Identifikasi Jenis Lepidoptera di Kecamatan Koto Tujuh,  Kabupaten Sijunjung, Sumatera Barat

Dwi Rini Kurnia Fitri; Nadia Agustina

doi:10.22437/biospecies.v17i1.31310

Authors

Dwi Rini Kurnia Fitri Jurusan Tadris Biologi, Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Ilmu Keguruan, UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar, Batusangkar, Sumatera Barat, Indonesia
Nadia Agustina Jurusan Tadris Biologi, Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Ilmu Keguruan, UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar, Batusangkar, Sumatera Barat, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22437/biospecies.v17i1.31310

Keywords:

Identification, Lepidoptera, Koto Tujuh district

Abstract

Butterflies were part of the Lepidoptera has an important role as a bioindicator of environmental change. This study aims to identify the types of Lepidoptera found in Kec. Koto Tujuh, Kab. Sijunjung, West Sumatra. We used the survey method with a purposive sampling technique divided into three zones: residential, forest edges, rice fields and plantation. We found 23 species of Lepidoptera belonging to five families, namely Nymphalidae (11 species), Lycaenidae (1 species), Papilionidae (4 species), Hesperiidae (2 species), and Pieridae (5 species), with the total number 59 individuals.