Diversity of insect fauna in Kelimutu National Park area, Flores [Indonesia]
2011
Wahyuni, S. | Pu'u, Y. M. S. W., Flores Univ., Ende East Nusatenggara (Indonesia). Faculty of Agriculture | Supartha, I. W., Udayana Univ., Bali (Indonesia). Lab. on Integrated Pest Management
Insects are very abundant in nature and play an important role as pollinators, producing products, biological control agents, eating organic matter and weed eater. Besides that many insect-eating predators depend on the presence of insects. This study sought to provide information on the role of insect species diversity in nature and identify the potential insects which can be used for scientific tourism. Research conducted at the Kelimutu National Park Area located in Ende Flores, from August 2009 _ August 2010. Sampling was done in two zones i.e. the core and utilization zones using light traps, trap food, yellow sticky traps, nets, air and land traps in each zone. Sampling is also done manually. Data was analyzed using the Shannon index and Simpson. The results showed that there were 10 orders in the utilization zone and core zone that is divided into 76 families and 191 species. These orders are Lepidoptera (11 families, 40 species), Odonata (5 families, 12 species), Orthoptera (6 families, 16 species), Isoptera (2 families, 4 species), Dermaptera (2 families, 8 species), Hemiptera (11 families, 22 species), Homoptera (2 families, 2 species), Hymenoptera (9 families, 11 species), Coleoptera (14 families, 36 species) and Diptera (9 families, 35 species). The most abundant species were Lepidoptera (6.0%), Coleoptera (5.1%) and Orthoptera (5.2%) in the core zone, while the utilization zone was dominated by Lepidoptera (6.0%), Coleoptera (13.3%) and Hymenoptera (9.87%). Very low counts were found in the core zone, Dermaptera, Isoptera and Homoptera, while in the utilization zone, these were Odonata, Isoptera and Homoptera. There are 14 species of Lepidoptera and 18 species of Coleoptera which have the potential as a scientific tourism attraction in Kelimutu National Park.
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