Annette Braun

Annette Braun
Born
Annette Frances Braun

(1884-08-24)August 24, 1884
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
DiedNovember 27, 1978(1978-11-27) (aged 94)
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Cincinnati
Known formicrolepidoptera
Scientific career
Fieldsentomology
Some typical microlepidoptera: an alucitid many-plumed moth in the top center; a white pterophorid plume moth in the center.
Details of male moth genitalia, Plate 15 from a monograph by Annette Frances Braun on the moth family Tischeriidae.

Annette Frances Braun (August 24, 1884 – November 27, 1978) was an American entomologist and leading authority on microlepidoptera, a grouping of mostly small and nocturnal moths. Her special interest was leaf miners: moths whose larvae live and feed from within a leaf.[1][2]

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