Insect Stamp of Comoro Islands

There were the Comoros Islands on East Africa and the west Indian Ocean between Madagascar Island and it was the staging base of the slave trade, but it was it with a French protectorate in the 19th century and, after the 16th century, entered a part of Madagascar and the French follower in after 1947. It became independent in 1975 and assumed the name of a country the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros. But German splendidness occupied the majority in three islands with many Muslims among four islands that constituted a nation, but it was the independence by the getting started before everything is set because it did decision to remain behind in France by Christ referendum. The independent time it is 1997 in continuation of the coup d'etat afterward, and to demand French reannexation and separation independence by the reason of confusion of the economy in two islands among three independent islands rises, and the political situation becomes unstable.
Nine kinds of stamp sets which it drew an insect on in 1994 were issued by this Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros.

Comoro Islands
1994.5.25 Insect Stamp
Orange Tips
Colotis zoe
(Pieridae)
Death's Head Hawk Moth
Acherontia atropos
(Sphingidae)
Plain Tiger
Danaus chrysippus
(Danaidae)
Giant Charaxes
Charaxes comoranus
(Nymphalidae)
Verdant Hawk
Euchloron megaera
(Sphingidae)
Swallowtail
Papilio phorbanta
(Papilionidae)
Common Earwig
Hypurgus ova
(Forficulidae)
African Beetle
Onthophagus catta
(Scarabaeidae)
Carcinophorid Earwig
Ecbinosoma bolivari
(Pygidicranidae)


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