Post by Adam Cotton on Mar 27, 2022 13:44:04 GMT
I have just heard that the well known Lepidopterist Tomoo Fujioka died on 25th March aged 86.
He is probably best known for his superb 1997 book Japanese Butterflies and their Relatives in the World (Fujioka, T., Tsukiyama, H. & Chiba, H. (1997) Japanese Butterflies and their Relatives in the World. Tokyo, Shuppan Geijyutsu Sha. 3 volumes, 301 pp., 196 pp., 162 plates) but he also wrote a book on Butterflies of Japan, first published in 1975 (Fujioka, T. (1975) Butterflies of Japan. Tokyo, Kodansha. 2 volumes 142 pp., 312 pp.), with a 2nd edition published in 1981. In 1970 he also published a report on an expedition to Nepal in 1963 (Fujioka, T. 1970. Butterflies collected by the Lepidopterological Research Expedition to Nepal Himalaya, 1963. Part 1. Papilionoidea. Spec. Bull. Lep. Soc. Japan 4: 1-125, 15 f, 31 pls.) in which he and his colleagues found 286 species of butterflies, excluding Hesperiidae.
He described a total of 17 taxa in Papilionidae, including Papilio bianor ryukyuensis from Okinawa Island (1975) which is now considered to be a separate species to both Papilio bianor and P. dehaanii.
As well as Papilionidae, Fujioka-san was also very interested in Zephyrus and many other groups of butterflies.
Adam.
He is probably best known for his superb 1997 book Japanese Butterflies and their Relatives in the World (Fujioka, T., Tsukiyama, H. & Chiba, H. (1997) Japanese Butterflies and their Relatives in the World. Tokyo, Shuppan Geijyutsu Sha. 3 volumes, 301 pp., 196 pp., 162 plates) but he also wrote a book on Butterflies of Japan, first published in 1975 (Fujioka, T. (1975) Butterflies of Japan. Tokyo, Kodansha. 2 volumes 142 pp., 312 pp.), with a 2nd edition published in 1981. In 1970 he also published a report on an expedition to Nepal in 1963 (Fujioka, T. 1970. Butterflies collected by the Lepidopterological Research Expedition to Nepal Himalaya, 1963. Part 1. Papilionoidea. Spec. Bull. Lep. Soc. Japan 4: 1-125, 15 f, 31 pls.) in which he and his colleagues found 286 species of butterflies, excluding Hesperiidae.
He described a total of 17 taxa in Papilionidae, including Papilio bianor ryukyuensis from Okinawa Island (1975) which is now considered to be a separate species to both Papilio bianor and P. dehaanii.
As well as Papilionidae, Fujioka-san was also very interested in Zephyrus and many other groups of butterflies.
Adam.
