Lepidopterist
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A lepidopterist is a person who catches and collects, studies, or simply observes (see butterfly watching) lepidopterans, members of an order encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies.
[edit] Famous lepidopterists
- Jean-Baptiste Boisduval (1799–1879)
- Bernard d'Abrera (1940– )
- Robert Denno (1946–2008)
- Henry Doubleday (1808–1875)
- Edmund Brisco Ford (1901–1988)
- Frederick William Frohawk (1861–1946)
- Walter Gieseking (1895–1956)
- Frederick DuCane Godman (1834–1919)
- William Jacob Holland, the author of The Moth Book (1903)[1]
- Johann Siegfried Hufnagel (1724–1795)
- Julian Jumalon [2]
- Napoleon M. Kheil [3] (1849–1923)
- Bernard Kettlewell (1907–1979)
- Michael Majerus (1954–2009)
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
- L. Hugh Newman (1909–1993)
- Princess Olga of Greece (1903–1997)
- Walter Rothschild (1868–1937)
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
- Otto Staudinger (1830–1900)
- James William Tutt (1858–1911)
- Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965)
- Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1920–1988)
- Georgy Sergeevich Zolotarenko (1922–2002)
[edit] Fictional lepidopterists
- The father, Ben, in the TV series Butterflies
- The character Red Jack, who claimed to be both Jack the Ripper and God, in the comic book Doom Patrol
- The character Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian.
- Stein in Lord Jim
- Ada in Vladimir Nabokov's "ada, or ardor: a family chronicle", has dreams as a young girl of being a lepidopterist on the fictional planet 'anti-terra'
- The character Frederick Clegg in the Novel The Collector (1962) by John Fowles, also made into a film (1965) directed by William Wyler.
- The character of 'M' from the James Bond film series is revealed to be a lepidopterist, as evidenced in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. This can be seen when James Bond visits M at his country estate, upon which 007 finds the latter working with a specimen box.
- Jack Mort, from Stephen King's: The Dark Tower II
- Buffalo Bill, from Silence of the Lambs (Film)
- The Monarch, principal antagonist from the television series The Venture Bros.
- "Mr. Doe" & "Mr. Cardholder", two O.S.I. agents who intend to kill The Monarch (see above) in "The Lepidopterists," an episode from the third season of The Venture Bros.
- Chuck Ramkissoon in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland
[edit] References
- ^ [1] The Moth Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Moths of North America By William Jacob Holland Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903 Original from Harvard University Digitized May 15, 2007 479 pages
- ^ [2][3]About Julian Jamulon's "butterfly sanctuary" in Philippines
- ^ http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118723998/abstract

