About Montague Fenton
Lived 1850 – 1937 (aged 86). Montague Fenton was a British entomologist and lepidopterist.
Montague Arthur Fenton (29 June 1850 in Doncaster, England – 21 March 1937 in Oakland City, California The pierid Leptidea morsei, known as Fenton's wood white, was described and named by him. The types of Lepidoptera described by Fenton are held by the Natural History Museum, London (via his collaborator Arthur Gardiner Butler) who he honoured in the name Antigius butleri.
Works Arthur G. Butler, 1881 On Butterflies from Japan; with which are incorporated Notes and Descriptions of new Species by Montague Fenton. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1881):846-856
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English entomologist
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Montague Fenton was born on 29 June 1850 in Doncaster.
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Montague Fenton died on 21 March 1937 in Oakland.
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Montague Fenton was an entomologist and lepidopterist.
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Montague Fenton was British.
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