George Thomas Bethune-Baker (20 July 1857, in

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– 1 December 1944, in

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) was an English

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who specialised 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 ...

, especially those in the family

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...

of butterflies. His collection is partly in the Museum of Zoology Cambridge University and partly in the

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, London.

Works

Partial list. See Wikispecies (below) for fuller list. *Bethune-Baker, G. T. 1903 On new Species of Lycaenidae from West Africa ''

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'' (7) 12 : 324–334 *Bethune-Baker, G. T. 1908 Descriptions of new species of butterflies of the division Rhopalocera from Africa and from New Guinea. ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 1908:110–126. *Bethune-Baker, G. T. 1908 Descriptions of new Rhopalocera from the Upper Congo. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' (8)469–482. *Bethune-Baker,G. T. 1910 A revision of the African species of ''Lycaenesthes'' group of the Lycaenidae '' Trans. ent. Soc. Lond.'' 1910 : 1–84, pl. 1–13. *Bethune-Baker, G. T. 1923 A monograph of the genus Catochrysops Boisduval (Auctorum). ''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 1922:275–366
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Bethune-Baker was a fellow of the

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and president 1913–1914.

References

* Cockayne, E. A. 1945 ethune-Baker, G. T. ''Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London'' (C), London * Turner, H. J. 1945 ethune-Baker, G. T.''The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation'' 57 35–36. * Wainwright, C. J. et al. 1945 ethune-Baker, G. T.''Entomologist's Monthly Magazine'' (3) 81 48. English lepidopterists 1944 deaths Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society 1857 births {{UK-entomologist-stub