David C. Lees

David C. Lees, Entomologist, United Kingdom

• Department of Zoology, Cambridge University, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK. Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, SW7 5BD, UK

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 20 taxon names authored by David C. Lees

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2003

• Lees, D.C., Kremen, C., & Raharitsimba, H. 2003. Lepidoptera: Systematics and diversity. In: Goodman, S.M., & Benstead, J.P. [Eds]. The Natural History of Madagascar. University of Chicago Press, 1709 pp. Chapter pagination: 748–761. Reference page. 
• Lees, D.C., Kremen, C. & Raharitsimba, H. 2003. Classification, diversity, and endemism of the butterflies (Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea): a revised species checklist. In: Goodman, S.M., & Benstead, J.P. [Eds]. The Natural History of Madagascar. University of Chicago Press, 1709 pp. Chapter pagination: 762–793. Reference page. 

2007

• Lees, D.C. & Stonis, J.R. 2007. The first record of Tischeriidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) from Madagascar, with description of Coptotriche alavelona sp. n. and an updated distributional checklist of Afrotropical Tischeriidae. Zootaxa 1645: 35–45. Abstract & excerpt. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

2011

• 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., Lamas, G., 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. 

2016

• Lees, D.C. 2016. Malagasy Heteropsis (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Satyrini: Mycalesina): 19 new species and interim revision. Zootaxa 4118(1): 1–97. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4118.1.1. Reference page. 

2018

• Kobayashi, S., Johns, C.A., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Doorenweerd, C., Kawakita, A., Ohshima, I., Lees, D.C., Hanabergh, S. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. Hawaiian Philodoria (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Ornixolinae) leaf mining moths on Myrsine (Primulaceae): two new species and biological data. ZooKeys 773: 109–141. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.773.21690 Reference page. 

2019

• Przybyłowicz, Ł., Lees, D.C., Zenker, M.M. & Wahlberg, N. 2019. Molecular systematics of the arctiine tribe Syntomini (Lepidoptera, Erebidae). Systematic Entomology 44(3): 624–637. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12343. Reference page. 

2020

• Park, K.T., Lees, D.C. & Kim, S 2020. Three new species of the genus Pacificulla Park, 2013 from Papua New Guinea and Papua (Indonesia), with a description of the female of Hannara buloloensis Park (Lecithoceridae: Crocanthinae). Oriental Insects 54(2): 273–284. DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2019.1621784. . Reference page. 

2021

• Minet, J., Basquin, P., Haxaire, J., Lees, D.C. & Rougerie, R. 2021. A new taxonomic status for Darwin's 'predicted' pollinator: Xunthopan praedicta stat. nov. (Lepidoptera Sphingidae Sphinginae). Antenor 8(1): 69-86. Reference page. 

2023

• Landry, B., Bilat, J., Hayden, J., Solis, M.A., Lees, D.C., Alvarez, N., Léger, T. & Gauthier, J. 2023. The identity of Argyria lacteella (Fabricius, 1794) (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Crambinae), synonyms, and related species revealed by morphology and DNA capture in type specimens. Zookeys 1146ː 1–42. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1146.96099 Reference page.