Abundance and diversity of foliage insects among different Olericulture Crops
1 Department of Zoology, Wildlife and Fisheries, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.
2 Laboratory of Myrmecology, CEPEC-CEPLAC, Brazil.
Research Article
GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2020, 10(02), 062-069.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gscbps.2020.10.2.0021
Publication history:
Received on 23 January 2020; revised on 29 January 2020; accepted on 10 February 2020
Abstract:
Vegetables have essential nutrients like Vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and trace elements that play a vital role in human nourishment. Insects directly or indirectly affect these vegetables. Diversity indices provide important information about species in a community and help to understand the population structure at the given place. Diversity, evenness, dominance and richness of specific taxa considered the main factors of this indices. The results after the whole research as described in methodology showed that total 389 specimens belonging to 10 orders, 33 families and 59 species were documented from spinach fields while fenugreek pertains to 327 specimens, 9 orders, 30 families, and 55 species, whereas, total 373 specimens related to 11 orders, 34 families and 61 species were documented in case of turnip. Catocala and Drosophila genus 4.89% (N = 16) was recorded at their peak from Fenugreek, whereas from Turnip, Culex was documented with a high percentage of 4.02% (N = 15) and from Spinach, Catocala was recorded with an utmost abundance of 4.88% (N = 19). Maximum diversity, Dominance, Richness and Evenness with different values logged for Spinach and Turnip while the least number recorded for fenugreek.
Keywords:
Insects; Abundance; Diversity; Spinach; Turnip; Fenugreek.
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