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Issue: Vol. 4111 No. 1: 12 May 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-05-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.2
Page range: 21–40
Abstract views: 136
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A contribution to the knowledge of Orthoptera diversity from Peninsular Malaysia: Bukit Larut, Perak

Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore.
Ex-situ Conservation Division, Department of Wildlife and National Parks, KM10, Jalan Cheras, 56100 Kuala Lumpur, Peninsular Malaysia.
grasshopper cricket katydid annotated checklist lower montane Maxwell Hill Taiping Southeast Asia Orthoptera

Abstract

Bukit Larut is a hill station at the southern tip of the Bintang Range, Perak of Peninsular Malaysia. While the biodiversity of Bukit Larut has been previously documented, its entomofauna, including the Orthoptera, remains relatively unknown. A faunistic survey was conducted in 2015 as part of the continuous exploration of the highlands in Malay Peninsula. An annotated species list of 71 (24 Caelifera and 47 Ensifera) species of Orthoptera from ten families (five from each order) is presented here. While the coverage of lineages in the orthopteran phylogeny is well-represented, the diversity in Bukit Larut is dominated by the three main families: Acrididae, Gryllidae and Tettigoniidae. Eight new locality records for Bukit Larut and/or Peninsular Malaysia and potential new species awaiting description highlight that the orthopteran diversity in Bukit Larut is not exhaustive.

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