Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Insects of Cuba - Cricket (Odontocera josemartii) - Cuba 1980 - Michel Cuba 2449 - my hobby
Greetings friends!
*Sometimes, postage stamps can give you an unsolved puzzle that you can try to piece together like jigsaw puzzles or crossford.
*As you remember, we continue to complete a series of postage stamps called Insects of Cuba, issued on the island of Cuba in 1980 and on a postage stamp with a face value of 5 Cuban centavos, we see an insect called Cricket (Odontocera josemartii).
*It bears little resemblance to the crickets that live in Ukraine, but the hind legs of this insect, most likely, are designed for jumping.
*Apparently, this cricket is not a relative of real crickets, which have a completely different body structure, but I could be wrong.
*It seems that the artist who painted this cricket stole its head from a firefighter beetle lol.
*This insect made me look up various sources, but unfortunately I could not find its description, lifestyle and food preferences.
*It remained a mystery to me whether this insect is a pest, or it eats other insects that harm agriculture.
*Wikipedia is silent, searching for an English name and a name in Latin leads to a dead end, but, interestingly, this is an open road to new knowledge.
*If you have information about this insect, I will be glad to see your comment on this, or, any, my post, so that I could vote for it.
**Let's take a look at this postage stamp.
Information about this postage stamp:
Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Cuba.
Subject: # Fauna, # Insects, # Nature, # Cuba.
Series: Insects of Cuba.
Name: Cricket (Odontocera josemartii).*
Denomination of a postage stamp: 5 ¢ - Cuban centavo.
Michel's Cuba catalog code: 2449.
Episode release date: January 25, 1980.
Perforation: comb 12¾.
Postage stamp size: 33.5 x 45 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 648,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ ? - $ ?.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.04 - $ 0.11.
Photo: original from @barski collection.
Canceled postage stamp
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Below, you will see previous postage stamps from this series and links to their descriptions:
Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Cuba.
Subject: # Fauna, # Insects, # Nature, # Cuba.
Series: Insects of Cuba.
Name: Weevil (Rhina oblita).*
Denomination of a postage stamp: 1 ¢ - Cuban centavo.
Michel's Cuba catalog code: 2448.
Episode release date: January 25, 1980.
Perforation: comb 12¾.
Postage stamp size: 45 x 34 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 648,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ ? - $ ?.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.08 - $ 0.11.
Photo: original from @barski collection.
Canceled postage stamp
To be continued!
You can see the development of the story of my postage stamp collection on my Leofinance blog.
Author @barski
Ukraine
I edited a photo in the program PhotoDirector, which I also installed on my smartphone. For my publications, I do not use stock photographs, it is fundamentally important for me to use photographs that I have made with my own hands for publication and I can name them - authorial work.
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