Abdullah, Fauziah and Sina, Ibnu and Fauzee, Fatmahjihan (2008) The Ground Beetle Fauna (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of Kenyir Water Catchment, Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 11 (21). pp. 2478-2483. ISSN 1028-8880, DOI https://doi.org/10.3923/pjbs.2008.2478.2483.
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An assemblage of beetle specimens from family Carabidae (ground beetles) was carried out at Kenyir water catchment as an indicator to measure disturbance. The samplings were conducted from 30th July to 1st August 2007 at limestone forest of Teluk Bewah and the dipterocarp forest of Sungai Cicir. 28 individuals from 13 species were collected from Teluk Bewah whereas 54 individuals from ten species was sampled from Sungai Cicir. The carabids were more specious (Simpson Diversity index: 0.97) and more abundant (Margalef index: 5.35) at Teluk Bewah compared to Sungai Cicir (Simpson Diversity index, 0.72: Margalef index, 2.22). Light trapping was most efficient assembling 97.56% of ground beetles compared to Malaise trap, pitfall and net sweeping. This is the first record of beetle assemblage at Kenyir water catchment, Malaysia. New records for Kenyir, Terengganu, Malaysia are Abacetus sp. 1, Abacetus sp. 2, Acupalpus rectifrotis, Aephnidius adelioides, Dischissus notulatus, Dolichoctis sp, Dolichoctis sp. 2, Dolichoctis straitus, Ophinoea bimaculata, Perigona sp, Pheropsophus piciccollis, Pheropsophus occipitalis, Stenolophus quinquepustulatus, Stenolophus smaragdulus, Stenolophus sp, Tachys coracinus, Casnoidea sp., Orthogonius sp. Seven species coded as Cara C, Cara J, Cara M, Cara N, Cara O, Cara R and Cara S were unidentified and are probably new species to be described in another report. There is moderately high diversity (Simpson Diversity index: 0.846) of Carabidae indicating that ecotourism does not affect diversity of ground beetle at Kenyir Lake. © 2008 Asian Network for Scientific Information.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Carabidae; Diversity; Ground beetle; Sungai Cicir; Teluk Bewah |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QH Natural history |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Institute of Biological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Dec 2020 00:55 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Dec 2020 00:55 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/25616 |
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