species

Trellius (Zatrellius) puntung Tan, Muhammad, Abdullah, Japir, Chung & Robillard, 2024

Nomenclature (1)

  • Trellius (Zatrellius) puntung Tan, Muhammad, Abdullah, Japir, Chung & Robillard, 2024: 253.

    Holotype; male; 0765b37f-38e1-4987-9712-249a79d97418; deposited at: Forest Research Centre, Sepilok, Sandakan (FRC); Malaysia: Sabah: Sandakan, Sepilok, Rainforest Discovery Centre

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Tan, M.K., Muhammad, A.A., Abdullah, N.A., Japir, R., Chung, A.Y.C. & Robillard, T. (2024) New species, locality records and calling songs of crickets of the subfamily Phaloriinae (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae) from Malaysia. Zootaxa, 5493(3), 246–258. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5493.3.2

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

The species is named after Puntung, one of Malaysia’s last Sumatran Rhinoceros. Puntung, in Dusun language, means stub. It also refers to the more truncated or less acute apices of the pseudepiphallus and ectophallic fold as compared to those of T. crocker and T. tawau.

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