Table 2.
Examples of insects’ species and the ecosystem services they render.
| Order | Family | Species | Pollination | Decomposition | Reduction of food waste | Food chain or food web | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blatodea | Termitidae | Macrotermes spp. | √ | √ | (69) | ||
| Blattidae | Periplaneta americana (L.) | √ | √ | ||||
| Coleoptera | Curculionidae | Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) | √ | √ | √ | (70–72) | |
| Dytiscidae | Schoolhouse acupunctatus (Gyllenhal) | √ | √ | √ | |||
| Dytiscus latissimus (L.) | √ | √ | √ | ||||
| Hydrophilidae | Cybister spp. | √ | √ | √ | |||
| Curculionidae | Metamasius spp. | √ | √ | √ | |||
| Scarabaeidae | Anoplognathus viridiaeneus (Donovan) | √ | √ | √ | |||
| Phyllophaga spp. | √ | √ | √ | ||||
| Oryctes spp. | √ | √ | |||||
| Tenebrionidae | Tenebrio spp. | √ | √ | √ | |||
| Zophobas morio (Fabr.) | √ | √ | √ | ||||
| Lucanidae | Lucanus cervus (L.) | √ | √ | √ | |||
| Lepidoptera | Cossidae | Comadia spp. | √ | √ | √ | √ | (73, 74) |
| Redtenbacheri spp. | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||
| Hesperiidae | Aegiale hesperiaris (Walker) | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||
| Saturniidae | Cirina butyrospermi (Vuillet) | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||
| Gonimbrasia belina (Westwood) | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||
| Psychidae | Psychidae gen. | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||
| Crambidae | Omphisa fuscidentalis (Hampson) | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||
| Sphingidae | Macroglossum stellatarum (L.) | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||
| Bombycidae | Bombyx mori (L.) | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||
| Hymenoptera | Vespidae | Vespula vulgaris (L.) | √ | (75) | |||
| Formicidae | Oecophylla smaragdina (Fabr.) | √ | √ | √ | (76, 77) | ||
| Camponotus inflatus (Lubbock) | √ | √ | √ | ||||
| Oecophylla longinoda | √ | √ | √ | ||||
| (Latreille) | √ | √ | √ | ||||
| Myrmelachista schumanni (Emery) | √ | √ | √ | ||||
| Atta spp. | √ | √ | |||||
| Apidae | Apis spp. | √ | √ | ||||
| Bombus spp. | √ | √ | |||||
| Xylocopa spp. | √ | √ | |||||
| Trigona spp. | √ | √ | |||||
| Orthoptera | Pyrgomorphidae | Sphenarium purpurascens (Charpentier) | √ | (78–81) | |||
| Acrididae | Locusta migratoria (L.) | √ | |||||
| Gryllidae | Oxya hyla (Serville) | √ | |||||
| Acheta domestica (L.) | √ | √ | |||||
| Gryllidae | Gryllus veletis (Alexander & Bigelow) | √ | √ | ||||
| Tettigonioidea | Tettigonia viridissima (L.) | √ | √ | ||||
| Hemiptera | Aphididae | Aphididae spp. | √ | (71) | |||
| Cicadidae | Magicicada spp. | √ |
*√ indicates the service rendered.