Insect Stamp of Yemen

A Korean lawn grass kingdom prospered before A.D. and it was located in the south of the Arabian Peninsula and developed for a long time as the ground of the strategic point of East-West traffic, and Islam became it in the seventh century, and Yemen was governed by Ottoman Turkey after the 16th century. Because the Aden district of the southern part was done cession of in 1839 by the U.K., the north side of the Ottoman Turkey rule, a power map called the south side of the U.K. rule are settled and the entering north side is formed as a kingdom in 1918 in the 20th century and shifts in republican form of government in 1962. The south side becomes independent as a people's republic of the Marxism-Leninism in 1967. North and south unification was realized in 1990, and the name of a country was changed of to the Republic of Yemen, too.
The insect stamp on which it drew six kinds of ladybirds was issued by this Yemen in 2007.

Republic of Yemen
2007.9.26 Ladybird Stamp
Spotted Amber Ladybird
Hippodamia variegata
(Coccinelidae)
Ladybird Beetle
Pharostymnus cluteus
(Coccinelidae)
Ladybird Beetle
Serangium buettikeri
(Coccinelidae)
Ladybird Beetle
Brumoides nigrifrons
(Coccinelidae))
Ladybird Beetle
Cheilomenes propinqua vicina
(Coccinelidae)
Lunata Ladybird
Cheilomenes lunata yemenensis
(Coccinelidae)


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