Torben Bjørn Larsen

Torben Bjørn Larsen (12 January 1944 – 21 May 2015) was a Danish economist and lepidopterist who studied butterflies particularly in Asia and Africa.

He wrote books on the butterflies of west Africa, the Middle East and numerous papers, including descriptions of many new taxa.

Larsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark but his early days were spent in Greece where he became interested in butterflies.

He studied butterflies in the various places where they lived and worked including the Philippines, Bangladesh, Ecuador, Papua New Guinea, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sierra Leone and Côte d’Ivoire.

[2][1] Apart from his articles to journals, Larsen wrote several books including: He wrote a long-running series of anecdotes on his travels and butterfly collection trips in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation which was later compiled into the book Hazards of Butterfly Collecting (2004).