Insect Stamp of Brazil

Brazil is a large country of the fifth place world holding a half of South America, and the Amazon of full length 6,240km flows through the northern part to the east from the west, and Brazilian Takahara occupies more than 60% of a country. I was governed by Portugal after 1500 and because Napoleon invaded and attacked in an own country in 1808, the Portugal Royal Family sheltered in Brazil and did Rio de Janeiro with a capital. The Crown Prince that the return home back of the Portugal Royal Family settled on Brazil in 1822 declares independence, and I shift to republican form of government in 1889, and the existing Cardoso President is born in 1995. It is an industrial country Central and South America's best in an agriculture large country of world's best coffee production, and the auto industry in particular is prosperous.
Two kinds of insect stamps were issued from Brazil in 1971, and two kinds of insect stamps were issued in 1987, and two kinds of insect stamps were issued in 1993.
The insect of the South America specialties, such as Alligator Bug and Hercules Beetle, is taken up.

Federative Republic of Brazil
1971.4.28 Normal Stamp
Scott:1185 Scott:1186
Menelaus Morpho
Morpho menelaus
(Morphodae)
Thoas Swallowtail
Papilio thoas
(Papilionidae)


1987.7.17 Normal Stamp
Scott:2107 Scott:2108
Praying Mantid
Zoolea lopiceps
(Mantidae)
Alligator Bug
Fulgora servillei
(Fulgoridae)


1993.6.5 Normal Stamp
Scott:2408 Scott:2409
Hercules Beetle
Dynastes hercules
(Scarabaeidae)
Batus Longhorn Beetle
Batus barbicornis
(Cerambycidae)


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