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Title: Diversity and Distribution of Class Insecta from Selected Area of Tuba Island Reserve Forest
Authors: Hatta, Siti Khairiyah Mohd 
Rusidilbukhari, Nursyafieza 
Yusof, Nurnadiah Md 
Jamil, Norashirene Mohamad 
Kamarul Hambali 
Wahab, Noor Akmal Abd 
Idris, Siti Noorfahana Mohd 
Zazi, Norhafizah Mohd 
Pardi, Faezah 
Keywords: Abundance;Diversity;diversity indices
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher: Malaysian Society of Applied Biology
Journal: Malaysian Applied Biology 
Abstract: 
Insects are ubiquitous and inhabit all types of ecosystems that include island ecosystems. A study on the diversity and distribution of Class Insecta was conducted at a selected forest area in Pulau Tuba using malaise traps. No insect study has been conducted at Pulau Tuba before. Three study sites namely forest fringe, middle forest, and inner forest were chosen. A total of 5883 specimens belonging to seven orders and 106 morphospecies of insects were collected. The orders identified were Blattodea, Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, Isoptera, and Lepidoptera. Diptera samples were the most found while Blattodea recorded the lowest number recorded. Shannon-Wiener Diversity Index (H’) showed that the inner forest had the highest diversity value with H’ = 0.53, followed by the forest fringe with H’ = 0.44, and the middle forest with H’ = 0.22. The Evenness Index (E’) and Margalef Richness Index (R’) also showed the highest value comes from the inner forest with E’ = 0.28 and R’ = 0.81 respectively. Kruskal-Wallis test showed that there was a significant difference in insect distribution across three study sites where P< 0.05. Overall, this study suggested that the diversity of Class Insecta at Pulau Tuba was low in the three locations confirming the low species richness of insects in the island forest ecosystem.
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3513
ISSN: 01268643
DOI: 10.55230/mabjournal.v51i4.22
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