lepidopterologist

This species is named in honour of the German lepidopterologist Fred Brandt.

For one thing, this genus was discussed by famous author and lepidopterologist Vladimir Nabokov in 1945.

The species is named after the Russian lepidopterologist Vadim Zolotukhin.

It is named for the Italian lepidopterologist Alessandro Floriani.

Huertas, a lepidopterologist by training, found several taxa of butterflies new to science (Huertas & Arias 2007).

There has been confusion regarding the correct name; the present genus was discussed in 1945 by the famous lepidopterologist and author Vladimir Nabokov as Parachilades but had been described already in 1921.

The specific epithet blancae refers to the whitish underparts of the new species, while also commemorating the Colombian lepidopterologist Blanca Huertas, the wife of ornithologist Thomas Donegan (who described the species).

The species is named in honour of the German zoologist and lepidopterologist Prof. Dr. Clas Naumann, the former Director of the Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn, Germany.