Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus (1894 - April 21, 1951)[1][2] was a Java-born, Dutch university teacher, entomologist, lepidopterist and botanical collector.[3] In 1921-1922 he participated in the Royal Dutch Geographical and Treub Society expedition to the western Maluku Islands.[3] He gained his doctoral degree in 1930 at the University of Amsterdam and then returned to the island of Java.[3] He mainly worked in Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and specialised in the families Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae.[4] In 1934 he collected in Sumatra. In 1938-1939 he participated in the Third Archbold Expedition to Dutch New Guinea.[3] He died in Bandung, Java in 1951.[3]
References
- ^ Thornton, Ian W. B. (1997). Krakatau: the destruction and reassembly of an island ecosystem (reprint, illustrated ed.). Harvard University Press. p. 307. ISBN 978-0-674-50572-8. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
- ^ "ToxopeusLJ". www.nationaalherbarium.nl.
- ^ a b c d e "Toxopeus, Lambertus Johannes (1894-1951)". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 2023-03-10.
- ^ Thornton, I. W. B. (1996). Krakatau : the destruction and reassembly of an island ecosystem. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 307. ISBN 0-674-50568-9. OCLC 32666286.
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