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DIVERSITY AND RELATIVE ABUNDANCE OF CITRUS POLLINATORS IN DISTRICT HARIPUR, PAKISTAN

 Abdul Haq*, Anjum Shehzad**, Muhammad Ilyas**, Muhammad Ishaque Mastoi**, Abdul Rauf Bhatti** and Mian Inayatullah*

 * Department of Entomology, Faculty of Plant Sciences, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan.
**National Insect Museum, National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Corresponding author: [email protected]

ABSTRACT

 As many as 3094 specimens of adult citrus pollinators collected from district Haripur represented four orders of insects i.e., Diptera with 16 species, Hymenoptera with 14 species, Lepidoptera with 3 species and Coleoptera with 2 species. The calculated values of relative abundance showed that is most abundant species in ecosystem followed by sp. and . All calculated values of diversity indices except Shannon-H does not show significant difference. Shannon's diversity shows that Naseem Town is most diverse locality then Nikrian B with relative values of 2.213 and 1.136.

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Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Research

September

Vol.37, Iss. 3, Pages 190-319

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