Prepared By Peter Roosenschoon. Conservation Officer. Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve. Insect Biodiversity and Distribution in the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve. Presented to Greg Simkins. Conservation Manager. Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve. May 2013 . May 2013 Insect Biodiversity and Distribution of DDCR. Page | 2 May 2013 Content: Introduction. ..................................... ......................................... 6 Abstract. ......................................... .......................................... 7 Objective. ........................................ .......................................... 7 Study area. ....................................... ........................................... 8 Method and Materials. ............................. .................................... 9 Sampling Sites. ................................... ...................................... 11 Data analysis...................................... ....................................... 12 • Result and Findings of Light-trapping Survey. ......................................................................... 12 Simpson’s Index .................................................................................................................... 14 Shannon’s Index. ................................................................................................................... 15 Individual Species Predicted Distribution (Light trapping). ............................................................... 17 Important Value Index results. .......................................................................................................... 23 • Results and Findings of the Pit-fall trapping Survey. ................................................................ 24 Shannon’s Index. ..................................................................................................................... 27 Simpson’s Index ....................................................................................................................... 28 Individual Species Predicted Distribution (Pit-fall traps). ................ 30 Important Value Index results. ...................................................................................................... 36 • Results and finding of the Malaise trap Survey. ........................................................................ 36 Species information found during light trap and Pit-fall trap survey. .............................................. 37 Tentyrina palmeri (Crotch,1872) ............................................................................................... 37 Komarowia concolor (Bartalucci, B. 2004) ................................................................................ 37 Calopertha truncatula (Ancey, 1881) ........................................................................................ 38 Thermobia domestica (Packard) ................................................................................................ 38 Prionothecha coronata (Ancey, 1881) ....................................................................................... 39 Cataglyphis niger (Andre) .......................................................................................................... 39 Xyletinus calypterus ( Illiger,1807) ............................................................................................ 40 Blaps kollari (Seidlitz, 1896) ...................................................................................................... 40 Pimelia arabica (Klug, 1830) ...................................................................................................... 41 Camponotus xerxes (Forel) ........................................................................................................ 41 Cardiophorus skulei (Platia & Schimmel, 1997) ........................................................................ 42 Apentandes arabicus (Kirschberg, 1877) ................................................................................... 42 Ammogiton omanicum (Schawaller, 1990) ............................................................................... 43 Staudingeria partitella (Rangonot,1887)................................................................................... 43 Insect Biodiversity and Distribution of DDCR. Page | 3 May 2013 Paraplatyope popovi (Koch, 1965) ............................................................................................ 44 Lopezus fedtschenkoi (Mclachlan) ............................................................................................. 44 Thriptera kraatzi (Haag-Rutenberg, 1876) ................................................................................ 45 Tricholabiodes aegyptiacus (Radoszkowski, 1876) ................................................................... 45 Perissomastix versicolor (Gaedike) ............................................................................................ 46 Phantia spec. (Fieber,1866) ....................................................................................................... 46 Discussion. ....................................... ........................................ 47 Conclusion. ....................................... ........................................ 47 References. ....................................... ........................................ 48 Acknowledgements. ................................. ................................... 50 Annex 1. .......................................... ......................................... 51 Annex 2. .......................................... ......................................... 52 Chart 1: Individuals trapped during light-trap survey. .......................................................................... 13 Chart 2: Individuals trapped during pitfall-trap survey. ........................................................................ 25 Figure 1: Location of the survey region. .................................................................................................. 8 Figure 2: Pitfall-trap, Light-trap and Malaise-trap diagrams. ................................................................ 10 Figure 3: Boxplot and Whisker diagram for trapping methods............................................................. 47 Map 1: Simpson's Diversity Index map for the Light-trapping. ............................................................. 15 Map 2: Shannon Diversity Index map for the Light trapping. ............................................................... 16 Map 3: Shannon-Weiner's Diversity Index for Pitfall-trapping. ............................................................ 27 Map 4: Simpson's Diversity Index maps for Pitfall-traps. ..................................................................... 28 Map 5: Simpson map of Vegetation Survey. (2009).............................................................................. 51 Map 6: Leptadenia pyrotechnica Survey (2009) .................................................................................... 52 Table 1: Total of individuals collected during light-trap survey. ........................................................... 12 Table 2: Biodiversity Values of the Light-trapping. ............................................................................... 13 Table 3: Total of individuals collected during Pitfall-traps survey. ....................................................... 24 Table 4: Biodiversity Values of the Pitfall-trapping. .............................................................................. 26 Predicted distribution 1 (LT): Calopertha truncatula. ........................................................................... 17 Predicted distribution 2 (LT): Unknown species of Scarabea Family. ................................................... 17 Predicted distribution 3 (LT): Cardiophorus skulei. ............................................................................... 18 Predicted distribution 4 (LT): Dicronychus wittmeri ............................................................................. 18 Predicted distribution 5 (LT): Family Flatidae, Phantia spec. ................................................................ 19 Predicted distribution 6 (LT): Komarowia concolor. ............................................................................. 19 Predicted distribution 7 (LT): Melanophthalma proximulata. .............................................................. 20 Insect Biodiversity and Distribution of DDCR. Page | 4 May 2013 Predicted distribution 8 (LT): Perissomastix versicolor. ........................................................................ 20 Predicted distribution 9 (LT): Stauringeria partitella. ........................................................................... 21 Predicted distribution 10 (LT): Streaky Wing Antlion. ........................................................................... 21 Predicted distribution 11 (LT): Xylentinus calypterus. .......................................................................... 22 Predicted distribution 12 (LT): Xylentinus vanharteni. .......................................................................... 22 Predicted distribution 13 (PT): Tentyrina palmeri. ................................................................................ 30 Predicted distribution 14 (PT): Thermobia domestica. ........................................................................