Diversity of Butterflies (Lepidoptera) in Manembo-Nembo Wildlife Reserve, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Koneri, Roni; Maabuat, Pience Veralyn

doi:10.3923/pjbs.2016.202.210

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“…is is because butterflies are primarily a tropical group of insects and often depend on rain forest plants for larval food [29]. Similarly, according to studies from Manembo-Nembo Wildlife Reserve (Indonesia), more abundant and diversified butterflies were found in riverside habitats in the forest, which is a source of food and shelter [40]. In contrast, in Sicily, Italy, grasslands were found to be the most suitable for butterflies because grasslands provide the food and shelter the larvae need [41].…”

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Butterfly Diversity and Abundance in the Middle Afromontane Area of Northwestern Ethiopia

Wale

Abdella²

2021

Psyche: A Journal of Entomology

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Butterflies are good indicators of environmental health, and they play a critical role in the food chain. Butterfly diversity and abundance were studied for the first time at three forests and their surrounding habitats in northwestern Ethiopia, a borderline ecosystem between the subtropical savannah and the Ethiopian highlands (Afromontane). Butterfly species richness and abundance were assessed using transects between October 2018 and June 2019. Data were analyzed using analysis of variance, correlation and regression analysis, diversity indices, ordination analysis, cluster analysis, and rarefaction curves. A total of 27,568 butterflies were recorded that belonged to three families, five subfamilies, and eight genera. The forest habitat had more butterfly taxa (abundance and diversity) than other habitats. Belenois spp. and Mylothris agathina were the most abundant in all three study locations. Species common to all study areas include Belenois aurota, Belenois raffrayi, Mylothris agathina, Eronia leda, Junonia terea elgiva, and Phalanta eurytis neuritis. Forest edge and woody forest habitats were the richest in terms of both number of species and number of individuals. Equitability (Pielou's index) showed equal distribution of the species, i.e., 0.8 to 0.9, except at the open grassland at Tara Gedam (0.3). Margalef's index varied between habitats and locations showing differences in species richness (from 0.25 at the woody forest of Mount Bezawit to 0.86 at the forest edge of Tara Gedam). Ordination analyses also showed that associations existed between habitats, locations, and dates of sampling. Rarefaction curves rose quickly at the forest edge and woody forest habitats compared to other forests. The cluster analysis discriminated the different habitats. Populations declined during the dry season (December to April). In conclusion, butterfly species diversity and abundance varied with respect to habitat and sampling date (season), although less diverse than other regions in the country where natural forests still widely exist. Butterfly species must be regularly monitored, and their habitats must be preserved for the health of the entire ecosystem.

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Butterfly Diversity and Abundance in the Middle Afromontane Area of Northwestern Ethiopia

Wale

Abdella²

2021

Psyche: A Journal of Entomology

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“…Butterflies are of significant importance as pollinators (Fukano et al 2016), and serve as food for birds, bats, and other vertebrates, but their larvae are also recognized as agricultural pests. Due to their ease of visual identification, and the fact that host plants are often known, butterflies have been proposed as a model insect group for the rapid assessment of biodiversity (Kumar 2013;Koneri and Maabuat 2016). The presence of butterflies can also illustrate how butterfly communities and their environmental interactions can be used to assess the functioning of an ecosystem and conservation efforts (Fenner et al 2018).…”

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Diversity of butterflies (Lepidoptera) across rainforest transformation systems in Jambi, Sumatra, Indonesia

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Abstract. Panjaitan R, Drescher J, Buchori D, Peggie D, Harahap IS, Scheu S, Hidayat P. 2020. Diversity of butterflies (Lepidoptera) across rainforest transformation systems in Jambi, Sumatra, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 21: 5119-5127. The high rate of land conversion has put pressure on biodiversity, especially in the tropics. The lowlands of Sumatra, for example, are dominated by increasingly extensive areas of oil palm and rubber monoculture plantations, while rainforests are continuously vanishing. The status of many rainforest animal populations, including iconic insect groups such as butterflies, is largely unclear. With a rapid assessment approach, we studied butterflies along land-use gradients from lowland rainforest, via jungle rubber plantations (rubber agroforest system), to monocultures of rubber and oil palm in Jambi Province, Sumatra. Butterflies were caught in a nested replication design at eight research plots at each of the forest, jungle rubber, and rubber and oil palm locations. Butterfly abundance was the highest in the rainforest (204.3±82.1), slightly lower in the jungle rubber and oil palm areas (164.9±61 and 169.3±94.9, respectively), and the lowest in the rubber plantation (108.8±38.5). Similarly, butterfly species richness was the highest in the forest and jungle rubber areas (47.1±7.7 and 38.8±7.6, respectively), followed by the oil palm area (33.3±9.8), and the lowest in the rubber plantation (26.1±9.1). Likewise, Shannon-Wiener diversity was the highest in the rainforest, at an intermediate level in the jungle rubber, and lowest in the oil palm and rubber plantations. Butterfly community composition in the rainforest was very different from that in the other three land-use systems, in which it was similar. Overall, the study demonstrates that rainforest butterfly communities cannot be sustained in agricultural systems, highlighting the importance of rainforests for conserving the diversity of arthropods.

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“…The number of butterfly species found in the research was only 0.20% of all species worldwide, 2.23% of species found in Indonesia, and 6.96% of species found in Sulawesi. There are about 19,238 of butterfly species worldwide (Patil et al, 2017) (Koneri and Maabuat, 2016) and Gunung Tumpa National Park (Tallei et al, 2015), North Sulawesi managed to find 44 and 50 species, respectively. Several studies in other islands reported a higher number of butterfly species as compared to the current results found in Sangihe Island.…”

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Butterfly Community Structure and Diversity in Sangihe Islands, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Koneri¹,

Nangoy²

2019

Appl. Ecol. Env. Res.

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Butterflies have an important role in the ecosystem of Sangihe Island, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Currently, data on the diversity of butterflies on the island are still lacking and have not been published yet. Therefore, this study was aimed to analyze the structure of the butterfly community and its diversity in Sangihe Island, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The research was conducted from March 2018 to May 2018 in Sangihe Island, North Sulawesi. Sampling was performed at three types of habitat: a farm, a forest edge, and bushes. Sampling method used was surveyed with purposive sampling. A collection of butterflies was gathered by the sweeping method using sweep net following the transect line randomly for 500 m long. At each habitat, four transects were set and the collection step was duplicated. Sampling was performed from 8.00 am to 15.00 pm. The collection comprised of 5 families, 39 species, and 944 individuals. The most commonly found family was Nymphalidae, while the most abundant species were Junonia hedonia intermedia and Eurema tominia. Species abundance, species richness index, species diversity index, and species evenness index were found to be the highest at the forest edge habitat, while the lowest ones were from the bushes. The diversity of the butterflies at the forest edge habitat was higher since host plants were located in the area, and the vegetation served as a food source and shelter for the animals.

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Diversity of Butterflies (Lepidoptera) in Manembo-Nembo Wildlife Reserve, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Cited by 12 publications

References 16 publications

Butterfly Diversity and Abundance in the Middle Afromontane Area of Northwestern Ethiopia

Butterfly Diversity and Abundance in the Middle Afromontane Area of Northwestern Ethiopia

Diversity of butterflies (Lepidoptera) across rainforest transformation systems in Jambi, Sumatra, Indonesia

Butterfly Community Structure and Diversity in Sangihe Islands, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

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