Gerardo Lamas

"Lamas" redirects here. For the Brazilian entomologist, see Carlos José Einicker Lamas.

Gerardo Lamas (Müller, born 1948), Peruvian entomologist.

Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Apartado 14-0434, Lima-14, Peru.

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• 141 taxon names authored by Gerardo Lamas

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• 1973. Taxonomy and evolution of the "Prolepsis-complex" in the Americas (Diptera, Asilidae). Arquivos de Zoologia 24(1): Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• 1976. Notes on Peruvian Butterflies (Lepidoptera). II. New Heliconius (Nymphalidae) from Cusco and Madre de Dios. Revista Peruana de Entomologia 19(1): 1–7. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• 1978. A new name for Papilio ceres Cramer, [1776], nec Fabricius, [1775] (Nymphalidae, Danainae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 33(2): 116–117. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• 1979. Paititia neglecta, gen. n., sp. n. from Peru (Nymphalidae: Ithomiinae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 33(1): 1–5. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Brévignon, C. & 1993. The genera Hyposcada Godman & Salvin, 1879 and Oleria Hübner, 1816 in French Guiana. Description of five new subspecies (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae Ithomiinae). Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat 80: 27–31. Reference page. 

• Bálint, Zs. & 1994: Polyommatine lycaenids of the Oreal Biome in the Neotropics, III: Descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 40 (3): 231–240. Reference page. 

• 1995. Las mariposas sudamericanas descritas por Vincez Kollar (Lepidoptera). Revista Peruana de Entomologia 37: 55–58. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• 1995. A critical review of J. Y. Millers Checklist of the Neotropical Castniidae (Lepidoptera). Revista Peruana de Entomologia 37: 73–87. Full article (PDF}. Reference page. 

• Balint & , (1996). Polyommatine lycaenides of the oreal biome in the Neotropics, Part XI. On the taxonomy of the Neotropical Polyommatine lycaenids (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Polyommatini). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 88: 127-144. Reference page. 

• 1997. Comentarios taxonómicos y nomenclaturales sobre ninfalidos neotropicales (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), con la descripción de ocho subespecies nuevas. Revista Peruana de Entomologia 40(1): 111–125. full article (PDF}. Reference page. 

• Hall, J.P.W. & 2001. Five new Riodinid species from northwestern dry forest and northeastern Andean cloud forest habitats in Peru (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae). Revista peruana de Entomología 42: 9–19, 10 figs. PDF. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R., Hall, J.P.W. & 2001. Systematics of Hypanartia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Nymphalinae), with a test for geographical speciation mechanisms in the Andes. Systematic Entomology 26: 369–399. PDF Reference page. 

• Robbins, R. K. & 2002. Nomenclatural Changes in the Neotropical Eumaeini (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Theclinae) Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 19 (Supl. 1): 197–214. PDF. Reference page. 

• 2003. Las Mariposas de Machu Picchu. Guía ilustrada de las mariposas del Santuario Histórico Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Perú. Lima, PROFONANPE. 1–221. Reference page. 

• 2004. (ed.) Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol.5A, Pt.4A. Assn. for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439pp. Reference page. 
• 2004. Twenty-five new Neotropical Dismorphiinae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Revista peruana de Entomología 44: 17–36. Reference page. 
• & Bollino, M. 2004. Revisional notes on the amatris group of Catasticta Butler, 1870 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), with descriptions of new species and subspecies. Zootaxa 605: 1–19. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

• Peña, C. & 2005. Revision of the butterfly genus Forsterinaria Gray, 1973 (Lepidoptera:Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). Revista Peruana de Entomologia 12(1): 5–48. Full article (PDF}. Reference page. 
• 2005. A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1866* – 1922†). Entomofauna 26(6): 57–100. PDF.

• Blandin, P. & , 2006: Five new Peruvian subspecies of Morpho (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Morphinae). Revista Peruana de Entomologia, 45: 65–70. full article (pdf}. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R. & 2006. A phylogenetic reassessment of Hyalenna Forbes and Dircenna Doubleday, with a revision of Hyalenna (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Ithomiinae). Systematic Entomology 31(3): 419-468. Reference page. 

