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    Abstract - Issue Mar 2009, 29 (2)                                     Back


Ovarian development in Labeo dyocheilus (McClelland) during active

Rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) collected during the long term

ecological research in a Hungarian oak forest

Adalbert Balog*1, 2,  Viktor Marko2 and Laszlo Adam3

1Department of Horticultural Science, Faculty of Technical and Human Science, Sapientia Hungarian University

of Transylvania, 1/C Sighisoara st., 540485, Tg-Mures, Romania

2Department of Entomology, Faculty of Horticultural Science, Corvinus University, Budapest, 1118

Budapest, 29-43 Villanyi st., A/II, Hungary

31098, Aranyvirag setany, 7/I. Budapest, Hungary

(Received: February 21, 2007 ; Revised received: July 17, 2007 ; Accepted: August 06, 2007 )

Abstract: A long term ecological research was carried out in a Hungarian oak forest, in “Bükk” National Park starting with 1972. During the faunistical studies 3,602 insect species and more than 200,000 individuals were collected. The dominant orders were Coleoptera (1,051 species), Lepidoptera (803 species), Hymenoptera (470 species) and Diptera (400 species). The relative species abundance (RSA) for all insects collected in all years of sampling period suggests a rather J shape curve than a not clear scaling property.  This means that we were able to identify almost three quarters of the insect species from one ha European oak forest during the survey (from 1987 to 2003), and two third of the staphylinides expected. Considering the staphylinid fauna a total number of 160 species and 4,022 individuals were collected. The most widely occurring species in dominance order were: Ocypus biharicus, Pseudocypus mus, Atheta gagatina, Philonthus quisquiliarius, Oxypoda acuminate, Platydracus chalcocephalus, Atheta crassicornis, Latrimaeum atrocephalum, Haploglossa puncticollis, Philonthus succicola and Anotylus mutator. The pooled value of alpha diversity was 1.51. The Shannon-Weiner Index (H`) was relatively high (3.29) in comparison with other studies.

Key words: Staphylinidae, Species abundance, Diversity, Activity, Density

PDF of full length paper is available with author (balogadalbert2002@yahoo.co.uk)

 

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