Moth Diversity in Salak Mountain

Moth Outfit

The aim of this research: (1) to produce moth species inventory in Salak Mountain, (2) and to study community structure of moth.  The survey was conducted by collecting moth attracted to lights the Chevron Geothermal Salak compound.  In total, we have identified 432 individual belong to 13 families and 93 spesies from five station of Chevron Geothermal Salak. The species inventories are still incomplete. This was indicated by the species accumulation curve calculated for all samples.  Not only are the numbers of recorded species is still increasing but also the total number of species estimated by ACE still shows a pronounced increase .This analyses proved that we need more effort to record more complete species list of moth. We also recorded that Awi 3 was found to be the most species rich and abunandt area compared with other stations.  In contrast, AWI 8 was recorded to harbour lower number both of species richness and abunandce Our analyses also indicated that there are differences of species composition between stations. This can be seen from Sørensen indices used to quantify the similarity of species composition between sampled sites. The two-dimensional scaling plot indicates a pronounced change of the species composition between stations. Moth community structure is determined by the structure of habitat. Therefore, it can be expected that the change of species composition of moth community indicates a different habitat structure in the sampling locations.