W. John Tennent

W. John Tennent, British Entomologist.

  • Department of Life Sciences, Terrestrial Invertebrates Division, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, England.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

  • 95 taxon names authored by W. John Tennent

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1991

  • 1991. Notes on some Borneo hawk moths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) including Eupanacra hollowayi sp. n. and Macroglossum amoenum Rothschild & Jordan, new to Borneo. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 103: 223–235. BHL Reference page. 

1996

  • , 1996. The butterflies of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria 217pp, 32 pls. Gem Publishing, Wallingford. 217pp. ISBN 9780906802052 Reference page. 

1999

2000

2001

  • , 2001. Twenty new butterflies from the Solomon Islands (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae; Lycaenidae; Nymphalinae; Satyrinae; Danainae). British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 14: 1-27. Reference page. 
  • , 2001. A new species of Ionolyce Toxopeus, from the Solomon Islands (Santa Cruz Group) and Vanuatu (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Entomologist 28(2): 41-44. Reference page. 
  • , 2001. Notes on bochus group species of the genus Jamides Hübner in the Santa Cruz islands (Solomon Islands), with description of a new subspecies of Jamides amarauge Druce (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Entomologist 28(2): 45-48, 1 pl., 4 figs. Reference page. 
  • , 2001. A review of the genus Mycalesis in the Solomons Archipelago, with descriptions of seven new taxa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Tropical Lepidoptera 12(Suppl. 1): 13–24. Reference page. 
  • , 2001. What is Nacaduba mallicolo markira Tite? A new species of Nacaduba Moore from the Solomon Islands (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Entomologist 28(3): 85-90. Reference page. 
  • , 2001. Three new Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder, 1860 taxa from the Solomon Islands, including a new species from the Santa Cruz Group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Entomologist 28(3): 91-96. Reference page. 
  • , 2001. Further notes on the Deudorix affinis group in the south pacific (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Entomologist 28(4): 137-140. Reference page. 

2002

  • , 2002. Butterflies of the Solomon Islands: Systematics and Biogreography. 413 pp., 90 pls. Storm Entomological Publishing, Dereham, Norfolk, England. Reference page. 
  • 2002. A review of the genus Mycalesis Hübner, in the Solomons Archipelago, with descriptions of seven new taxa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 12(1): 13–24. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
  • 2002. striking new subspecies of Hypolimnas pithoeka Kirsch (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from the Torres Islands, Northern Vanuatu. Australian Entomologist 29(3): 107–111. Reference page. 

2003

  • , 2003. Notes on Hypolimnas octocula Butler, and H. pithoeka Kirsch from the New Hebrides archipelago, with description of a new race of H. octocula from southern Vanuatu (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Futao 45: 6–10. Reference page. 
  • , 2003. Three new butterfly subspecies from northern Vanuatu (Lepidoptera; Lycaenidae). Futao 45: 22-24. Reference page. 
  • , 2003. Two elusive new Prosotas Druce, 1891 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the New Hebrides archipelago (Solomon Islands and Vanuatu). Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 36: 39-44. Reference page. 
  • , 2003. On the identity of New Hebrides (Vanuatu) Deudorix Hewitson, including description of a new subspecies of D. mathewi Druce (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 36: 45-49. Reference page. 
  • , 2003. Danaus affinis (Fabricius), (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Danainae) in New Caledonia and the New Hebrides and Solomons archipelagos, with description of a new subspecies from the Torres island group (Vanuatu). Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 37: 4–7. Reference page. 

2004

  • , 2004. Three new Eurema subspecies from the Southwest Pacific (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Futao 48: 4–6. Reference page. 
  • , 2004. A new race of Tagiades japetus Stoll, 1782, from the Solomon Islands (Russell group) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Futao 48: 17–18. Reference page. 

2005

2006

  • 2006. A checklist of the butterflies of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and some adjacent areas. Zootaxa 1178, 209 pp. Reference page. 
  • & de Roller, C.J., 2006. Notes on some butterflies from the island of Tetepare (Solomon Islands, New Georgia group), including a new subspecies of Argyronympha rubianensis (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). Futao 52: 2–7.. Reference page. 

