Haydon Warren-Gash

Haydon Warren-Gash (born 8 August 1949) is a retired British diplomat, a noted lepidopterist who has described several new species.

Diplomatic career

Haydon Boyd Warren-Gash was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1971 and after language training at SOAS served at Ankara, Madrid and Paris as well as at the FCO. He was deputy High Commissioner at Nairobi 1991–94; head of the Southern Europe department at the FCO 1994–97; Ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Burkina Faso and Liberia 1997–2001 (during which he had to deal with a crisis when four Britons were among a group taken hostage by Liberian rebels[1]); Ambassador to Morocco and Mauritania 2002–05; and Ambassador to Colombia 2005–08.

Lepidopterology

Warren-Gash is a lepidopterist. While he was ambassador to Colombia he was accused of collecting rare butterflies without a licence, which he denied.[2] He has described the following species:

Various species are named after Warren-Gash:

Publications
  • New records of Lycaenidae from Kenya: a postscript (1993), in Metamorphosis (Official Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society of Africa) Volume 4, Issue 3: 113
  • The liptenids of the Banco Forest: a case study in conservation (1999), in Metamorphosis (Official Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society of Africa) Volume 10, Issue 2: 75-80
  • Collecting and conserving in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa (2002), in Metamorphosis (Official Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society of Africa) Volume 13, Issue 2: 44-50

References
  1. Liberia hostage crisis ends, BBC News, 13 August 1999
  2. British envoy caught up in butterfly row, The Telegraph, London, 14 December 2006
  3. Steve C. Collins, Torben B. Larsen and Haydon Warren-Gash (2003), Notes on Afrotropical butterflies with the description of eleven new species and four new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) - ABRI research paper no. 3, Metamorphosis (Official Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society of Africa) Volume 14, Issue 3: 63-110
  4. Tomasz W. Pyrcz, Haydon Warren-Gash, Jadwiga Lorenc-Brudecka, Dieuwko Knoop, Philippe Oremans, and Szabolcs Sáfián (2013), Taxonomy and distribution pattern of the African rain forest butterfly genus Euphaedra Hübner sensu stricto with the description of three new subspecies of Euphaedra cyparissa (Cramer) and one of E. sarcoptera (Butler) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Limenitidinae, Adoliadini), Zookeys. 2013; (298): 1–37
  5. Torben B. Larsen, T.W. Pyrcz, Szabolcs Sáfián and Haydon Warren-Gash (2009), Two biogeographically significant new species of Euriphene Boisduval, 1847 from West Africa and Nigeria: E. epe Pyrcz & Larsen and E. Taigola Sáfián & Warren-Gash (Lepidoptera: Nymphalinae: Adoliadini), Metamorphosis (Official Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society of Africa) Volume 20, Issue 3: 89-99
  6. Larsen & Warren-Gash (2000), Lambillionea 100(2) (Tome I): 214 (211-214)
  7. Steve C. Collins and Torben B. Larsen (2008), Eighteen new species, five new subspecies, and interesting data on other African butterflies – Fourth ABRI research paper, Metamorphosis (Official Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society of Africa) Volume 19, Issue 2: 42-113
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