Table 1 Composition and distribution of soil invertebrate macro-fauna in different land use types at Shenkolla watershed, south central Ethiopia
Common name | Taxa | Distribution | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Class | Order | Family | Scientific name | Crop cultivated outfield | Grazing land | Homestead garden field | Forest land | |
Earth worm | Clitellata | Haplotaxida | Lumbricidae | Aporrectodea calignosa (Savigny, 1826) | + | + | + | + |
Lumbricus terrestris Linnaeus, 1758 | − | − | + | + | ||||
Beetle adult | Insecta | Coleoptera | Scarabaeidae | Aphodius sp. | − | − | + | + |
Copris incertus Say, 1835 | + | + | + | + | ||||
Beetle larvae | Copris incertus Say, 1835 | − | − | + | + | |||
Beetle adult | Crowsoniellidae | Crowsoniella relicta Pace, 1975 | − | + | + | + | ||
Elateridae | Pheletes quercus (A. G. Olivier, 1790) | − | − | + | + | |||
Wireworm | Ctenicera glauca (Germar, 1843) | − | − | − | + | |||
Ant | Hymenoptera | Formicidae | Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius, 1793) | + | + | + | + | |
Termite | Isoptera | Rhinotermitidae | Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar, 1837) | − | + | + | + | |
Earwig | Dermaptera | Forficulidae | Forficula auricularia Linnaeus, 1758 | − | − | − | + | |
Grasshopper | Orthoptera | Acrididae | Aulocara elliotti (Thomas, 1870) | − | + | + | + | |
Millipede | Diplopoda | Spirostreptida | Spirostreptidae | Archispirostreptus gigas (Peters, 1855) | + | + | + | + |
Centipede | Chilopoda | Lithbiomorpha | Lithobiidae | Lithobius forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | − | − | + | + |
Spider | Arachnida | Araneae | Linyphiidae | Frontinella pyramitela (Walckenaer, 1841) | + | + | + | + |
Snail | Gastropoda | Stylommatophora | Achatinidae | Achatina fulica (Férussac, 1821) | − | − | + | + |