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A Lepidoptera specimen drawer in a museum collection in Poland Another Lepidoptera specimen drawer in a museum collection in Poland. Lepidopterology (from Ancient Greek λεπίδος (lepídos) 'scale' πτερόν (pterón) 'wing' and -λογία [1]) is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of moths and the two superfamilies of butterflies.
The Reverend Arthur Miles Moss (1873-1948) was vicar of the largest Anglican parish in the world in Pará, Brazil, and also a noted amateur lepidopterist, artist and musician. His collection of watercolour drawings of Lepidoptera larvae are held at the Natural History Museum, London [1] who bought them from his patron Lionel Walter, Baron ...
Robert F. Sternitzky (August 25, 1891 - May 1980) [1] was a United States lepidopterist and illustrator.Butterfly and moth specimens he collected are in a number of collections, including those of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Essig Museum of Entomology (at the University of California at Berkeley), Manitoba Museum, and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. [2]
The society was founded in 1976 with the aims of promoting collaboration among the lepidopterists of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa, and of promoting conservation of Lepidoptera and the natural habitats they live in.
Colin Wyatt (8 February 1909 – 18 November 1975) was a British ski-racer, ski-jumper and ski mountaineer; artist; lepidopterist; author and photographer.. As an entomologist and field collector, with a private collection of more than 90,000 specimens, Wyatt specialised in butterflies of the northern hemisphere.
Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine (16 May 1862 – 21 April 1940), [1] was a Victorian lepidopterist (a person interested in butterflies and moths), natural history illustrator, diarist, and traveller who published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. [2]
Woodard’s third collection, “At the Lepidopterist’s House,” won the 2022 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and was released from Southern Indiana Review Press in October 2023.
Richard Bayard Dominick (September 17, 1919 - May 4, 1976) was an American ophthalmologist, outdoorsman, and amateur lepidopterist.He is best known for his extensive collection of moths and butterflies in South Carolina.