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Community structure and diversity of butterfly in Guangzhou City of China.

LI Zhi-gang1,2;LI Jun1;ZHANG Bi-sheng1;GONG Peng-bo3;HAN Shi-chou1   

  1. 1Guangdong Entomological Institute, Guangzhou 510260, China; 2Sus
    tainable Development Research Center, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China;3South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
  • Received:2007-07-19 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2008-06-10 Published:2008-06-10

Abstract: The butterfly resources in Guangzhou City were investigated from May 2005 to December 2006. A total of 73 species belonging to 10 families, 45 genera were recorded. Pieridae had the most abundant individuals, followed by Nymphalidae and Papilionidae. The species richness of Nymphalidae was the highest, with the Margalef richness being 3.87, followed by that of Papilionidae and Satyridae. As for the species diversity, Papiliondae was the highest, followed by Nymphalidae, but Nymphalidae had the highest genera diversity. Papilionidae was the highest in evenness, with the Pielou’s evenness being 0.90, followed by Hesperiidae and Lycaenidae.

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