Jawed Land Leeches

Taman Negara NP, Pahang, MALAYSIA

Bilit, Sabah, MALAYSIA

Colorful and hungry, these are a feature of much of Borneo. Photo from Kelandaun Lake area, northestern Sabah.

Hiking for a mile in the dripping rainforest in our swim suits rewarded each of us with about a dozen of these leeches, which like to cling to leaves in wait for mammals to venture by.

Here is a Tiger Leech waiting patiently for you on a leaf by a trail when you visit Borneo.

maybe: Haemadipsa sylvestris BLANCHARD ???Family: Haemadipsidae (terrestrial leech, Landblutegel) BLANCHARD, 1893Suborder: HirudiniformesOrder: ArhynchobdellidaInfraclass: EuhirudineaSubclass: HirudineaClass: ClitellataPhylum: Annelida (Ringelwrmer)Subkingdom: EumetazoaKingdom: AnimaliaIndonesia, W-Java, Sukabumi, 18 km SWS Bogor, Mt. Halimun-Salak -NP: Cidahu, 1150m asl., 23.04.2011IMG_1120

The large terrestrial leeches ("Lintah" here in Sumatra) can bite through clothing. Don't yank them off-- they leave their teeth behind.

Khao Yai NP, THAILAND

Taman Negara NP, Pahang, MALAYSIA

Summary[edit] DescriptionAPI English: Tiger Leech (Haemadipsa picta). Date 13 September 2011, 16:24:05 Source Own work Author Geichhorn2000 Borneo, Malaysia Licensing[edit] This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 truetrue

DescriptionAPI Here is a Tiger Leech waiting patiently for you on a leaf by a trail when you visit Borneo. In context at www.dixpix.ca/indonesia/fauna/spiders/index.html Date 3 November 2006, 16:36 Source Haemadipsa picta Author Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada

DescriptionAPI Colorful and hungry, these are a feature of much of Borneo. Photo from Kelandaun Lake area, northeastern Sabah. In context at www.dixpix.ca/indonesia/fauna/spiders/index.html Date 15 March 2014, 15:13 Source Haemadipsa picta, the Tiger Leech Author Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada

Summary[edit] DescriptionAPI English: Tiger Leech (Haemadipsa picta). Date 13 September 2011, 16:24:05 Source Own work Author Geichhorn2000 Borneo, Malaysia Licensing[edit] This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 truetrue

DescriptionAPI Here is a Tiger Leech waiting patiently for you on a leaf by a trail when you visit Borneo. In context at www.dixpix.ca/indonesia/fauna/spiders/index.html Date 3 November 2006, 16:36 Source Haemadipsa picta Author Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada

DescriptionAPI Colorful and hungry, these are a feature of much of Borneo. Photo from Kelandaun Lake area, northeastern Sabah. In context at www.dixpix.ca/indonesia/fauna/spiders/index.html Date 15 March 2014, 15:13 Source Haemadipsa picta, the Tiger Leech Author Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada

Summary[edit] DescriptionAPI English: Tiger Leech hanging from a leaf in Borneo Malaysia Date 16 May 2013, 08:11:59 Source Own work Author Tim Denholm

DescriptionAPI Bilit, Sabah, MALAYSIA Date 19 September 2012, 15:10 Source Tiger Leech (Haemadipsa picta) Author Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE Camera location 5° 29′ 21.16″ N, 118° 13′ 32.75″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth 5.489210; 118.225765

Summary[edit] DescriptionAPI English: Tiger leech (Haemadipsa picta), Sabah, Borneo Date 9 May 2015, 17:32:20 Source Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography Author Charlesjsharp Camera location 5° 01′ 12.27″ N, 117° 44′ 47.84″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth 5.020075; 117.746621