Lepidopterist
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A lepidopterist is a person who catches and collects, or simply studies, lepidopterans, members of an order comprising butterflies, skippers, and moths.
[edit] Famous lepidopterists
- Jean-Baptiste Boisduval
- Henry Doubleday
- Edmund Brisco Ford
- Frederick William Frohawk
- Walter Gieseking
- Frederick DuCane Godman
- Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
- Julian Jamalon
- Bernard Kettlewell
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Frederic Prokosch
- Walter Rothschild
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Otto Staudinger
- James William Tutt
[edit] 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'nl:Lepidopterist
