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.
Publications
[edit]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]
- Memoir 1. A Synonymic List of the Nearctic Rhophalocera. C. F. dos Passos, 1964
- Memoir 2. A Catalogue/Checklist of the Butterflies of America North of Mexico. L. D. Miller and F. M. Brown, 1981.
- Memoir 3. Supplement to: A Catalogue/Checklist of the Butterflies of America North of Mexico. C. D. Ferris (ed.), 1989
- Memoir 4. Foodplants of World Saturniidae. S. E. Stone, 1991
- Memoir 5. Basic Techniques for Observing and Studying Moths and Butterflies. W. D. Winter, Jr., 2000
They are also available via the Peabody.[3]
Other publications include:
- The Lepidopterists' Society Commemorative Volume 1945-1973. R. Kendall (compiler), 1977
Presidents
[edit]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]
Awards
[edit]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]
- 1973Henri Stempfer :
- 1974Frederick Stehr :
- 1977Donald R. Davis :
- 1979John Frederick Gates Clarke :
- 1980Keith S. Brown Jr. :
- 1982Jerry A. Powell :
- 1983Elwood Curtin Zimmerman :
- 1978Pierre E.L. Viette :
- 1984David Francis Hardwick :
- 1985John Neville Eliot :
- 1986Frederick H. Rindge :
- 1988Niels Peder Kristensen :
- 1989Phillip R. Ackery and Richard I. Vane-Wright :
- 1990Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen :
- 1995Jeremy Daniel Holloway :
- 1996Ian Francis Bell Common :
- 1997Ronald Hodges :
- 1999Claude Lemaire :
- 2000Tosio Kumata :
- 2002Malcolm J. Scoble :
- 2004Eugene G. Munroe :
- 2006No award :
- 2008Gaden S. Robinson :
- 2011J. Donald Lafontaine :
- 2013James S. Miller :
- 2015Ted Edwards :
- 2017Philip James DeVries :
- 2019Marianne Horak :
The society also grants honorary life memberships, such as that conferred on Lincoln Brower.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Journal of The Lepidopterists' Society". Yale University. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ "All Issues - The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society". BioOne. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ a b c "News of The Lepidopterists' Society". Yale University. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ a b c "History". Lepidopterists' Society. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ a b Miller, D. Lee (1973). "First Karl Jordan Medal awarded to Henri Stempffer" (PDF). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 27 (4). Lepidopterists' Society: 311–312.
- ^ "Awards | the Lepidopterists' Society".
- ^ Carey, Janika (20 July 2018). "Renowned monarch butterfly expert Lincoln Brower dies, but his legacy lives on". Sweet Briar College. Retrieved 5 January 2019.