Research Article

Competence of Litter Ants for Rapid Biodiversity Assessments

Table 2

Arthropod orders and number of morphospecies within each order collected by the three methods from the secondary forest and pine plantation, in Upper Hanthana forest reserve.

Secondary forestPine plantation
OrderNumber of morpho spp.OrderNumber of morpho spp.

Hymenoptera34Hymenoptera12
Coleoptera14Coleoptera6
Diptera6Araneae3
Acari6Diptera1
Homoptera4Hemiptera1
Grylloblattodea3Acari1
Hemiptera3
Orthoptera3
Araneae3
Lepidoptera2
Collembola1
Diplura1
Dictyoptera1
Ephemeroptera1
Heteroptera1
Phasmida1
Protura1
Thysanoptera1