Cerambycidae – Longhorn beetle, Batocera thomsonii Javet, 1858, of south Sarawak / Borneo around 1000m ASL
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Talthybia sp.(?) with a Nematomorpha (sometimes called Gordiacea , and commonly known as horsehair worms) parasite – lowland in central Sarawak/Borneo Adult Nematomorpha parasites only leave their hosts to reproduce and do not consume food in this adult stage. Shortly…
Stag beetle, Cyclommatus giraffa Mollenkamp, 1904, of south Sarawak / Borneo around 1000m ASL
White-eared Tree Frog – Feihyla kajau (Dring, 1984)
Sumatran pitviper, Trimeresurus sumatranus (Raffles, 1822), Central-Sarawak / Borneo 400m ASL
Mallinella myrmecophaga Koh & Dankittipakul, 2014 – of the lowland in Sarawak/Borneo In the rainforest of Borneo, there are many strategies for animals to survive and hunt. One popular strategy is mimicry, an adaptation that serves to deceive or protect…
The endemic Thomas’s flying squirrel, Aeromys thomasi (Hose, 1900) of south Sarawak, around 1000m ASL. Females of the Thomas’s flying squirrel reach a head-torso length of 343.3 mm, a tail length of 410 mm and a weight of 1117 g.…
A female Kerangas Bush Frog Philautus kerangae Dring, 1987, of south Sarawak / Borneo around 1100m ASL.
Jamil Slug Snake, Asthenodipsas jamilinaisi Quah, Grismer, Lim, Anuar, & Imbun, 2019 – of south Sarawak / Borneo around 1000m ASL.
An undescribed arachnophagic jumping spider of the genus Portia – Portia sp. of Sarawak/Borneo This type of jumping spider is very well camouflaged and often sits motionless next to some lichen on the rock. The genus Portia is known to…