A tribute to Jules Pierre Rambur (1801-1870)

摘要

As early as 1839, the French medical doctor Rambur published the first drawings of genitalia of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), probably the first of Lepidoptea in general. His pioneering work was ignored or even abused by contemporaries and later students, delaying the large-scale introduction of genitalia as a means for identifying species by some 70 years. Research by Reverdin (from 1910 onwards) and Warren (1926) proved Rambur's conclusions correct. The first and only appreciation for his work received Rambur from Evans in 1949,110 years after the publication. Time for a tribute.