Entomology Collections: Type and Unusual
With some 1,000,000 invertebrate specimens in the collection, the Department of Invertebrate Zoology has a number of type specimens and rare/unusual specimens.
We list some of the more notable specimens here.
Type:
Specimen from which the original description was made when a species was first named.
Unusual/Rare:
Odd specimens; may be larger than usual, very rare, or represent a significant locality record.
Possible Type: Hydrellia sp. novo? Collected summer 1996, Patricia Walunis of Kent State University, from Eleocharis stand near KSU. Note, abdomen removed and dissected.
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Hydrellia alabamae Deonier: From Deonier Collection (paratype 1) |
Paratype: Hydrellia alabamae Deonier: From Deonier Collection (paratype 2) |
Paratype: Hydrellia alabamae Deonier: From Deonier Collection (paratype 3) |
Unusual: The snail-killing fly Dictya steyskali (Diptera: Sciomyzidae). A rare species found only in 3 locatlities in Ohio, including the Museum preserve Singer Lake Bog in southern Summit Co. (Foote and Keiper 2004) |
Unusual: The agromyzid fly Melanagromyza diantherae (Diptera: Agromyzidae), adult and empty puparium. Collected from the riverine plant Justicia americana in Columbiana Co, the only known location for this species in Ohio. (Keiper et al. 1998)
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Holotype: Ochrotrichia footei (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) Described by Keiper and Harris (2002); male genitalia. |
Unusual: The elfin skimmer (Odonata: Libellulidae: Nannothemis bella). An Ohio endangered species found in the Museum preserve Singer Lake Bog in southern Summit Co. |
Unusual: This is a voucher specimen of a recent (summer 2004) state record for Ohio of the common ringlet (Lepidoptera: Satyridae: Coenonympha tuillia). |
Unusual: Epelis truncataria, a powder-wing moth (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). A new state record for Ohio, found only in Singer Lake Bog (OH, Summit Co.), a CMNH Nature Preserve. Dorsal (top) and ventral (bottom) views. James K. Bissell, collector. |
Paratype: Taeniothrips palisteri (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). A slide mounted specimen from the J. C. Pallister collection. |
Unusual: A very large Lasmigona complanata (Unionidae). ex OH, Ashtabula Co. Pymatuning Creek Fen, 14 July 2004, Tim Matson & Robertta Muelheim, collectors. Length 184 mm, Height 134 mm, width, ~60 mm. Larger than sizes recorded in the literature. Timothy O. Matson and Roberta Muelheim, collectors.
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Type: Holotype snail
This specimen was collected in 1942 in Columbus Ohio. |
Other:Not pictured are moth species for which CMNH has the only known Ohio specimens — Noctuidae:
Phalaenostola hanhami (n = 6);
Catocala briseis (n = 4);
Apamea alia (n = 2);
Platyperigea meralis (n = 2);
Stibadium spumosum (n = 1);
Brachylomia algens (n = 5);
Eurois occulta (n = 12);
Pyrrhia experimens (n = 2). |