COMPOSICIÓN TAXONÓMICA Y GREMIOS TRÓFICOS DE LA CLASE INSECTA DEL PARQUE HISTÓRICO DE GUAYAQUIL

Abstract

What is the importance of knowledge of the functions of insects and their biological diversity? The insects belong to the sort of organisms with greater population density and of greater biological diversity of the world. It also corresponds to the group where there is the greatest lack of information related to the ecological niches of each species and the importance of division, order and family. Through sectoral studies, relevant information has been collected worldwide in the distribution and presence of some species. To this lack of information, the purpose of this research project is the preparation of an initial and preliminary inventory of species and their trophic guilds that could be the basis of future publications. Within the Historical Park of Guayaquil there are no descriptive studies of the class Insect, so the methodology applied for the tracking, capture and processing of insects is innovative. This study revealed the composition of the class Insect with 43 individuals belonging to 8 orders, 25 families and 33 species of two divisions: Exopterygota and Endopterygota. The most diverse division was Endopterygota with 75% of the total families. The trophic guild with more presence was phytophagous larvae and nectar-feeding adults with 63.64% giving a remarkable trend among ecological functions related to each order and family.