New Species of cricket identified in Malaysia: Rhomboptera Selangorensis
This little critter has been sitting around waiting to be identified since 1961. Hope it wasn’t too dusty for researcher Muzamil Mustaffa. He published a paper in the Journal of Asian-Pacific Entomology, Rhomboptera Selengorensis, a New Species of Bush-crickets from Peninsular Malaysia (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae) [pdf], describing the new species in detail.
It was named after Selangor, the region of Malaysia where it is found.
The Malaysian National News Agency also has a short article on it, New Grasshopper Species Found In Selangor.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Family: Tettigoniidae
subFamily: Pseudophyllinae
Genus: Rhomboptera
on March 18th, 2006 at 1:15 am
Hmmm, too bad Selangor is 6 hours away and I can’t say that I’ve ever seen it when I was in Selangor (then again, I didn’t know I was supposed to be looking for grasshoppers/crickets. *g*