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

Famous lepidopterists

• Jean-Baptiste Boisduval
• Henry Doubleday
• Edmund Brisco Ford
• Frederick William Frohawk
• Walter Gieseking
• Frederick DuCane Godman
• Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
• Julian Jamalon
• Bernard Kettlewell
• Vladimir Nabokov
• Frederic Prokosch
• Walter Rothschild
• Camille Saint-Saëns
• Otto Staudinger
• James William Tutt

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.

Lepidopterists

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