Organization:Lepidopterists' Society

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Lepidopterists' Society
Formation1947 (1947)
PurposeScientific study of Lepidoptera
HeadquartersUnited States
Region served
International
Main organ
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society
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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

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

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 ({{{2}}}).[4]

Awards

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]

  • 1973 (1973): Henri Stempfer
  • 1974 (1974): Frederick Stehr
  • 1977 (1977): Donald R. Davis
  • 1979 (1979): John Frederick Gates Clarke
  • 1980 (1980): Keith S. Brown Jr.
  • 1982 (1982): Jerry A. Powell
  • 1983 (1983): Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
  • 1978 (1978): Pierre E.L. Viette
  • 1984 (1984): David Francis Hardwick
  • 1985 (1985): John Neville Eliot
  • 1986 (1986): Frederick H. Rindge
  • 1988 (1988): Niels Peder Kristensen
  • 1989 (1989): Phillip R. Ackery and Richard I. Vane-Wright
  • 1990 (1990): Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen
  • 1995 (1995): Jeremy Daniel Holloway
  • 1996 (1996): Ian Francis Bell Common
  • 1997 (1997): Ronald Hodges
  • 1999 (1999): Claude Lemaire
  • 2000 (2000): Tosio Kumata
  • 2002 (2002): Malcolm J. Scoble
  • 2004 (2004): Eugene G. Munroe
  • 2006 (2006): No award
  • 2008 (2008): Gaden S. Robinson
  • 2011 (2011): J. Donald Lafontaine
  • 2013 (2013): James S. Miller
  • 2015 (2015): Ted Edwards
  • 2017 (2017): Philip James DeVries
  • 2019 (2019): Marianne Horak

The society also grants honorary life memberships, such as that conferred on Lincoln Brower.[7]

References

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