Insect Stamp of Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is Commonwealth of Nations member nation in a republican form of government nation located in western part of West Africa, Atlantic coast. It was with a British colony as an emigration place of blacks freed from Egyptian bondage in 1808 and became independent in 1961. It was with one of the countries which an average life span had a shortest by the civil war that lasted approximately nearly ten years once in the world.
The bee stamps which drew fiven kinds of bee from these Sierra Leone was issued in 2012.
Four kinds of stamps and one kind of small sheets which drew the beetles were issued in 2013.

Sierra Leone
2012.8.7 Bee Stamps
Africanized Honeybee
Apis mellifera scutellata
(Apidae)
Western Honeybee
Apis mellifera
(Apidae)
Leafcutter Bee
Megachile latreille
(Megachilidae)
Maranga Bee
Meliponula cockerell
(Apidae)
Stingless Bee
Hypotrigona cockerell
(Apidae)


2013.9.9 Beetles Stamps
Longhorn Beetle
Analeptes trifasciata
(Cerambycidae)
Longhorn Beetle
Eotithoes palinii
(Cerambycidae)
Longhorn Beetle
Hecphora latefasciata
(Cerambycidae)
Longhorn Beetle
Gnathoenia flavovariegata
(Cerambycidae)
Goliath Beetle
Goliathus regius
(Scarabaeidae)


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