Moth diversity, species composition, and distributional pattern in Aravalli Hill Range of Rajasthan, India
| Autor: | Mohamed El-Sharnouby, Mohamed Salah, Afaq Ahmad Dar, Khowaja Jamal, Alaa Alhazmi, Samy Sayed |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Diversity indices Range (biology) QH301-705.5 Fauna Moths 01 natural sciences Erebidae 03 medical and health sciences Diversity index Saturniidae Abundance Abundance (ecology) Biology (General) Species diversity Aravalli Hill Range biology Ecology biology.organism_classification 030104 developmental biology Rajasthan Species evenness Original Article General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 010606 plant biology & botany Composition |
| Zdroj: | Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, Vol 28, Iss 9, Pp 4884-4890 (2021) Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences |
| Popis: | Moths are phytophagous, cosmopolitan, agricultural pests, night pollinators, chiefly nocturnal and potential bio-indicators. The current study will be the first report on species diversity, species composition, abundance, and distributional pattern of moth fauna in Aravalli Hill Range Rajasthan. During the survey period of 2018–2019, 758 specimens of moths were collected pertaining to 34 species, 26 genera belonging to 05 families, and 13 subfamilies from three different sites of Aravalli Hill Range. Based on the number of genera, family Sphingidae was most dominant with 9 genera, and family Crambidae was least dominant with 2 genera. Based on the number of species, the family Sphingidae was the most dominant, representing 13 species, followed by Erebidae representing 11 species, Saturniidae and Noctuidae with 4 species each, the least dominant was Crambidae with 2 species. The diversity indices for moths have been calculated for the first time from the Aravalli Range of Rajasthan. Across the survey, Simpson’s Diversity Index (D′), Shannon Diversity Index (H′), Dominance & Evenness was calculated as 0.95, 3.3, 0.04, and 0.8, respectively, which reflects that moth fauna is diverse in the surveyed areas. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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