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    Flora & fauna of Bau & Jambusan area

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    Bau-Jambusan areas are limestone hills area. More pix of the "report" on this link :
    http://www.ibanorum.netfirms.com/jambau-menu.htm


    Gunung Staat(limestone hill):






    All the plants are covered by a layer of mud which was washed down to the streams/rivers by flash flood recently due to heavy rainfall. (I was searching for aquatic plant in this area....but water is cloudy.....so can't find anything)







    A jungle stream flowing pass the limestone. Puntius kuchingensis & Rasbora caudimaculata are found abundantly here.







    Subterranean stream.





    Schismatoglottis tecturata (Aroid).

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    Probably Piper grande.







    Epirixanthes cylindrica, a saprophyte in the Polygalaceae.







    Wild banana. (Musa borneensis)





    Nepenthes northiana is an endangered species. It is an endemic species to Bau of Sarawak only !!! (rare species)

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    First time found a red-colored pitcher of Nepenthes ampullaria.








    A species of aquatic plant, genus name is Vallisneria. (introduced species)








    Rhinocochlis nasuta







    Close-up picture. Take note there is a "horn" developed from the shell; hence it is called Rhinocochlis.


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    Snails need calcium carbonate (limestone) to build their shells. There is a high concentration of snails & slugs in this area. Hence, you can find different species of beautiful snails in this area. Some are endemic species to Borneo only.



    Unidentified species.....very tiny snail around 0.5cm (shell):







    Leptopoma sp. (probably Leptopoma sericatum (Pfeiffer, 1851) )








    Unidentified species. The arrow is pointing at a unique apparatus of snail, probably to polish the shell & prevent something from growing on it ????






    Unidentified species.

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    Videna sp. (Family name = Trochomorphidae)







    Slug.






    Tortoise beetle. (Aspidomorpha spp. ???)






    Bug. (order = Hemiptera ???)

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    Unidentified species of moth.








    Land planarian. (Bipalium sp.)






    Spider. (Anyone can identify what species???)








    A dead kingfisher trapped in a mist net set up by someone long time ago.







    Another victim trapped & killed by the mist net : Rhinoceros beetle. (Genus name is either Chalcosoma or Xylotrupes)

    I destroyed this mist net after seeing so many dead animals hanging on the net.


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    Should be Xylotrupes..

    nice banana...

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    Quote Originally Posted by MrTree
    Should be Xylotrupes..

    nice banana...
    How to identify those beetles? From the "horns"?
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    I think so, all the Chalcosoma I see from books have got two horns on the top.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kuching

    Tortoise beetle. (Aspidomorpha spp. ???)






    Bug. (order = Hemiptera ???)

    Nice tortoise beetle... i cant really tell the species cos i'm no expert on them.. from picture furthest i can say is subfamily Cassidinae.. which isn't much help at all when you deal with insects.. its just too broad..

    the other bug you have there is probably a Cicadellidae or more commonly known as a leafhopper.. again hard to tell species because it so broad. taxonomy follows..Order Homoptera, Suborder Auchenorrhyncha, Superfamily Cicadoidea, Family Cicadellidae. So its really a homopteran

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    Quote Originally Posted by ranmasatome
    Nice tortoise beetle... i cant really tell the species cos i'm no expert on them.. from picture furthest i can say is subfamily Cassidinae.. which isn't much help at all when you deal with insects.. its just too broad..

    the other bug you have there is probably a Cicadellidae or more commonly known as a leafhopper.. again hard to tell species because it so broad. taxonomy follows..Order Homoptera, Suborder Auchenorrhyncha, Superfamily Cicadoidea, Family Cicadellidae. So its really a homopteran
    Thanks again. Insect world is really amazing!!!
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    i'm hooked for life... welcome..

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