora & Fauna
Number of myriapod related stamps in issue: 1/8


Michel #: 2378
subphylum: Myriapoda
family: Scolopendridae
Scolopendra subspinipes Leach, 1815
 
 
 
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Friday, November 30, 2018

Iraq (1967)

Date of issue: April 11th, 1967
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/2



Michel #: 480
category: Web
 


Michel #: 481
category: Web




















Iraq - Web

Date of issue: April 11th, 1967
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/2



Michel #: 480
category: Web



















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Iraq - Web

 Date of issue: April 11th, 1967
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/2


Michel #: 481
category: Web



















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Sunday, November 25, 2018

Iraq (1970)

Date of issue: September 4th, 1970
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/2



Michel #: 628
category: web























Michel #: 628
category: web

Iraq - Web

Date of issue: September 4th, 1970
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/2

Michel #: 628
category: web






















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Iraq - Web

Date of issue: September 4th, 1970
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/2

Michel #: 628
category: web
























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Sunday, November 18, 2018

Iraq (1971)

Date of issue: 1971
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/2

Michel #: 652
category: Web




















Michel #: 653
category: Web

Iraq - Web

Date of issue: 1971
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/2

Michel #: 652
category: Web



























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Iraq - Web

Date of issue: 1971
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/2


Michel #: 653
category: Web


























For more information on this series, click HERE

Sunday, November 11, 2018

Iraq (2002)

Date of issue: April 11th, 2002
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/3



Michel #: 1681
category: web (located in the center of the doorway)























Michel #: 1683
category: web























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Iraq - Web

Date of issue: April 11th, 2002
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/3


Michel #: 1681
category: web (located in the center of the doorway)






















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Iraq - Web

Date of issue: April 11th, 2002
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/3



Michel #: 1683
category: web

























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Sunday, October 28, 2018

Ireland (2011)

Date of issue: 2011
Name of issue: Irish animals and marine life
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/16

Series of self adhesive stamps. The series of eight stamps that has the spider is called Phase II.



Michel #: ?
order: Araneae
family: Sparassidae
Micrommata virescens (Clerck, 1757)















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Ireland - Spiders

Date of issue: 2011
Name of issue: Irish animals and marine life
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/16



Michel #: ?
order: Araneae
family: Sparassidae
Micrommata virescens (Clerck, 1757)

















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Sunday, October 21, 2018

Ireland (2012)

Date of issue: August 9th, 2012
Name of issue: Irish animals and marine life
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/8

Information from the back of the FDC(please note that the information about the animals may or may not be accurate, I am simply re-typing the information).

On August 9, 2012, An Post issued a further eight stamps for its Irish Animals and Marine Life definitive series, illustrating Ireland's biodiversity from the seabed to the mountain top. Biodiversity is an all-encompassing term used to describe the variety of all life and natural processes on Earth.

The Raft Spider is one of Ireland's largest spiders. Primarily a spider of bogs and fens, it is always found close to water. Raft spiders have a body length of up to 2.2cm and a leg span approaching 7cm. It is mostly brown in colour with a distinctive pale stripe running from the head down each side of its fat, cigar-shaped body.






Michel #: ?
order: Araneae
family: Pisauridae
Dolomedes fimbriatus (Clerck, 1757)

















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Ireland - Spiders

Date of issue: August 9th, 2012
Name of issue: Irish animals and marine life
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/8






Michel #: ?
order: Araneae
family: Pisauridae
Dolomedes fimbriatus (Clerck, 1757)
















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Sunday, September 30, 2018

Italy (1999)

Date of issue: November 27th, 1999
Name of issue: Leopardo morso da una tarantola
                          (Leopard bitten by a tarantula)
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/1

This is a very nice stamp in honour of Italian painter Antonio Ligabue It is very interesting as it is one of the only two stamps showing the true tarantula, Lycosa tarantula (the other one is the rare 1997 Guinea Bissau stamp)

Michel #: 2665
Yvert #: 2398 A
order: Araneae
family: Lycosidae
Lycosa tarantula (Linnaeus, 1758)
category: Art



Sunday, August 26, 2018

Ivory Coast (1984)

Date of issue: March 24th, 1984
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/2


Michel #: 808
Scott #: 710
Yvert #: 681
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Argiope sp.

























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