Person

Edwards, Edward David (Ted) (1945 - 2023)

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Born
12 October 1945
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died
7 August 2023
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Occupation
Lepidopterist
Alternative Names
  • Edwards, Ted (Also known as)

Summary

Ted Edwards was one of Australia's foremost experts on Australian Lepidoptera. He was noted for encyclopaedic knowledge on Australian butterflies and moths and his infallible memory. For over 40 years he was employed at the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) where he was manager of the Lepidoptera collections. In retirement he continued his research at ANIC where he was Honorary Research Fellow. Edwards's research ranged across all families of Lepidoptera and included taxonomy, biogeography and conservation. He described 12 families and published over 150 papers. His major works included (with colleagues) Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia (1996), and A guide to Australian moths (2007). He was instrumental in the establishment in 2005 of the online website Australian moths online, a resource with over 6,000 moth images.

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Chronology

1967
Education - BSc in agriculture, University of Sydney
1968 - 1969
Career position - Research Agronomist, the Yanco Agricultural College and Research Station, New South Wales
1970 - 2000
Career position - Experimental Scientist and Lepidoptera Collection Manager, Australian National Insect Collection
2001
Award - Whitley Award (zoological reference) for Zoological catalogue of Australian Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea (shared with J. Newland and L. Regan), Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
2001 - 2023
Career position - Honorary Research Fellow, Australian National Insect Collection
2007
Award - Whitley Award (zoological guide) for A guide to Australian moths (shared with Paul Zborowski), Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
2012
Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to science in the field of entomology, particularly moths and butterflies, as an author and researcher, and as a mentor
2015
Award - Karl Jordan Medal, International Lepidopterists Society
2022 - 2023
Career position - Patron, Moths and Butterflies Australasia Inc.

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Published resources

Books

  • Cocking, Glenn, Bond, Suzi and Edwards, Ted, Moths in the ACT (Flynn, A.C.T.: Glenn Cocking, 2022), 274 pp. Details
  • Edwards, E.. D., Newland, J. and Regan, L., Zoological Catalogue of Australian volume 31.6: Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea (Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, 2001), 576 pp. Details
  • Zborowski, Paul and Edwards, Ted, A guide to Australian moths (Collingwood, Vic: CSIRO Publishing, 2007), 214 pp. Details

Edited Books

  • Nielsen, E. S., Edwards, E. D. and Rangsi, T. V. eds, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia (Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, 1996), 529 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Braby, M. F., Edwards, E. D. and Horak, M., 'Obituary. John Michael Landy AC MBE, 12 April 1930 - 24 February 2022', Moths and Butterflies Australasia Inc. newsletter, 2 (2022), 19-22. Details
  • Edwards, E. D. (Ted), 'Ian Francis Bell Common (23 June 1917 to 3 June 2006)', Journal of the Lepidopterists Society, 62 (2) (2008), 111-3. Details
  • Edwards, Ted, 'Professor J.F.R Kerr's butterfly collection donated to ANIC', ANICdotes, 3 (2013), 4. Details
  • Edwards, Ted, '50 years in ANIC', ANICdotes, 18 (2021), 3. Details
  • Edwards, Ted and Horak, Marianne, 'John Landy's moth collection donated to ANIC', ANICdotes 10:4-5, 10 (2017), 4-5. Details
  • Edwards, Ted and Turco, Federica, 'News from the Lepidoptera collection [donations from Fred and Nel Gerrits, and John Kerr]', ANICdotes, 8 (2016), 5. Details
  • Horak, M., Day, M. F., Barlow, C., Edwards, E. D., Su, Y. N. and Cameron, S. L., 'Systematics and biology of the iconic Australian scribbly gum moths Ogmograptis Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Bucculatricidae) and their unique insect-plant interaction', Invertebrate systematics, 26 (4) (2012), 357-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS12022. Details
  • Horak, Marianne, 'Member of the Order of Australia for Ted Edwards', ANICdotes, 1 (2012), 4. Details
  • Horak, Marianne, 'Tribute to Ted Edwards (1945 - 2023)', ANICdotes, 23 (2023), 5-6. Details
  • Horak, Marianne and Brady, Michael, 'Edward David (Ted) Edwards AM 12 October 1945 - 7 August 2023', Myrmecia, 60 (2) (2024), 8-12. https://www.austentsoc.org.au/public/111/files/Myrmecia%2060%3B2_Finalversion_FinalV3_compressed.pdf. Details
  • Kitching, R. L.; and Edwards, E. D., 'Books about Australian moths 1805-2020: an annotated bibliography', Australian entomologist, 47 (3) (2020), 119-54. Details
  • You Ning Su and Cocking, Glenn, 'The Karl Jordan Medal [awarded to Ted Edwards]', ANICCdotes, 7 (2015), 6. Details

See also

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