Table 3.

Total species and subspecies records for the Azores, new species and subspecies records during this study and increment for the most speciose classes and orders. Values for all islands are added, so richness may be up to 7 times higher than the archipelago's richness (as 7 islands were surveyed). (*)The Coleoptera families Staphylinidae and Zopheridae were not considered (see text).

	Total records	New records	New Records (%)
Class Arachnida	362	124	34.25
Order Pseudoscorpiones	19	5	26.32
Order Opiliones	12	11	91.67
Order Araneae	331	108	32.63
Class Diplopoda	67	24	35.82
Order Polydesmida	18	8	44.44
Order Polyxenida	0	0	0.00
Order Julida	44	12	27.77
Order Chordeumatida	5	4	80.00
Class Chilopoda	21	9	42.86
Order Scutigeromorpha	0	0	0.00
Order Lithobiomorpha	7	0	0.00
Order Scolopendromorpha	4	2	50.00
Order Geophilomorpha	10	7	70.00
Class Insecta	1012	189	18,68
Order Microcoryphia	13	4	30.77
Order Zygentoma	0	0	0.00
Order Ephemeroptera	6	0	0.00
Order Odonata	0	0	0.00
Order Blattaria	7	3	42.86
Order Orthoptera	10	0	0.00
Order Phasmatodea	0	0	0.00
Order Dermaptera	14	0	0.00
Order Psocoptera	75	40	53.33
Order Thysanoptera	76	6	7.89
Order Hemiptera	290	82	28.28
Order Neuroptera	7	3	42.86
Order Coleoptera (*)	361	36	9.97
Order Trichoptera	6	4	66.67
Order Lepidoptera	147	11	7.84