Arthur Harold Bruce Rydon

Arthur Harold Bruce Rydon MRCS, (Dec 1919 - Jan 2010), the son of Harold E. Rydon and Gladys Dinsdale, was born in Brisbane, Australia and raised in East Africa, where his family acquired property in the 1920s near Arusha. Educated at Eton he attended medical college during the second world war and practiced as a doctor. On returning to Africa after the war he became a pre-eminent expert on east African butterflies, collecting and naming a number of undiscovered species (Rydonia).

Taxon names authored

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• 10 taxon names authored by Arthur Harold Bruce Rydon

Publications

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1981

• Rydon, A.H.B. 1981. Description of a new form of Cymothoe weymeri Suffert from Zaire. Lambillionea 80(1-4): 2-4. Reference page. 
• Rydon, A.H.B. 1981a. Description of new species of Cymothoe Hűbner from Zaire: (Lepid. Nymphalidae). Lambillionea 80(1-4): 4-10. Reference page. 
• Rydon, A.H.B. 1981b. Description of new species of Cymothoe Hűbner from Zaire: (Lepid. Nymphalidae). Lambillionea 80(11-12):83-93. Reference page. 

1982

• Rydon, A.H.B. 1982. Taxonomic notes on some members of the Charaxes viola group, with descriptions of three new species from Yemen Arab Republic and Ethiopia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Charaxinae). Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Biologiske Skrifter 23(3): 63-76. Reference page. 

1989

• Rydon, A.H.B. 1989. A new species of Charaxes from southern Sudan (Lep. Nymphalidae). Lambillionea 89(5-6): 62-67. Reference page. 
• Rydon, A.H.B. 1989a. A new species of black Charaxes from western Tanzania (Lep. Nymphalidae). Lambillionea 89(9-12): 121-124. Reference page. 

1991

• Rydon, A.H.B. 1991. Systematic notes on the Cymothoe alcimeda group. Metamorphosis 2(1): 9-15. Reference page. 
• Rydon, A.H.B. 1991a. Systematic notes on the Cymothoe alcimeda group (Part 2). Metamorphosis 2(4): 11-20. Reference page. 

1992

• Rydon, A.H.B. 1992. Systematic notes on the Cymothoe alcimeda group. (Part 3). Metamorphosis 3(1): 11-14. Reference page. 
• Rydon, A.H.B. 1992a. Systematic notes on the Cymothoe alcimeda group. (Part 4). Metamorphosis 3(1): 136-138. Reference page. 

1996

• Rydon, A.H.B., 1996. Notes on some members of the Cymothoe aurivillii group (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Lambillionea Centenaire 96: 8-14. Reference page. 
• Rydon, A.H.B. 1996a. A note on Charaxes karkloof trimeni Rydon. Metamorphosis 7(1): 43-44. Reference page. 

2007

• Rydon, A.H.B., Congdon, T.C.E. & Collins, S.C. 2007. A new subspecies of Charaxes contrarius van Someren, 1969 (Lepodptera: Nymphalidae: Charaxinae) from Tanzania Metamorphosis 18(4): 144–150. Reference page.