Sunday, January 30, 2022

Burundi - Spiders

Date of issue: 2014
Name of issue: Araignées du Burundi
 (Spiders of Burundi)
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 4/4 









Michel #: ?
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Gasteracantha falcicornis Butler, 1873























Souvenir sheet:













 



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Burundi - Amblypygi

Date of issue: 2014
Name of issue: Araignées du Burundi
 (Spiders of Burundi)
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 4/4 










Michel #: ?
order: Amblypygi
family: Phrynichidae
Damon medius (Herbst in Lichtenstein & Herbst, 1797)
























Souvenir sheet:

















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Friday, December 31, 2021

Cameroon (1978)

Date of issue: 1978
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/3

Just discovered this one recently. Not easy to spot the spider on the drum!

Michel #: 895
Scott #: 649
Stanley Gibbons #: 857
order: Araneae
category: Art
























Imperforated:






















Other stamps of this series:

































Cameroon - Spiders

Date of issue: 1978
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/3

Michel #: 895
Scott #: 649
Stanley Gibbons #: 857
order: Araneae
category: Art

























For more information about this series, click HERE

Friday, December 24, 2021

Cameroon (1985)

Date of issue: 1985
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/3

Michel #: 1076
Scott #: 795
Stanley Gibbons #: 1056
order: Araneae
category: Art
























Other stamps of this series:





Cameroon - Spiders

Date of issue: 1985

Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/3

Michel #: 1076
Scott #: 795
Stanley Gibbons #: 1056
order: Araneae
category: Art






























For more information about this series, click HERE

Sunday, November 28, 2021

Canada (1990)

Date of issue: July 12th, 1990
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/4

OK, some say I am exagerating with this one! Anyhow, I guess I am just sad that my own country will not acknowledge our arachnid fauna. This is the closest to a Canadian arachnid stamp there is, a fossil of Eurypterus remipes (sea scorpion), a chelicerate (not an arachnid though).


Michel #: 1190
subphylum: Chelicerata
family: Eurypteridae
Eurypterus remipes De Kay, 1825























Other stamps of this series:













Canada - Web only

Date of issue: October 1st, 1997
Name of issue: The Supernatural
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/4


crop from gutter

























Full sheet:


Michel #: 1643 - 1646
category: Web only


















For more information on this series, click HERE

Canada - Fossils

Date of issue: July 12th, 1990
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/4

Michel #: 1190
subphylum: Chelicerata
family: Eurypteridae
Eurypterus remipes De Kay, 1825























For more information on this series, click HERE

Sunday, November 21, 2021

Canada (1997)

Date of issue: October 1st, 1997
Name of issue: The Supernatural
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/4

At last, I found a Canadian series with something arachnid related to it. This is a great looking series about supernatural creatures. On the full sheet, in the lower right corner, there is a spider web.

Michel #: 1643 - 1646
category: Web only































Crop of the gutter:


























The full sheet comes in a folder showing an old house. Through the windows, you can see each of the four stamps showing through the holes.






























And the interior unfolds and gives some information in French and English about those supernatural beings!