Lepidoptery

Information about Lepidoptery

A lepidopterist is a person who catches and collects, or simply studies, lepidopterans, members of an order comprising butterflies, skippers, and moths.

Famous lepidopterists

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, which is generally regarded as the author's masterpiece.
Stein in Lord Jim
Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, using the moth as a symbol for his transsexual metamorphosis and the icon of the book.
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 Freddie Glegg in the movie The Collector (1965), directed by William Wyler and based on the novel by John Fowles.

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The Clipper Parthenos sylvia

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda
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order (Latin: ordo, plural ordines) is a rank between class and family (termed a taxon at that rank). The superorder is a rank between class and order. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Code which applies.
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Rhopalocera

Superfamilies and families

Superfamily Hedyloidea:
Hedylidae
Superfamily Hesperioidea:
Hesperiidae

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Hesperioidea

Family: Hesperiidae
Latreille, 1809

Diversity
About 550 genera,
3,500 species

Subfamilies

Coeliadinae
Hesperiinae
Heteropterinae
Megathyminae (disputed)
Pyrginae
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moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly. Both are of the order Lepidoptera. The division of Lepidopterans into moths and butterflies is a popular taxonomy, not a scientific one.
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Jean Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduval (June 17, 1799–December 30, 1879) was a French lepidopterist and physician. He developed the Boisduval scale and identified many new species of butterflies.
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Bernard d'Abrera (born 1940) is a butterfly photographer and a publisher. As a creationist, he has recently begun to include anti-evolution material in his books of butterfly pictures.
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Henry Doubleday (1 July 1808 – 29 June 1875) was an English entomologist and ornithologist.

Henry Doubleday was the eldest son of Quaker and grocer Benjamin Doubleday and his wife Mary of Epping, Essex.
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Professor Edmund Brisco "Henry" Ford, FRS, Hon. FRCP (23rd April 1901-2nd January 1988) was a British ecological geneticist. He was a leader among those British biologists who investigated the role of natural selection in nature.
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Frederick William Frohawk (July 16, 1861 - December 10, 1946) was an English zoological artist and lepidopterist.

Frohawk was the author of Natural History of British Butterflies (1924), The Complete Book of British Butterflies (1934) and
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Walter Wilhelm Gieseking (November 5, 1895 – October 26, 1956) was a French-German pianist and composer.

Biography

Walter Gieseking is said to have been a natural and intuitive pianist. According to legend, he never practised except in his own mind.
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Frederick DuCane Godman D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S., M.R.I., F.R.H.S., M.B.O.U. (January 15, 1834 – February 19, 1919) was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist.
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Johann Siegfried Hufnagel (17 October 1724, Falkenwalde, Prenzlau district, Brandenburg – 23 February 1795, Langenfeld, Sternberg district) was a German parson and entomologist (lepidopterist).

Life

Until the late 20th century nothing was known about Hufnagel's life.
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Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell (24 February 1907 - 1979) was a British geneticist, lepidopterist and medical doctor, who carried out important research into the influence of industrial melanism on natural selection in moths, showing why moths are darker in polluted areas.
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Born: April 22 [O.S. April 10] 1899
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: July 2 1977 (aged 78)
Montreux, Switzerland
Occupation: novelist, lepidopterist, professor
Literary movement: Modernism, Postmodernism
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Leonard Hugh Newman, always known as L. Hugh Newman, was a British entomologist, author and broadcaster. He wrote many popular books on insects, especially butterflies and moths.
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Frederic Prokosch (May 17 1908 – June 6 1989) was an American writer, known for his novels, poetry, memoirs and criticism. He was also a distinguished translator.

His novels The Asiatics and The Seven Who Fled were bestsellers in the 1930s.
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Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (February 8, 1868 – August 27 1937) was a British banker and zoologist from the international Rothschild financial dynasty.
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Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (/ʃaʁl ka.mij sɛ̃.sɑ̃s/) (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, known especially for his orchestral works
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Otto Staudinger (May 2, 1830 – October 13, 1900) was a German entomologist and a natural history dealer considered one of the largest in the world specialising in the collection and sale of insects to museums, scientific institutions, and individuals.
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James William Tutt (1858 - 1911) was an English entomologist.

Tutt was the author of The British Noctuae and their Varieties (1891-92) and the Natural History of the British Lepidoptera (1890-1911).
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Sir Geoffrey Raoul de Havilland, OM, CBE, AFC, RDI, FRAeS, (27 July 1882 – 21 May 1965) was a British aviation pioneer and aircraft engineer. His Mosquito has been considered the most versatile warplane ever built.
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Edward Pelham-Clinton was born in 1920 and died on 25 December 1988. He was an English nobleman. As he was unmarried, and were no other direct male heirs through the 2nd Duke's line, on his death the title of Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne became extinct.
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Georgy Sergeevich Zolotarenko (August 8, 1922 Kirovograd , Ukraine - April 6 2002) was a Russian entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera.

Zolotarenko graduated from the Department of Biology and Pedology, Tomsk State University in 1951.
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Jack the Ripper is an alias given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England in the latter half of 1888.
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God

General approaches
Agnosticism Atheism
Deism Dystheism
Henotheism Ignosticism
Monism Monotheism
Natural theology Nontheism
Pandeism Panentheism
Pantheism Polytheism
Theism Theology
Transtheism

Specific conceptions
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The Doom Patrol is an idiosyncratic DC Comics superhero team. The original Doom Patrol first appeared in My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963). Writers Bob Haney and Arnold Drake and artist Bruno Premiani created the team.
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Cormac McCarthy

Born: July 20 1933 (age 74)
Providence, Rhode Island
Occupation: Writer, Playwright
Genres: Literature, Southern Gothic, Western
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Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

First edition cover
Author Cormac McCarthy
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Western, Historical novel
Publisher Random House
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Lord Jim

First edition cover
Author Joseph Conrad
Country Britain
Language English
Genre(s) Psychological novel
Publisher Blackwood
Publication date 1900
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
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