Kovács I. Endre szerk.: Rovartani Közlemények (Folia Entomologica Hungarica 12/1-23. Budapest, 1959)
To what area do abundancy values refer? The above mentioned and studied five semaphoronts are scavangers, therefore they are not evenly disturbed on the floor but they are present according to the distribution of their food /Balogh: connexes/. Their abundancy is high on some points of the floor, whilst on an overwhelming part of it they are not present at all or occur but sporadically. If we find a definite number of consumers on some waste material /e.g. excrements, carcass/ on succesive 2-3-4 days this number refers to eventual individual number as also referable to the given food, not to be carried over to a territorial meaning. Contrarily, if we place the bait on a small area /1200 m 2 , in our case/ then the number of individuals gathered on it will approach the theoretical assumption, namely the even scavenger distribution on an even waste distribution on the floor level. We may therefore interpret, in the tables given below, values listed as daily abundancy as showing that, in the annual springtime phase, this is the individual number of the scavangering beetle semaphoront on the floor of a Potentillo-Quercetum. Quantitative data. - The following tables illustrate the numerical abundancies of the five semaphoronts. The meaning of the expressions are as follows: „Date": the day of survey. „Daily marking": the number of the unmarked beetles caught on the bait. „Recapture": the number of the specimens marked on the previous occasion and fallen into the tins since the last survey from among the total number of the marked beetles. „Transmigrated" : the number of the marked specimens arriving from the other square /from I. into the II. and vice versa/. „Daily abundancy": its interpretation vide after the tables . Numbers I. and II. refer to the two survey squares.
