Table 7.

Biodiversity indices of Shannon–Weaver, Evenness and Simpson index.

	Region 1	Region 2		Region 3
	Meadow with cattle	Meadow with cattle	Meadow with sheep	Coniferous woodland	Deciduous woodland	Alder on fen site	Marsh area
No. of specimens (n)	25	6	2	8	12	40	6
No. of species (S)	2	1	1	4	4	10	4
Shannon–Weaver index (H)	0.24	0	0	1.91	1.42	2.96	1.92
Maximum diversity possible (Hmax)	1.00	0	0	2.00	2.00	3.32	2.00
Evenness (E)	0.24	–	–	0.95	0.71	0.89	0.96
Simpson index (D)	0.92	1.00	1.00	0.18	0.44	0.13	0.13

Index numbers and calculated biodiversity indices of Shannon–Weaver index and Simpson index based on Culicoides spp. collected in 2014.