Abstract
BackgroundWe coin the term "taxon expeditions" for citizen scientists' field courses to carry out publishable taxonomic work in close association with trained taxonomists.New informationDuring the first-ever taxon expedition, in Maliau Basin Studies Centre, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, the participants sampled leaf litter beetles from lowland dipterocarp forest using the Winkler apparatus. The collected material proved to contain at least three undescribed species of small-bodied (ca. 1 mm long) hemispherical litter-dwelling Coleoptera. As part of the field course work, taxonomic descriptions were prepared for the chrysomelid Clavicornaltica sabahensis sp. n. and the leiodids Colenisia chungi sp. n. and Dermatohomoeus maliauensis sp. n.
Highlights
BackgroundWe coin the term "taxon expeditions" for citizen scientists' field courses to carry out publishable taxonomic work in close association with trained taxonomists
During tropical biology field courses, it is common for students to practise field ecological methods using quantified sampling of various groups of invertebrates
Corresponding author: Iva Njunjić Academic editor: Pavel Stoev Received: 30 Oct 2017 | Accepted: 26 Nov 2017 | Published: 06 Dec 2017 Citation: Schilthuizen M, Seip LA, Otani S, Suhaimi J, Njunjić I (2017) Three new minute leaf litter beetles discovered by citizen scientists in Maliau Basin, Malaysian Borneo (Coleoptera: Leiodidae, Chrysomelidae)
Summary
We coin the term "taxon expeditions" for citizen scientists' field courses to carry out publishable taxonomic work in close association with trained taxonomists. During the first-ever taxon expedition, in Maliau Basin Studies Centre, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, the participants sampled leaf litter beetles from lowland dipterocarp forest using the Winkler apparatus. The collected material proved to contain at least three undescribed species of small-bodied The field course work, taxonomic descriptions were prepared for the chrysomelid Clavicornaltica sabahensis sp. N. and the leiodids Colenisia chungi sp. N. Leiodinae, Galerucinae, Southeast Asia, tropical rainforest, new species, taxon expeditions
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