Broad-handed carpenter bee, Xylocopa latipes (Emery, 1887) – Sarawak / Borneo – around 500m ASL Xylocopa latipes (Drury, 1773) is a species of carpenter bee (Apidae) of the genus Xylocopa; evidence of its existence in Borneo includes records from Sarawak.…
Trilobite beetle, Platerodrilus foliaceus Masek & Bocak, 2014 of south Sarawak / Borneo Platerodrilus is a genus of beetles from the Lycidae family. In the scientific literature they are often referred to as Duliticola, which is an outdated, more recent…
Taurus Shield Bug – Embolosterna taurus (Westwood, 1837) – lowland of central Sarawak, around 300m ASL.
Bull Horn Shield Bug – Pygoplatys lancifer – lowland of central Sarawak, around 400m ASL.
Syntypistis comatus (Leech, 1898) is a species of moth-family Notodontidae – south Sarawak / Borneo around 900m ASL
Millipede-like centipede, Edentistoma octosulcatum Tömösváry, 1882 – south Sabah / Borneo – around 200m ASL
Resting Eustenogaster sp. & Nomia elegans Smith, 1857 of south Sarawak / Borneo Here you can see a sweat bee (Nomia elegans) resting together with a small hover wasp (Eustenogaster sp.) colony.
Darth-Vader-Mantis, Parablepharis kuhlii de Hann, 1842 of south Sabah / Borneo
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…
The yellow archduke, Lexias canescens (Butler, 1869) is a species of butterfly belonging to the family Nymphalidae – south Sarawak / Borneo around 200m ASL.