Person
Lambkin, Trevor Anthony
- Occupation
- Entomologist and Lepidopterist
Summary
Trevor Lambkin is an entomologist who for much of his career worked on insect pests for the Queensland Department of Primary Industries. However his passion was for butterflies and his principal collecting region the islands of Torres Strait. He first visited these islands 1983 with Ian Knight. The pair made dozens of visits to the islands over more than 40 years. Lambkin identified nearly 230 species from the region. With Knight, Lambkin built a collection of over 12,000 butterfly specimens from the Torres Strait, as well as from across Australia, Southeast Asia and Oceania. This nationally significant collection was donated to the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in 2019. Lambkin has been active in entomological societies, being President of the Butterfly and Other Invertebrates Club Inc. from 2021 to 2023.
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Chronology
- 1977
- Education - BAppSc, Queensland University of Technology
- 1983
- Career event - First collecting trip to Thursday Island, with Ian Knight
- 2001
- Education - Graduate Certificate in Agricultural Studies, University of Queensland
- 2011
- Education - PhD, University of Queensland
- 2019
- Life event - Lambkin-Knight butterfly collection donated to the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
- 2021 - 2023
- Career position - President, Butterfly and Other Invertebrates Club Inc.
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Lambkin, T. A.; and Knight, A. I., 'Butterflies recorded from the Torres Strait and northern Cape York Peninsula regions during July 1983', News Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Queensland, 11 (1983), 98-103. Details
- Lambkin, T. A.; and Knight, A. I., 'Butterflies recorded from Murray Island, Torres Strait, Queensland', Australian entomological magazine, 17 (1990), 101-12. Details
- Lambkin, T. A.; and Knight, A. I., 'New Australian butterfly records (Lepidoptera) from Saibai and Dauan Islands, Torres Strait, Queensland', Australian entomologist, 32 (2005), 49-54. Details
- Lambkin, Trevor, 'Murdoch de Baar (1945 - 2011)', Metamorphosis Australia: magazine of the Butterfly and Other Invertebrates Club Inc., 60 (2011), 9-11, https://drive.google.com/file/d/17aqSNr1o7ut4x8x6yEqMlt368oNzyQ5_/view. Details
- Lambkin, Trevor A., 'The butterflies of the Torres Strait islands: a fauna in review', Metamorphosis Australia: magazine of the Butterfly & Other Invertebrates Club Inc., 102 (2021), 2-11, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M_wsBmIxHjt5EL2zOGAoV4zgCiZpi24a/view. Details
- Lambkin, Trevor A., 'From South Africa to Torres Strait: the life and legacy of Arthur Ian Knight (1930 - 2021)', Australian entomologist, 48 (2) (2021), 119-30. Details
- Lambkin, Trevor A., 'Buigu Island, Torres, Strait, Queensland and its butterflies: a biogeographical study', Australian entomologist, 51 (2) (2024), 112-24. Details
- Maynard, D., 'Torres Strait to Tasmania: nationally significant butterfly collection housed at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston', Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 155 (1) (2021), 69-70. http://doi.org/10.26749/rstpp.155.1.69. Details
- Maynard, David and Fearn, Simon, 'A precious gift the Lambkin-Knight butterfly collection donated to the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery', Tasmanian Naturalist, 143 (2021), 1-11. Details
Theses
- Lambkin, T A., 'The ecology and management of lesser mealworm Alphitobius diaperinus (Panzer) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in eastern Australian broiler houses', PhD thesis, University of Queensland, 2011. Details
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Created: 29 July 2025