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Insect Stamp of Republic of China

Taiwan is called "the Republic of China", but the state that it is a country, and there is not in a country continues since United Nations exile of 1971 in a Chinese part (Taiwan ministry) globally. Indigenous people lived, but it was occupied in the 17th century by Netherlands, Spain, and It was ruled for China / the Qing dynasty after 1683, and it was occupied by Japanese since Sino-Japanese War to World War II. Chiang Kai-shek / Nationalist China which lost in a civil war with the Communist Party in 1949 moved to Taipei from Nanjing and began rule as the Republic of China. A martial law bottom, the autocracy system by Chiang Kai-shek followed for many years afterward. Martial law was removed in 1987, and Li Tengu-hui took office as the president.
Taiwan belongs to the Oriental region instead of Holarctic region in the world area classification of an insect.
That on which the insect was drawn is issued as a normal stamp of this Taiwan in six-kind 1958. Four kinds of stamps which drew various insects were issued in 1997. Four kinds of stamps which drew the dragonfly were issued in 2000 and 2003, respectively. Four kinds of stamps on which a firefly is drawn of Taiwan special product were issued in 2006.

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Republic of China
1958.3.20 Normal Stamp

Batocera Longhorn Batocera lineolata (Cerambycidae)	Broad Swallowtail Papilio maraho (Papilionidae)	Asian Atlas Moth Attacus atlas (Saturniidae)	Burnet Moth Erasmia pulchella (Zygaenidae)	Formosan Long-armed Scarab Cheirotonus macleayi (Scarabaeidae)	Great Mormon Papilio memnon (Papilionidae)

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1997.4.25 Normal Stamp

Giant Stag Beetle Dorcus tormosanus (Lucanidae)	True Katydid Phylophorina kotoshoensis (Tettigoniidae)	Birdwing Butterfly Troides magellanus (Papilionidae)	Walking Stick Megacrania tsudai (Phasmatidae)

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2000.10.11 Dragonfly Stamp

Great Dragonfly Anotogaster sieboldii (Cordulegasteridae)	Hooked Club-tailed Dragonfly Lamelligomphus formosanus (Gomphidae)	Variable Skimmer Neurothemis ramburii (Libellulidae)	Indigo Dropwing Skimmer Trithemis festiva (Libellulidae)

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2003.7.25 Dragonfly Stamp

Darter Dragonfly Sympetrum eroticum (Libellulidae)	Asian Pintail Acisoma panorpoides (Libellulidae)	Lesser Emperor Anax parthenope (Aeschnidae)	Variable Glider Rhyothemis variegata (Libellulidae)

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2006.5.25 FireFly Stamp

Window FireFly Pyrocoelia analis (Lampyridae)	Orange FireFly Diaphanes citrinus (Lampyridae)	Snowish FireFly Diaphanes niveus (Lampyridae)	Shorthorn Window FireFly Diaphanes formosus (Lampyridae)

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2008.6.5 Stag Beetle Stamp

Stag Beetle Neolucanus swinhoei (Lucanidae)	Giant Stag Beetle Dorcus schenklingi (Lucanidae)	Stag Beetle Lucanus datunesis (Lucanidae)	Narrow Red Stag Cyclommatus asahinai (Lucanidae)

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2010.5.21 Longhorn Beetle Stamp

Erythrus Longhorn Beetle Erythrus formosanus (Cerambycidae)	Red Longhorn Beetle Rosalia formosa (Cerambycidae)	Aphrodisium Longhorn Beetle Aphrodisium faldermannii (Cerambycidae)	Anopolophora Longhorn Beetle Anoplophora horsfieldi (Cerambycidae)

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2011.1.26 Longhorn Beetle Stamp

Wu-she Blood-spotted Longhorn Aeolesthes enochrous (Cerambycidae)	Longhorn Beetle Doliops similis (Cerambycidae)	Longhorn Beetle Thermistis taiwanensis (Cerambycidae)	Longhorn Beetle Dorysthenes pici (Cerambycidae)

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2012.3.9 Longhorn Beetle Stamp

Longhorn Beetle Leptura formosomontana (Cerambycidae)	Longhorn Beetle Pyrestes curticornis (Cerambycidae)	Anaglyptus Longhorn Beetle Anaglyptus meridionalis (Cerambycidae)	Anopolophora Longhorn Beetle Anoplophora albopicta (Cerambycidae)

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2012.7.12 Bee Stamp

Large Potter Wasp Phimenes flavopictus (Eumenidae)	Western Honeybee Apis mellifera (Apidae)	Ichneumonid Wasp Xanthopimpla pedator (Ichneumonidae)

Bamboo Carpenter Bee Xylocopa tranquebarorum (Anthophoridae)	Large Asian Hornet Vespa ducalis (Vespidae)	Asian Honeybee Apis cerana (Apidae)

Stick Insect is the Insecta which was most adapted for the life on tree. Generally the body is a large-sized insect, although it is thin, and it lives in the Torrid Zone in Southeast Asia. The body and the leg which carried out mimicry to the wooden branch and were extended long and slender are the feature.
A small head eats a leaf by front mouth style by which the mouth was ahead suitable. Although there are many kinds without a wing, also by the species of an owner wing, a front wing is very smaller than a back wing, and wing venation has also degenerated remarkably. Fan-like parts of thin membrane material occupies most and a back wing is thinly folded on the body in the shape of a fan.

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