Donald Henry Colless

Donald Henry Colless (1922–2012), Australian entomologist.

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Colless, D.H. 1962. A new Australian genus and family of Diptera (Nematocera: Perissommatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 10(3): 519–535. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9620519 . Reference page.
Colless, D.H. 1963. New species of Ohakunea Edwards and a related new genus with notes on the relationships of Heterotricha Loew. (Diptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 87: 303–308. BHL. Fungus Gnats Online.
Colless, D.H. 1969. The genus Perissomma (Diptera: Perissommatidae), with new species from Australia and Chile. Australian Journal of Zoology 17(4): 719–728. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9690719 . Reference page.
Colless, D.H. 1990. Valeseguya rieki, a new genus and species of Diptera from Australia (Nematocera: Anisopodidae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France 26(3): 351–353. Gallica.
Key, K.H.L. & Colless, D.H. 1993. A higher classification of the Australian Acridoidea (Orthoptera). 2. Subfamily Catantopinae. Invertebrate Taxonomy 7(1): 89–111. DOI: 10.1071/IT9930089 Reference page.
Colless, D.H. 1994. A new family of muscoid Diptera from Australasia, with sixteen new species in four new genera (Diptera: Axiniidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 10(2): 471–534. DOI: 10.1071/IT9940471 .

Lessard, B.D. & Yeates, D.K. (eds.) 2013. A volume celebrating the life of Don Colless, Australian dipterist 1922–2012. Zootaxa 3680(1): 1–211. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3680.1.1 Reference page.
Theischinger, G. 2013. Dr Donald H. Colless, in Memoriam. Zootaxa 3680(1): 210–211. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3680.1.14 Reference page.
Yeates, D.K. & Cranston, P.S. 2013. Obituary-Donald Henry Colless 1922–2012. Zootaxa 3680(1): 4–14. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3680.1.3 Reference page.