Franz Josef Kupido sometimes Cupido (6 August 1786,

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

- 17 December 1869) was a

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

principally interested in

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

. He was born in Bohemia and did most of his work while a resident of the

Austrian Empire The Austrian Empire (german: link=no, Kaiserthum Oesterreich, modern spelling , ) was a Central-Eastern European multinational great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs. During its existence, ...

. Franz Josef Kupido was a '' Beamter''. His collection is in the

Moravian Museum Moravian is the adjective form of the Czech Republic region of Moravia, and refers to people of ancestry from Moravia. Moravian may also refer to: * a member or adherent of the Moravian Church, one of the oldest Protestant denominations * Moravia ...

. In 1825 Kupido described the autumn emperor moth, ''

Perisomena caecigena ''Perisomena caecigena'', the autumn emperor moth, is a moth of the family Saturniidae, first described by Franz Josef Kupido in 1825. It lives in Italy (east of Venice near the Croatian border) and then from south-eastern Austria through Hungary, ...

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*Anonym 1852: upido, F. J.''Lotos, Prag'' 2:243 *Anonym 1863: upido, F. J.''Brünner Zeitung'' 1863 Nr. 292 1869 deaths 1786 births Zoologists from the Austrian Empire Lepidopterists {{Entomologist-stub