Brisbane Charles Somerville Warren (1887, Fermoy

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 - 1979) was an Irish

Ireland

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 entomologist who specialised in Palaearctic Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...

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Warren lived in Ireland

Ireland

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, England

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, Germany

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 and Switzerland

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. After 1934 he settled permanently in Folkestone

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. Between 1902 and 1960 he amassed an extensive collection of Palaearctic Lepidoptera now in the Natural History Museum

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, London

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. He published 112 scientific papers, but he is best known for his Monograph on the genus Erebia

Erebia

Erebia is a Holarctic genus of brush-footed butterflies, family Nymphalidae. Most of the about 90–100 species are dark brown or black in color, with reddish brown to orange or more rarely yellowish wing blotches or bands...

(1936). He was a Fellow

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 of the Royal Entomological Society of London and a member of Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica

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