James Brackenridge Clemens
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James Brackenridge Clemens (31 January 1825, Wheeling, West Virginia
– 11 January 1867, in Easton, Pennsylvania
) was an American
entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera
. He described many new species. His collection of Microlepidoptera
is in the Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia
.
Wheeling, West Virginia
Wheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia; it is the county seat of Ohio County. Wheeling is the principal city of the Wheeling Metropolitan Statistical Area...
– 11 January 1867, in Easton, Pennsylvania
Easton, Pennsylvania
Easton is a city in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 26,800 as of the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Northampton County....
) was an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
entomologist who specialised in 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...
. He described many new species. His collection of Microlepidoptera
Microlepidoptera
Microlepidoptera is an artificial grouping of moth families, commonly known as the 'smaller moths' . These generally have a wingspan of under 20 mm, and are thus harder to identify by external phenotypic markings than macrolepidoptera...
is in the Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia
Academy of Natural Sciences
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, formerly Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, is the oldest natural science research institution and museum in the New World...
.
Works
- 1859 Synopsis of the North American Sphingides Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia 4 (2): 97-190
- 1859-1861 Contributions to American Lepidopterology 1-7 Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia
- 1863. American Micro-Lepidoptera Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 2(1):4–14.
- 1864. North American Microlepidoptera Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 2: 415-430.
- 1872 BHLThe Tineina of North America, by (the late) Dr. Brackenridge Clemens. (Being a collected edition of his writings on that group of insects.) With notes by the editor, H.T. StaintonHenry Tibbats StaintonHenry Tibbats Stainton was an English entomologist.He was educated at King's College London.He was the author of Manual of British Butterflies and Moths and with the German entomologist Philipp Christoph Zeller, a Swiss, Heinrich Frey and another Englishman, John William Douglas of The Natural...
London, J. Van Voorst,1872.