Escarabajos coprófagos (Coleóptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), como indicadores de diversidad biológica en el Parque Nacional Podocarpus, -sector Bombuscaro

Abstract

The research was conducted in the Podocarpus National Park area Bombuscaro province of Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador, in the months of November 2013 and April 2014, two forest types: (BNI) and (BI); each forest research is characterized by greater vegetation cover and tree density pit-fall traps 20 points in each sector and bait used in a monitoring period of six months. A total of 1409 individuals corresponding to 12 genera and 25 species were captured Scarabaeinae. Dichotomius and gender were Eurysternus with four and five species each, Deltochilum, Ontherus, Onthophagus, Oxysternon and Phanaeus presented two and three species; and finally Canthidium, Canthon, Coprophanaeus, Scybalocanthon and Uroxys have one species each. For (BNI) and 856 individuals (BI) 553 individuals were recorded. Abiotic factors in the two types of forest, shows that precipitation affection (BI), due to the low density of vegetation cover and expansion of the agricultural frontier that occurs in this sector having an impact on the communities of beetles.