Research Article
Butterfly Species Richness in Selected West Albertine Rift Forests
Table 2
Species richness in the 17 forests represented as ecological groupings.
| Number | Forest | Species richness per habitat |
Total | F | FH | FL | f | O | S | Ns |
| 1 | Kalinzu-Maramagambo | 109 | 4 | 11 | 50 | 6 | 3 | 44 | 227 | 2 | Itwara | 51 | 1 | 6 | 38 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 119 | 3 | Bugoma | 141 | 2 | 13 | 59 | 9 | 1 | 53 | 278 | 4 | Kisangi | 10 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 41 | 5 | Budongo | 109 | 2 | 11 | 45 | 21 | 3 | 63 | 254 | 6 | Rwenzori | 20 | 14 | 2 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 78 | 7 | Echuya | 6 | 11 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 54 | 8 | Mafuga | 4 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 32 | 9 | Kagombe | 86 | 0 | 7 | 41 | 6 | 1 | 49 | 190 | 10 | Matiri | 46 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 98 | 11 | Kitechura | 45 | 0 | 5 | 31 | 2 | 2 | 29 | 114 | 12 | Kasyoha-Kitomi | 119 | 2 | 11 | 47 | 7 | 1 | 48 | 235 | 13 | Semliki | 166 | 2 | 17 | 49 | 12 | 1 | 62 | 309 | 14 | Kibale | 105 | 1 | 10 | 55 | 3 | 3 | 43 | 220 | 15 | Bwindi | 61 | 19 | 3 | 39 | 6 | 0 | 34 | 162 | 16 | Mt. Kei | 12 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 30 | 3 | 60 | 126 | 17 | Era | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 31 | 56 |
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F: Closed forest, f: forest edge/woodland, FH: closed highland forest, O: open habitat, FL: closed lowland forest, S: swamp/wetland species, Ns: nonspecific habitat.
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