Courtenay Neville Smithers

Courtenay Neville Smithers (1925–2011), South African entomologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 18 taxon names authored by Courtenay Neville Smithers

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

• 1 eponym of Courtenay Neville Smithers

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1958

• Smithers, C.N. 1958: A new genus and species of domestic psocid (Psocoptera) from southern Rhodesia. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 21(1): 113-116. PDF Reference page. 

1962

• Smithers, C.N. 1962: Insects of Macquarie Island. Psocoptera: Philotarsidae. Pacific insects 4(4): 929-932. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

1963

• Smithers, C.N. 1963. The Elipsocidae (Psocoptera) of Australia. Pacific insects 5(4): 885–898. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

1964

• Smithers, C.N. 1964. Insects of Campbell Island. Psocoptera. Pacific Insects Monograph 7: 226–229. full article on BUGZ Reference page. 

1965

• Smithers, C.N. 1965: The Lepidopsocidae (Psocoptera) of Australia. Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 4(1): 72-78. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1965.tb00654.x Reference page. 

1967

• Smithers, C.N. 1967: A catalogue of the Psocoptera of the World. Australian zoologist 14(1): 1-145. BHL Reference page. 

1969

• Smithers, C.N. 1969: The Psocoptera of New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 8(4): 259-344. BUGZ. Reference page. 

1972

• Smithers, C.N. 1972: A collection of Psocoptera (Insecta) from Western Australia including four new species. Australian zoologist 17(1): 15-23. BHL Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N. 1972: Ectopsocus pilosoides sp.n. (Psocoptera: Peripsocidae) from Queensland. Australian zoologist 17(1): 12-14. BHL Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N. 1972. The classification and phylogeny of the Psocoptera. Australian Museum memoirs 14. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1967.14.1972.424. Reference page. 

1973

• Smithers, C.N. 1973. A new species and new records of Psocoptera from the Kermadec Islands. New Zealand Entomologist 5(2): 147–150. DOI: 10.1080/00779962.1973.9722985 . Reference page. 

1974

• Smithers, C.N. 1974. Arthropoda of the subantarctic islands of New Zealand (4). Psocoptera. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 4(3): 315–318. DOI: 10.1080/03036758.1974.10419399 Google books Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N. 1974. A new Australian species of Stenopsocus (Psocoptera: Stenopsocidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 2(2): 21–23. Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N. & Thornton, I.W.B. 1974. The Psocoptera (Insecta) of Norfolk Island. Records of the Australian Museum 29(8): 209–234. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.29.1974.351 Reference page. 
• Thornton, I.W.B. & Smithers, C.N. 1974. The Philotarsidae (Psocoptera) of New Caledonia. Pacific Insects 16(2): 177–243. full article (PDF) Reference page. 

1975

• Smithers, C.N. 1975: Additions to Australian Myopsocidae (Psocoptera). Australian entomological magazine 2(3): 51-56. [not seen] Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N. 1975: The names of Australian and New Zealand Myopsocidae (Psocoptera). Australian entomological magazine 2(4): 76-78. Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N. & Thornton, I.W.B. 1975. The Psocoptera (Insecta) of Lord Howe Island. Records of the Australian Museum 29(16): 453-472. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.29.1975.386 Reference page. 

1977

• Smithers, C.N. 1977. Psocoptera of Muogamarra Nature Reserve. Records of the Australian Museum 31(7): 251–306. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.31.1977.215 Reference page. 
• Thornton, I.W.B. & Smithers, C.N. 1977. Philotarsidae (Psocoptera) of New Guinea. Pacific Insects 17(4): 419–450. full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Thornton, I.W.B., Wong, S.K. & Smithers, C.N. 1977. The Philotarsidae (Psocoptera) of New Zealand and islands of the New Zealand Plateau. Pacific Insects 17(2-3): 197–228. PDF. Reference page. 

1978

• Smithers, C.N. 1978: A new species and new records of Psocoptera (Insecta) from Ireland. Irish naturalists' journal 19(5): 141-148. JSTOR Reference page. 

