Scaly-eared Diminutive Leaf-Litter Skink – Tytthoscincus leproauricularis Karin, Das & Bauer, 2016 of Sarawak / Borneo – around 1280m ASL Tytthoscincus leproauricularis Karin, Das & Bauer, 2016 (Scincidae) is a very small leaf litter skink, so far only documented from…
Caterpillar of Demonarosa rufotessellata (Moore, 1879) – Sarawak / Borneo – around 1050m ASL The caterpillar of Demonarosa rufotessellata (Limacodidae) is a non-stinging slug moth larva with a strikingly unusual form. Unlike typical caterpillars, it lacks visible legs or a…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…