H.M Peebles

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H.M. Peebles (- 1948? perhaps 1944) was an English entomologist who specialised in butterflies.


He was associated with Harrow school.Peebles wrote Peebles, H.M. and Schmassmann, W Description of the female of Troides allotei Rothschild Novitates Zoologicae 24:26-27 (1917) and Bryk, F., & Peebles, H.M. 1932. New Papilionidae (Lep.) Miteilungen der Deutschen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 3: 10.(1932).He purchased parts of the James John Joicey collection in the 1930s.The Parnassius are now in the Ulster Museum (purchased from Harrow school). H.M. Peebles was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Felix Bryk named the butterfly Parnassius acdestis peeblesi (Bryk, 1932)for him.

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  • NRM Holotype of Parnassius acdestis peeblesi Bryk, 1932.
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