Lepidopterist

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.

Famous lepidopterists

• William Stephen Atkinson (1820 –1876)
• Jean-Baptiste Boisduval (1799–1879)
• Bernard d'Abrera (1940– )
• Robert Denno (1946–2008)
• Henry Doubleday (1808–1875)
• Henry Edwards (entomologist) (1830–1891) English-born actor, writer and butterfly scientist
• 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)

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. They claim they are 'amateur lepidopterists.'
• Chuck Ramkissoon in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland
• John Stapleton in Arthur Conan Doyle's novel Hound of the Baskervilles.

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