page_title: August Kusche
section_title: Notable discoveries
hierarchical_section_title: August Kusche / Notable discoveries
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration of butterflies mounted by August Kusche, no date. The species are Plain tiger, Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus), the Lime butterfly, Papilio demoleus (Linnaeus), the Golden birdwing, Troides aeacus (Felder), the Spotted black crow, Euploca crameri (Lucas) and the Spot swordtail, Graphium nomius (Esper).
context_page_description: J. August Kusche was a renowned botanist, and he discovered many new species of moths and butterflies. The plant of the aster family, Erigeron kuschei is named in his honor.
context_section_description: In 1928, Kusche donated to the Bishop Museum 164 species of Lepidoptera he collected on Kauai between 1919 and 1920. Of those, 55 species had not previously been recorded on Kauai and 6 were new to science, namely Agrotis stenospila, Euxoa charmocrita, Plusia violacea, Nesamiptis senicula, Nesamiptis proterortha and Scotorythra crocorrhoa.
  The Essig Museum of Entomology lists 26 species collected by Kusche from California, Baja California, Arizona, Alaska and on the Solomon Islands.
caption: Butterflies mounted by August Kusche
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