Insect Stamp of NamibiaInsect Stamp of NamibiaThe Republic of Nambia is the last independent country of African Continent 53 countries. Indigenous people Coisanean are lived there, but a person from Europe used there from the 15th century, and Namibia was become with protection territory of a German country as South Western Africa in 1884. It was admitted into South Africa territory for 1949 years after World War I. Independent feeling rose in 1960's and finally achieved independence as the Republic of Nambia in 1990.
A small seat comprising five kinds of animals and one kind of insects were issued in 2000 by this Republic of Nambia.
Two kinds of animals and one kind of insect and one kind of plant and microbe one kind are drawn on five kinds of stamps issued as animals and plants new discovery stamp in 2003.
South Western Africa
1987.5.7 Insect Stamp
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| Green Dung Beetle Garreta nitens (Scarabaeidae) |
Robber Fly Alcimus stenurus (Asilidae) |
Carpenter Bee Anthophora caerulea (Apidae) |
Giant Coneheaded Mantid Hemiempusa capensis (Mantidae) |
Repubric of Namibia
2000.5.22 Namib Desert Insect Stamp
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| Fog-basking Beetle Onymacris unguicularis (Tenebrionidae) |
2001.9.8 Namibian Central Highland Insect Stamp
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| Armoured Ground Cricket Acanthoplus discoidalis (Tettigoniidae) |
2003.2.24 New Discovery Insect Stamp
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| West Wind Gladiator Mantophasma zephyra (Mantophasmatodea) |
2007.2.15 Biodiversity of Namibia Stamp
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| Jewel Beetle Julodis egho (Buprestidae) |
2007.4.16 Dragonfly Stamp
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| Emperor Dragonfly Anax imperator (Aeschnidae) |
Jaunty Dropwing Trithemis stictica (Libellulidae) |
Rock Dropwing Trithemis kirbyi ardens (Libellulidae) |
Red-veined Dropwing Trithemis arteriosa (Libellulidae) |
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| Blue Basker Urothemis edwardsii (Libellulidae) |
Fog-basking Beetle is a tenebrionid living in African Namib Desert. When a friend of this beetle gets on wind from the sea, and fog flows through desert, It is busy and walk around it and it is high and lifts buttocks in a top of a wind-wrought pattern on the sands and takes proud posture standing on hand. In this way it suffer a night fog in a whole body and it gather the water which it condense dew in a surface of a body, and began to flow on a part of a mouth and take it.
As the face of the Mantophasmatodes that was discovered in 2002 year is similar to praying mantis and the body is similar to stick insect, so Latin name of a stick insect together to a mantis by resembling a stick insect and can call Mantophasmatodes. In addition, an insect put on a pick of the tip of a foot in the ground generally and walked, but Mantophasmatodes gave a tiptoe, and It was humorous, and English name West Wind Gladiator to say were touched with a heel by walking.
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