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- Title: Diversity of the True Bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) on Arnold Air Force Base, Tullahoma, Tennessee.
- Author : Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 218 KB
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ABSTRACT--Species of true hugs were sampled, identified, and evaluated from nine diverse habitats on the 15,816 ha Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee during a one-year study. Species were sampled using nine collection methods (beat sheet, canopy fogging, direct hand-picking or aerial netting, leaf litter, light trap, Malaise trap, Manitoba trap, pit fall trap, and sweep-net). The 1,360 hemipteran specimens collected represented 97 species in 22 families. Four families (Pentatomidae, Lygaeidae, Reduviidae, and Coreidae) constituted 50% of all species collected, while 75.2% of all specimens were from families Lygaeidae, Miridae, Pentatomidae, and Tingidae. A significant difference in species diversity among habitats was documented. Comparison of Shannon-Wiener diversity indices for species varied from a low of 0.25 in the Maidencane site to a high of 3.11 at a recently burned grassland site, indicating a low to moderate high diversity among sites. Species evenness values ranged from 0.22 at the Maidencane site to 0.96 at the pine site (maximum value = 1). The number of hemipteran species collected per site ranged from three at the Maidencane site to 42 at the recent burned site. More species were collected within the grassland barren (recent burned, 42; burned, 34; non-burned, 29) and Sinking Pond (33) sites than within the forest-dominated (pine, 25; Bradley Creek, 15; and Goose Pond, II; oak, 9) sites. **********
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