Lepidopterists' Society

The society's main organ is the Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, which has been published continuously since 1947.^{[citation needed]} Back issues up and including 2009 are freely available and hosted by the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.^[1] Subsequent issues are available via BioOne.^[2]

Since 1959, the society has also published a quarterly newsletter, the News of the Lepidopterists' Society. All back issues of this, too, are available from the Peabody Museum.^[3]

A series of occasional papers is called Memoirs:^[3]

• Memoir 1. A Synonymic List of the Nearctic Rhophalocera. C. F. dos Passos, 1964
• Memoir 2. A Catalogue/Checklist of the Butterflies of America North of Mexico. L. D. Miller and F. M. Brown, 1981.
• Memoir 3. Supplement to: A Catalogue/Checklist of the Butterflies of America North of Mexico. C. D. Ferris (ed.), 1989
• Memoir 4. Foodplants of World Saturniidae. S. E. Stone, 1991
• Memoir 5. Basic Techniques for Observing and Studying Moths and Butterflies. W. D. Winter, Jr., 2000

They are also available via the Peabody.^[3]

Other publications include:

• The Lepidopterists' Society Commemorative Volume 1945-1973. R. Kendall (compiler), 1977

The society's first president, in 1951, was James Halliday McDunnough of the Nova Scotia Museum of Science.^[4] The next year, he was succeeded by the German-British entomologist Karl Jordan, of the Zoological Museum, Tring, England.^[4] The president for 2018-2019 is Brian Scholtens [Wikidata].^[4]

The society awards a Karl Jordan Medal, initiated in 1972, in honor of Jordan.^[5] The first recipient was Henri Stempffer.^[5]

A full list of recipients is:^[6]

• 1973 (1973): Henri Stempfer
• 1974 (1974): Frederick Stehr
• 1977 (1977): Donald R. Davis
• 1979 (1979): John Frederick Gates Clarke
• 1980 (1980): Keith S. Brown Jr.
• 1982 (1982): Jerry A. Powell
• 1983 (1983): Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
• 1978 (1978): Pierre E.L. Viette
• 1984 (1984): David Francis Hardwick
• 1985 (1985): John Neville Eliot
• 1986 (1986): Frederick H. Rindge
• 1988 (1988): Niels Peder Kristensen
• 1989 (1989): Phillip R. Ackery and Richard I. Vane-Wright
• 1990 (1990): Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen
• 1995 (1995): Jeremy Daniel Holloway
• 1996 (1996): Ian Francis Bell Common
• 1997 (1997): Ronald Hodges
• 1999 (1999): Claude Lemaire
• 2000 (2000): Tosio Kumata
• 2002 (2002): Malcolm J. Scoble
• 2004 (2004): Eugene G. Munroe
• 2006 (2006): No award
• 2008 (2008): Gaden S. Robinson
• 2011 (2011): J. Donald Lafontaine
• 2013 (2013): James S. Miller
• 2015 (2015): Ted Edwards
• 2017 (2017): Philip James DeVries
• 2019 (2019): Marianne Horak

The society also grants honorary life memberships, such as that conferred on Lincoln Brower.^[7]