Differential efficacy of edaphic traps for monitoring arthropods diversity in subtropical regions

Journal of King Saud University: Science

Muhammad Zeeshan Majeed¹  Yasir Ali²  Waqar Jaleel³  Muhammad Saleh³  Rasheed Akbar⁴  Atia Atiq⁵  Khalid Ali Khan⁶  Maid Zaman⁷  Rabia Saeed⁷  Tahir Farooq⁸  Muhammad Umair Sial⁹  Farman Ullah⁹  Hafiz Muhammad Aatif^1,10  Shumaila Khan^1,10  Hamed A. Ghrmah^1,11 

[1] Corresponding authors.;Central Cotton Research Institute, Multan, Pakistan;College of Agriculture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Bahadur Sub Campus Layyah;Department of Agricultural Engineering, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Abu Dhabi Rd, Rahim Yar Khan, 64200 Punjab;Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha 40100, Pakistan;Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China;Department of Entomology, The University of Haripur, Pakistan;Division of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, University of Education Lahore (Multan Campus), Pakistan;Institute of Plant Protection, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agricultural, Multan, Pakistan;Plant Protection Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong China;Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, P.O. Box 9004, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia;

关键词: Edaphic arthropods;    Community composition;    Agricultural lands;    Sampling traps;    Diversity indices;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Installation of traps in the agricultural field is an economically important and cheaper technique to observe arthropods diversity. Cost-effective ecological monitoring of arthropods by traps has been gaining interest in the field of environmental entomology since last few decades. This study explains the effectiveness of four different types of traps (pitfall, yellow-sticky, pan and barrier traps) to monitor the arthropod diversity in summer and winter seasons. These traps were installed in different mango orchards located in Punjab, Pakistan. diversity of captured arthropods was 1.5 times higher in summer than in winter season. However, among the traps, pitfall traps were most effective than others for trapping edaphic arthropods in both seasons. The pan traps were found most effective in the summer season, while sticky traps in the winter season. The pitfall traps exhibited highest taxa richness index values (8.00 for summer and 5.00 for winter season), while the lowest values were recorded for barrier traps (5.00 for summer and 3.00 for winter season). Moreover, the pitfall were the most effective traps for the capture or collection of Arachnida, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera and other arthropods. The PVC barrier and sticky traps were found most effective for Dipteran and Hemipteran's insects, respectively, and hence, are recommended for the ecological monitoring of these arthropod groups in future studies.

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