Chris H.S. Watts

Chris H.S. Watts, Australian entomologist

• South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia
• watts.chrissaugov.sa.gov.au

(List may be incomplete)

• 23 taxon names authored by Chris H.S. Watts

(List may be incomplete)

• 1978: A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian journal of zoology, supplementary series, (57) DOI: 10.1071/AJZS057 Reference page. 

• 1982: A blind terrestrial water beetle from Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20(3): 527-531. Reference page. 

• 1985: A faunal assessment of Australian Hydradephaga. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 137(1): 22-28. Google books JSTOR Reference page. 

• 1987. Revision of australian Berosus leach coleoptera hydrophilidae. Records of the South Australian Museum 21(1): 1-28. Reference page. 

• 1988. Revision of Australasian Hydrophilus Muller, 1764 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Records of the South Australian Museum 22(2): 117–130. BHL Reference page. 
• 1988. Revision of Australian Halipilidae [Haliplidae] (Coleoptera). Records of the South Australian Museum 22(1): 21–28. BHL Reference page. 

• 1989. Revision of Australasian Sternolophus Solier (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Records of the South Australian Museum 23(2): 89–95. BHL Reference page. 

• 1990. Revision of Australian Hydrobiomorpha Blackburn (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Records of the South Australian Museum 24(1): 35–42. BHL Reference page. 

• 1995: Revision of the Australasian genera Agraphydrus Regimbart, Chasmogenus Sharp and Helochares Mulsant (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Records of the South Australian Museum 28(1): 113-130. Reference page. 

• 1997: A new genus and species of Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Records of the South Australian Museum 29(2): 121-123. BHL full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• 2000: Three new species of Tiporus Watts (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) with redescriptions of the other species in the genus. Records of the South Australian Museum 33(2): 89-99. BHL Reference page. 
• 2000: Revision of Australian Chaetarthria Stephens (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Records of the South Australian Museum 33(1): 29-31. BHL Reference page. 
• & Pinder, A.M. 2000: Two new species of Antiporus Sharp from Western Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Records of the South Australian Museum 33(1): 17-19. BHL Reference page. 

• 2004: Revision of Australian Scirtes Illiger and Ora Clark (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 128(2): 131-168. BHL Reference page. 

• 2007: Revision of Australian Pseudomicrocara Armstrong (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 131(1): 1-82. BHL Reference page. 

• 2009: Revision of Heterocyphon Armstrong, Peneveronatus Armstrong and Accolabass gen. nov. (Scirtidae: Coleoptera). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 133(1): 108-149. ingentaconnect Reference page. 

• Watts, C.H.S. 2010: Revision of Australian Prionocyphon Redtenbacher (Scirtidae: Coleoptera). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 134(1): 53–88. [Publication date: May 2010 issue] abstract

• 2011. Revision of Australian Scirtidae of the genera Chameloscyphon gen. nov., Daploeuros gen. nov., Dasyscyphon gen. nov., Eurycyphon gen. nov., Macrodascillus Carter, Petrocyphon gen. nov. and Spaniosdascillus gen. nov. (Coleoptera). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 135(1): 66–110. DOI: 10.1080/03721426.2011.11877485 . Reference page. 

• Michat, M.C., Alarie, Y. & 2012. Phylogenetic relationships and comparative larval morphology of epigean and stygobitic species of Limbodessus Guignot, 1939 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini), with a key of identification. Zootaxa 3584: 1–110. Preview Reference page. 

• ; McRae, J. 2013: Limbodessus bennetti sp. nov., the first stygobitic Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 28(2): 141-143. Abstract and full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• Cooper, S.J.B., , Saint, K.M. & Leijs, R. 2014: Phylogenetic relationships of Australian Scirtidae (Coleoptera) based on mitochondrial and nuclear sequences. Invertebrate systematics 28(6): 628–642. DOI: 10.1071/IS13046 Reference page. 
• 2014. The larvae of some Australian Scirtidae (Coleoptera) with a key to known genera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 138(1): 1–91. Abstract Reference page. 

• Fikáček, M. & 2015: Notes on the Australian Anacaenini (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): description of male of Phelea breviceps Hansen and unravelling the identity of Crenitis neogallica Gentili. Zootaxa 3980(3): 427–434. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.6. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

• Hendrich, L., Balke, M. & 2016. Description of a new Tiporus Watts, 1985 from northern Queensland, Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae). Zootaxa 4189(1): 174–182. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4189.1.10. Reference page. 
• , Hendrich, L. & Balke, M. 2016. A new interstitial species of diving beetle from tropical northern Australia provides a scenario for the transition of epigean to stygobitic life (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae). Subterranean Biology, 19: 23–29. DOI: 10.3897/subtbiol.19.9513 Reference page. 

• , Cooper, S.J.B. & Saint, K.M. 2017. Review of Australian Scirtes Illiger, Ora Clark and Exochomoscirtes Pic (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) including descriptions of new species, new groups and a multi-gene molecular phylogeny of Australian and non-Australian species. Zootaxa 4347(3): 511–532. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.3.5. Reference page. 

• Michat, M.C., Alarie, Y. & 2019. Dealing with a hairy beast–larval morphology and chaetotaxy of the Australian endemic diving beetle genus Spencerhydrus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Cybistrini). ZooKeys, 884: 53–87. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.884.38391 Reference page. 

• Hendrich, L., & Balke, M. 2020. The “minute diving beetles” of southern Australia – taxonomic revision of Gibbidessus Watts, 1978, with description of six new species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini). ZooKeys, 975: 11–49. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.975.55456 Reference page. 
• , Cooper, S.J.B. & Libonatti, M.L. 2020. New genera, species and combinations in the Pseudomicrocara Armstrong group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) based on morphology supported by mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequence data. Zootaxa 4831(1): 1–66. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4831.1.1 Reference page.