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)

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)

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.