Assessing species richness of the subfamily Campopleginae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) community in Darab damask rose rain-fed plain, Fars province, Iran

Here, the species richness of Campopleginae, a diverse subfamily of the Darwin wasps was studied in an almost organic damask rose plain located at ۲۶۰۰ m a.s.l., the south of Iran. Sampling was done using four Malaise traps for six months from April–October ۲۰۱۹. The total sampling efforts were ۱۸ trap months. The integrated approach was used to assess the sample completeness profile, to infer true diversities of entire assemblages via asymptotic diversity estimates, to standardize the sample coverage via rarefaction and extrapolation, and to infer diversity via an evenness profile. I also used Homogenous, Homogenous (MLE), Chao۱, Chao۱-bc, iChao۱, ACE, ACE-۱, ۱st order jackknife, and ۲nd order jackknife to estimate the species richness of the studied Campopleginae community. Malaise traps yielded ۴۹۱ individuals belonging to ۲۴ morphospecies. Diadegma majale (Gravenhorst, ۱۸۲۹) included ۶۴.۷% of the total individuals collected, representing the highly dominated species. The estimated sample completeness profile showed that our data covers ۵۹% of the total species in this community and thus ۴۱% of species are undetected. The values for Shannon and Simpson diversity indices are ۴.۵۳ and ۲.۲۹, respectively. The models and non-parametric estimators estimated the species richness of Campoplegines from ۲۴ – ۵۰ species. This study provides a wealth of baseline data for the subfamily Campopleginae in the south of Iran in terms of biological control and conservation.

کلیدواژه ها:

Community structure ، conservation ، diversity ، Ichneumonidae ، rarefaction ، extrapolation ، species richness