Insect Stamp of Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands consists of about 200 islands of 500km of east marine of the South America Argentina southernmost end part, and the southwest Atlantic Ocean.
15 kinds of normal stamps were issued from this british Falkland Islands in 1984, and the insect is drawn on 12 of kinds of it.

Falkland Islands
1984.1.3 Insect Stamp
Ichneumon Wasp
Alophophion occidentalis
(Ichneumonidae)
Noctuid Moth
Pareuxoina falklandica
(Noctuidae)
Ground Meetle
Lissopterus quadrinotatus
(Carabidae)
Paitil Lady
Issoria cytheris
(Nymphalidae)
Ichneumon Wasp
Trachysphyrus penai
(Ichneumonidae)
Noctuid Moth
Caphornia ochricraspia
(Noctuidae)
Weevil
Caneorhinus biangulatus
(Curculionidae)
Hover Fly
Syrphus octomaculatus
(Syrphidae)
Weevil
Malvinius compressiventris
(Curculionidae)
Ground Beetle
Metius blandus
(Carabidae)
Camel Cricket
Parudenus falklandicus
(Rhaphidophoridae)
Western Painted Lady
Vanessa carye
(Nymphalidae)


The Falkland Islands Dependencies is located between the South Pole area and Argentina.
Three kinds of insects and three kinds of ticks or spider, a total of six-kind set was issued from this Falkland Islands Dependencies in 1982. The insect lives also near a polar zone like the South Pole.

Falkland Islands Dependencies
1982.3.16 Insect Stamp

Isotomid
Cryptopygus antarcticus
(Isotomidae)
Perimylops Beetle
Hydromedion sparsutum
(Perimylopidae)
Non-biting Midge
Parochlus steinenii
(CHironomidae)


Isotomid is a minute insect of the length from 1mm to 3mm, and has neither a simple eye nor a compound eye. However, there is a small eye of every some in the both sides of a head, respectively, and it gathers at them, and has become an eye group. A self-renewal is continued, even if a larva and an imago are of the same type, and hardly metamorphose but it becomes an imago with a primitive insect. It is said that at least 40,000 individuals live in 1 square meter in Japanese forest soil, a dead leaf etc. is eaten, and it is changing into the ground.
Give water to the flowerpot in which the plant was planted. Probably, it is seen that a thing like powder drifts on the surface when water has overflowed upwards. If it moves lightly and a hand is brought close, although there is also no wind, as it was blown away, it will disappear. This is a kind of Isotomid which lived in the ground of a flowerpot, and it disappeared for having skipped and escaped suddenly.

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