Hi Mano et al.
I'm not at the office but I'm on-line. There were 144 species of
butterflies and skippers on the Ohio list when Iftner etal's book was
published in 1992. Since then we've added about a half-dozen or so. As for
moths, they generally outnumber butterflies by about 15 to 1, so a ballpark
figure would be 2250 moths + 150 butterflies & skippers = 2400 total. I
think that's low. If I have an opportunity I'll plow through the Ohio
Lepidopterists' database and get a precise figure for species documented the
last time the database was updated. We are, of course, adding species
regularly, especially among so called "Microlepidoptera" -- the smaller
moths. Some of these are not yet described and have no name, so a species
list remains a moving target.
So there is one person's best guess.
Dave Horn
(Chair, Ohio Lepidopterists Survey Committee, which gives me a small bit of
authority.)
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> Question for you. How many species of moths and butterflies have been
> recorded in Ohio? I didn't find Jim Davidson at home or Dave Horn in the
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