Parnassius smintheus sayii W. H. Edwards, 1863 - male

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“Peat Bog, Boulder Co (unty), Colorado” is mentioned on the collection label; at ac there is still a label of determination Robert Michael Pyle (born July 19, 1947 in Denver, Colorado) was one of the most active North American lepidopterologists in the second half of the twentieth century. After graduating from college, in 1965, Pyle focused all his efforts to train in the field of nature protection, with a special emphasis on the conservation of invertebrates. He obtained B.S. Degree at the University of Washington (Seattle), M.S. at UW College of Forest Resources and obtained a Fulbright scholarship that gave him the opportunity to study the conservation of diurnal butterflies at Monks Wood Experimental Station from Abbot 's Ripton, UK, one of his mentors being a famous English biologist, John Heath. In 1976 he obtained Ph.D. At the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies with a work about the eco-geography of conservation of lepidoptera. Pyle worked as a field naturalist for Sequoia National Park, consultant for the Wildlife Division of Papua New Guinea and was co-manager of Species Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, UK, where he worked on the writing of the first edition of the IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. Inspired by what has been learned, Pyle decides to establish, in 1971, the famous Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, dedicated to preserving invertebrates on US territory. Since 1975, Pyle has been actively involved in preserving the famous monarch butterfly, organizing the First International Conference for the conservation of the monarch butterfly (Morelos, Mexico) and actively leading The Monarch Project within the Xerces Society. Robert Michael Pyle is also currently considered an emblematic figure for contemporary North American lepidopterology.

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Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History

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