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Euproctis sp.
Fuzzy head and legs. Head is a light rust colour. Body has two colours a dark maroon-brown and a light yellow. The maroon-brown patch has a tracery of thin yellow lines in it.
Drawn towards the porch light of a cottage at Village Kolakham; a remote, forested area at an altitude of 1868m in the Kalimpong Hills of Darjeeling District, on the fringes of Neora Valley National Park.
Euproctis piperita as in : http://lepidoptera.pro/taxonomy/22216 Euproctis aethiopica as in : https://www.flickr.com/photos/mgrimm82/1... are both very close matched...so I am going with the Genus.
Spotted on Mar 22, 2015
Submitted on Mar 31, 2015
3 Comments
Sorry it took me a week to respond, Mark...@Mark Ridgway. Just wait till Moth week for the cream of the lot:)
But honestly Kolakham is a moth-lovers dream; birder's paradise too.
Fantastic. I would guess Lymantriidae but I don't know.
Hoy Sukanya !! I've just noticed how many fab moths you have now. :-)