During our Myanmar expedition, the forest of Tamanthi provided many rich pickings and a number of the specimens I collected there are turning out to be undescribed. One day, near the end of our stay there, I was rooting around the stump of a felled tree near our camp and …
During our BBC/Smithsonian expedition to Myanmar our final destination was the fabled Tamanthi Wildlife Reserve, a 2,500 km2 forest in the north of the country. Home to tigers and elephants, this reserve also once supported Javan and Sumatran rhinoceros, both of which may have clung on into the 1980s, but …
[featured image] Looking through some specimens from a recent expedition to Burma I found some of these little chaps, featherwing beetles (ptilidae) …