Insect Stamp of Papua New Guinea

Although it had become Indonesia now, west halves, such as New Guinea, were belonged to the Netherlands once.
As the insect stamp 1961, the early stamp was comparatively issued from the Netherlands New Guinea. The kind with the characteristic New Guinea specialties, such as Papua Scapanes Beetle and Papua Golden Stag Beetle, is chosen also for the stamp currently drawn.

Netherlands New Guinea
1961.9.15 Social Welfare Stamp
Papua Scapanes Beetle
Scapanes australis
(Scaradaeidae)
Primitive Weevil
Ectocemus decemmaculatus
(Brentidae)
Papua Golden Stag Beetle
Lamprima adolphinae
(Lucanidae)
Leaf Beetle
Aspidomorpha aurata
(Chrysomelidae)



Papua New Guinea is eastern half of New Guinea and about 10,000 neighboring states comprising islands. A European visited a shore after the 16th century, and the New Guinea western part became Oran doh territory in 1828, and the eastern part was divided in 1884 by U.K. and Germany, and it was ruled. The U.K. territory was transferred in the beginning in the 20th century by Australia, and after the World War I it could include Germany territory, too, and it was it with Australian United Nations mandate and became independent as a constitutional monarchy in the Commonwealth of Nations in 1975.
Four kinds of stamps describing beautiful beetles peculiar to the Torrid Zone including splendid jewel beetle were issued from Papua New Guinea in 1967.
Four kinds of normal stamps altogether unified by the beetle were issued in 1996.
Six kinds of normal stamps altogether unified by the beetle were issued in 2005.

Papua New Guinea
1967.4.12 Normal Stamp
Jewelled Frog Beetle
Sagra speciosa
(Chrysomelidae)
Ground Beetle
Eupholus schoenherri
(Harpalidae)
Longhorn Beetle
Sphingnotus albertisi
(Cerambycidae)
Albert Longtail Jewel Beetle
Cyphogastra albertisi
(Buprestidae)


1996.3.20 Normal Stamp
Pselaphid Beetle
Lagriomorpha indigacea
(Anthicidae)
Ground Beetle
Eupholus geoffroyi
(Harpalidae)
Leaf Beetle
Promechus pulcher
(Chrysomelidae)
Leaf Beetle
Callistola pulchra
(Chrysomelidae)

2005.6.29 Normal Stamp
Leaf Beetle
Callistola pulchra
(Chrysomelidae)
Leaf Beetle
Promechus pulcher
(Chrysomelidae)
Pselaphid Beetle
Lagriomorpha indigacea
(Anthicidae)
Weevil
Hellerhinus papuanus
(Curculionidae)
Pear-Sphaped Weevil
Aphorina australis
(Curculionidae)
Long-Jointed Beetle
Bothricara pulchella
(Tenebrionidae)


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