Morphna maculata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865 of Sarawak / Borneo – around 900m ASL Morphna maculata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865) is a species of cockroach (Blattodea) from the family Blaberidae. The species was originally described as Epilampra maculata; the genus…
Rhaphidophora tenuis – of Kalimantan/Borneo – around 1000m ASL. In taxonomic literature, R. tenuis was at times treated as a synonym of Rhaphidophora korthalsii; in 2006, Peter C. Boyce reclassified the species as a separate clade and stated that it…
Termites of the Macrotermes genus – central Sarawak / Borneo around 500m ASL Macrotermes is a genus of so-called fungus-growing termites (Macrotermitinae). These animals live in large colonies with a strict division of labor, consisting of a queen and king…
This is most likely Pinanga aristata (Burret) J.Dransf. – central Sarawak / Borneo Pinanga aristata (Burret) J. Dransf. is a species of palm in the family Arecaceae (order Arecales). The currently accepted name was published by John Dransfield in Kew…
Tree fern – Sphaeropteris glauca (Blume) R.M.Tryon of Sarawak/Borneo – around 900m ASL. Sphaeropteris glauca (Blume) R.M.Tryon (Cyatheaceae, order Cyatheales) is a tree-like fern; the name was published in this combination in 1970. Homotypic synonyms include Chnoophora glauca Blume (1828) and…
Scindapsus pictus Hassk. – of Sarawak/Borneo – around 1000m ASL. Scindapsus pictus (Araceae) was first described in 1842 in the Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie (volume/issue ‘ix’, p. 164); the author abbreviation ‘Hassk.’ stands for the botanist Justus Carl…
Mistletoe fig, Ficus deltoidea of Sarawak/Borneo – around 1400m ASL. Ficus deltoidea Jack (Moraceae) is an accepted species that was first described by William Jack in 1822 in Malayan Miscellanies (2(7): 71). In the Kew taxonomic reference (Plants of the…
Pinanga ridleyana Becc. ex Furtado – central Sarawak / Borneo – around 550m ASL Pinanga ridleyana is a species of palm tree (Arecaceae) in the genus Pinanga. The name was validly published in 1934 in Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis…
Stag Beetle, Dorcus mirabilis (Parry, 1864) – of Sarawak / Borneo around 1060m ASL Adults primarily take liquid carbohydrates, typically tree sap and other sugary exudates, and are most active from dusk through the night; they are often encountered at…
Dark-based gliding hawkmoth, Ambulyx substrigilis Westwood, 1847 – Sarawak / Borneo – around 1000m ASL Ambulyx substrigilis occurs from Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh east to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Vietnam, Hainan (China), Peninsular and Sarawak…