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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2022-07-05 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-08-12 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007051b.htm person Knight Arthur Ian AACR2 19 January 1930 17 April 2021 Place of Birth Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa Place of Death Deloraine, Tasmania, Australia Architect Lepidopterist Insect collector Ian Knight was an architect who practiced in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and, after moving to Queensland in 1978, in Brisbane. Before coming to Australia, he was an enthusiastic collector of butterflies: his collection of over 400 species came to Australia with him. This interest continued from his early days in Queensland. He quickly made contact with local entomologists, including Donald Sands and Murdoch de Baar, with whom he was often in the field. In 1979 he met Trevor Lambkin, the start of a collecting friendship that lasted over 40 years. Knight and Lambkin made their first visit to the Torres Strait: Thursday (Waiben) and Prince of Wales (Muralug) Islands, and Bamaga in 1983. Together they made many visits to Torres Strait, the last in 2016 to Mer Island. Knight retired in 1995 and moved to Tasmania, where he continued his entomological pursuits and became expert in Tasmanian butterflies. In the late 1990s he donated the bulk of his collection, including his south African specimens, to the Queensland Department of Primary Industries (subsequently transferred to the Queensland Museum). Knight and 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. The fossil marine mollusc Trigonia knighti, which Knight discovered as a child, and the endemic New South Wales butterfly Ocybadistes knightorum were named in his honour. 1978 1978 Life event - Migrated to Queensland with his family 1983 1983 Career event - First collecting trip to Thursday Island, with Trevor Lambkin 1995 1995 Life event - Retired to Tasmania 2003 2003 Career event - Collecting trip to Christmas Island 2006 2006 Career event - Collecting trip to Norfolk Island 2016 2016 Career event - Final collecting trip to Mer Island, Torres Strait 2019 2019 Life event - Lambkin-Knight butterfly collection donated to the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery De Baar, Murdoch (1945 - 2011) Sands, Donald Peter Andrew Lambkin, Trevor Anthony Queensland Department of Primary Industries (I), State of Queensland (1963 - 1996)

Knight donated most of his specimens to the Department's Insect collection in the 1990s

 Queensland Museum

The Museum holds a significant collection of Knight's butterfly specimens

 Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, City of Launceston (1891 - )

Lambkin-Knight butterfly collection donated to the Museum 2019

 'Knight, Arthur Ian (Ian)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Knight, Arthur Ian (Ian) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: New Australian butterfly records (Lepidoptera) from Saibai and Dauan Islands, Torres Strait, Queensland Lambkin, T. A.; and Knight, A. I. New Australian butterfly records (Lepidoptera) from Saibai and Dauan Islands, Torres Strait, Queensland 2005 Australian entomologist 32 49-54 Journal Article: Butterflies recorded from Murray Island, Torres Strait, Queensland Lambkin, T. A.; and Knight, A. I. Butterflies recorded from Murray Island, Torres Strait, Queensland 1990 Australian entomological magazine 17 101-12 Journal Article: Butterflies recorded from the Torres Strait and northern Cape York Peninsula regions during July 1983 Lambkin, T. A.; and Knight, A. I. Butterflies recorded from the Torres Strait and northern Cape York Peninsula regions during July 1983 1983 News Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Queensland 11 98-103 Journal Article: A precious gift the Lambkin-Knight butterfly collection donated to the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Maynard, David and Fearn, Simon A precious gift the Lambkin-Knight butterfly collection donated to the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery 2021 Tasmanian Naturalist 143 1-11 Journal Article: From South Africa to Torres Strait: the life and legacy of Arthur Ian Knight (1930 - 2021) Lambkin, Trevor A. From South Africa to Torres Strait: the life and legacy of Arthur Ian Knight (1930 - 2021) 2021 Australian entomologist 48 2 119-30