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Lepidopterista
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Lepidopterista est homo qui Lepidopteris studeat,[1] insectis ordinis qui Rhopalocerorum superfamilias Papilionoidea ("papiliones veri"), Hesperioidea ("transilitores"), et Hedyloidea, et reliqua lepidoptera, accommodate Heterocera (Anglice moths) appellata, comprehendit. Nomen lepidopterista etiam ad hobbyists? spectat, qui, re fortuito studentes, lepidoptera capiant, conligant, incumbant, vel tantum observent.[2]
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Post Renascentiam, ortus lepidopteristarum (vel "aurelianorum") ortui attribui potest exspectationis scientiae, naturae, et circumiectorum. Cum anno 1758 Linnaeus decimam Systematis Naturae editionem vulgavit, iam fuerat "solidum corpus operum vulgatorum de historia naturali lepidopterorum."[3][4] Inter haec opera erant:[4]
- Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum (Thomas Mouffet, 1634)
- Metamorphosis Naturalis (Ioannes Goedart, 1662–1667)
- Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium(de) (Maria S. Meriana, 1705)
- Historia Insectorum (Ioannes Ray, 1710)
- Papilionum Britanniae Icones (Iacobus Petiver, 1717)