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Cupidesthes Minor
''Cupidesthes minor'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in .... References Butterflies described in 1921 Lycaenesthini {{Lycaenesthini-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James John Joicey
James John Joicey FES (28 December 1870 – 10 March 1932) was an English amateur entomologist, who assembled an extensive collection of Lepidoptera in his private research museum, called the Hill Museum, in Witley, Surrey. His collection, 40 years in the making, was considered to have been the second largest in the world held privately and to have numbered over 1.5 million specimens. Joicey was a fellow of the Zoological Society of London, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Entomological Society, the Royal Horticultural Society, and the Linnean Society of London. Joicey employed specialist entomologists including George Talbot to curate his collection and financed numerous expeditions throughout the world to obtain previously unknown varieties. More than 190 scientific articles were produced during the active period of the Hill Museum. This body of research was described as "a contribution to the study of the exotic Lepidoptera of very great sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Talbot (entomologist)
George Talbot Royal Entomological Society, FES (26 October 1882 – 13 April 1952) was an English people, English entomologist who specialised in Rhopalocera, butterflies. He wrote about 150 Scientific literature, scientific papers, the majority being primarily Systematics, systematic, consisting of the description of new species or the revision of various Genus, genera. He was also responsible for the Curator, curation and preservation of the James John Joicey, Joicey collection of Lepidoptera prior to its accession by the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum. Life and career George Talbot was born "in rather humble circumstances" in Croydon, Surrey, in 1882. As a young man, he was assistant to Percy Ireland Lathy. He then curated for the wealthy amateur butterfly collector Herbert Jordan Adams, Herbert Adams, followed by the insect dealer William Frederick Henry Rosenberg. During the First World War he worked with Arthur William Bacot, Arthur Bacot at the Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
