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A 'lepidopterist' is a person who catches and collects, or simply studies, lepidopterans, members of an order comprising butterflies, skippers, and moths.

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Famous lepidopterists

Fictional lepidopterists

Famous lepidopterists

★ Jean-Baptiste Boisduval

★ Bernard d'Abrera

★ Henry Doubleday

★ Edmund Brisco Ford

★ Frederick William Frohawk

★ Walter Gieseking

★ Frederick DuCane Godman

★ W. J. Holland

★ Johann Siegfried Hufnagel

★ Julian Jamalon

★ Bernard Kettlewell

★ Vladimir Nabokov

★ L. Hugh Newman

★ Frederic Prokosch

★ Walter Rothschild

★ Camille Saint-Saëns

★ Otto Staudinger

★ James William Tutt

★ Geoffrey de Havilland

★ Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne

★ Georgy Sergeevich Zolotarenko

Fictional lepidopterists

★ The father, Ben, in the TV series ''Butterflies''

★ The character Red Jack, who claimed to be both Jack the Ripper and God, in the comic book Doom Patrol

★ The character Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian, which is generally regarded as the author's masterpiece.

★ Stein in Lord Jim

★ Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, using the moth as a symbol for his transsexual metamorphosis and the icon of the book.

★ Ada in Vladimir Nabokov's "ada, or ardor: a family chronicle", has dreams as a young girl of being a lepidopterist on the fictional planet 'anti-terra'

★ The character Freddie Glegg in the movie ''The Collector'' (1965), directed by William Wyler and based on the novel by John Fowles.