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Insect Stamp of Papua New Guinea

Although it had become Indonesia now, west halves, such as New Guinea, were belonged to the Netherlands once.
As the insect stamp 1961, the early stamp was comparatively issued from the Netherlands New Guinea. The kind with the characteristic New Guinea specialties, such as Papua Scapanes Beetle and Papua Golden Stag Beetle, is chosen also for the stamp currently drawn.

Papua New Guinea is eastern half of New Guinea and about 10,000 neighboring states comprising islands. A European visited a shore after the 16th century, and the New Guinea western part became Oran doh territory in 1828, and the eastern part was divided in 1884 by U.K. and Germany, and it was ruled. The U.K. territory was transferred in the beginning in the 20th century by Australia, and after the World War I it could include Germany territory, too, and it was it with Australian United Nations mandate and became independent as a constitutional monarchy in the Commonwealth of Nations in 1975.
Four kinds of stamps describing beautiful beetles peculiar to the Torrid Zone including splendid jewel beetle were issued from Papua New Guinea in 1967.
Four kinds of normal stamps altogether unified by the beetle were issued in 1996.
Six kinds of normal stamps altogether unified by the beetle were issued in 2005.

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Papua New Guinea
1967.4.12 Normal Stamp

Jewelled Frog Beetle Sagra speciosa (Chrysomelidae)	Ground Beetle Eupholus schoenherri (Harpalidae)	Longhorn Beetle Sphingnotus albertisi (Cerambycidae)	Albert Longtail Jewel Beetle Cyphogastra albertisi (Buprestidae)

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1996.3.20 Normal Stamp

Pselaphid Beetle Lagriomorpha indigacea (Anthicidae)	Ground Beetle Eupholus geoffroyi (Harpalidae)	Leaf Beetle Promechus pulcher (Chrysomelidae)	Leaf Beetle Callistola pulchra (Chrysomelidae)

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2005.6.29 Normal Stamp

Leaf Beetle Callistola pulchra (Chrysomelidae)	Leaf Beetle Promechus pulcher (Chrysomelidae)	Pselaphid Beetle Lagriomorpha indigacea (Anthicidae)

Weevil Hellerhinus papuanus (Curculionidae)	Pear-Sphaped Weevil Aphorina australis (Curculionidae)	Long-Jointed Beetle Bothricara pulchella (Tenebrionidae)

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