Wednesday 23 September 2015

Orange oak-leaf (Kallima inachus) - Sikkim Butterfly




Scientific Classification

Kingdom:                     Animalia
Phylum:                        Arthropoda
Class:                            Insecta
Order:                           Lepidoptera
Family:                          Nymphalidae
Genus:                           Kallima
Species:                         K. inachus
Binomial name:            Kallima inachus (Doyère, 1840)

Other Names:  Orange oak-leaf or Dead leaf



Special feature:  With wings closed, it closely resembles a dry leaf with dark veins and is a spectacular and commonly cited example of camouflage.

Friday 11 September 2015

Erebus ephesperis - Sikkim Moth




Scientific Classification

Kingdom:            Animalia
Phylum:               Arthropoda
Class:                    Insecta
Order:                  Lepidoptera
Family:                 Erebidae
Subfamily:           Erebinae
Tribe:                   Erebini
Genus:                  Erebus
Species:                 E. ephesperis
Binomial name:    Erebus ephesperis (Hübner, 1827)

Other Names:


Special feature:  It has a wingspan of about 9 cm.

Wednesday 2 September 2015

Sikkim Ornithological Society starts awareness tour to Sikkim’s schools

Visits Kabi GSSS and Tingda PS
Sikkim Biodiversity news

02.09.15: Sikkim Ornithological Society starts an awareness of Sikkim’s nature by visiting schools of Sikkim. The organization is set to visit at-least 500 schools from primary level to Senior Secondary schools in the program. The team of SOS today made its first visit to Kabi School and Tingda PS.

 Nosang Muringla Limboo, President of SOS with his presentation of Butterfly chart
With Headmaster and Teacher of Tingda 


The Team met the students and teachers of the school and briefed about the volunteer work to present a chart of Birds and Butterflies of Sikkim (complied by the SOS team a decade's work) for each school throughout the state. Motive behind the program was to interact with the young minds of Sikkim and to make them aware of their own natural wealth and help conserve it.