1979

• Smithers, C.N. 1979. Three new species and some new records of Psocoptera (Insecta) from Tasmania. Australian Entomological Magazine 6(4): 61–68. Reference page. 

1982

• Smithers, C.N. 1982. Aphyopsocus gen. nov., a remarkable new genus of Caeciliidae (Psocoptera) from south-eastern New South Wales. Australian Entomological Magazine 9(1): 13–18. [Not seen] Reference page. 

1983

• Smithers, C.N. 1983: A reappraisal of Clematostigma Enderlein with notes on related genera (Psocoptera: Psocidae). Australian entomological magazine 9(5): 71-79. Reference page. 

1984

• Smithers, C.N. 1984. The Psocoptera (Insecta) of South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum 18(20): 453–491. BHL Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N. 1984. The Psocoptera of Barrow and Boodie Islands, Western Australia. Entomologica Scandinavica 15(2): 215–226. DOI: 10.1163/187631284X00181 Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N. 1984. New Australian records of Psyllipsocidae, with comment on the spelling of Psocathropos Ribaga (Psocoptera: Psyllipsocidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 11(1): 1–4. [not seen] Reference page. 
• Thornton, I.W.B. & Smithers, C.N. 1984. Systematics of the Calopsocidae, an oriental and melanesian family of Psocoptera. Systematic Entomology 9(2): 183–244. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1984.tb00513.x Reference page. 

1990

• Smithers, C.N. 1990: Psocoptera (Insecta) from the nest webs of Badumna candida (L. Koch) (Desidae: Araneae) in Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 112(1): 27-31. BHL Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N. 1990. Keys to the families and genera of Psocoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta). Technical reports of the Australian Museum, (2 ) ISBN 0 7305 7440 7 DOI: 10.3853/j.1031-8062.2.1990.77. Reference page. 

1991

• Smithers, C.N. 1991. A new species of Dorypteryx Aaron (Psocoptera: Psyllipsocidae) described from Australia. General and applied entomology 23: 45–48. PDF. Reference page. 

1993

• Smithers, C.N. 1993. Three new species of Psocoptera from New South Wales. General and Applied Entomology 24: 39–45. Reference page. 

1994

• Smithers, C.N. 1994: Trogium evansorum sp. n. (Psocoptera: Trogiidae) a remarkable, prognathous species from Norfolk Island. Australian entomologist 21(4): 153-155. Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N. 1994: A note on the Peripsocidae (Psocoptera) of Tuglo Wildlife Refuge, Hunter Valley, New South Wales. Australian entomologist 21(1): 7-10. [Not seen] Reference page. 

1995

• Smithers, C.N. 1995. Psocoptera from inflorescences of Howea forsteriana (C. Moore and F.J. Muell.) Becc. (Arecaceae) (thatch palm) on Lord Howe Island. General and applied entomology 26: 2–8. Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N. 1995. Psocoptera (Insecta) of Christmas Island. Invertebrate taxonomy 9(3): 529–561. DOI: 10.1071/IT9950529 Reference page. 

1996

• Smithers, C.N. 1996. Psocoptera from the Western Australian wheatbelt. General and applied entomology 27: 13–18. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

1997

• Smithers, C.N. 1997. An apterous, possibly phragmotic new species representing a new genus and subfamily of Elipsocidae (Psocoptera) from South Australia. Entomologica scandinavica 28(1): 97–101. DOI: 10.1163/187631297X00204 . Reference page. 

1998

• Smithers, C.N. 1998: New species and new records of Psocoptera (Insecta) from South Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 120: 69-79. BHL Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N. 1998: Description of the male of Trogium evansorum Smithers (Psocoptera: Trogiidae) from Norfolk Island, with a key to the species of the genus. Australian entomologist 25(3): 89-91. Reference page. 

