| Formation | 1947 |
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| Purpose | Scientific study of Lepidoptera |
| Headquarters | United States |
Region served | International |
Main organ | Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society |
| Website | www |
The Lepidopterists' Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera). Founded in 1947 and based in the United States, it has an international focus and membership.
The society's main organ is the Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, which has been published continuously since 1947.[ citation needed ] Back issues up and including 2009 are freely available and hosted by the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. [1] Subsequent issues are available via BioOne. [2]
Since 1959, the society has also published a quarterly newsletter, the News of the Lepidopterists' Society. All back issues of this, too, are available from the Peabody Museum. [3]
A series of occasional papers is called Memoirs: [3]
They are also available via the Peabody. [3]
Other publications include:
The society's first president, in 1951, was James Halliday McDunnough of the Nova Scotia Museum of Science. [4] The next year, he was succeeded by the German-British entomologist Karl Jordan, of the Zoological Museum, Tring, England. [4] The president for 2018-2019 is Brian Scholtens . [4]
The society awards a Karl Jordan Medal, initiated in 1972, in honor of Jordan. [5] The first recipient was Henri Stempffer. [5]
A full list of recipients is: [6]
The society also grants honorary life memberships, such as that conferred on Lincoln Brower. [7]
Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen was a Danish entomologist influential in systematics and Lepidoptera research, and an early proponent of biodiversity informatics. The journal Invertebrate Systematics was established with significant contributions from Nielsen, and he assisted in the founding of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Nielsen wrote several books, published over eighty scientific papers, and was highly regarded within the scientific community. Following his death, the GBIF organised the Ebbe Nielsen Prize in his memory, awarded annually to promising researchers in the field of biodiversity informatics. The moth Pollanisus nielseni is named after Nielsen.
George Robert Crotch was a British entomologist and an authority on Coleoptera (beetles), particularly the ladybird beetles. He was the grandson of the English composer and organist William Crotch.
Robert Michael Pyle is an American lepidopterist, writer, teacher, and founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. Much of his life story is told in the 2020 feature film The Dark Divide, where Pyle is played by David Cross.
Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan was a German-British entomologist. He took a special interest in the taxonomy and classification of butterflies, beetles and fleas. Jordan was a founder of the International Congress of Entomology.
Charles Lee Remington was an American entomologist known for studies of butterflies and moths, a Yale University professor, and is considered the father of modern lepidoptery. He established a Periodical Cicada preserve in Hamden, Connecticut. He developed the insect collection at the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Among species named in his honor are Agathymus remingtoni and Metajapyx remingtoni, a forcepstail.
Urania sloanus, or Sloane's urania, was a species of moth of the family Uraniidae endemic to Jamaica. It was last reported in 1894 or 1895, but possibly survived until at least 1908. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779.
Anthene is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, commonly called the ciliate blues or hairtails. The genus was erected by Edward Doubleday in 1847.
Karl E. Meyer was an American-based journalist. The third generation of his family to be engaged in that occupation, Meyer's grandfather, George Meyer, was the editor of the leading German language newspaper in Milwaukee, the Germania; his father, Ernest L. Meyer, was a columnist for The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin and then the New York Post. In 1979, he joined The New York Times as the senior writer for foreign affairs, a position he held until his retirement in 1998.
Richard Bayard Dominick was an American ophthalmologist, outdoorsman, and amateur lepidopterist. He is best known for his extensive collection of moths and butterflies in South Carolina. He established the Wedge Entomology Research Foundation for the publication of a series of monographs entitled the Moths of America North of Mexico.
Papilio aristodemus, the Schaus' swallowtail or island swallowtail, is a species of American butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in southern Florida in the United States and throughout the West Indies. It is named in honor of William Schaus.
Lepidopterology is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies. Someone who studies in this field is a lepidopterist or, archaically, an aurelian.
Piruna is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Problema bulenta, the rare skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is hard to find within the United States. The species was first described based on a drawing.
Henri Stempffer was a French entomologist who specialized in the study of Lycaenidae butterflies.
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Herbert Elliot Jackson was an English coffee farmer in Kenya. He served as an officer in the British Army during the Second World War, seeing service with the King's African Rifles and as a military administrator in British Somaliland. Jackson served in the Kenyan colonial administration during the Mau Mau Rebellion.
Lincoln Pierson Brower was an American entomologist and ecologist, known for his work on monarch butterflies through six decades, including on their automimicry, chemical ecology and conservation. G. Pasteur called this Browerian mimicry, after Lincoln and his first wife Jane Van Zandt Brower.
Calycopis pisis, the pisis groundstreak, is a butterfly found in several countries in Latin America.
Ronald William Hodges, known as Ron, was an American entomologist and lepidopterist.
Donald Ray Davis is an American entomologist, specializing in Lepidoptera.
Robert F. Sternitzky 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, Manitoba Museum, and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He collected primarily in California and Arizona.
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