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

Ming Kai Tan; Andrei V Gorochov; Rodzay Bin Haji Abdul Wahab; Razy Japir; Arthur Y C Chung

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4661.1.4

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

Zootaxa. 2019 Aug 27;4661(1):zootaxa.4661.1.4. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4661.1.4.

Authors

Ming Kai Tan¹, Andrei V Gorochov, Rodzay Bin Haji Abdul Wahab, Razy Japir, Arthur Y C Chung

Affiliation

¹ Block 315 Ubi Avenue 1 #07-405, Singapore 400315, Republic of Singapore. orthoptera.mingkai@gmail.com.

PMID: 31716718
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4661.1.4

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.

MeSH terms

Animal Distribution
Animal Structures
Animals
Body Size
Borneo
Brunei
Gryllidae*
Malaysia
Organ Size
Orthoptera*