Jeane Daniel Gunder (born 1888,

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- died 1948,

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) was an American

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who specialised in

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. Gunder described 212

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mostly races and

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. In 1937, having lost his income in the

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he sold his collection of 28,000 specimens to the

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Works

Partial list *''North American Institutions Featuring Lepidoptera'', 1929-30. First published as parts in ''Entomological News'' and then as a bound volume. * The genus ''

Euphydryas ''Euphydryas'' is a genus of Nymphalidae butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly ...

'' Scud. of boreal America (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). ''Pan-Pacific Entomologist'' 6(1): 1-8, 16 pls. (July 1929). * 1930. Butterflies of Los Angeles County, California. ''Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences'' 29(2): 39-95, pls. 18-23.

References

Dos Passos,C. 1938 ''The

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of Lepidoptera described by J.D. Gunder''. ''American Museum Novitates'', no. 999 New York City : The American Museum of Natural History.Includes bibliography. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gunder, Jeane Daniel 1888 births 1948 deaths American lepidopterists People associated with the American Museum of Natural History 20th-century American zoologists