World conservation group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) announced the discovery of new species in Borneo, on Thursday (04/22/2010). The new species is one of them is an insect or a stick grasshoppers (Phobaeticus chani) with a total length of 56.7 inches found in the area known as "Heart of Borneo", precisely in the tropical rain forest border between Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei.
Residents of Central Kalimantan used to call stick insects and locusts commonly found only a length of 70-10 centimeters.
The findings of this insect one of 123 new species found in the area. Other species were found on a flat-headed frog along the seven centimeters (Barbourula kalimantanensis), which fully breathe through their skin, not through the lungs.
Later found also the long tail of yellow snails (Ibycus rachelae), which uses the "arrow of love" made from calcium carbonate to penetrate and inject hormones to mate in reproducing.
According to official data WWF, based in Malaysia, the area of "Heart of Borneo" most of which exist in the Indonesian territory of each month in the average found in three species.
The area is home to 10 primate species, about 350 species of birds, 150 reptiles and amphibians, and 10 000 plant species. (Kompas.com)
This is the World's longest insect
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