A lepidopterist is a person who catches and collects, or simply studies, lepidopterans, members of an order comprising butterflies, skippers, and moths. Super Families Butterflies Hesperioidea Papilionoidea Moths Micropterigoidea Heterobathmioidea Eriocranioidea Acanthopteroctetoidea Lophocoronoidea Neopseustoidea Mnesarchaeoidea Hepialoidea Nepticuloidea Incurvarioidea Palaephatoidea Tischeriodea Simaethistoidea Tineoidea Gracillarioidea Yponomeutoidea Gelechioidea Zygaenoidea Sesioidea Cossoidea Tortricoidea Choreutoida Urodoidea Galacticoidea Schreckensteinioidea Epermenioidea Pterophoroidea Aluctoidea Immoidea Axioidea Hyblaeoidea Thyridoidea Whalleyanoidea Pyraloidea Mimallonoidea Lasiocampoidea Geometroidea Drepanoidea Bombycoidea Calliduloidae Hedyloidea Noctuoidea Families About... Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Families Superfamily Hesperioidea: Hesperiidae Superfamily Papilionoidea: Papilionidae Pieridae Nymphalidae Lycaenidae Riodinidae A butterfly is a flying insect of the order Lepidoptera belonging to one of the superfamilies Hesperioidea (the skippers) and Papilionoidea (all other butterflies). ... Type species Hesperia comma Silver-spotted skipper Diversity 550 genera 3,500 species Subfamilies Coeliadinae Pyrrhopyginae Hesperiinae Heteropterinae Pyrginae Trapezitinae The Skippers are a group of insects in the order Lepidoptera. ... A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly. ...
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduval (1874) Jean Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduval (June 17, 1799–December 30, 1879) was a French lepidopterist and physician. ... Henry Doubleday (1808 – June 29, 1875) was a British entomologist and ornithologist. ... This article is about the British ecological geneticist E.B. Henry Ford. ... Frederick William Frohawk (July 16, 1861 - December 10, 1946) was an English zoological artist and lepidopterist. ... Walter Wilhelm Gieseking (November 5, 1895 – October 26, 1956) was a German pianist and composer. ... Frederick DuCane Godman (January 15, 1834 - February 19, 1919) was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist. ... Dr Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell (24 February 1907 - 1979) was a British lepidopterist and medical doctor. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Ðабоков; pronounced: vlah-DEE-meer nah-BAWK-awf) (April 10 O.S. [April 22 N.S.], 1899 - July 2, 1977) was a Russian-American author. ... James William Tutt (1858 - 1911) was an English entomologist. ...
Nabokov's (the name is stressed on the second syllable, so that it rhymes with "to talk of") reputation in the world of letters is so gargantuan that it is easy to forget that he was an accomplished scientist.
Nabokov was a serious entomologist; more specifically, a lepidopterist specializing in the identification and classification of a major group of butterflies, the Latin American Polyommatinae, of the family Lycaenidae, more popularly known as the "blues".
At the time, the distinction between amateur and professional lepidopterist was not made as starkly as it might be today.
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