Lipotactes (Lipotactes) kabili Tan, Japir & Chung 2020
Creators: name: Tan, Ming Kai
name: Damit, Dayang Fazrinah Binti Awg
name: Japir, Razy
name: Chung, Arthur Y. C.
name: Robillard, Tony
name: Ingrisch, Sigfrid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Lipotactes
Lipotactes kabili

description: Lipotactes (Lipotactes) kabili Tan, Japir & Chung, 2020
(Figs 9C, 9D, 10E–I)
Lipotactes kabili Tan, Japir & Chung, 2020 in Tan et al., 2020: 6, 11— Gorochov, 2021: 8.
New material examined. EAST MALAYSIA, Sabah • 1♂; Maliau Basin Conservation Area, at Maliau Basin Studies Centre along EE Trail; N4.73676 E116.97401, 241.6± 6.7 m.a.s.l.; 10 November 2024, 18h16; on branch of small tree; coll. M.K. Tan; SBH.24.1 (ZRC) • 1♀; Maliau Basin Conservation Area, at Maliau Basin Studies Centre along EE Trail; N4.73682 E116.97384, 237.9± 6.9 m.a.s.l.; 10 November 2024, 18h25; on branch of small tree; coll. M.K. Tan; SBH.24.2 (ZRC) • 1♂ (Fig. 9C); Maliau Basin Conservation Area, at Maliau Basin Studies Centre along Knowledge Trail; N4.74225 E116.97062, 262.4±7.0 m.a.s.l.; 15 November 2024, 18h06; on dead branch; coll. M.K. Tan; SBH.24.97 (ZRC) • 1♂; Maliau Basin Conservation Area, at Maliau Basin Studies Centre along Knowledge Trail; N4.74222 E116.97078, 235.0± 9.1 m.a.s.l.; 15 November 2024, 18h38; on branch of small tree; coll. M.K. Tan; SBH.24.99 (ZRC) • 1♂; Maliau Basin Conservation Area, Agathis Camp along Agathis Nature Trail; N4.70073 E116.90878, 542.1± 8.6 m.a.s.l.; 16 November 2024, 18h05; calling? on small tree (Fig. 9D); coll. M.K. Tan; SBH.24.113 (ZRC) • 1♂; Mount Trus Madi, Trusmadi Entomology Camp, forest trail; N5.44501 E116.45177, 1227.0± 5.6 m.a.s.l.; 1 November 2023, 18h05; on foliage of rattan; coll. M.K. Tan; SBH.23.75 (ZRC) • 1♂; Mount Trus Madi, Trusmadi Entomology Camp, forest trail; N5.44575 E116.45223, 1219.0± 6.4 m.a.s.l.; 1 November 2023, 18h34; on branch; coll. M.K. Tan; SBH.23.79 (ZRC) • 1♂; Maliau Basin Conservation Area, at Maliau Basin Studies Centre along Knowledge trail (start); N4.74189 E116.97062, 227 m (GPS 24SA4); 11 November 2024, night; on low vegetation; coll. T. Robillard; TR24-34 (MNHN).
Remarks. The new material examined from Maliau Basin and Mount Trus Madi has tegmen morphology nearly identical to that illustrated by Tan et al. (2020) and Gorochov (2021), in terms of the shape and size of the mirror and the stridulatory file (including number of teeth of approximate 85 teeth and the size of teeth dramatically reduced at basal end).
Type locality. EAST MALAYSIA: Sabah: Sandakan, Kabili-Sepilok Forest Reserve.
Distribution. This species is known only from Sabah: Kabili-Sepilok Forest Reserve (Sandakan), Tawau Hills National Park, Maliau Basin [new locality record], Mount Trus Madi [new locality record].
description: Published as part of Tan, Ming Kai, Damit, Dayang Fazrinah Binti Awg, Japir, Razy, Chung, Arthur Y. C., Robillard, Tony & Ingrisch, Sigfrid, 2025, New species and taxonomic notes of Lipotactes (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Lipotactinae) from Sabah, pp. 309-324 in Zootaxa 5632 (2) on page 322, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5632.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/15372119