Suparoek Watanasit, Saowapa Sonthichai, and Nawee Noon-anant

pp. 115 - 122

Abstract

Tarutao National Park is the first national marine park of Thailand. It consists of 51 islands. Though
flora and fauna are very rich, there is no record of ant fauna. Thus, this study is a pioneer ant report on this
marine park. Six sites were randomly chosen in the largest island of the archipelago, namely Tarutao. Two
sampling methods, hand collecting and litter sifting, were applied to ant collecting within a time limit of 30
minutes for each method. There were 3 replications of each sampling method in each study site. This study
was conducted during 10-17 March 2001. Five subfamilies of ants, comprising 61 species were found. The
results also showed that sites had no effect on species number of ants but sampling methods differed significantly in species number of the subfamily Formicinae (P<0.05).