[f. LEPIDOPTER-A + -IST.] One who studies the natural history of Lepidoptera.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xliii. IV. 192. If a Lepidopterist goes into the wood to capture moths in the day-time.
1872. O. W. Holmes, Poet Breakf.-t., ii. (1885), 48. Great competition … between the dipterists and the lepidopterists.
