Heteropoda venatoria (Giant Crab Spider) - Sikkim Spider

Place : Shantinagar, Singtam (12.07.2022)

 Scientific classification

Kingdom:       Animalia

Phylum:          Arthropoda

Class:              Arachnida

Order:            Araneae

Family:           Sparassidae

Genus:            Heteropoda

Species:          H. venatoria

Binomial name:   Heteropoda venatoria Linnaeus  (1767)

Other Names: Giant Crab Spider

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

Papilio clytia (common mime) - Sikkim Butterfly

Kingdom:            Animalia

Phylum:               Arthropoda

Class:                   Insecta

Order:                 Lepidoptera

Family:               Papilionidae

Genus:                 Papilo

Species:                P. clytia

Binomial name:  Papilo  clytia Linnaeus (1758)

MORE ON GENUS PAPILIO

Argiope anasuja (Signature Spider) - Sikkim Spider

 

Place: Chisopani, Singtam (05.07.22)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:       Animalia

Phylum:          Arthropoda

Class:              Arachnida

Order:            Araneae

Family:           Araneidae

Genus:            Argiope

Species:           A. brought

 

Binomial name:  Argiope brought Thorell, (1887)

Other Names: Signature Spider

Place: Chisopani, Singtam (05.07.22)

Moulting in cockroach

 

In order to grow, cockroaches like many other arthropods shed their old skin. This moulting process helps the insects to grow. This photograph was taken in Shantinagar, Singtam by Arpan Pradhan.

Flat headed leaf hopper (Cicadellidae Ledrinae) - Sikkim Insect

 

Darkling beetle - Sikkim Beetle

 

Sand pit home of an antlion

 

Mooreana trichoneura (Yellow Flat) - Sikkim Butterfly

 

Kingdom:            Animalia

Phylum:               Arthropoda

Class:                   Insecta

Order:                  Lepidoptera

Family:                Hesperiidae

Genus:                 Mooreana

Species:                M. trichoneura

Binomial name:  Mooreana trichoneura (C. & R. Felder, 1860)

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)