Holochlora sp.(?) Stål, 1873 of south Sabah / Borneo This bush-cricket has carefully cut out pieces of a dead leaf, laid an egg on it and then “closed” it. This process took over an hour and it did not allow…
Category: insects
Male of Frog-legged Leaf Beetle or Frog Beetle Sagra buqueti Lesson, 1831, of Sabah / Borneo around 100m ASL.
Tympanophyllum atroterminatum (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895) of south Sabah / Borneo
Pyrops whiteheadi (Distant, 1889) of south Sabah / Borneo Like many other plant-sucking insects, pyrops also excrete honeydew. I have seen different species of ants and cockroaches using this source of energy, but also some nocturnal geckos have learned not to…
The yellow archduke, Lexias canescens (Butler, 1869) is a species of butterfly belonging to the family Nymphalidae – south Sarawak / Borneo around 200m ASL.
Flat bug of the Aradidae – Spinola, 1837 – family, lowland of central Sarawak, around 100m ASL. Probably a member of the following genera Aphyseteres, Chelysocoris or Chelonocoris.
Stick insect, Dinophasma mjobergi Bragg, 2001 of Sarawak / Borneo around 2100m ASL.
Systella platyptera Haan, 1842 of south Sarawak / Borneo A great example of camouflaged insects is Systella platyptera an Asian species of grasshoppers in the family Trigonopterygidae. Three species of Systella are found in Sarawak / Borneo: Systella sarawakensis Willemse,…
Stick insect, Orthostheneboea exotica (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907) of south Sarawak / Borneo around 1100m ASL. Junior synonym: Pericentrus nudipes Redtenbacher, 1908
Iridescent bark mantis Metallyticus splendidus Westwood, 1835 of south Sarawak / Borneo Mostly M. splendidus is found on dead trees, here it feeds mainly on cockroaches but also ants, termites and beetles are part of its diet. The movement of…