OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 253

bubuau

•  a beetle.een kever.

Scientific name: Euchirus longimanus

Note: it is attracted to light at night and tries to commit suicide in the flame; also drinks from the bamboo container on the arenga palm in which it is collected

See also: buau