Entomology Collections: Holdings
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has an Entomology collection of over one million specimens available for scientific study and education.
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| Larvae of the blow fly Cochliomyia masselaria (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Specimens reared during a forensic entomological investigation. |
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| Ohio collectors of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) have been depositing many specimens in our collections. Specimens are obtained during survey work. (Pictured, the elfin skimmer, Nanothemis bella). |
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| A plant hopper (Homoptera: Flatidae) |
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| Butterfly Drawer |
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| Epelis truncataria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): A small moth rare in Ohio, measuring about 1.2 cm in wingspan |
Major Entomology Collections:
Zahrobsky
A large number of specimens came from the acquisition of this collection with a world-wide representation, and especially strong in material from Pennsylvania. Included some 70,000 beetles. Specimens collected between approximately 1902 and 1930.
Teraguchi
Curator at the Museum from 1975-1999, Dr. Sonja Teraguchi's work provided many Homoptera and Lepidoptera, including a strong effort to catalog species richness of moths over 10 years in northeastern Ohio. Also added to collection of Nearctic Homoptera.
Foote
Large numbers of Nearctic acalyptrate Diptera have been donated since 2000; donations are on-going by Dr. Ben Foote, Professor Emeritus of Kent State University. www.kent.edu/biology
Keiper
Especially strong in Diptera, aquatic macroinvertebrates, and microcaddisflies (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) from the Nearctic. Some Neotropical (Belize) and Afrotropical (Kenya) material as well.
Deonier
A large collection of southeastern United States shore flies (Diptera: Ephydridae) was donated by Dr. Dick Deonier in 2001.
Chapman
Eric Chapman, a graduate student at Kent State University www.kent.edu/biology has donated various insect specimens, most notably North American Odonata and Lepidoptera. Current research includes
systematics of the snail-killing fly genus
Tetanocera (Diptera: Sciomyzidae).
Hutchison
Former summer intern Leigh Hutchison conducted a water quality project using benthic macroinvertebrates as indicator organisms in the Geauga Park District. She donated the nearly 10,000 specimens to the Museum's aquatics collection in 2004.
Smith
David Smith, a collector of Lepidoptera from central Ohio, donated nearly 3,000 specimens to the Museum in February 2005. Most are micro-Lepidoptera, and represent difficult-to-identify moths with wing spans of less than 2 cm. Mr. Smith IDed many specimens, whereas others were sent to experts for confirmation.
Rings
The larval collection of Dr. Roy Rings, a prominent collector of Lepidoptera who put out many publications on Ohio species, is in two cabinets. The collection is represented by many instars from various species of butterfly and moth, and includes some dipteran and hymenopteran parasites and parasitoids.