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INSECT FAUNA OF DISTRICT BATTAGRAM KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA USING MALAISE TRAPPING SYSTEM

Syed Sabir Hussain Shah, Dr. Sardar Azhar Mehmood, Hidayat Ullah, Zeeshan Ahmad, Noman Waheed, Usama Nawaz, Sana Ullah Shah, Almas Faryal Nizam, Izhar Ullah, Irfan Khan, Muhammad Idrees, Ehsan Ullah

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Abstract-

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