Annette Frances Braun

Some typical microlepidoptera: an alucitid many-plumed moth in the top center; a white pterophorid plume moth in the center. Details of male moth genitalia, Plate 15 from a monograph by Annette Frances Braun on the moth family Tischeriidae.

Annette Frances Braun (August 24, 1884 – November 27, 1978) was an American entomologist and leading authority on microlepidoptera, a grouping of mostly small and nocturnal moths. Her special interest was leaf miners: moths whose larvae live and feed from within a leaf.

Career Braun began her career as a zoology teaching assistant at the University of Cincinnati (1911–1919) before turning to private research. She developed expertise in the moths of the eastern North American forests, becoming an international authority who has been described as one of the most accomplished lepidopterists of the 20th century. They were dedicated conservationists, and Braun is remembered for her efforts to preserve natural areas in Adams County, Ohio. Elachistidae of North America (Microlepidoptera), 1948 Tischeriidae of America North of Mexico, 1972 "The Genus Bucculatrix in America North of Mexico (Microlepidoptera)", 1963

Other writings "Revision of the North American species of the genus Lithocolletis Hübner," 1908 "The Frenulum and Its Retinaculum in the Lepidoptera," 1924