1999

• Smithers, C.N. 1999. Sandrapsocus clarki, an unusual new genus and species of Elipsocidae (Insecta: Psocoptera) from the Bounty Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 29(2): 159–164. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1999.9517589 .
• Smithers, C.N., O'Connor, J.P. & Peters, J.V. 1999. A list of Irish Psocoptera (Insecta) (booklice, barklice, psocids). Irish naturalists' journal, 26 (7/8): 228–235 (JSTOR). Reference page. 

2000

• Smithers, C.N. 2000. First records of Pteroxanium marrisi n. sp. and Haplophallus maculatus (Tillyard) for the Chatham Islands and list of Psocoptera from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist 22(1): 9–13. DOI: 10.1080/00779962.1999.9722050 Reference page. 

2002

• Lienhard, C. & Smithers, C.N. 2002. Psocoptera (Insecta): world catalogue and bibliography. Instrumenta biodiversitatis (5) Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N. 2002: First record of the family Trichopsocidae (Psocoptera) from New Zealand. Entomologist's monthly magazine 138: 155. Reference page. 

2003

• Smithers, C.N. 2003: The identity and nomenclature of some species of Ectopsocus McLachlan (Psocoptera, Ectopsocidae) common to the Palaearctic, Nearctic and Australasian regions. Entomologist's monthly magazine 139: 1-6. Reference page. 

2004

• Schmidt, E.R. & Smithers, C.N. 2004. The genus Howeanum Smithers (Psocoptera: Elipsocidae) transferred to the family Pseudocaeciliidae. General and applied entomology 33: 13–14. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N. 2004. A new genus for three species of Australian Myopsocidae (Insecta: Psocoptera). Publicaciones especiales del Instituto de Biología 20: 159–168. Google books (incomplete) Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N. & Mockford, E.L. 2004. A new genus of Psoquillidae (Psocoptera) for Trogium nigrum Smithers. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 140: 313–315. Reference page. 

2007

• Smithers, C.N. 2007. Lord Howe Island Psocoptera (Insecta). Records of the Australian Museum 59(1): 9–26. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.59.2007.1482 Reference page. 

2008

• Smithers, C.N. 2008: A new species of Sisyra Burmeister (Neuroptera: Sisyridae) from the Paroo River, northwestern New South Wales. Australian entomologist 35(2): 61-65. [Not seen] Reference page. 
• Smithers, C.N., Forteath, G.N. & Osborn, A. 2008. A new species of Sisyra Burmeister (Insecta: Neuroptera: Sisyridae) from Lake Pedder, Tasmania. Australian Journal of Entomology 47(2): 77–79. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.2007.00626.x Reference page. 

2010

• Macfarlane, R.P., Maddison, P.A., Andrew, I.G., Berry, J.A., Johns, P.M., Hoare, R.J.B., Larivière, M.-C., Greenslade, P., Henderson, R.C., Smithers, C.N., Palma, R.L., Ward, J.B., Pilgrim, R.L.C., Towns, D.R., McLellan, I., Teulon, D.A.J., Hitchings, T.R., Eastop, V.F., Martin, N.A., Fletcher, M.J., Stufkens, M.A.W., Dale, P.J., Burckhardt, D., Buckley, T.R. & Trewick, S.A. 2010. Phylum Arthropoda subphylum Hexapoda: Protura, springtails, Diplura, and insects. Pp. 233–467 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2010. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. Reference page.  PDF. Reference page. 

References

• Smithers, A. 2012. Courtenay Smithers – before Australia. Australian Entomologist 39(4): 211–220. [not seen]
• Britton, D.R. 2012. Courtenay Neville Smithers – his career in Australia. Australian Entomologist 39(4): 221–230. [not seen]
• New, T.R. 2012. Courtenay Neville Smithers: his scientific contributions to the 'small orders' of insects. Australian Entomologist 39(4): 231–237. [not seen]
• Peters, J.V. 2012. A tribute to Courtenay Smithers and his butterfly migration studies. Australian Entomologist 39(4): 239–246. [not seen]

Links

• Britton, David. 2012. Courtenay N. Smithers, 1925–2011. Australian Museum.