FNZ 54 - Hierodoris (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Oecophoridae) - Contributor notes
Hoare, RJB 2005. Hierodoris (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Gelechoidea: Oecophoridae), and overview of Oecophoridae. Fauna of New Zealand 54, 100 pages.
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ISSN 0111-5383 (print),
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no.
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ISBN 0-478-09378-0 (print),
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Published 24 Dec 2005
ZooBank: http://zoobank.org/References/58787BD7-116F-42F4-B565-26BE1BC948AD
Contributor notes
Contributor Robert Hoare was born in Winchester in the south of England. He was educated at Eton, and then attended Oxford University where he completed a degree in Classics (Latin and Greek literature and philosophy). He followed this, logically enough, with a degree in Biological Sciences at Exeter University. An early interest in butterflies was fostered by his father Ian, who painstakingly reared many species through from egg to adult. The acquisition of a Robinson pattern mercury vapour moth trap at a formative point in life transformed him instantly into a mothman, after which he progressed inexorably towards the study of smaller and smaller moths, culminating in his PhD thesis on the Nepticulidae of Australia at the Australian National University in Canberra (nepticulids are the smallest moths of all). Since joining Landcare Research in 1998, Robert has concentrated his research efforts on slightly less tiny moths, especially those in the family Oecophoridae, but retains a broad interest in all Lepidoptera, particularly leaf-miners and detritus-feeders. In 2003, he took on the managing editorship of the New Zealand Entomologist, and since 2000 he has also enjoyed lecturing on systematic entomology at the University of Auckland. When he is not engaged in moth research, teaching, or editing, Robert composes light verse, often of an entomological nature (see Frontispoem, p. 8), and dances, sometimes in public.