Talley Valley Wildlife Sanctuary

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Talley Valley Wildlife Sanctuary
 

News: Recently, researchers from Titli Trust, National Centre for Biological Sciences and others have discovered a
new moth from Talley Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh.
 

About:
 Talley Valley is a wildlife sanctuary as well as a bio-diversity hotspot located at a distance of 32 kms from Ziro towards the north east. Comprising sub-tropical and alpine forests it has a variety of flora and fauna, many of which are endangered. The place offers great trekking opportunities.
 Talley Valley Reserved Forest and Talle Wildlife sanctuary is situated at an elevated level with rivers like Pange, Sipu, Karing and Subansiri flowing through the Reserved Forest and Sanctuary.
 It is home to highly endangered species like clouded leopard. Pleioblastus simone is a bamboo variety only found in Talley Valley.
 

About Moth Species discovered:
 Piarosoma arunachalensis, moth species belonging to the genus Piarosoma.
 The moth is a Burnet moth and is largely day-flying.
 It belongs to the family Zygaenidae, which includes Forester and Burnet moths.
 Burnet and Forester's moths are brightly coloured day-flying moths, often with clubbed antennae.