Insect Stamp of Mauritania

Mauritania has about 3 times Japanese countries, but a ratio of a cultivated area area to occupy most to a land area in the Sahara Desert is 1%. Indigenous people Berber of North Africa began nomadism at the time in the tenth century, and an advance of a European got into full swing after the 17th century, and a French protectorate was settled in 1903. I became a self-government country in French Community in 1958 and became independent in 1960. But there was it in a military administration bottom until 90's since a coup d'etat occurred in 1978. A presidential election by political pluralism is performed in 1992, and democratization is firmly established.
As a first insect stamp of Mauritania, the coconut palms protection commemorative stamp which drew Ladybird Beetle in 1969 was issued.
Stamp on which the beetle was drawn was issued as a normal stamp of Mauritania after that in 1970.
12 stamps that had drawn the grasshopper, aphid, Ladybird beetle, and the moth were issued in 1989. It introduces five pieces in that.

Mauritania
1969.5.26 coconut palms protection commemorative stamp
Four-spotted Ladybird
Anisolemnia tetrasticta
(Coccinelidae)


1970.3.16 Normal Stamp
Jewel Beetle
Sternocera interrupta
(Buprestidae)
Squash Bug
Anoplocnemis curvipes
(Coreidae)
Jewel Beetle
Julodis aequinoctialis
(Buprestidae)
Anthia Ground Beetle
Anthia sexmaculata
(Harpalidae)
Longhorn Beetle
Plocaederus denticornis
(Cerambycidae)


1989.12.29 Normal Stamp
Locust
Locusta migratoria
(Acrididae)
Cotton Aphid
Aphis gossypii
(Aphididae)
Locust
Locusta migratoria
(Acrididae)
Locust
Locusta migratoria
(Acrididae)
Ladybird Beetle
Henosepilacna elaterii
(Coccinelidae)


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