Entomologist, Artist, and Missionary Gustaaf Hulstaert (1900 - 1990)

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

Before going to the Congo, he began collecting Lepidoptera sent by other missionaries from the East Indies and New Guinea. He wrote a number of monographs about the new species that came his way, and about many he collected in the Congo.

He wrote a large section about Lepidoptera in Fascicle 191 of Philogene Wytsman's famous Genera Insectorum, for which he drew illustrations which were reproduced using photolithography by the Brussels printers V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet.

Copies of illustrations in this website drawn by Gustaaf Hulstaert

Chelepteryx collesi

Chenuala heliaspis

Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera artists

Australian moths

(written 5 August 2026, updated 20 August 2026)