Augustus Radcliffe Grote

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Nationality British Name Augustus Grote		Died 1903, Hildesheim, Germany Fields Entomology

Books An illustrated essay on the Noctuidae of North America, The hawk moths of North America

Augustus Radcliffe Grote (7 February 1841 Liverpool, England – 12 September 1903 Hildesheim, Germany) was a British entomologist who worked mainly in America.

Augustus Radcliffe Grote Augustus Radcliffe Grote Lepidopterist Smithsonian Institution

Grote investigated, discovered and designated various butterflies and moths in North America, particularly in the US, Mexico and Cuba.

He became Director of the Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim.

Grote was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London.

Works

The effect of the glacial epoch upon the distribution of insects in North America, Salem, Mass., Printed at the Salem press, 1876

Notes on the Sphingidæ of Cuba, Philadelphia, 1865

Check list of the Noctuidae of America, north of Mexico ... I – II. Buffalo, N. Y., 1875–76.

The New Infidelity; G.P. Putnam's; 1881; 101 pgs.

with Coleman Townsend Robinson Descriptions of American Lepidoptera – Nos 1–3.Transactions of the American Entomological Society 1(1): 1–30; (2): 171–192, pl. 4; (4): 323–360, pl. 6, pl. 7 1867–1868

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