William Warren (20 January 1839, in

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...

– 18 October 1914, in

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) was an English

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 ...

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 ...

. William Warren was first educated at

Oakham School (Like runners, they pass on the torch of life) , established = , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent day and boarding , religion = Church of England , president ...

, and subsequently graduated from the

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, taking first-class classical honours in 1861. He then taught at

Sedbergh School Sedbergh School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) in the town of Sedbergh in Cumbria, in North West England. It comprises a junior school for children aged 4 to 13 and the main school for 13 to 18 year olds. I ...

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(1866-1876) and

Stubbington House School Stubbington House School was founded in 1841 as a boys' preparatory school, originally located in the Hampshire village of Stubbington, around from the Solent. Stubbington House School was known by the sobriquet "the cradle of the Navy". The sc ...

. He collected extensively in the British Isles, notably at

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, with a special interest in Micro-lepidoptera. After giving up teaching in 1882, he lived in Cambridge and devoted himself fully to entomology, publishing around 40 papers on British moths between 1878 and 1889. Notably, in 1887 he was the first to recognise

Grapholita pallifrontana ''Grapholita pallifrontana'' is a moth species of the family (biology), family Tortricidae, subfamily Olethreutinae. Distribution It is found in most of Europe and the Near East. Habitats These moths live in grassland and scrub, preferably o ...

(Lienig & Zeller) (Lep:

Tortricidae The Tortricidae are a family of moths, commonly known as tortrix moths or leafroller moths, in the order Lepidoptera. This large family has over 11,000 species described, and is the sole member of the superfamily Tortricoidea, although the genus ...

) as a British species of micro-moth, a species which now has the English name the Liquorice Piercer and is of conservation concern. Later in the same year he successfully bred the moth and described its larvae.Warren, W. Description of the larvae of Stigmonota pallifrontana, Z. ''Entomologist's Monthly Magazine'' 24, 89 (1887) In 1888, he moved to

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, where he worked as a professional entomologist on

Pyralidae The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyrali ...

and

Geometridae The geometer moths are moths belonging to the family Geometridae of the insect order Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies. Their scientific name derives from the Ancient Greek ''geo'' γεω (derivative form of or "the earth"), and ''met ...

in the

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and later, by the intervention of

Albert Günther Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive re ...

, for the Tring Museum, publishing over 80 more papers (partial list below). Warren made collecting trips to the

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and

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. He was a

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of the

Royal Entomological Society of London The Royal Entomological Society is devoted to the study of insects. Its aims are to disseminate information about insects and improving communication between entomologists. The society was founded in 1833 as the Entomological Society of Londo ...

1886–1914.

Works

partial list * 189
New genera and species of Geometridae. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 1(2): 366–466.
* 1895 New species and genera of Geometridae in the Tring Museum. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 2: 82–159. * 1896 New Geometridae in the Tring Museum. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 3: 99–148. * 1896 New species of Drepanulidae, Uraniidae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae from the Papuan region. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 3: 272–306. * 1896 New species of Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 3: 335–419. * 1897 New genera and species of moths from the Old-World regions in the Tring Museum. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 4: 12–130. * 1897 New genera and species of Thyrididae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae from South and Central America and the West Indies, in the Tring Museum ''Novitates Zoologicae'' 4 : 408-507 * 1898 New species and genera of the families Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 5: 5–41. *1898 New species and genera of the families Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae from the Old-World regions. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 5: 221–258. *1899 New species and genera of the families Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae from the Old-World regions. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 6(1): 1–66. *1899
New Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, and Geometridae from the Aethiopian region. - Novitates Zoologicae 6(3):288–312
*1900 New genera and species of Thyrididae and Geometridae from Africa
''Novitates Zoologicae'', 7: 94–98
*1900b New Genera and Species of Drepanulidae, Thryrididae, Epiplemidae and Geometridae from the Indo-Australian and Palaearctic Regions
''Novitates Zoologicae'', 7:98-116
*1901 New Thyrididae, Epiplemidae and Geometridae from the Ethiopian region. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 8: 6–20. *1901 Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae from the Aethiopian region. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 8: 202–217. *1901 New American Moths. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 8: 435–492. *1902 New African Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 9: 487–536. *1904 New Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, and Geometridae from the Aethiopian Region. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 11: 461–482. *1905
New species of Thyrididae, Uraniidae, and Geometridae, from the Oriental Region. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 12: 6-15
*1905
Lepidoptera from the Sudan. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 12: 21-23 pl.IV
*1905
New Species of Geoometridae from the Aethiopian Region. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 12: 34-40
*1905d New American Thyrididae, Uraniidae, and Geometridae. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 12:307-379 *1905e New African Thyrididae, Uraniidae, and Geometridae. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 12: 380–409. *1905f New species of Thyrididae, Uraniidae and Geometridae from the Oriental Region. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 12 :410-447 *1905g Lepidoptera collected by Mr.W.R.Ogilvie-Grant on the Azores and Madeira in 1903. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 12: 439-447 *1909 New species of Uraniidae and geometridae from the Aethiopian region. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 16: 110–122. *1909 Noctuae in Seitz, 1909 ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge des Palaearktischen Faunengebietes.'' 3. Die eulenartigen Nacthfalter Gross-Schmett. Erde 3 : 1–511, pl. 1-75. *1911 Description of some new Geometridae and Pyralidae from South Africa. ''Annals of the South African Museum'', 10(1): 19–30. *1912 New Noctuidae in the Tring Museum mainly from the Indo-Oriental Region ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 19: 1-57. *1912 New Geometridae in the Tring Museum from new Guinea. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 19: 68–85. *1914 New species of Drepanulidae, Noctuidae and Geometridae in the Tring museum. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 21: 401–425. *1915 Some new oriental Cymatophoridae in the Tring museum. ''Novitates Zoologicae'', 22: 154–159.

References

*Anon 1914 Obit. ''

Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ''Entomologist's Monthly Magazine'' is a British entomological journal, founded by a staff of five editors – T. Blackburn, H. G. Knaggs, M.D., R. McLachlan, F.L.S., E. C. Rye and H. T. Stainton – and first published in 1864.Wale, Matthew ...

'' Second Series XXV (25) : 294 * Karl Jordan ''Novitates Zoologicae'' 1914 : 160- 16
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