• , 2007. Four new names for Afrotropical Lycaenidae. Metamorphosis 18 (4): 128–130. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• , 2007. Invalidation of six neotypes among Neotropical butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae and Nymphalidae). Revista peruana Entomologica 45: 115-119. pdf. Reference page. 
• Lamas, G. & Willmott, K.R. 2007. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100(4): 449–469. Abstract.
• Grieshuber, J. & 2007. A Synonymic List of the Genus Colias FABRICIUS, 1807 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 97: 131-171. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Hall, J.P.W. & , 2007. Four new symmachiine taxa from the eastern Andes of Peru and Ecuador. Zootaxa 1533: 41-52, 11 figs. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R. & 2007. A revision of Pachacutia, a new genus of rare Andean ithomiine butterflies (Nymphalidae: Ithomiinae), with the description of two new species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100: 449-469. DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[449:AROPAN]2.0.CO;2. . Reference page. 

• 2008. Twelve new species-group replacement names and further nomenclatural notes on Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 1848: 47–56. Abstract: [1]. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R. & 2008. A revision of the genus Megoleria (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Ithomiini, (Ithomiina), Tropical Lepidoptera Research 18(1): 36-59 (PDF). Reference page. 
• Robbins, R.K. & , 2008. Balintus d'Abrera, 2001, Gulliveria d'Abrera & Bálint, 2001, Salazaria d'Abrera & Bálint, 2001, Megathecla Robbins, R.K., 2002 and Gullicaena Bálint, 2002 (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): proposed establishment of availability. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 65(3): 188–193 (PDF). Reference page. 
• Robbins, R.K. & , 2008. Nomenclature, variation, and the biological species concept in Lamasina (Lycaenidae: Theclinae: Eumaeini). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25(1): 116–127 PDF. Reference page. 

• van Nieukerken, E.J., Kaila, L., Kitching, I.J., Kristensen, N.P., Lees, D.C., Minet, J., Mitter, C., Mutanen, M., Regier, J.C., Simonsen, T.J., Wahlberg, N., Yen, S-H., Zahiri, R., Adamski, D., Baixeras, J., Bartsch, D., Bengtsson, B.A., Brown, J.W., Bucheli, S.R., Davis, D.R., de Prins, J., de Prins, W., Epstein, M.C., Gentili-Poole, P., Gielis, C., Hättenschwiler, P., Hausmann, A., Holloway, J.D., Kallies, A., Karsholt, O., Kawahara, A.Y., Koster, S., Kozlov, M.V., Lafontaine, J.D., , Landry, J-F., Lee, S., Nuss, M., Park, K-T., Penz, C.M., Rota, J., Schintlmeister, A., Schmidt, B.C., Sohn, J-C., Solis, M.A., Tarmann, G.M., Warren, A.D., Weller, S., Yaklovlev, R.V., Zolotuhin, V.V. & Zwick, A. 2011. Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. Pp 212–221 In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  PDF. Reference page. 
• Pulido-B., H.W., Andrade-C., M.G., Peña, C. & 2011. Two new taxa of Euptychia Hübner, 1818 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from the Andes of Colombia and Peru. Zootaxa 2906: 43–51. Preview Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Constantino, L.M., Salazar-Escobar, J.A., Rodríguez, G. 2012. Study on the Ancyluris Hübner 1819 genus in Colombia and description of new taxa. (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae). Boletín Científico del Centro de Museos de Historia Natural, 16(2): 209–235. full article (pdf). Reference page. 

• Sohn, J.-C. & 2013. Corrections, additions, and nomenclatural notes to the recently published world catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera. Zootaxa 3599(4): 395–399. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3599.4.8 Reference page. 

• Lang, S.-Y., & Lo, Y.F.P. 2014. Notes on the butterflies "described" in 1929 by Prof. Woon-Young Chun from Hainan Island, China (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea). Zootaxa 3765(1): 95–97. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.1.7 Reference page. 
• Siewert, R.R., Dias, F.M.S., Dolibaina, D.R., Mielke, O.H.H., Casagrande, M.M. & 2014a. New species and taxonomic notes on Anteros Hübner, [1819] and Ourocnemis Bethune-Baker, 1887 (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae). Zootaxa 3860(5): 401–418. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3860.5.1 Reference page. 

