Previously unpublished Odonata records from Sarawak, Borneo, part VII: Odonata from Limbang Division

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Rory A. Dow, Chee Yen Choong · Faunistic Studies 37 · 2021

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TitlePreviously unpublished Odonata records from Sarawak, Borneo, part VII: Odonata from Limbang Division
AuthorRory A. Dow, Chee Yen Choong
JournalFaunistic Studies in South-East Asian and Pacific Island Odonata
Issue37
Published21 October 2021
Pages1–18
ISSN2195-4534
PublisherInternational Dragonfly Fund e.V.
LanguageEnglish

Abstract

Records of Odonata from Limbang Division in Sarawak are presented, based on two surveys. The first survey was made in 2010 by the second author in the Paya Maga area at the border with Sabah. The second survey was made by the first author in 2020, mostly within the Ravenscourt Forest Management Unit, but with two days spent at Paya Maga. Fifty-four species are listed from these two surveys. Several species were recorded from Sarawak for the first time during the surveys reported on: Devadatta tanduk Dow, Hämäläinen & Stokvis, 2015 and two as-yet-unnamed species of Coeliccia; all of these species were previously known from Sabah. Many of the other records are firsts for Limbang Division. Other particularly significant records include Indolestes dajakanus (Lieftinck, 1948), Protosticta joepani Dow, Phan & Choong, 2020, Telosticta ulubaram Dow & Orr, 2012, Euphaea basalis (Laidlaw, 1915), Rhinoneura caerulea Kimmins, 1936, Idionyx montana Karsch, 1891, Procordulia fusiformis Lieftinck, 1977, Hylaeothemis clementia Ris, 1909 and Orthetrum borneense Kimmins, 1936. Xiphiagrion cyanomelas (form B as discussed in Dow et al. (2021)) is reported using surface tension to perch on the surface of a pond. The identity of the unidentified Devadatta species recorded from the Long Seridan area in Miri Division by Dow et al. (2021) is discussed further. With the records presented here 123 species of Odonata have now been recorded from Limbang Division and 312 from Sarawak as a whole.

Keywords

Malaysia, Borneo, Sarawak, Limbangi Division, Odonata, new records

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Rory A. Dow, Chee Yen Choong (2021): Previously unpublished Odonata records from Sarawak, Borneo, part VII: Odonata from Limbang Division. Faunistic Studies in South-East Asian and Pacific Island Odonata 37: 1–18.

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