JOURNAL OF LIAONING TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
(NATURAL SCIENCE EDITION)
LIAONING GONGCHENG JISHU DAXUE XUEBAO (ZIRAN KEXUE BAN)
辽宁工程技术大学学报（自然科学版）
BIODIVERSITY OF ORDER COLEOPTERA AT SELECTED LOCALITIES OF TEHSIL TAKHT BHAI, DISTRICT MARDAN THROUGH MALAISE TRAPPING SYSTEM
Zahid Ali*, Bilal Ahmad, Dr Sardar Azhar Mehmood, Ahmad Ali, AteeqUllah, RehanUllah, Ahmad Irshad, HinaRiaz, ImadUllah, Zainab Waqar, Muhammad Ali, ZakirUllah, Noor Muhammad
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. Tehsil Takht Bhai, District Mardan were selected for the installation of Malaise trap. Malaise trap were installed in four different sites (Jalala, Shergarh, Takht Bhai, Lund Khwar) for five months (June 2022 to September 2022). Total 404 samples were trapped of Order Coleoptera which were further identified to seven families and to 10 genera. Out og these families, the family Scarabaeidae were founded with the highest number of specimens and the family Carabidae, family Chrysomelindae and family Hybosoridae were founded with the lowest number of specimens.
Index Terms- Animal, Coleoptera, Diversity, Insects, Malaise trap