Overview
The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society is a quarterly scientific publication of The Lepidopterists' Society. It contains refereed scholarly papers on the biology of moths and butterflies, taxonomic revisions and species descriptions, general notes, book reviews, and other information. The Journal has been published continuously since 1947.
This open access website for the Journal is the result of ongoing work by David Lohman, Larry Gall and their colleagues, and is currently
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News of The Lepidopterists' Society
Memoir 1. A Synonmyic List of the Neractic Rhophalocera. C. F. dos Passos, 1964
Memoir 4. Foodplants of World Saturniidae. S. E. Stone, 1991
Memoir 5. Basic Techniques for Observing and Studying Moths and Butterflies. W. D. Winter, Jr., 2000
The Lepidopterists' Society Commemorative Volume 1945-1973. R. Kendall (compiler), 1977Commem.