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.
Category: insects
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
9th January 2023
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…
6th January 2023
Leaf katydid in situ – Ancyclecha fenestrata (Fabricius, 1793) of south Sarawak / Borneo – 1200m ASL
1st January 2023
A sleeping undetermined bee of the Genus Amegilla Friese, 1897, Subgenus: Glossamegilla – from south-Sarawak / Borneo – 640m ASL Amegilla is a genus of the Apidae family within bees. Amegilla includes more than 260 species and is distributed in…
10th December 2022
Slug moth caterpillar of the Limacodidae family of south-Sarawak / Borneo – around 150m ASL.
10th December 2022
Fruit-piercing moth Eudocima phalonia (Linnaeus, 1763) of south-Sarawak / Borneo – around 150m ASL.