Cleora sp. - Sikkim Moth

Scientific Classification

Kingdom:        Animalia

Class:               Insecta
Order:              Lepidoptera
Family:            Geometridae
Subfamily:       Ennominae
Tribe:               Boarmiini
Genus:             Cleora

Identified at: The Moth And Butterfly Identification Forum ( Facebook Page)

Rhimphalea sp. - Sikkim Moth

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Clade: Euarthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Family: Crambidae

Genus: Rhimphalea.

Species: Rhimphalea sp. Lederer, 1863

Other Names: 

Special feature:  Rhimphalea is a genus of small moths, which is part of the Crambidae family.

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.

Erebus macrops (Owl Moth) - Sikkim Moth

Erebus macrops  (Owl Moth)

Place : Shantinagar, Singtam, East Sikkim

Date: January 23, 2015

Pic: Shital Pradhan

Scientific classification

Kingdom:             Animalia

Phylum:               Arthropoda

Class:                    Insecta

Order:                  Lepidoptera

Family:                 Noctuidae

Genus:                  Erebus

Species:                 E. macrops

Binomial name:    Erebus macrops Linnaeus, 1768

Other Names: Owl Moth

Special feature:  It is one of a large moth of  Noctuidae species and its wingspan is 12 cm.

There  are 36 species of moth in the genus.

Plutodes flavescens (Suyoga Sikkimensis) - Sikkim Moth

Plutodes flavescens (Suyoga Sikkimensis)

Place : Shantinagar, Singtam, East Sikkim,

Date: October 25, 2014
Pic: Shital Pradhan

Scientific classification

Kingdom:             Animalia

Phylum:               Arthropoda

Class:                    Insecta

Order:                  Lepidoptera

Family:                 Geometridae

Genus:                  Plutodes

Species:                 P. flavescens

Binomial name:    Plutodes flavescens (Butler, 1880)

Other Names: Suyoga Sikkimensis

Special feature:  It is found in the north-eastern Himalaya and on Borneo, Sumatra and Java