Studies on the species richness, evenness and diversity of moth fauna of Jaipur, Rajasthan
Keywords:
moth, lepidoptera, margalef’s index, shannon’s index, pielou’s index, species richness, evenness, diversityAbstract
Jaipur, the capital city of state of Rajasthan was surveyed for Moth fauna during 2019–2020. Observations were made at four locations and collection was done mainly in Pre-monsoon, Monsoon and Post-monsoon seasons. A checklist was prepared that enlisted 65 species belonging to 13 families, grouped into 31 genera under 9 super families. Five families viz. Erebidae, Geometridae, Sphingidae, Noctuidae and Crambidae were the most commonly occurred and rest of eight families were the least. A total of 1337 specimens were collected. Species Richness (J) calculated was 1.667, Evenness 0.719, Shannon Index (H) 1.844.
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