Stamp: Anopheles Mosquito (Anopheles sp.) (Swaziland 1968)
Anopheles Mosquito (Anopheles sp.) (Swaziland 1968)
06 September (Swaziland ) within release Overprints goes into circulation Stamp Anopheles Mosquito (Anopheles sp.) face value 20 Swazi cent
| Stamp Anopheles Mosquito (Anopheles sp.) in catalogues | |
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| Michel: | Mi:SZ 151 |
| Stamp Number: | Sn:SZ 155 |
Stamp is square format.
Also in the issue Overprints:
- Stamp - Shields face value ½;
- Stamp - Battle axe face value 1;
- Stamp - Forestry face value 2;
- Stamp - Ceremonial headdress face value 2½;
- Stamp - Musical instrument face value 3½;
- Stamp - Irrigation face value 4;
- Stamp - Long-tailed Widowbird (Euplectes progne) face value 5;
- Stamp - Rock paintings face value 7½;
- Stamp - Secretarybird (Sagittarius serpentarius) face value 10;
- Stamp - Pink arum lilly face value 12½;
- Stamp - Married woman face value 15;
- Stamp - Anopheles Mosquito (Anopheles sp.) face value 20;
- Stamp - Swazi warrior face value 25;
- Stamp - Southern Ground-hornbill (Bucorvus cafer) face value 50;
- Stamp - Aloes face value 1;
- Stamp - Msinsi (flame tree) face value 2;
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| Stamp Anopheles Mosquito (Anopheles sp.) in digits | |
| Country: | Swaziland |
| Date: | 1968-09-06 |
| Perforation: | 12½ x 14 |
| Emission: | Definitive |
| Format: | Stamp |
| Face Value: | 20 Swazi cent |
Stamp Anopheles Mosquito (Anopheles sp.) it reflects the thematic directions:
Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species. The word mosquito (formed by mosca and diminutive -ito) is Spanish and Portuguese for little fly. Mosquitoes have a slender segmented body, one pair of wings, three pairs of long hair-like legs, and specialized, highly elongated, piercing-sucking mouthparts. All mosquitoes drink nectar from flowers; females of some species have in addition adapted to drink blood. The group diversified during the Cretaceous period. Evolutionary biologists view mosquitoes as micropredators, small animals that parasitise larger ones by drinking their blood without immediately killing them. Medical parasitologists view mosquitoes instead as vectors of disease, carrying protozoan parasites or bacterial or viral pathogens from one host to another.
