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Riparian areas hold vast number of flora and fauna with exceptional contributions to the ecosystem. A study was conducted in Sungai Sepetang, Sungai Rembau and Sungai Chukai to identify the insect community in a riparian zone of Peninsular Malaysia. Sampling was conducted in six consecutive months from December 2017 to May 2018 during both day and night using sweep nets. Twenty sampling stations (S1-S20) had been assembled along the riverbanks with an average distance of 200 m between each station. The 17,530 collected insects were from 11 orders and consisted of   Diptera  ,   Coleoptera  ,   Hemiptera  ,   Hymenoptera  ,   Lepidoptera  ,   Neuroptera  ,   Orthoptera  ,   Blattodea  ,   Thysanoptera  ,   Mantodea   and   Odonata  . The three most abundant orders were   Diptera   (33.84%; 5933 individuals),   Coleoptera   (28.82%; 5053 individuals) and   Hemiptera   (25.62%: 4491 individuals). The collected insect community consisted of different guilds such as the scavenger, predator, herbivore, pollinator and parasitoid. Sungai Sepetang and Sungai Rembau were dominated by mangrove flora,    Sonneratia   caseolaris    (  Myrtales  :   Lythraceae  ), while Sungai Chukai was dominated by    Barringtonia   racemosa   . There was a significant difference (p &lt; 0.05) in the composition of insects between the three rivers though clustering analysis showed that the insect communities in Sungai Sepetang and Sungai Rembau were 100% similar compared to Sungai Chukai which consisted of a totally different community. There is a significant negative correlation between abundance of insects with salinity and wind speed at Sungai Chukai and Sungai Sepetang.

Insect community in riparian zones of Sungai Sepetang, Sungai Rembau and Sungai Chukai of Peninsular Malaysia