Kevin Tuck FRES, FLS

Biography

Kevin Tuck is a retired former curator and entomological researcher who spent over 40 years at a major natural history research institution where he worked on Microlepidoptera, predominantly Tortricoidea. He has focussed particularly on the fauna of Southeast Asia and has participated in eight scientific expeditions to the montane forests of Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal and Indonesia. In all, he has spent nearly one year in remote biodiverse areas. Expeditions have included the internationally acclaimed Project Wallace Expedition (Indonesia, 1985) and Belum Expedition (peninsular Malaysia, 1993) and a three-week expedition to Thailand which included teaching lepidoptera systematics to students of Chiang Mai University.

Kevin is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, and a Fellow of the Linnean Society.

He has authored or co-authored more than 40 scientific papers, popular articles, and books, including the globally used World Catalogue of Tortricidae (2005; now online at tortricidae.com); an interactive tutorial CD of dissection methods (with ETI Bioinformatics, 2001); and the widely used reference fieldbook A Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of South-East Asia (Malaysian Nature Society, 1994).

In all his decades of work, with access to very extensive literature and frequent contact with many biological researchers including leading world specialists, Kevin says he found no convincing evidence in support of Darwin’s theory of evolution whatsoever.