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A lepidopterist is a person who catches and collects, studies, or simply observes (see butterfly watching) lepidopterans, members of an order encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies.

Famous lepidopterists

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.
  • Stein in Lord Jim
  • 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.
  • The character of 'M' from the James Bond film series is revealed to be a lepidopterist, as evidenced in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. This can be seen when James Bond visits M at his country estate, upon which 007 finds the latter working with a specimen box.

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