Table 1.

Example observations of diel distributions in richness and abundance in insect communities derived from the insect diel activity dataset.

Country	Latitude	Habitat	Taxa	Observed richness			Observed abundance			Study
				Total	D	N	Total	D	N
Borneo	4.90	forest	Formicidae (ants)	92	82	76	91128	48725	42403	Grevé et al.33
Brazil	−22.57	forest	Culicidae (mosquitoes)	63	47	39	933	571	362	Alencar et al.34
Hungary	48.32	river	Chironomidae (midges)	61	55	50	42479	8559	33920	Móra et al.35
Botswana	−20.45	forest	Scarabaeoidea (dung beetles)	48	14	35	13032	206	12826	Sands et al.29
Russia	55.45	forest	Carabidae (ground beetles)	14	14	14	1677	797	880	Gryuntal et al.36
Brazil	−8.07	forest	Calliphoridae (blowflies)	6	6	2	1700	1634	66	Soares et al.22
USA	43.82	pond	Heteroptera (water bugs)	3	3	3	NA	NA	NA	Hampton & Friedenberg37

Presented are observations of seven taxonomic communities from different parts of the world. Observations of richness are in terms of species, while observations of abundance are in terms of individuals. The values correspond to the total number of species or individuals observed across both diel periods (‘Total’), during the day (‘D’), or during the night (‘N’). Note: in addition to the variables presented here, a variety of environmental variables as well as sample-based values for observations are available in the dataset (see main text).