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Diversity and seasonality of adult Trichoptera captured in a light‐trap at Yuccabine Creek, a tropical Australian rainforest stream
Author(s) -
BENSON L. J.,
PEARSON R. G.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
australian journal of ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1442-9993
pISSN - 0307-692X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1988.tb00982.x
Subject(s) - rainforest , fauna , seasonality , abundance (ecology) , ecology , geography , relative species abundance , tropical rainforest , period (music) , biology , physics , acoustics
Seventeen light‐trap samples were taken over a 20 month period at Yuccabine Creek, an upland rainforest stream in north‐eastern Queensland. Seventy‐eight species of Trichoptera were recorded from a total catch of 6431 individuals. The fauna was dominated by the Hydroptilidae (25 species and 5131 individuals) and, though composed primarily of Torresian genera, some Bassian elements were recorded. A seasonal pattern of change of abundance was observed with the majority of tax a exhibiting maxima between December and January (summer) and minima between July and September (winter).