Monday 9 February 2015

Invertebrate threshold

Having a quick visit of the invertebrate records for Cullaloe and especially the 2002 Invertebrate Survey. Puliing the numbers together for where we currently are I see that there have been almost 500 species recorded. I have a feeling that after the 2002 survey something about half of that was the total. Most significantly the number of Lepidoptera is hugely greater through moth trapping, and the Diptera total is more than double. The 2002 report I have only in paper form, so I can publish a comparison once I've digitised the numbers.


Order English 2002 2014
Arachnida 'spiders' 52 56
Chilopoda 'centipedes' 4 4
Cladocera 'water fleas' 0 1
Colembola 'springtails' 0 1
Coleoptera 'beetles' 43 64
Dermaptera 'earwigs' 1 1
Diplopoda 'millipedes' 12 13
Diptera 'true flies' 23 71
Ephemeroptera 'mayflies' 1 1
Hemiptera 'true bugs' 38 44
Hymenoptera 'wasps,bees,ants' 12 23
Isopoda 'woodlice' 4 4
Lepidoptera 'moths, butterflies' 41 169
Mecoptera 'scorpion flies' 0 1
Mollusca 'molluscs' 16 18
Odonata 'dragonflies,damselflies' 4 7
Orthoptera 'grasshoppers' 1 1
Ostracoda 'seed shrimps' 1 1
Plecoptera 'stone flies' 0 2
Psocoptera 'bark lice' 4 4
Siphonaptera 'fleas' 3 4
Trichoptera 'caddisflies' 0 6
Total   260 496

Make up of the Diptera by family:

Family #
Agromyzidae 2
Anisopodidae 1
Cecidomyiidae 4
Conopidae 1
Dolichopodidae 4
Lonchopteridae 1
Muscidae 3
Scathophagidae 1
Rhagionidae 1
Stratiomyidae 1
Syrphidae 45
Trichoceridae 1
Tabanidae 1
Tephritidae 1
Tipulidae 3
Limoniidae 1


Coleoptera by family:


Family #
Apionidae 1
Cantharidae 8
Carabidae 10
Chrysomelidae 7
Coccinellidae 1
Cryptophagidae 2
Curculionidae 2
Dytiscidae 1
Elateridae 1
Geotrupidae 1
Hydrophilidae 2
Lathridiidae 2
Nitidulidae 1
Scarabeidae 1
Scydmaenidae 1
Silphidae 4
Staphylinidae 19

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