Caught by Raiza Feroz Ahmed

“…It tells the story of a butterfly that gets captured by a lepidopterist whose obsession isn’t limited to butterflies. …”
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Rhetorical Caricature: An Educational Reading of Nabokov's Treatment of Freud by Herner Saeverot

“…Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-American novelist and lepidopterist, was neither a didactician nor a moralist. …”
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Geographical and temporal distribution of Megalopygidae in the United States and Puerto Rico by Emilio Peruzzi Sancio, Chris Alice Kratzer, John C. Carlson

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Thoracic morphology of the pomegranate fruit borer (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) larva by Ravindrakumar D. Patil

“…The microscopic studies on thoracic appendages revealed general lepidopterist type. Results add to our knowledge of thoracic metamorphosis during larval period and provide a standard for further research on the morphological characters of Deudorix isocrates (Fab.).…”
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Effect of Muslin Bagging Technique on the Control of Greater Date Moth:ArenipseSebella(Hamps)Lepidoptera:Pyralidae and Lesser Date Moth Batrachedra amydraula (Meyr) Lepidoptera :... by Salih Kazim

“…Results showed that the lowest infestation and intensity percentage of the fruits by two lepidopterist insects. Greater and lesser date moths were in the fourth treatment, then in the third one. …”
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Histoanatomy of the male reproductive system of the adult Deudorix isocrates (Fab.) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) by Ravindrakumar D. Patil

“…Longitudinally folded tall columnar epithelium of vas difference, cuboidal epithelium of seminal vesicle and low columnar epithelium of ejaculatory duct in D. isocrates are evidential in other lepidopterist species. The wall of male accessory gland is composed of columnar epithelium and muscle coat. …”
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Trans-Saharan migratory patterns in Vanessa cardui and evidence for a southward leapfrog migration by Megan S. Reich, Sana Ghouri, Samantha Zabudsky, Lihai Hu, Mael Le Corre, Ivy Ng’iru, Dubi Benyamini, Daria Shipilina, Steve C. Collins, Dino J. Martins, Roger Vila, Gerard Talavera, Clément P. Bataille

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Rapid radiation of ant parasitic butterflies during the Miocene aridification of Africa by Marianne Espeland, Nicolas Chazot, Fabien L. Condamine, Alan R. Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Ernest Pringle, Alan Heath, Steve Collins, Wilson Tiren, Martha Mutiso, David C. Lees, Stewart Fisher, Raymond Murphy, Stephen Woodhall, Robert Tropek, Svenja S. Ahlborn, Kevin Cockburn, Jeremy Dobson, Thierry Bouyer, Zofia A. Kaliszewska, Christopher C. M. Baker, Gerard Talavera, Roger Vila, Alan J. Gardiner, Mark Williams, Dino J. Martins, Szabolcs Sáfián, David A. Edge, Naomi E. Pierce

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The African endemic species “ Nychiodes” tyttha Prout, 1915 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Ennominae) belongs to the genus Aphilopota Warren, 1899 by Dominic Wanke, Axel Hausmann, David C. Lees, Kyung Min Lee, Geoff Martin, Pasi Sihvonen, Hermann Staude, Hossein Rajaei

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Life history and behavioural observations during the rearing of Dira clytus clytus (Linnaeus, 1764) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae), with notes on implications for climate chan... by Silvia Mecenero, Stephen P. Kirkman

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Weather Sensitivity of Sugar Bait Trapping of Nocturnal Moths: A Case Study from Northern Europe by Nidal Fetnassi, Kadri Ude, Ain Kull, Toomas Tammaru

“…However, this method is rarely used in professional research despite its popularity among amateur lepidopterists. As the activity of insects is strongly dependent on ambient conditions, the sensitivity of any trapping method to weather parameters needs to be known for the quantitative interpretation of trapping results. …”
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Papilio hermione Linnaeus, type species of Hipparchia Fabricius (Lepidoptera, Satyrinae): restoring stability to the application of these names by Peter J. C. Russell, Richard I. Vane-Wright

“…Third, while a majority of lepidopterists have ignored Kudrna’s action and continue to apply the name H. alcyone to the Rock Grayling, and still regard P. hermione as a junior subjective synonym of H. fagi, the formal nomenclature for the Rock Grayling has become unstable because a large minority have nonetheless accepted Kudrna’s lectotype designation and all that follows from it. …”
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Mariposas del estado de Morelos, México (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) Butterflies of the state of Morelos, Mexico (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) by Mercedes Luna-Reyes, Armando Luis-Martínez, Isabel Vargas-Fernández, Jorge Llorente-Bousquets

“…<br>We set the information available for a comprehensive list of the state of Morelos Rhopalocera: 331 taxa specific level, contained in 154 genera, 18 subfamilies and 5 families from 29 981 lepidopterists specimens from Mexican and foreign collections contained in the megabase MARIPOSA, it is specialized in wildlife inventories. …”
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