Insect Stamp of Zambia

Inhabitants settled in Zambia after the tenth century, and a monarch country did the rise and fall, and British explorer Livingstone set foot in 1850's. It was had jurisdiction as "Northern Rhodesia" in 1889 by British South Africa company and became a British protectorate after 1911. Independence movement became active after 1960's began and became independent as a republic in 1964.@
Four kinds of stamps which drew the beetle from Zambia in 1986 were issued.
Four kinds of stamps describing the grasshopper were issued in 1989. Four kinds of all are the beautiful stamps ecologically drawn by the grasshopper.

Zambia
1986.3.20 Beetle Stamp
Tricolor Blister Beetle
Mylabris tricolor
(Melioidae)
Longhorn Beetle
Phasgonocnema melanianthe
(Cerambycidae)
Flower Chafer
Amaurodes passerinii
(Scarabaeidae)
Flower Chafer
Ranzania splendes
(Scarabaeidae)


1989.11.8 Grasshopper Stamp
Phamphagid Grasshopper
Lamarckiana lamarckiana
(Acrididae)
Pyrgomorphid Grasshopper
Dictyophorus dictyophorus
(Pygomorphidae)
Brown Katydid
Cymatomera cymatomera
(Tettigoniidae)
Bush Locust
Phymateus iris
(Pygomorphidae)


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