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Submitted July 8, 2021
Published 2021-07-07

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021): Revista Colón Ciencias, Tecnología y Negocios

Communities of aquatic insects in a stream in Cabuyita, province of Panama, Panama


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Published: 2021-07-07

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Higuera Gómez, M., & Gómez Pinzón, R. (2021). Communities of aquatic insects in a stream in Cabuyita, province of Panama, Panama. Revista Colón Ciencias, Tecnología Y Negocios, 8(2), 105–120. Retrieved from https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/revista_colon_ctn/article/view/2242

Abstract

Insects contribute to the conservation of ecosystems.  They also have attributes who consider them as indicators of the quality of habitats. When they are in the development phase of larvae or nymph, they are shredders degrading the leaf, that favors other microorganisms, and that way collaborate with the food web. This work had the purpose to determine the dominance and spatial and temporal wealth of the community of aquatic insects associated with leaf, between January to June 2019 in the stream of Cabuyita, Tocumen county, province of Panama. Five sample stations were stablished, in each station 2 samples of leaf were collected one each month. The Margalef and Simpson indexes were then calculated. They collected 1645 individuals, 6 orders, 17 families and 24 genera. The most abundant orders in descending form are: Diptera, Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Trichoptera, Coleoptera and Megaloptera. The most abundant subfamilies were Chironominae, Tanypodinae, Orthocladiinae and Tanytarsinii. The most abundant genera are Caenis sp, Ischnura sp, Farrodes sp, Macrelmis sp and Phylloicus sp. It concluded that the stream of Cabuyita has the appropriate conditions for the community of aquatic insects associated to leaf and there had more wealth of organisms in dry season, than in the rainy season.

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