Bucknill was a keen ornithologist and lepidopterist. It is named for British botanist, entomologist, author, lepidopterist, collector and traveller, Henry John Elwes. These were extensively studied by Russian novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov. Saundby was also a keen lepidopterist and a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. Nabokov was also an expert lepidopterist and composer of chess problems. In August 1906, she married widower George Blundell Longstaff, a prominent lepidopterist and statistician. Celebrated author and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov described their appearance as "shimmering light-blue mirrors". It was first described by the author and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov in 1945. As a lepidopterist, he amassed a collection of around 50,000 butterflies. Someone who studies in this field is a lepidopterist or, archaically, an aurelian. Robert Michael Pyle is an American lepidopterist, writer, teacher, and founder of the Xerces Society. Terblanche is married to the lepidopterist Reinier Terblanche. The work established Zeller as perhaps the greatest lepidopterist of the century. He was a lepidopterist and specialised in moths in the family Geometridae. The species is named for the Austrian Lepidopterist Dr. Karl Schawerda.