Faunal notes of family Arctiidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Cambodia

Abstract

Cambodia covers 181,035 km2 (a little over half size of Vietnam), among them, the forest area is cover about 53 percent, so there are abundant insects diversities. The family Arctiidae so called tiger moths are belonging to superfamily Noctuoidea, with more than 11,155 named species of 750 genera are distributed worldwide (Heppner, 2005). Taxonomic study of the Arctiidae in Cambodia has been done by a few foreign entomologists (). In the present study, we were collected four times from 2009–2010 in three protected forests are Seima, Central Cardamom, and North Cardamom. Each time, we were collected from 3 to 5 sites in each forest by using light trap. As a result of this study, a total of 183 species of 13 families belonging to Lepidoptera. Of which, 70 species of 32 genera of 2 subfamilies (Lithosiinae and Arctiinae) belonging to Arctiidae family were identified from Cambodia.