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BIODIVERSITY OF ORDER COLEOPTERA AT SELECTED LOCALITIES OF DISTRICT BATTAGRAM THROUGH MALAISE TRAPPING SYSTEM

. Syed Sabir Hussain Shah, Asad Khan, Hidayat Ullah, Ateeq Ullah, Irfan Khan, Sana Ullah, Izhar Ullah, Muhammad Idrees, Gurmeet Singh, Fazal Amin, Sajidur Rahman & Bilal Ahmad


Abstract

The most populous taxon in the animal kingdom are insects. As the largest animal category, insects are collected using a number of sampling techniques. Among several methods of sampling for the collection of various insect groups, sweep nets, light traps, pitfall traps, Winkler sampling, and malaise traps are common and very effective. Coleoptera is the largest order of class insecta and have more than 400,000 known species. The most popular nonattractant, static insect traps are Malaise trap, which are big, tent-like structure made of fine mesh netting. District Battagram were selected for the installation of Malaise trap. Malaise trap were installed in five different sites (Biland kot, Kuza banda, Meran, Pirhari, Ajmera) for five months (4 April 2022 to 29 August 2022). Total 192 samples were trapped of Order Coleoptera which were further identified to seven families and to 12 genera. Out og these families, the family Scarabaeidae were founded with the highest number of specimens and the family Carabidae, family Chrysomelindae and family Coccinellidae were founded with the lowest number of specimens.

 

Index Terms- Animal, Coleoptera, Diversity, Insects, Malaise trap, 

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