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Issue: Vol. 4661 No. 1: 27 Aug. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-08-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4661.1.4
Page range: 101–117
Abstract views: 69
PDF downloaded: 4

New taxa of crickets (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Gryllinae, Phaloriinae and Pteroplistinae) from northern Borneo (Belait and Sandakan)

Block 315 Ubi Avenue 1 #07-405, Singapore 400315, Republic of Singapore
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg 199034, Russia
Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Jalan Universiti, BE1410, Brunei Darussalam
Forest Research Centre (Sepilok), Sabah Forestry Department, P.O. Box 1407, 90715 Sandakan, Sabah.
Forest Research Centre (Sepilok), Sabah Forestry Department, P.O. Box 1407, 90715 Sandakan, Sabah.
Brunei Darussalam new species Sabah taxonomy Orthoptera

Abstract

Three species new to science of the Gryllid subfamilies Gryllinae and Pteroplistinae are described from Brunei: (1) Mimicogryllus splendens Tan, Gorochov & Wahab, sp. nov., (2) Pteroplistes bruneiensis Tan, Gorochov & Wahab, sp. nov., and (3) Tembelingiola belaitensis Tan, Gorochov & Wahab, sp. nov. A new species of cricket of the subfamily Phaloriinae is also described from Sandakan, eastern Sabah: Vescelia sepilokensis Tan, Gorochov, Japir & Chung, sp. nov.

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