Herbert Druce

Herbert Druce (* July 14, 1846 in London, † April 11, 1913 ) was a British butterfly watchers, who collected numerous tropical butterflies and described.

Life and work

Even as a schoolboy interested in butterflies, Druce was elected in 1867 in the Royal Entomological Society, 1870, the Zoological Society of London and in 1872 in the Linnean Society of London. From then on, Druce made ​​a name as a keen collector and describer of tropical butterflies. He explored, among others, the Central American moth, about which he wrote Contributions in three volumes Biologia Centrali Americana by Frederick Godman and Osbert Salvin DuCane. He also published several monographs on genera and described a large number of new species in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, the Entomologist 's Monthly Magazine and in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 1885 and 1892 he was elected to the board of the Royal Entomological Society. Druce was also a member of the Royal Geographical Society. Druces extensive collections were acquired by Godman and Salvin, before they were bequeathed to the British Museum. His son, Hamilton Herbert Charles James Druce (1868-1922) was also a well-known lepidopterist.

Dedikationsnamen

After Herbert Druce include the following genera and taxa are named: Drucina (1872 by Arthur Gardiner Butler), Druceiella (1949 by Pierre Viette ) Charaxes druceanus (1869 by Arthur Gardiner Butler) Parides anchises drucei (1874 by Arthur Gardiner Butler), Milionia drucei (1883 by Arthur Gardiner Butler), Acanthodica drucei (1889 by Paul Dognin ) Anaxita drucei (1893 by Juan J. Rodriguez), Eumorpha drucei (1903 by Karl Jordan and Walter Rothschild), Nyctemera drucei (1903 by Charles Swinhoe ) Pachygonidia drucei (1907 by Karl Jordan and Walter Rothschild), Pachypasa drucei (1908 by George Thomas Bethune - Baker), Hypocrita drucei (1910 by William Schaus ), Castniomera atymnius drucei (1911 by William Schaus ) and Catreus drucei (2002 by Torben B Larsen ). .

Works (selection)

  • Descriptions of new genera and species of Lepidoptera from Costa Rica. Cistula entomologica, 1: p 95-118 ( with Arthur Gardiner Butler), 1872
  • Miscellaneous papers on Lepidoptera, Extracted from various periodicals, issues 1-36, 1875
  • A list of the collection of diurnal Lepidoptera made ​​by Mr. JJ Monteiro, Angola, with descriptions of some new species, 1875
  • Biologia centrali - americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Insecta. Lepidopteran Heterocera ( with Frederick DuCane Godman, Osbert Salvin and Baron Thomas de Grey Walsingham ), 1881
  • The story of the rear column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition ( with Frederick DuCane Godman, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Osbert Salvin and Henry Walter Bates ), 1891
  • Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera from tropical America, 1899
  • Descriptions of some new species of tropical South America from Heterocera, 1906
  • On Neotropical Lycaenidae, with Descriptions of New Species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: S. 566-632, plates 31-36, 1907
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