Tailed Green Jay :)

Vibrant colors. Very Nice!

Nice work..!!

Good stuff Akash. Good stuff Sanjay - I thought I had seen something similar in Queensland maybe cousin of this.

This species is probably named after Agamemnon, the great but cursed king of of Ancient Greece. The Caterpillar of this species initially is dark green or brown with a white patch and a humped thorax. Each segment has a short soft spine on each side, and the tail has a pair of spines. Later instars become plain green with short soft black horns. The caterpillar everts a pair of soft yellow horns from behind the head when disturbed, and produces a pungent smell. Various subspecies of this insect are found across south-east Asia and the Pacific Islands, including : India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the subspecies ligatum (Rothschild, 1895) occurs in Queensland in Australia.

You moth photos are really good Akash. It would be great if you could tell us more about them. Size? Local name? What is it on? Then people can help identify. There must be many more good things to see in your part of India.

Beautiful,