Inventory of the existing entomofauna in the Campo Elías municipality of Mérida state and its adjacent areas

Abstract

The Campo Elías Municipality of the Mérida State has an immense diversity of entomofauna dispersed throughout the municipality, for this research work was mainly carried out in the mountainous region of the south of the municipality, whose thermal floors do not exceed the elevation of 2500 m. s.n.m, and are located in temperate forest habitats of tropical height, trophophytes, whose temperatures and precipitations exceed 15ºC and 1800mm respectively.According to the entomological collection made in the field, documentary and descriptive for 10 years, trapping techniques, tweezers, meshes, containers and boxes were used, it was possible to make a first list of the existing entomofauna in the Campo Elías municipality. Mérida state, to make known with educational programs, species belonging to the orders: Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Homoptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Orthoptera, Odonata, Diptera, Dermápteros,, Spiders and Scorpions.When the Scorpionidae species were sampled, its greatest location was found in the mountain range of the towns of the south of the Municipality, among many individuals 7 new species of the genera Chactidae and Butidae were collected, the genus Chactidae is currently subject to a exhaustive review, since it represents 68% of the existing species in the area. According to the collection made it is observed that in the jungle of the zone of the southern towns; the same characteristics of biological diversity characteristic of the Andean páramos are presented. In this way the research contributes by providing accurate information and current nomenclatures that allow future new publications.