Arachnids on stamps

Sunday, September 10, 2023

Abkhazia* - Spiders

Date of issue: 1999
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/12

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Micrathena schreibersi (Perty, 1833)

For more information on this issue, click HERE

Abkhazia* - Spiders

Date of issue: 1999
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 6/12

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Gasteracantha sp.

For more information on this issue, click HERE

Sunday, September 3, 2023

Date of issue: 2001
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/3

I am thrilled I finally found this issue. I had discovered it on a Russian site some time ago, but could not source out a dealer that had them. They seem to be quite uncommon.

Even though they are not official post stamps, I could not consider my collection complete without them. It is the only pseudoscorpion stamp that I know of and only the second opiliones depicted on a souvenir sheet. I am normally not keen at all about photographs on stamps (I much prefer art work), but for these seldom shown orders of arachnids, I am willing to take anything!

Sadly, the pseudoscorpion is not properly identified, the genus Nesticus is a spider genus of the Nesticidae family and the species listed on the stamp is now changed to Carpathonesticus birsteini (Charitonov, 1947).

There is a gimmicky holographic version of the souvenir sheet as well (see below). Also to be noted, the non-arachnid stamp is a myriapoda stamp.

Michel #: none
order: Pseudoscorpion
**species listed is a spider
(see text from blog entry)

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Nesticidae
Carpathonesticus zaitzavi (Charitanov, 1939)
*Nesticus zaitzavi on stamp

Souvenir sheet:

Michel #: none
order: Opiliones (on souvenir sheet)
family: Nemastomatidae
Nemaspela abchasica (Lyovushkin & Starobogatov, 1963)

3D holographic version

Other stamp of this series:

Michel #: none
subphylum: Myriapoda
order: Julida
family: Julidae
Archileucogeorgia abchasica Lohmander, 1936

Abkhazia* - Pseudoscorpion

Date of issue: 2001
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 2/3

This used to be the only pseudoscorpion stamp that I knew of but sadly, it is not properly identified, the genus Nesticus is a spider genus of the Nesticidae family and the species listed on the stamp is now changed to Carpathonesticus birsteini (Charitonov, 1947).

Michel #: none
order: Pseudoscorpion
**species listed is a spider
(see text from blog entry)

For more information on this series, click HERE

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

For more information on this series, click HERE

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)

For more information on this series, click HERE

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

For more information on this series, click HERE

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

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!