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. 2016 Jul 4;6:29083. doi: 10.1038/srep29083

Table 1. Insects categories caught with the light trap.

Records Time period
Total abundance Optical cross section (OCS) size (elliptic approximation)
Group Common name 21.18–22.18 22.18–23.18 23.18–23.48 23.48–00.18 00.18–00.48 00.48–01.18 01.18–04:00 Wing area (mm2) Body Area (mm2) Mean Body Proportion OCS/(Body OCS + wing OCS)
Culicidae Mosquitoes 4 0 1 1 1 0 1 8 8.53 3.33 0.28
Psychodidae Moth flies 8 40 1 2 6 0 0 57 1.90 0.64 0.25
Chironomidae Nonbiting midges (small) 112 0 0 253 263 109 205 942 2.60 1.02 0.28
Sciaridae Gnats 6 56 22 21 40 4 13 162 2.20 0.65 0.23
Other Flies in a broad sense 28 2974 41 24 18 8 13 3106 2.28 1.02 0.31
Compact Various compact insects (e.g. flies and small beetles) 7 40 0 0 0 0 1 48 4.41 2.03 0.31
Trichoptera (small) Caddisflies – small 31 110 98 13 10 1 3 266 5.67 0.86 0.13
Trichoptera (large) Caddisflies – large 4 11 0 1 4 4 1 25 26.19 2.81 0.10
Lepidoptera (large) Moths – large 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 6 94.98 15.08 0.14
Chironomidae Nonbiting midges (large) 0 102 1043 38 263 104 10 1560 6.78 2.31 0.25
Aphididae Aphids 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 5.01 0.92 0.16
Lepidoptera Moths 0 3 0 0 6 5 12 26 119.12 9.00 0.07
Heteroptera Typical bugs 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 3.97 1.09 0.21

For each category, the wing area, body area and their proportions are shown. Wings were measured when placed flat on a surface, approximating the wing area as an ellipse based on the longest and widest cross-sectional distance. Bodies were measured from the lateral side, and the area estimated in the same way as the wings.