• & Nakahara, S. 2015: Nomenclatural status of Euptychia mollina Hübner, 1818 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Zootaxa 3946(4): 587–590. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3946.4.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Nakahara, S., Hall, J.P.W., & Willmott, K.R. 2015. Seven new species and one new subspecies of Euptychia Hübner, 1818 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from the tropical Andes. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 25(2): 63–79. Reference page. 
• Neild, A.F.E., Nakahara, S., Zacca, T., Fratello, S., , le Crom, J-F., Dolibaina, D.R., Dias, F.M.S., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H. & Espeland, M. 2015. Two new species of Euptychia Hübner, 1818 from the upper Amazon basin (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). ZooKeys 541: 87–108. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.541.6297 Full article Reference page. 

• Freitas, A.V.L., Barbosa, E.P., Willmott, K.R., Wahlberg, N. & 2016. ‘Species’ from two different butterfly genera combined into one: description of a new genus of Euptychiina (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with unusually variable wing pattern. Revista Brasileire de Entomologia 60(3): 157–165. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Lang, S-Y. & 2016. What is Lethe hyrania (Kollar, 1844) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)? Zootaxa 4072(3): 396–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.10. Reference page. 
• Nakahara, S., Tan, D., , Parus, A. & Willmott, K.R. 2016. A distinctive new species of Hermeuptychia Forster, 1964 from the eastern tropical Andes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) Tropical Lepidoptera Research 26(1): 6-12. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Dolibaina, D.R., Carneiro, E., Mielke, O.H.H., Casagrande, M.M. & 2017. Monotypic no longer: a new species of Panca Evans (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Moncini) from South America. Zootaxa 4269(1): 124–132. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4269.1.6. Reference page. 
• 2017. An annotated checklist of the Pericopina (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini). Zootaxa 4319(2): 263–316. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4319.2.2. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R., & Hall, J.P.W. 2017. Notes on the taxonomy of Actinote intensa Jordan (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae) and the description of a new sibling species from eastern Ecuador. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 27(1): 6-15. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Worthy, R., González, J.M. & 2017. A review of the genus Haemonides Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Castniidae). Zootaxa 4320(2): 245–271. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4320.2.3. Reference page. 

• Barbosa, E.P., Siewert, R.R., Mielke, O.H.H., , Willmott, K.R. & Freitas, A.V.L.. 2018. Redescription of Yphthimoides patricia (Hayward, 1957), with taxonomic notes on the names Euptychia saltuensis Hayward, 1962 and Yphthimoides manasses (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867) (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Zootaxa 4422(4): 537–557. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.4.5 Reference page. 
• Benmesbah, M., Zacca, T., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H., & Willmott, K.R. 2018. Taxonomic notes on Papilio ocypete Fabricius, 1776 and Papilio helle Cramer, 1779 with description of two new similar species from South America (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Zootaxa 4425(1): 115–145. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4425.1.7. Reference page. 
• Nakahara, S., Zacca, T., Huertas, B., Neild, A.F.E., Hall, J.P.W., , Holian, L.A., Espeland, M. & Willmott, K.R. 2018: Remarkable sexual dimorphism, rarity and cryptic species: a revision of the ‘aegrota species group’ of the Neotropical butterfly genus Caeruleuptychia Forster, 1964 with the description of three new species (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 49(2): 130–182. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-00002167 . Reference page. 
• Nakahara, S., Willmott, K.R., Mielke, O.H.H., Schwartz, J., Zacca, T., Espeland, M. & 2018a: Seven new taxa from the butterfly subtribe Euptychiina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with revisional notes on Harjesia Forster, 1964 and Pseudeuptychia Forster, 1964. Insecta Mundi 0639: 1–38. Reference page. 
• Wiemers, M., Balletto, E., Dincă, V., Fric, Z.F., , Lukhtanov, V.A., Munguira, M.L., van Swaay, C.A.M., Vila, R., Vliegenthart, A., Wahlberg, N. & Verovnik, R. 2018. An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea). Zookeys, 811: 9–45. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.811.28712 Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R., , Radford, J.T., Marín, M.A., Nakahara, S., Espeland, M., Xiao, L. & Hall, J.P.W. 2018. A distinctive new species of cloud forest Euptychiina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from Ecuador and Peru. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 28(1): 39-45. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Bozano, G.C., Lang, S-Y. & 2019. A review of the article "A new genus and two new species of Lepidoptera Satyridae, Sphingidae from Yunnan China" by D.-Z. Dong et al. (2018). Zootaxa 4571(1): 137–137. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.1.9 Reference page. 
• Nakahara, S., , Tyler, S., Marín, M.A., Huertas, B., Willmott, K.R., Mielke, O.H.H. & Espeland, M. 2019: A revision of the new genus Amiga Nakahara, Willmott & Espeland, gen. n., described for Papilio arnaca Fabricius, 1776 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). ZooKeys 821: 85–152. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R., Marín, M.A., Nakahara, S., Pomerantz, T., , Huertas, B., Espeland, M., Xiao, L., Hall, J.P.W., Willmott, J.I.R. & Freitas, A.V.L. 2019. A revision of the new Andean butterfly genus Optimandes Marín, Nakahara & Willmott, n. gen., with the description of a new species (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Euptychiina). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 29(1): 29-44. Online. Reference page. .

