Close up of newly discovered moth Bhutan Salassa, a Saturniidae

From the archive record

A Bhutan Salassa or Salassa bhutanensis lying on the ground in Bhutan. This is a newly discovered species so wildfilmsindia brings you rare footage from the field. Filmed at 9000 feet above the Paro valley in Bhutan. It belongs to the Saturniidae family of the order Lepidoptera. A higher classification of these moths is called as hawk moths. Moths are nocturnal in nature and are perched in the underside of leaves etc in the daytime. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on 4K, 200 fps slow motion, Full HD, HDCAM 1080i High Definition, Alexa and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a