Entomologica Romanica Vol. 24 / 2020
2020
Table 1. Sampling sites by county with their respective species and specimen numbers, arranged by increasing altitudes. Many species were caught in two or more counties, which accounts for the higher county species sum (584) than the total species collected (458). Table 2. Number of species collected during this study, with corresponding suprafamily designations. year interval between 1979 to 1982. We recorded the most species from Ilfov (362), followed by Dâmbovița (103), Giurgiu (85), and Argeș (34), as detailed in Table 1. Many species were collected in two or more counties. These species represent 21 suprafamilies, as shown in Table 2. The Noctuoidea and Geometroidea had the highest numbers of species in our sample with 134 and 96, followed by Papilionoidea and Pyraloidea with 66 and 49, respectively. At the bottom were Eriocranioidea, Hepialoidea, Tischeroidea, Choreutoidea, and Thyridoidea with one species for each. We recorded lepidoptera activity from March to December, with the most species collected during May and June (Fig. 1). This graph shows a steep increase in species abundance from March to June, followed by a decrease in July, another small peak in August, and a gradual decrease in abundance from September to December. The only month devoid of any records was January. In February 1983 we had a Saturnia pavonia (Linnaeus, 1758) pupa hatch indoors and in December 1980 and 1981 we collected single specimens of Agonopterix alstromeriana (Clerck, 1759) and Erannis defoliaria (Clerck, 1759), respectively. Dâmbovița Total 584 1251 6 Suprafamily Number of species Total 458