海南岛尖峰岭林区昆虫区系——尺蛾科

The Insect Fauna at Jianfengling in Hainan Island-Geometridae

尺蛾是蛾类昆虫中的一大科,在海南岛尖峰岭共采得标本440余种,现已定名87属126种及亚种。其中有优势属Comibaena、Luxiaria、Semiothisa、Tanaorhinus和Terpna 5属;有优势种Cleora determinata、Fascellina chromataria和柑桔尺蛾Hemerophila subplagiata等16种。本科种群虫口密度与当地蛾类其他各科相比,数量较大。其生态分布以热带山地雨林种类最多,成虫出现以4、5月种类最多,诱虫量则以1、5月为最高。

Geometridae is one of the three big families in Jianfengling, Hainan Island. At present, more than 440 species had been collected and 126 subspecies and species belonging to 87 genera had been identified. Among them, five genera of Comibaena, Luxiaria, Semiothisa, Tanaorhinus and Terpna are dominant and 16 species of Clear a determinate, Fascellina chromataria, Hemerophila subplagiata and the others are of dominant species. As compared with other families of the moths, much more population densities are found in Geometridae according to the moth-killing lamp collection, their ecological distributions in the four forest types are found to have the most in species quantities in the tropical mountain rain forest. The adults occur in April and May having the most in species but the appearances of the population quantities are the most in January and May.