Jeane Daniel Gunder (born 1888,

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– died 1948,

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) was an American

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who specialised in

butterflies Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

. Gunder described 212

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mostly races and forms. In 1937, having lost his income in the

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he sold his collection of 28,000 specimens to the

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Works

Partial list *''North American Institutions Featuring Lepidoptera'', 1929–30. First published as parts in ''Entomological News'' and then as a bound volume. * The genus ''

Euphydryas ''Euphydryas'' is a genus of Nymphalidae butterflies. Species References Further reading * Glassberg, Jeffrey ''Butterflies through Binoculars: The West'' (2001) * Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. ''Butterflies of British Columbia'' ( ...

'' Scud. of boreal America (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). ''Pan-Pacific Entomologist'' 6(1): 1–8, 16 pls. (July 1929). * 1930. Butterflies of Los Angeles County, California. ''Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences'' 29(2): 39–95, pls. 18–23.

References

Dos Passos,C. 1938 ''The

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of Lepidoptera described by J.D. Gunder''. ''American Museum Novitates'', no. 999 New York City : The American Museum of Natural History.Includes bibliography. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gunder, Jeane Daniel 1888 births 1948 deaths American lepidopterists People associated with the American Museum of Natural History 20th-century American zoologists