Evaluación de la biodiversidad de la zona cafetera colombiana representada en la colección de artrópodos de Cenicafé

trie aim of this research was to organize the entomological material deposited at cenicafé s arthropod collection (cac). por each specie, we performed museum curatory, phylogenetic organization, and recordings of the information gathered in field, laboratory and bibliographic resources. this ？nformalion, was used to créate a datábase that enabled analysis using sas program for descriptive statistics. the information in regards to the collection, depository, and identification was analyzed by curatory, using an evaluation system of 10 levéis (esl). the cac has 5.843 specimens that belong to 16 insect orders, 103 families and 1.028 species, 639 of which were identified at species level. the species deposited at cac were classified as beneficia! insects (48,6%), harmful insects (48,9%) and the remaining 2,5 % could not be determined. according to the collection site, 78,1% of insects come from the caldas department and were collected mainly in plants such as coffee, palms and erythrina. when the esl was applied to the identify species (639), we found that 45% of them were in level 3; 9% in level 5, and 46% on level 7. the information from the species in level 7 can be used to prepare papers and reports. this level includes butterflies, moths, ants, leafhoppers, beetles and mantids.