To investigate the community structure of macroinvertebrates in the Ili River, fourteen sampling sites were selected representing four habitat types, i.e., natural habitat, damaged habitat, under-dam habitat and protected area in July 2014 and 2015. A total of 81 macroinvertebrate taxa were collected, belonging to 39 families and 10 orders, of which, 75 species(93.8%) were aquatic insects, and 2 species(2.5%) were mollusks, and 3 species(3.7%) were oligochaete. The natural habitat had higher density, specie...