KEANEKARAGAMAN JENIS TUMBUHAN INANG (HOST PLANT) KUPU-KUPU DI SEKITAR KAWASAN DANAU RANO KECAMATAN BALAESANG TANJUNG KABUPATEN DONGGALA

Abstract

Plants used as host (hosplant) and source of feed (foondplant). Plants that are a source of feed for butterflies, will be assisted by animals in the process of pollination so known as insect pollinator a butterfly. Therefore, the presence of butterflies in habitat is also important for plants to help in the process of fertilizing. This study aims to determine the diversity of host plant species (Host Plants) butterflies around the area of Rano Lake Rano village Balaesang District Tanjung Donggala Regency This research is done exploratively, using plot method that is placed purposively sampling or intentionally. By using a plot with a size of 20x20 meters. The results showed that in Rano village, Balaesang Tanjung district, Donggala Regency, there are 10 types of host plants. Mangifera indica, Gigantochioa apus, Antidesma sp, Artocarpus heterophyllus, Coffea spp, Manihot esculenta, Bambusa atra, Melastoma, Anacardiaceae sp, and Malvaceae sp. The number of individual toal 109 and the order of the largest and highest number of individuals is in Bambusa ATRA plant with the number of individuals 55 with H’ 0.3451. The sequence of plants with a small number of individuals is the Artocarpus heterophyllus plant with the number of individuals 1 with H’ 0.0430 and anacardiaceae sp plant with the number of individuals 1 with H’ 0.0430. In general, H ' in the study area = 1, 503 this shows the diversity of host plant species found around the area of Lake Rano Rano village Balaesang Tanjung district Donggala including medium category.