Algeria - Scorpions

Date of issue: June 18th, 1997
Name of issue: Les scorpions (Scorpions)
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/2

Michel #: 1183
Scott #: 1218
Stanley Gibbon #: 1093
Yvert #: 1135
order: Scorpiones
family: Buthidae
*Buthus tunetanus (Herbst, 1800)
Buthus occitanus tunetanus (on stamp)

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Algeria - Scorpions

Date of issue: June 18th, 1997
Name of issue: Les scorpions (Scorpions)
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/2

Michel #: 1184
Scott #: 1219
Stanley Gibbon #: 1094
Yvert #: 1136
order: Scorpiones
family: Buthidae
Androctonus australis hector C.L. Koch, 1839

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Argentina (1969)

Date of issue: August 9th, 1969
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/5

This series is a little far fetched. I have included it because among the figures shown, there is an arachnologist that contributed several articles on opiliones, solifugids and spiders, Dr. Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg born in Buenos Aires on June 26, 1852.

Michel #: 1029
Scott #: 901
Stanley Gibbon #: 1260
Yvert #: 844
category: Arachnologist
Dr. Eduardo L. Holmberg

Other stamps of the series:

Argentina - Arachnologist

Date of issue: August 9th, 1969
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/5

Michel #: 1029
Scott #: 901
Stanley Gibbon #: 1260
Yvert #: 844
category: Arachnologist
Dr. Eduardo L. Holmberg

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Argentina (2009)

Date of issue: July 25th, 2009
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/2

The second and more recent issue from Argentina is quite interesting as it shows a species that was originally described by Holmberg (originally described as Ocypete pythagorica), a nice continuation from the previous series.

Michel #:
Scott #: 2534
Stanley Gibbon #: 3355
order: Araneae
family: Sparassidae
Polybetes pythagoricus (Holmberg, 1875)

Other stamps of the series:

Argentina - Spiders

Date of issue: July 25th, 2009
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/2

Michel #: ?
Scott #: 2534
Stanley Gibbon #: 3355
order: Araneae
family: Sparassidae
Polybetes pythagoricus (Holmberg, 1875)

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Ascension Island (2004)

Date of issue: July 24th, 2004
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/8

Series of eight stamps, two of those issued to commemorate the 175th anniversary of Charles Darwin on the Beagle. The series itself contains no arachnid, but the souvenir sheet of the Darwin stamp shows a spider preserved in amber.





Michel #: none
order: Araneae
*close-up of spider in amber

Souvenir sheet:




Michel #: 977 & 978
Scott #: 896 a & b
Category: souvenir sheet only



Australia (1978)*

Date of issue: October 29th, 1978

Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/4

This is an interesting curiosity. Not a valid postal stamp. It comes as an exterior orange booklet and a second sheet (loose, folded but not stapled or attached) printed on stamp quality paper (no gum). It is a really nice piece in my opinion.

The description of the sheet says:

Printed at Stamp Show '78 on the Heidelberg GTO press by Mitchell Press Pty. Ltd.

Designed by Sarah Winslade winner of the Stamp Show '78 design award under 16 section.

The back of the booklet says: 

Reproduction of a miniature sheet. First produced at 4th Philatelic Exhibition Melbourne October 29th, 1928.

Taken from drawing by R.A. Harrison

Each sheet is numbered and dated for day of production at Stamp Show '78

Original was supplied by Mission Stamps and is available from Mission Stamps or 

Paul Mitchell 

Box 115, P.O. Magill, S.A.

Michel #: none / not legal
order: Araneae
family: Theridiidae
Latrodectus hasselti Thorell, 1898

Complete sheet:

interior sheet

exterior booklet

Australia - Spiders

Date of issue: October 29th, 1978

Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/4

Michel #: none / not legal
order: Araneae
family: Theridiidae
Latrodectus hasselti Thorell, 1898

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Australia (1997)

Date of issue: October 1st, 1997
Name of issue: Creatures of the night
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/6 (souvenir sheet)

Oz has several interesting series about arachnids. First one is called “Creatures of the Night”. Although it does not contain any arachnid stamp, a spider is shown on the souvenir sheet.

Michel #: 1664 to 1669
Scott #: 1617 to 1622
Stanley Gibbon #: 1713 to 1718 (MS 1719)
Yvert #: BF 49
category: souvenir sheet only

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
*close-up of spider