Sample name: Freetown (garden, baited trap)

Reference: D. F. Owen. 1971. Species diversity in butterflies in a tropical garden. Biological Conservation 3(3):191-198 [ER 892]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: inhabited area

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 26.1

CMT: 22.1

MAP: 3270.0

Habitat comments: "The area had been occupied by primary rain-forest until about 100 years ago, and then by secondary bush until houses were built on it quite recently. There are extensive areas of secondary bush near by, while within a few kilometres there is primary forest. The garden is surrounded by other, less-developed gardens, by roads and buildings, and by patches of secondary bush"
there is a dry season from December through March
temperatures estimated from maxima and max-minus-min figures reported in text

Life forms: butterflies

Sampling methods: baited

Sample size: 1519 individuals

Days: 365

Sampling comments: "a trap baited with rotten and fermenting bananas was operated continuously for the period 1 February 1969 to 31 January 1970"
all but one of the species are nymphalids; numerous other taxa are reported in two other lists based on (1) hand netting and (2) malaise trapping

Sample number: 1337

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-22 15:08:16

Modified: 2020-01-14 07:21:13