Herbert Druce

Herbert Druce (born July 14, 1846 in London , † April 11, 1913 ibid) was a British butterfly scientist who collected and described numerous tropical butterflies.

Live and act

Already interested in butterflies as a schoolboy, Druce was elected to the Royal Entomological Society in 1867 , the Zoological Society of London in 1870 and the Linnean Society of London in 1872 . From then on, Druce made a name for himself as an avid collector and describer of tropical butterflies. Among other things, he researched the Central American moths , which he wrote about in the three-volume work Biologia Centrali Americana by Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin . He also published several monographs on genera and described a large number of new species in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London , the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, and the Annals and Magazine of Natural History . In 1885 and 1892 he was elected to the Board of the Royal Entomological Society. Druce was also a member of the Royal Geographical Society . Druce's extensive collections were acquired by Godman and Salvin before they were bequeathed to the British Museum . His son Hamilton Herbert Charles James Druce (1868-1922) was also a well-known lepidopterist.

Dedication names

The following genera and taxa are named after Herbert Druce: Drucina (1872 by Arthur Gardiner Butler ), Druceiella (1949 by Pierre Viette ), Charaxes druceanus (1869 by Arthur Gardiner Butler), Parides anchises drucei (1874 by Arthur Gardiner Butler), Milionia drucei (1883 by Arthur Gardiner Butler), Acanthodica drucei (1889 by Paul Dognin ), Anaxita drucei (1893 by Juan J. Rodriguez ), Eumorpha drucei (1903 by Karl Jordan and Walter Rothschild ), Nyctemera drucei (1903 by Charles Swinhoe ), Pachygonidia drucei (1907 by Karl Jordan and Walter Rothschild), Pachypasa drucei (1908 by George Thomas Bethune-Baker ), Hypocrita drucei (1910 by William Schaus ), Castniomera atymnius drucei (1911 by William Schaus) and Katreus drucei (2002 by Torben B . Larsen ).

Works (selection)

• Descriptions of new genera and species of Lepidoptera from Costa Rica. Cistula entomologica , 1: S. 95–118 (with Arthur Gardiner Butler ), 1872
• Miscellaneous papers on Lepidoptera, extracted from various periodicals , issues 1-36, 1875
• A list of the collection of diurnal Lepidoptera made by Mr. JJ Monteiro, in Angola, with descriptions of some new species , 1875
• Biologia centrali-americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Insecta. Lepidoptera-Heterocera (with Frederick DuCane Godman, Osbert Salvin and Baron Thomas de Gray Walsingham ), 1881
• The story of the rear column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (with Frederick DuCane Godman, Richard Bowdler Sharpe , Osbert Salvin and Henry Walter Bates ), 1891
• Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera from tropical America , 1899
• Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera from tropical South America , 1906
• On Neotropical Lycaenidae, with Descriptions of New Species . Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: S. 566-632, panels 31-36, 1907

literature

• Obituary Herbert Druce In: The Entomologist . Volume 46, p. 199, 1913
• Berit Pedersen (Royal Entomological Society of London): A guide to the archives of the Royal Entomological Society , p. 58, Ashgate, 2002.