Showing posts with label Shantinagar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shantinagar. Show all posts

Saturday 6 August 2022

Thyas coronata (Yellow Underwing) - Sikkim Moth

Place: Shantinagar, Singtam (04.08.2022)


Scientific Classification


Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum:         Arthropoda

Class:         Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Family:         Erebidae

Genus:         Thyas

Species:         T. coronata

Binomial name: Thyas coronata (Fabricius, 1775)

 

Other Names: Yellow Underwing

 

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Friday 8 July 2022

Epidaus famulus (Assassin Bug) - Sikkim Insect


 

Scientific classification

Kingdom:       Animalia

Phylum:          Arthropoda

Class:              Insecta

Order:            Hemiptera (bugs)

Family:           Reduviidae

Genus:            Epidaus

Species:          E. famulus

 

Binomial name: Epidaus famulus (Stål, 1863)

Other Names:  Assassin Bug

Friday 18 September 2020

Ambulyx sericeipennis (common gliding hawkmoth) - Sikkim Moth


 

Scientific classification

 

Kingdom:            Animalia

Phylum:               Arthropoda

Class:                   Insecta

Order:                  Lepidoptera

Family:                Sphingidae

Genus:                 Ambulyx

Species:                A. sericeipennis

Binomial name:  Ambulyx sericeipennis (Butler, 1875)

Ourapteryx clara (Geometrid Swallowtail Moth) Sikkim Moth


 

Scientific classification

Kingdom:            Animalia

Phylum:               Arthropoda

Class:                   Insecta

Order:                  Lepidoptera

Family:                Geometridae

Genus:                 Ourapteryx

Species:                O.clara

Binomial name:  Ourapteryx clara (Leach, 1814)

Thursday 17 September 2020

Marumba dyras ( dull swirled hawkmoth) - Sikkim Moth

Scientific classification

 

Kingdom:            Animalia

Phylum:               Arthropoda

Class:                   Insecta

Order:                  Lepidoptera

Family:                Sphingidae

Genus:                 Marumba

Species:                M. dyras

Binomial name:   Marumba dyras (Walker, 1856)

 

Marumba dyras is a species of hawk moth described by Francis Walker in 1856.