Sazonalidade de lepidoptera em vegetação de caatinga e resquício de floresta ciliar no Semiárido Paraibano e a eficiência do uso de armadilha do tipo malaise para papilionoidea e hesperioidea.

Abstract

The fauna and flora of the Caatinga Biome faces a great water stress in part of the year, and may present different strategies to get through this period. The survival of adult populations in areas of evergreen vegetation, as the ciliary forests is one of the possibilities. The present work aimed to study the seasonal and spatial variation in both environments, in abundance and richness of lepidopteran butterflies and at the same time evaluate the efficiency of an unusual method for collecting butterflies for monitoring purposes or population studies. The material was collected weekly, on Farm anteater, municipio of Santa Teresinha, Paraíba, in the period from November 2010 to June 2012. 31654 individuals were collected moths and butterflies 7268 24386. About the butterflies were recorded 49 species belonging to five families. The results show that the ciliary forest can be used as a contributor in maintaining populations of adults lepidopteran active during the dry period. It was noted the feasibility in the use of trap Malaise as a method of monitoring of populations of a part of the Lepidopteran group.