Alexander Barrett Klots

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Alexander Barrett Klots (born December 12, 1903 in Manhattan , New York City , New York , † April 18, 1989 in Putnam , Connecticut ) was an American entomologist , lepidopterist and non-fiction author.

Life

Alexander Klots was the son of Ephraim Daniels and Helene Constance Klots, nee Giles. His father was a doctor, his mother a nurse. In 1927 he married Elsie Broughton (* circa 1902; † 1991), a teacher who later co-wrote six of Klot's books. The couple had a son and a daughter. After graduating from Trinity School and Blair Academy, Klots received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in 1928. He graduated with a Master of Science degree in 1929 and received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1931. PhD. From 1931 to 1933 he worked in entomology at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. From 1933 to 1945 he was a lecturer, from 1945 to 1953 he was assistant professor, from 1953 to 1959 he was an adjunct professor and from 1960 to 1967 he was professor of biology at the City College of New York , New York City. From 1946 to 1969 he was a research fellow in the entomological department of the American Museum of Natural History .

His book A Field Guide to the Butterflies of North America, East of the Great Plains from 1951 is one of the standard works on the butterfly fauna of North America in the 20th century. Over 120,000 copies were sold. Lepidopterist and writer Vladimir Nabokov praised Klots' work in a review in the New York Times as the best book on the butterflies of North America since Samuel Hubbard Scudder's The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada from 1889.

Klots was a member of the Entomological Society of America (1940 President), the International Lepidopterists' Society (1957 President, 1974 Vice President), the Society of Systematic Zoology, the Royal Entomological Society (London), the British Entomological and Natural History Society, the New York Entomological Society, the Linnean Society of London and the Explorers Club .

Klots died in April 1989 of complications from emphysema .

Dedication names

The moths Argyrotaenia klotsi , Gnorimoschema klotsi , Acrolophus klotsi , Miraxis klotsi and Pyrausta klotsi are named after Klots .

Works (selection)

  • Directions for Preserving Insects, 1932.
  • A Field Guide to the Butterflies of North America, East of the Great Plains, illustrated by Marjorie Statham and Florence Longworth, Houghton, 1951, reprinted 1977.
  • Butterflies and Moths, Doubleday, 1953.
  • Desert Life, Doubleday, 1954.
  • Metamorphosis, Doubleday, 1955.
  • In the Arctic, Doubleday, 1957.
  • La Vie et moeurs des papillons, Horizons de France, 1957.
  • North American Butterflies, Doubleday, 1958.
  • Our Insect Allies, Doubleday, 1958.
  • The World of Butterflies and Moths, McGraw, 1958.
  • Living Insects of the World (with Elsie B. Klots), photos and illustrations by Andreas Feininger, Su Zan Noguchi Swain and others, Doubleday, 1959. (German: Knaurs Tierreich in Farben: Insekten, Droemer Knaur Munich / Zurich, 1959, translation : Walter Forster )
  • Wildflowers of the Desert (with Elsie B. Klots), Doubleday, 1960.
  • Tropical Butterflies, illustrated by Robert Borja, Children's Press, 1960.
  • Wildflowers of the Coastal Region (with Elsie B. Klots), Doubleday, 1962.
  • One Thousand One Questions Answered About Insects (with Elsie B. Klots), illustrated by AB Klots and Dodd Swain, 1961, reprint: Dover, 1977. Published as One Thousand One Answers to Questions About Insects, Grosset, 1963.
  • The World of Insects, Doubleday, 1966.
  • North American Butterflies and Moths, Doubleday, 1967.
  • The Community of Living Things in the Desert (with Elsie B. Klots), Creative Educational Society, 1967.
  • Insects of North America (with Elsie B. Klots), Doubleday, 1971.
  • Butterflies of the World, 1976 (German: Colored World: Butterflies, Goldmann Verlag, 1978)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vladimir Nabokov: Yesterday's Caterpillar In: New York Times, June 3, 1951, p. 212
personal data
SURNAME Klots, Alexander Barrett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entomologist, lepidopterist, and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Manhattan , New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1989
Place of death Putnam , Connecticut