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Lepidopterists' Society
Formation	1947 (1947)
Purpose	Scientific study of Lepidoptera
Headquarters	United States
Region served	International
Main organ	Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society
Website	www.lepsoc.org

The Lepidopterists' Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera). Founded in 1947 and based in the United States, it has an international focus and membership.

Publications

The society's main organ is the Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, which has been published continuously since 1947.^{[citation needed]} Back issues up and including 2009 are freely available and hosted by the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.^[1] Subsequent issues are available via BioOne.^[2]

Since 1959, the society has also published a quarterly newsletter, the News of the Lepidopterists' Society. All back issues of this, too, are available from the Peabody Museum.^[3]

A series of occasional papers is called Memoirs:^[3]

Memoir 1. A Synonymic List of the Nearctic Rhophalocera. C. F. dos Passos, 1964
Memoir 2. A Catalogue/Checklist of the Butterflies of America North of Mexico. L. D. Miller and F. M. Brown, 1981.
Memoir 3. Supplement to: A Catalogue/Checklist of the Butterflies of America North of Mexico. C. D. Ferris (ed.), 1989
Memoir 4. Foodplants of World Saturniidae. S. E. Stone, 1991
Memoir 5. Basic Techniques for Observing and Studying Moths and Butterflies. W. D. Winter, Jr., 2000

They are also available via the Peabody.^[3]

Other publications include:

The Lepidopterists' Society Commemorative Volume 1945-1973. R. Kendall (compiler), 1977

Presidents

The society's first president, in 1951, was James Halliday McDunnough of the Nova Scotia Museum of Science.^[4] The next year, he was succeeded by the German-British entomologist Karl Jordan, of the Zoological Museum, Tring, England.^[4] The president for 2018-2019 is Brian Scholtens [Wikidata].^[4]

Awards

The society awards a Karl Jordan Medal, initiated in 1972, in honor of Jordan.^[5] The first recipient was Henri Stempffer.^[5]

A full list of recipients is:^[6]

1973 (1973): Henri Stempfer
1974 (1974): Frederick Stehr
1977 (1977): Donald R. Davis
1979 (1979): John Frederick Gates Clarke
1980 (1980): Keith S. Brown Jr.
1982 (1982): Jerry A. Powell
1983 (1983): Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
1978 (1978): Pierre E.L. Viette
1984 (1984): David Francis Hardwick
1985 (1985): John Neville Eliot
1986 (1986): Frederick H. Rindge
1988 (1988): Niels Peder Kristensen
1989 (1989): Phillip R. Ackery and Richard I. Vane-Wright
1990 (1990): Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen
1995 (1995): Jeremy Daniel Holloway
1996 (1996): Ian Francis Bell Common
1997 (1997): Ronald Hodges
1999 (1999): Claude Lemaire
2000 (2000): Tosio Kumata
2002 (2002): Malcolm J. Scoble
2004 (2004): Eugene G. Munroe
2006 (2006): No award
2008 (2008): Gaden S. Robinson
2011 (2011): J. Donald Lafontaine
2013 (2013): James S. Miller
2015 (2015): Ted Edwards
2017 (2017): Philip James DeVries
2019 (2019): Marianne Horak

The society also grants honorary life memberships, such as that conferred on Lincoln Brower.^[7]

References

^ "Journal of The Lepidopterists' Society". Yale University. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
^ "All Issues - The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society". BioOne. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c "News of The Lepidopterists' Society". Yale University. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c "History". Lepidopterists' Society. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
^ ^a ^b Miller, D. Lee (1973). "First Karl Jordan Medal awarded to Henri Stempffer" (PDF). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 27 (4). Lepidopterists' Society: 311–312.
^ "Awards | the Lepidopterists' Society".
^ Carey, Janika (20 July 2018). "Renowned monarch butterfly expert Lincoln Brower dies, but his legacy lives on". Sweet Briar College. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

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