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A lepidopterist or aurelian is a person who specialises in the study of Lepidoptera,〔"lepidopterist". (n.d.). In Dictionary Definitions. Retrieved November 30, 2010, from http://www.yourdictionary.com/lepidopterist.〕 members of an order encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies. The term also includes hobbyists who are not formal scholars, who catch, collect, study, or simply observe lepidopterans. ==Fictional lepidopterists== *Hverven, in the film The Happy House (2013) *Stapleton, in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''. *The father, Ben, in the TV series ''Butterflies'' *The character Red Jack, who claimed to be both Jack the Ripper and God, in the comic book Doom Patrol *The character Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy's novel ''Blood Meridian''. *Stein in the novel ''Lord Jim'' *Ada in Vladimir Nabokov's ''Ada'' has dreams as a young girl of being a lepidopterist on the fictional planet 'anti-terra'. (Nabokov himself was an accomplished lepidopterist.)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Excerpts from A Guide to Nabokov's Butterflies and Moths )〕 *The character Frederick Clegg in the novel ''The Collector'' (1962) by John Fowles, also made into a film (1965) directed by William Wyler. *Mr. Doe and Mr. Cardholder of the Venture Bros. who contact Jonas Venture Jr. at Spider Skull Island, to deal with The Monarch, a character with a butterfly theme. *Jame Gumb, the main antagonist in the novel and film ''The Silence of the Lambs'' by Thomas Harris. *M in On Her Majesty's Secret Service *Blue's late mother in ''Special Topics in Calamity Physics'' by Marisha Pessl. *T.C. Romulus in the film Bio-Dome. *Charles Darwin in Tarsem Singh's The Fall. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「lepidopterist」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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