Insect Stamp of Thailand

Thailand is located in central part of Indochina, and is the country which avoided colonial rule of the European Great Powers alone in a Southeastern Asian area. In the monarchy nation which the sovereign gives the king to, it pass through Sukhothai dynasty of the thirteenth century, Ayutthaya dynasty of the 14th century, and Chakri is founded in 1782, and it is it formally with the constitutional monarchys in 1932 and reaches it at the present. The name of a country won, and it was Siam (SIAM), but it was checked in Thailand which meant "a free country" in Thai in 1949. This name shows that Thailand kept independence while Southeast Asian coutries become a colony of the European Great Powers.
Four kinds of stamps which drew the dragonfly as an international correspondence week commemorative stamp from the thailand were issued in 1989. No less than four kinds of Insect stamps were issued by the same year. It is done in printing with very clear color, and was set to one of the favorite stamps. The stamp (small sheet) describing four kinds of honeybees was issued in 2000. Four kinds of beetle stamps that a color like an illustrated book was clear were issued in 2001. Four kinds of beetle stamps which worked to see it three-dimensionally were issued in 2005 year.

Thailand
1989.10.8 international correspondence week commemorative stamp
Black Velvet-wing Skimmer
Neurothemis tullia
(Libellulidae)
Sombre Skimmer
Orthetrum sabina
(Libellulidae)
Darter Dragonfly
Urothemis signata
(Libellulidae)
Broad-winged Damselfly
Vestalis amoena
(Calopterygidae)


1989.11.15 Insect Stamp
Man-Faced Bug
Catacanthus incarnatus
(Pentatomidae)
Aristobia Longhorn Beetle
Aristobia approximator
(Cerambycidae)
Jewel Beetle
Chrysochroa chinensis
(Buprestidae)
Scarab Beetle
Enoplotrupes sharpi
(Scarabaeidae)


2000.3.19 Honeybee Stamp
Black Dwarf Honeybee
Apis andreniformis
(Apidae)
Giant Honeybee
Apis dorsata
(Apidae)
Dwarf Honeybee
Apis florea
(Apidae)
Asian Honeybee
Apis cerana
(Apidae)


2001.7.4 Beetle Stamp
Long-armed Scarab
Cheirotonus parryi
(Scarabaeidae)
Ground Beetle
Mouhotia batesi
(Scaritidae)
Giraffa Saw Stag Beetle
Cladognathus giraffa
(Lucanidae)
Violin Beetle
Mormolyce phyllodes
(Carabidae)


2005.5.31 Beetle Stamp
Jewel Beetle
Chrysochroa buqueti
(Buprestidae)
Transverse Ladybird
Coccinella transversalis
(Coccinelidae)
Jewelled Frog Beetle
Sagra femorate
(Chrysomelidae)
Jewel Beetle
Chrysochroa maruyama
(Buprestidae)


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