Sunday, September 10, 2023

Abkhazia* (1999b)

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

*Abkhazia is a disputed territory. The majority of the world's governments consider Abkhazia a part of Georgia's territory. Therefore, their stamps are not valid for international postage. There are several other local issues from former Soviet territories, visit my entries about Batumi, Khakassia & Chuvashia.

I had this issue for a while, but I just discovered while examining the scans closely that the species names are written at the buttom of the stamps.
Looks like most of the spiders artworks on this series are taken out of Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature) from Ernst Haekel. I have used that plate's identification for the species of the  spiders on the stamps (most only have the genus, except Eris tricolor, that is note on that Ernst Haekel work).

This series is also available as imperforate.

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Micrathena furcata (Hahn, 1822)
 

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




























Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Araneidae
Micracantha arcuata (Fabricius, 1793)




























Michel #: none
order: Araneae
family: Salticidae
Eris tricolor (C. L. Koch, 1846)





























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




























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




























Souvenir sheet:





Other stamps of this series:



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