David T. Bilton

David T. Bilton, British entomologist

Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, School of Marine Science & Engineering, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK.
Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa.
E-mail: d.bilton@plymouth.ac.uk

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Bilton, D.T. & Perkins, P.D. 2012. Two new species of Parhydraenini from South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 3342: 51–59. Preview Reference page.

Bilton, D.T. 2013. A taxonomic revision of South African Sharphydrus, with the description of two new species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini). Zootaxa 3750(1): 26–36. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3750.1.2 Reference page.

Bilton, D.T. 2014: New species and new records of Pterosthetops: eumadicolous water beetles of the South African Cape (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 3811(4): 438–462. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3811.4.2 Reference page.
Bilton, D.T. 2014: Two new water beetles from the Hantamsberg, an inselberg in the Northern Cape of South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 3887(4): 471–480. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3887.4.5 Reference page.

Bilton, D.T. 2015: A review of the Canthyporus exilis group, with the description of two new species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Zootaxa 3957(4): 441–454. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.4.5. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Bilton, D.T. 2015: New species and new records of Mesoceration Janssens, 1967 from South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 3972(4): 495–520. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3972.4.3. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Bilton, D.T. 2015. A new species of Yola Gozis, 1886 from the Western Cape of South Africa (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini). Zootaxa 3905 (3): 441–446. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3905.3.10 Reference page.

Bilton, D.T. 2016. Two new water beetles from the South African Cape (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 4137(4): 585–591. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.4.11. Reference page.
Bilton, D.T. & Komarek, A. 2016. A new species of Anacaena Thomson, 1859 from South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zootaxa 4139(4): 593–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4139.4.11. Reference page.
Perissinotto, R., Bird, M. & Bilton, D.T. 2016. Predaceous water beetles (Coleoptera, Hydradephaga) of the Lake St Lucia system, South Africa: biodiversity, community ecology and conservation implications. ZooKeys 595: 85–135. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.595.8614. Reference page.
Toussaint, E.F.A., Beutel, R.G., Morinière, J., Jia, F., Xu, S., Michat, M.C., Zhou, X., Bilton, D.T., Ribera, I., Hájek, J. & Balke, M. 2016. Molecular phylogeny of the highly disjunct cliff water beetles from South Africa and China (Coleoptera: Aspidytidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176(3): 537–546. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12332 . Reference page.

Bilton, D.T. 2017. A revision of the South African riffle beetle genus Leielmis Delève, 1964 (Coleoptera: Elmidae). Zootaxa 4254(2): 255–268. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.2.6. Reference page.
Bilton, D.T. 2017a. Water beetles from the Bokkeveld Plateau: a semi-arid hotspot of freshwater biodiversity in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Zootaxa 4268(2): 191–214. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.2.2. Reference page.
Bilton, D.T. & Ribera, I. 2017. A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology. ZooKeys 702: 45—112. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.702.14787. Reference page.
Bird, M.S., Bilton, D.T. & Perissinotto, R. 2017. Diversity and distribution of polyphagan water beetles (Coleoptera) in the Lake St Lucia system, South Africa. ZooKeys 656: 51-84. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.656.11622. Reference page.

Bilton, D.T. 2018. A new humicolous Parhydraena d’Orchymont, 1937 from South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 4378(2): 284–288. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.2.9 Reference page.
Bilton, D.T. 2018. A new species of Leielmis Delève, 1964, with a revised key to members of the genus (Coleoptera: Elmidae). Zootaxa 4441(3): 592–596. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.3.11 Reference page.
Ribera, I., Bilton, D.T. & Cardoso, A. 2018. The Meladema Laporte, 1835 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) of the Sahara Desert. Zootaxa 4399(1): 119–122. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4399.1.7 Reference page.

Bilton, D.T. & Mlambo, M.C. 2019. Two new Mesoceration Janssens, 1967 from the Piketberg, South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 4555(2): 268–274. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.2.7. . Reference page.

Englund, W.F., Njoroge, L., Biström, O., Miller, K.B., Bilton, D.T. & Bergsten, J. 2020. Taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical Agabus raffrayi species group with the description of four new species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). ZooKeys, 963: 45–79. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.963.53470 Reference page.

Bilton, D.T. 2021. Riberazantaena, a new hydraenid genus from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 4999(6): 573–581. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.6.4. . Reference page.

Balke, M., Bilton, D.T., García, M.M., Viloria, A.L., Villastrigo, A. & Hendrich, L. 2022. Two new high Andean species of Liodessus diving beetles from Venezuela (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini). Alpine Entomology 6: 7–12. DOI: 10.3897/alpento.6.79598. . Reference page.
Bilton, D.T. & Mlambo, M.C. 2022. A new Copelatus with small eyes from the Eastern Cape Wild Coast, South Africa (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 62(1): 15–21. DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2022.002. . Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Bilton, D.T. & Shepard, W.D. 2022. Rhithrops capensis gen. et sp. nov., a new aquatic dryopid beetle from the Western Cape of South Africa (Coleoptera: Dryopoidea: Dryopidae). Zootaxa 5195(6): 539–553. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5195.6.3. . Reference page.

Bilton, D.T. 2023. Two new species of Hydraena Kugelann, 1794 from São Tomé Island—an apparent adaptive radiation (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 5254(4): 593–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5254.4.11. . Reference page.