Person
Moulds, Max (1941 - )
- Born
- 1941
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Entomologist and Museum curator
Summary
Max Moulds is an entomologist whose research focuses of butterflies, dragonflies, hawk moths and cicadas. He is noted as the founder of Australian Entomological Supplies, a successful mail-order business to supply entomological equipment to Australian enthusiasts. Moulds made a long series of collecting expeditions to Cape York Peninsula from 1960 to the 1970s and collected widely in the remote tropical and monsoonal regions of Australia and Papua New Guinea. During these trips he liaised closely with local amateur collectors. Moulds published prolifically on collecting and preserving techniques, and founded and for 17 years edited the Australian entomological magazine (now Australian entomologist). His research on cicadas, for which he became internationally renowned, culminated in the publication of his book Australian cicadas (1990) which was awarded the Whitley Medal. He also published the landmark Bibliography of the Australian butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea) 1773 - 1973 (1977). In 1990 he became Collection Manager at the Australian Museum responsible for the insect and spider collections.
Details
Chronology
- 1962 - 1968
- Career position - Primary school teacher, Glen Innes, New South Wales
- 1962 - 1972
- Career position - Founder and owner of Australian Entomological Supplies
- 1972 - 1987
- Career position - Founder and Editor, Australian Entomological Magazine
- 1985
- Award - Le Souef Memorial Award, Entomological Society of Victoria
- 1990
- Award - Whitley Medal, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales for Australian cicadas
- 1990 - 2003
- Career position - Collection Manager for insects and spiders, Australian Museum
- 1995
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Sydney
- 1999
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Sydney
- 2003
- Life event - Retired
- 2015
- Award - Honorary Member, Entomological Society of Queensland
- 2016
- Award - Australian Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Moulds, M. S., Bibliography of the Australian butterflies : (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea), 1773-1973 (Greenwich, N.S.W.: Australian Entomological Press, 1977), 239 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Moulds, M. S., 'The history of Australian butterfly research and collecting' in The biology of Australian butterflies, Kitching, R. L., Scheermeyer, E., Jones, R. E. and Pierce, N. E., eds (Melbourne: CSIRO Publications, 1999), pp. 1-24. Details
Journal Articles
- Monteith, Geoff, 'Dr Max S. Moulds, Honorary Member nomination', Entomological Society of Queensland News Bulletin, 43 (6) (2015), 109-10. Details
- Moulds, Max, 'Museum dungeons to mountain tops: 50 years of entomological adventures', Entomological Society of Queensland News Bulletin, 43 (6) (2015), 96-105. Details
- Presland, Gary, 'Australian Natural History Medallion 2016: Dr Max Moulds', The Victorian naturalist, 133 (6) (2016), 208-9. Details
- Shea, Glen; Cox, Russell; Moulds, Max; and Fletcher, Murray, ' Who was N. Geary?', Myrmecia, 59 (1) (2023), 11-4. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16746804. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/121006033. Details
- 'Moulds, Max (1941-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1772690. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 5 December 2017, Last modified: 18 January 2022