To enable a catalog of insects in the park to be made, in 2010 Kenting National Park Headquarters carried out an insect survey. In the first year of the survey 394 insect species were recorded. Identified by domestic experts and PhD holders, 127 species of land-dwelling stink bugs (pentatomid bugs) were recorded, with at least 10 new species and 35 recorded in Taiwan for the first time, new species and species recorded in Taiwan for the first time accounting for one third of the species recorded!Kenting certainly is a stink bug heaven.

Five Scutelleridae species were recorded, one of which was recorded for the first time in Taiwan. The meat-eating assassin bug is regularly seen in Kenting. Of the Reduviidae found in 2010, new species or species recorded for the first time in Taiwan accounted for 58.3% of the total species recorded. One, Bagauda zigzag Rédei & Tsai, 2010 is a new species announced in 2010 and has only been found on high level coral in Kenting’s tropical wind forest.

The survey shows that the composition of insect species in Kenting is similar to that of the Malay Peninsula and Malay archipelago, illustrating the uniqueness of Taiwan’s insect fauna in terms of zoogeographic region. Research papers on the new species and species recorded for the first time in Taiwan are now being written and published by domestic and foreign scholars. As 1200 species of insect remain unidentified, it can be expected that many more new species will be discovered or species recorded for the first time in Taiwan in Kenting National Park in the future.