Caratteristica per la colorazione gialla e nera , questa è una delle specie piu grandi fra le farlalle Nord Americane , è diffusa nell'America centrale , Messico e Stati Uniti meridionali , appertiene alla famiglia delle " Papilionadeae"

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Pieter o Pierre Cramer
Pieter Cramer (1721-1776) Pieter Cramer (1721-1776) was a wealthy wool merchant living in Amsterdam. An amateur naturalist, he developed an extensive natural history collection that included many colourful butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera), many of which had been collected from exotic areas of the world such as Surinam in South America, where the Dutch had colonial or trading links. Cramer had wanted a permanent record of his important and valuable collection and so engaged the artist Gerrit Wartenaar Lambertz (fl. 1775) to draw his fine collection. He also arranged for Lambertz to draw butterflies and moths belonging to other keen Lepidoptera collectors in the Netherlands. Little is known about Lambertz but he is currently the subject of research by Library staff. Such was the quality of the illustrations that Cramer was persuaded by such people as Caspar Stoll (d.1795) to publish the set of drawings. As a result, the now famous book, De Uitlandsche Kapellen, [1775-] 1779-1782 was published. It consisted of 34 issues in four volumes with all of the drawings accompanied with descriptions of the insects. Sadly, Cramer died before the publication was completed and so Stoll took over responsibility for the project, producing a supplement. De Uitlandsche Kapellen is now regarded as a key work in the history of entomology. Beautifully illustrated with fine hand-coloured engravings this was the first book on exotic Lepidoptera that used a new system by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) for naming and classifying animals. Over 1,650 butterfly species were described in this pivotal work, naming and illustrating many new species for the first time
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