11th December 2023
Darth-Vader-Mantis, Parablepharis kuhlii de Hann, 1842 of south Sabah / Borneo
Category: insects
11th December 2023
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…
9th December 2023
Male of Frog-legged Leaf Beetle or Frog Beetle Sagra buqueti Lesson, 1831, of Sabah / Borneo around 100m ASL.
8th December 2023
Tympanophyllum atroterminatum (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895) of south Sabah / Borneo
6th December 2023
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…
29th June 2023
The yellow archduke, Lexias canescens (Butler, 1869) is a species of butterfly belonging to the family Nymphalidae – south Sarawak / Borneo around 200m ASL.
21st June 2023
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.
7th March 2023
Stick insect, Dinophasma mjobergi Bragg, 2001 of Sarawak / Borneo around 2100m ASL.
24th January 2023
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,…
20th January 2023
Stick insect, Orthostheneboea exotica (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907) of south Sarawak / Borneo around 1100m ASL. Junior synonym: Pericentrus nudipes Redtenbacher, 1908