Insect Stamp of NiuafouInsect Stamp of NiuafouNiuafou is a solitary island in the distant sea located in about 640km north of the Tonga tab island that is the center of the Kingdom of Tonga. It do a doughnut type so that there is Lake caldera of a diameter of around 6km in the center of the island at a volcanic island. There were manners and customs called "Tin Can Mail" which it carried away the can which put a letter in an ocean current in the old days and mailed it.
The four kinds of stamps on which drew longhorn beetle were issued in 1991 by this Tonga territory Niuafou.
The stamp on which drew four kinds of insects were drawn was issued in 1994.
Tonga territory Niuafou
1991.9.25 Insect Stamp
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| Ceresium Longhorn Beetle(Larve) Ceresium unicolor (Cerambycidae) |
Ceresium Longhorn Beetle Ceresium unicolor (Cerambycidae) |
Ceresium Longhorn Beetle(Larve) Ceresium unicolor (Cerambycidae) |
Ceresium Longhorn Beetle Ceresium unicolor (Cerambycidae) |
1994.3.15 Insect Stamp
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| European Scaraboid Beetle Geotrupes geotrupes (Scarabaeidae) |
Ladybird Beetle Gen. sp. (Coccinelidae) |
Longhorn Beetle Gen. sp. (Cerambycidae) |
Shield-backed Bug Poecilocoris pocilocoris (Scutelleridae) |
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