An Asian Magyar built a Hungary kingdom in the end of the 9th century. The 16th century begins and is governed by Ottoman Turkey, and a follower of the Austria House of Hapsburg will receive it after the 18th century. It formed the House of Hapsburg and Austria-Hungary empire in 1867 and achieved virtual independence. However, an empire collapsed after World War I, and it was occupied with World War II by the Soviet Union and became a socialist state as a people's republic in 1949. Hungarian uprising occurred in 1956, and the Soviet Union intervened militarily. A rapid progress reformist held an experiment in 1989 after 30 years, and communism collapsed and was rebeared in Europe model social democracy, and the name of a country became the Republic of Hungary.
Hungary had issued a lot of stamps once with Poland of the old Communist block, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, etc. The stamp describing the design of a certain theme especially called so-called topical, such as an animal, pictures, and a vehicle, was simultaneously issued by the set many kinds.
Since ten kinds of first long sets were published also about insect stamp in 1954, the long set has been repeatedly published with 1959 (seven kinds), 1965 (nine kinds), 1969 (eight kinds), 1974 (seven kinds), 1980 (six kinds), and 1984 (seven kinds). Here, the first series, six-kind flower and insect set in 1980, are introduced.
Four kinds of stamps on which it drew an insect and one piece of small seat on which it drew insect one kind were issued in 2014.
Hungary
1954.2.5 Insect Stamp
Garden Chafer Polyphylla fullo (Scarabaeidae) |
Oak Longhorn Beetle Cerambyx cerdo (Cerambycidae) |
European Hornet Vespa crabro (Vespidae) |
Weevil Cleonus punctiventris (Curculionidae) |
Apple Leaf Weevil Rhynchites bacchus (Attelabidae) |
Ground Beetle Zabrus tenebroides (Harpalidae) |
Great Silver Water Beetle Hydrophilus piceus (Hydrophilidae) |
Field Cricket Gryllus campestris (Gryllidae) |
European Rhinoceros Beetle Oryctes nasicornis (Scarabaeidae) |
European Stag Beetle Lucanus cervus (Lucanidae) |
1980.1.25 Flower & Insect
Chequered Beetle Trichodes apiarius (Cleridae) |
Garden Bumble Bee Bombus hortorum (Anthophoridae) |
Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Nymphalidae) |
Common Rose Chafer Cetonia aurata (Scarabaeidae) |
Stinkbug Graphosoma lineatum (Pentatomidae) |
Tiger Longhorn Beetle Chlorophorus varius (Cerambycidae) |
2014.9.9 Insect Stamps
Ant Lion Fly Dendroleon pantherinus (Myrmeleontidae) |
Mantid Lacewing Mantispa styriaca (Mantispidae) |
Metalic Beetle Carabus auronitens (Carabidae) |
Giant Ruby-tailed Wasp Stilbum cyanurum (Chrysididae) |
Green Hawker Aeshna viridis (Aeschnidae) |