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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Afghanistan (1986)

Date of issue: July 7th, 1986
Name of issue: Les Reptiles
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/7

Interesting yet funny issue called “Les Reptiles” (The Reptiles) of seven stamps. Despite it’s name, it only contains three reptile stamps. Two insects and two arachnids complete the set. As you will soon learn, it is not uncommon to find arachnid stamps mixed in series supposedly dedicated to insects, but this is the only issue that I know of where arthropods are confused with vertebrates!

Michel #: 1515
Scott #: 1221
Stanley Gibbon #: 1132
Yvert #: 1330
order: Araneae

Michel #: 1517
Scott #: 1223
Stanley Gibbon #: 1134
Yvert #: 1332
order: Scorpiones

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Afghanistan - Spiders

Date of issue: July 7th, 1986
Name of issue: Les Reptiles
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/7

Michel #: 1515
Scott #: 1221
Yvert #: 1330
Stanley Gibbon #: 1132
order: Araneae

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Afghanistan - Scorpions

Date of issue: July 7th, 1986
Name of issue: Les Reptiles
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/7

Michel #: 1517
Scott #: 1223
Stanley Gibbon #: 1134
Yvert #: 1332
order: Scorpiones

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Aland (2002)

Date of issue: January 2nd, 2002
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/1

Stamp issued for St. Knut's day. Note the kid on the left is costumed as spiderman.

Michel #: 201
Stanley Gibbon #: 211
category: folklore

Aland - Spiders

Date of issue: January 2nd, 2002
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/1

Michel #: 201
Stanley Gibbon #: 211
category: folklore

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Aland (2011)

Date of issue: 2011
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/3

I had seen this issue for a while, but I could not find any spider in it. I kept searching since one of the superheroe's name by Aland native Paul Gustafson is "Alias the Spider".

I eventually found a good quality image of the character and discovered that he has a spider drawing on his boots!

Michel #: ?
Stanley Gibbon #: 357
category: cartoon

Close up of boot:

Booklet:

inside

front

back

inside

Other stamps of this series:

Aland - Spiders

Date of issue: 2011
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/3

Michel #: ?
Stanley Gibbon #: 357
category: cartoon

Close up of boot:

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