Diversity of Butterflies in Different Habitus Plant at Siliwangi University, Tasikmalaya

Abstract

This research is about the diversity of butterflies on campus I, Universitas Siliwangi Tasikmalaya, which was conducted from September to December 2021. This study aims to determine the number and species of the families found, using the Visual Encounter Survey (VES) method, and there were 33 types of butterflies or 370 individuals per total butterfly found on campus I, Siliwangi University. The location of this research has four habitus, namely bush, shrub, trees and mixed habitus. The diversity of the four habitus shows that two habitus have a moderate diversity index in the bush and tree habitus, one mixed habitus has the highest diversity and one habitus shows the lowest diversity index value in shrub habitus. The abundant butterfly family was found in Nymphalidae as many as 44% or 171 species for the total number of species in the four habitus. While the largest population is in Letopsia nina as many as 43 individuals from the Pierridae family and there were 8 types of butterflies that had similarities and were easily found in each habitus.