Tuesday, August 27, 2019

[Entomology • 2019] New Taxa of Crickets (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Gryllinae, Phaloriinae and Pteroplistinae) from northern Borneo (Belait and Sandakan)


Tembelingiola belaitensis Tan, Gorochov & Wahab

in Tan, Gorochov, Wahab, et al., 2019. 

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.

Keywords: Brunei Darussalam, new species, Sabah, taxonomy, Orthoptera


 Ming Kai Tan, Andrej V. Gorochov,  Rodzay Bin Haji Abdul Wahab, Razy Japir and Arthur Y.C. Chung. 2019. New Taxa of Crickets (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Gryllinae, Phaloriinae and Pteroplistinae) from northern Borneo (Belait and Sandakan).  Zootaxa. 4661(1); 101–117. DOI:  10.11646/zootaxa.4661.1.4