• Farfán, J., & Cerdeña, J.A. 2020. A new species of Mathania Oberthür, 1890 from Peru (Lepidoptera, Pieridae). Zootaxa 4758(3): 589–595. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4758.3.11. . Reference page. 
• Nakahara, S., Kleckner, K., , Huertas, B. & Willmott, K.R. 2020. A contribution towards the systematics of Magneuptychia Forster, 1964: Caeruleuptychia francisca (Butler, 1870), n. comb. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 163(1): 51-61. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R., , Hall, J.P.W., Mota, L.L. & Kell, T. 2020. The common, the rare, and the lost: Descriptions of twelve new species and three new subspecies of equatorial Ithomiini (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Danainae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 30(1): 1-49. Reference page. 
• Zacca, T., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H., Huertas, B., Espeland, M., Freitas, A.V.L., Willmott, K.R., Nakahara, S. & 2020. Revalidation of Vareuptychia Forster, 1964, description of Vanima gen. nov., and notes on Euptychia cleophes Godman & Salvin, 1889 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Zootaxa 4858(1): 1–34. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4858.1.1. . Reference page. 

• Nakahara, S., Barbosa, E.P., Nakamura, I., & Freitas, A.V.L. 2021c. Description of a new species of Yphthimoides Forster, 1964 from Peru (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(3): 138-144. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R., , Hall, J.P.W., Vitale, F., Boyer, P., Petit, J.C., Radford, J.T. & Elias, M. 2021. A new species and thirty-eight new subspecies of equatorial Ithomiini (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Danainae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31 (Supplement 3): 1-80. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5526837. Reference page. 
• Zacca, T., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H., Huertas, B., Barbosa, E.P., Freitas, A.V.L.. , Espeland, M., Brévignon, C., Nakahara, S., Checa, M.F. & Willmott, K.R. 2021. Systematics of the Neotropical butterfly genus Paryphthimoides Forster, 1964 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae), with descriptions of seven new taxa. Insect Systematics & Evolution 52(1): 42–96. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-00001027 . Reference page. 

• Farfán, J., Cerdeña, J., Vargas, H.A., Gonçalves, G.L., & Moreira, G.R.P. 2022. A peculiar new species of Dione (Agraulis) Boisduval & Le Conte (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae) associated with Malesherbia Ruiz & Pavón (Passifloraceae) in xeric western slopes of the Andes. Zookeys 1113ː 199–226. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1113.85769 Reference page. 

• Willmott, K.R., , Hall, J.P.W., Boyer, P., Pyrcz, T.W. & Florczyk, K. 2024. A new species and eight new subspecies of high elevation Actinote from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru (Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae, Acraeini). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 34(1): 1-20. Reference page. 

• Cajé, S., Casagrande, M.M., Piovesan, M., & Mielke, O.H.H. 2025. Opoptera Aurivillius, 1882 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae, Brassolini): Taxonomic revision, molecular phylogeny and description of a new species. Zootaxa 5582(1): 1–76. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5582.1.1. Reference page. 

• Gerardo Lamas Müller. Mallet, J. University College London.