2008

  • , 2008. A new Deudorix Hewitson, 1863, from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 50: 19-23. Reference page. 
  • , 2008. Citation of the contents of The Fruhstorfer Collection of Butterflies: Catalogue of Types... published in the 1920s. Entomologist's Gazette: 59: 41-53. Reference page. 
  • , Yasuda, M. & Morimoto, K. 2008. Lansania Journal of arachnology and zoology - a rare and obscure Japanese natural history journal. Archives of Natural History 35(2): 252–280. DOI: 10.3366/E0260954108000387 Paywall Reference page. 

2009

  • 2009. A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Vanuatu; Ol buttaflae blong Vanuatu. 192 pp., Storm Entomological Publishing, Dereham, Norfolk, England. Reference page. 
  • & Rawlins, A., 2009: A new subspecies of Hypochrysops anacletus C.Felder, 1860, from the island of Buru, Maluku, Indonesia (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Theclinae). Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 52: 4-9. Reference page. 

2010

  • , Müller, C. J. & Rawlins, A., 2010. A new Deudorix from Irian Jaya (West Papua), Indonesia (Lepidoptera; Lycaenidae), with notes on Deudorix epirus Felder, 1860. Australian Entomologist 37(2): 33-43. Reference page. 
  • & Rawlins, A. 2010. Notes on Arhopala Boisduval, 1832 from Sulawesi and Maluku, including new subspecies of A. argentea Staudinger, 1888, A. chamaeleona Bethune-Baker, 1903, and A. azenia (Hewitson, [1863]) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des Entomologische Vereins Apollo N.F. 31(1/2): 9-16. web Reference page. 
  • & A. Rawlins, 2010. Notes on the subgenus Virachola Moore, in the Moluccan islands, description of a new subspecies of Deudorix (Virachola) democles Miskin, 1884 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Theclinae): Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 54: 27-29. Reference page. 
  • & A. Rawlins, 2010.rev Notes on the genus Tajuria Moore, 1881, from the Sulawesi Region, Indonesia, with description of a new subspecies of T. cyrillus Hewitson, 1865 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae): Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 56: 9-11. Reference page. 

2012

2014

  • Monastyrskii, A.L., & O'Dell, J. 2014. Further evidence of disjunctions in ranges of East Asian satyrine butterflies: a new subspecies of Rhaphicera dumicola (Oberthür, 1876) from Northern Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Atalanta 45(1-4): 163–166. Reference page. 
  • , Müller, C. J. & Peggie, D., 2014. Two New Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the collections of the Museum Zoologi Bogor, Indonesia. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 24: 10-14. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
  • Rawlins, A., Cassidy, A., Müller, C., Schröder, S. & 2014. An Illustrated and annotated checklist of Jamides Hübner, 1819, taxa occurring in the Indonesian Provinces of North Maluku and Maluku (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo N.F. 35(1/2): 5-39. web Reference page. 
  • 2014. Two new subspecies of Mycalesis terminus (Fabricius, 1775), from the islands of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea (Lepidoptera, Satyrinae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 24(2): 62–66. Reference page. 
  • 2014a. Euploea eurianassa Hewitson, 1858, in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea with description of a new subspecies from the remote island of Nasikwabu (Lepidoptera: Danainae). Futao 66: 46-49. Reference page. 
  • Müller, C.J & , 2014: A new species of Hypochrysops Felder & Felder, 1860, from Waigeo Island, Indonesia (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Suara Serangga Papua 8 (4): 109–115. Reference page. 
  • & Treadaway, C.G. 2014. A new subspecies of Mycalesis aramis Hewitson, 1866, from the Philippine island of Mindoro (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo N.F. 35 (3): 139–140. web Reference page. 

2015

2016

2017

2018

2020

2022

  • Russell, P.J.C., Lukhtanov, V.A. & 2022. Reassessment of the status of some European and Asian Melitaea taxa described as subspecies of Melitaea phoebe ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775), with designations of lectotypes where appropriate (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Zootaxa 5141(1): 25–38. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5141.1.2. Paywall. Reference page. 
  • 2022. Two new subspecies of Psychonotis brownii DRUCE & BETHUNE-BAKER, 1893 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the Bali-Witu Islands, Papua New Guinea. Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 43: 157-160. Reference page. 

2023

  • Russell, P.J.C. & 2023. Notes on the Melitaea ornata Christoph, 1893, complex in the Levant (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) including new synonymy and observations on lectotype designations for Melitaea phoebe dorae Graves, 1925. Zootaxa 5353(3): 276–284. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.3.5. Reference page. 
  • 2023. A new Prosotas (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the islands of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 33(2): 86-89. Reference page. 

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