31st August 2025
Orthonecroscia cf. keatsooni Seow-Choen, 2016 Sarawak / Borneo around 1300m ASL. Identification is very difficult here, but the species Orthonecroscia keatsooni comes closest to this individual.
Author: Lars
30th August 2025
Areas galactina trigonalis Moore, 1882 – Sarawak / Borneo – around 1000m ASL Areas galactina (Erebidae: Arctiinae) is represented in Borneo by the subspecies A. g. trigonalis. Records come from montane habitats at about 1200–2000m on Mount Kinabalu and around…
29th August 2025
Asian vine snake – Ahaetulla prasina (Boie, 1827) from Sarawak/Borneo – around 900m ASL Ahaetulla prasina (Colubridae: Ahaetuliinae) is an arboreal, diurnal, opisthoglyphous vine snake that on Borneo is documented from Brunei, East Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak), and Indonesian Kalimantan; its…
28th August 2025
Sabah pit viper, Trimeresurus sabahi Regenass & Kramer, 1981 – of Sarawak / Borneo – around 1300m ASL Trimeresurus sabahi (Sabah pit viper) is a montane pit viper endemic to northern Borneo (Malaysia: Sabah, Sarawak), typically occurring in submontane to…
27th August 2025
Lobb’s bulbophyllum, Bulbophyllum lobbii Lindl. (1847) – of Sarawak/Borneo – around 1320m ASL. Bulbophyllum lobbii Lindl. (Orchidaceae) is an epiphytic species of sect. Sestochilus, distributed from NE India, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines in lowland–montane forests. Plants bear discrete pseudobulbs,…
26th August 2025
Spilarctia groganae (Holloway, 1976) – Sarawak / Borneo – around 1000m ASL Spilarctia groganae (sometimes placed in Spilosoma) is a moth of the family Erebidae, first described by J. D. Holloway in 1976. It is well known from northern Borneo,…
25th August 2025
White-spotted cat snake, Boiga drapiezii (H. Boie in F. Boie, 1827) – of West-Sarawak/Borneo – around 1250m ASL Boiga drapiezii (white-spotted cat snake) is a slender, arboreal, rear-fanged colubrid distributed across maritime Southeast Asia, including Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Mentawai…
24th August 2025
Unknown Bush Frog – Philautus sp. of Kalimantan / Borneo – around 1300m ASL It doesn’t happen often anymore that I see frogs in Borneo that I’ve never seen before, and it happens even less often that I have no…
23rd August 2025
Bornean dark-necked slug snake, Asthenodipsas borneensis Quah, Grismer, Lim, Anuar, & Chan, 2020 – of Sarawak/Borneo – around 1020m ASL. Asthenodipsas borneensis is a snail eating snake (Pareidae) described in 2020 following a revision that separated Bornean populations from the…
22nd August 2025
Acalolepta biocellata Breuning, 1935, of Sarawak/Borneo around 1100m ASL Acalolepta biocellata (Breuning, 1940) is a species of longhorn beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Lamiini). It is currently placed in Acalolepta and was originally described as Dihammus biocellatus Breuning, 1940 from Sumatra. The…