''The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation'' is a bimonthly

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

entomological journal. Its emphasis is British and European

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

, but material on other insect

order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...

s is also published regularly. It was established by

J. W. Tutt James William Tutt (26 April 1858–10 January 1911) was an English schoolteacher and entomologist. He was a founding editor of the journal ''Entomologists' Record'' from 1890 and published a landmark series on the ''British Lepidoptera'' in whi ...

in 1890. Its current editor is Colin W. Plant. Two long-running series featured in the journal are the annual reports on immigration of Lepidoptera into the British Isles, and an annual review of the Microlepidoptera recorded from Britain. The ''Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation'' became a publication of the Amateur Entomologists' Society in January 2009.

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