Favoritos de tiwane

This moth, first time for me, was spotted at Karzi-Mangnam, West Sikkim, one of the remotest villages in our state. I'd taken my family to show them how does it feel like reaching there (adventurous roads, first road came in 2004), living there and experiencing their lives.
The trip indeed was fruitful, despite the back-breaking journey, I managed to photograph some extraordinary moths, like this one.

Do you sometimes feel like you're being watched while out in the yard? I'm pretty sure every time I go out there to take pictures there are thousands of eyes on me. Actually, this little guy may get up to that number in those compound eyes just by himself.

This series shows Watshamiella alata watching Sycoscapter cornutus oviposit into a Ficus burkei syconium (fruiting body) for over seven minutes; after the Sycoscapter female departs, the Watshamiella female proceeds to oviposit into the same hole. Compton et al. (2009) described this behaviour for different species of Watshamiella in Uganda and Kenya on Ficus sycomorus and Ficus artocarpoides.
Compton, S.G., Van Noort, S., McLeish, M., Deeble, M. and Stone, V., 2009. Sneaky African fig wasps that oviposit through holes drilled by other species. African Natural History, 5, pp.9-15. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230580629

This animal had been killed by dogs and brought back to the police at this border station. It had been dead for 2-3 days, and unfortunately, was very fly-blown.
When I returned to the area the next year, a policeman said that the dogs had killed a second animal, during July of 2012.
They are completely subterranean, living inside of a small cavity. They move forward by digging away the dirt in front with their enormous claws (pictures 8-19), and passing it under their belly to behind them, where, with their blunted rump and armored tail (pictures 6-7), they compact this fresh dirt into a new "plug" of compacted dirt.
The soil of the Larrea desert immediately surrounding the station is too hard a substrate for this species to live in. I think that the animals live in the damp sand that fills in the meanders in the adjacent Río Colorado. This soil would be the kind that they could burrow in and probably has many more arthropods for them to feed on.
An expert in this species told me that this animal represents the most southwestern locality for the "pichi ciego".