belongs to a group of coastal ecosystems of great ecological importance in Peru. With the objective of evaluating the diversity of terrestrial insects in four plant communities in this ecosystem: Salicornia grassland, grassland, rushes, and cattail stands, monthly samplings were carried out between December-2010 and April-2011. Five collection methods were used: (1) pitfall traps (simple) (2) pitfall traps (necrotraps), (3) Malaise traps, (4) aerial collection with a hand held net, and (5) manual collection. It Alpha and beta diversity indexes at the level of morphospecies, families and orders for terrestrial insects were quantified, as is the most adequate to evaluate wetlands. We identified 150 morphospecies, 73 families and nine orders of terrestrial insects. The largest number of specimens collected was from the Malaise traps (57%). The vegetal community with the richest species was the Salicornia grassland, rushes, grassland, and cattail stands in that order. The proportion of trophic guilds based on the abundance of terrestrial insects was 39% for phytophagous, 34% for predators, 20% for detritivores, and 7% for parasitoids. Only, the Margalef index at the level of morphospecies and families correlated with the environmental temperature. Alpha diversity indices were not associated with relative humidity. The qualitative and quantitative beta diversity dendrograms indicate that in the community of terrestrial insects in the Salicornia grassland, and the rushes they are quite similar to each other. The greatest abundance of terrestrial insects was observed in Diptera in the months of March-2011 and December-2010. The results show that the family taxonomic resolution is adequate to evaluate the diversity of terrestrial entomofauna in the wetlands of Ventanilla,