Douglas John Williams

Douglas John Williams (born 1924), British entomologist

The Natural History Museum, Department of Life Sciences (Entomology), Cromwell Road, London, England SW7 5BD
djwilliamstriloc[at]aol.com

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Borchsenius, N.S. & Williams, D.J. 1963. A study of the types of some little-known genera of Diaspididae with descriptions of new genera (Hemiptera: Coccoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 13: 353–394. BHL Reference page.

Williams, D.J. & Mamet, J.R. 1986. A new species of Asterolecanium Targioni Tozzetti (Homoptera: Asterolecaniidae) on a palm in Round Island, Mauritius: a conservation puzzle. Systematic Entomology 11: 129–132. Reference page.

Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W. 1988. The Scale Insects of the Tropical South Pacific Region. Pt. 1. The Armoured Scales (Diaspididae). CAB International Wallingford, U.K. 290 pp. Reference page.

Williams, D.J. 2004. Mealybugs of southern Asia. London: The Natural History Museum; Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur. Reference page.

Williams, D.J. & Henderson, R.C. 2005. A new species of the mealybug genus Rastrococcus Ferris (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Pseudococcidae) from New Zealand. Zootaxa 1085(1): 47–60. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1085.1.4 . Reference page.

Williams, D.J. 2007. Carl Linnaeus and his scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea). Pp. 427-490 In: Zhang, Z.-Q. & Shear, W.A. (eds) Linnaeus tercentenary: progress in invertebrate taxonomy. Zootaxa 1668: 1–766. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.

Watson, G.W., Williams, D.J. & Miller, D.R. 2015. The identity and distribution of Fiorinia phantasma (Cockerell & Robinson) (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Diaspididae), with a new synonym. Zootaxa 4048(2): 291–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4048.2.9. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Williams, D.J. 2015. Scale insect species names combined with the genus name Chermes Linnaeus (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha). Zootaxa 3914(5): 577–584. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.5.6 Reference page.
Williams, D.J. & Ben-Dov, Y. 2015. Scale insect species names that have been combined with the genus name Dactylopius Costa (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha). Zootaxa 4006(1): 161–170. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4006.1.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Germain, J.-F., Matile-Ferrero, D., Kaydan, M.B., Malausa, T. & Williams, D.J. 2015. A new species of Dysmicoccus damaging lavender in French Provence (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Pseudococcidae). Zootaxa 3980(4): 575–583. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.4.7. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Gullan, P.J. & Williams, D.J. 2016. A new pupillarial scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Eriococcidae) from Angophora in coastal New South Wales, Australia. Zootaxa 4117(1): 85–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4117.1.4. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Hodgson, C.J. & Williams, D.J. 2016. A revision of the family Cerococcidae Balachowsky (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha, Coccomorpha) with particular reference to species from the Afrotropical, western Palaearctic and western Oriental Regions, with the revival of Antecerococcus Green and description of a new genus and fifteen new species, and with ten new synonomies. Zootaxa 4091(1): 1–175. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4091.1.1.Reference page.
Hodgson, C.J. & Williams, D.J. 2016. A redescription of the monotypic felt scale insect genus Pedroniopsis Green (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Eriococcidae) from India and Burma. Zootaxa 4137(1): 146–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.1.12. Reference page.
Williams, D.J. 2016. Amendments to some scale insect names (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha). Zootaxa 4193(3): 588–589. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4193.3.8. Reference page.

Hamilton, F.B., Williams, D.J. & Hardy, N.B. 2017. Five new species of the armored scale genus Andaspis MacGillivray (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha, Diaspididae) from New Caledonia. ZooKeys 693: 17—31. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.693.13074. Reference page.
Williams, D.J. 2017. E.E. Green’s collection of scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) in The Natural History Museum, London, U.K. Zootaxa 4318(2): 201–253. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.2.1. Reference page.
Williams, D.J. 2017. The change of depository of a collection of scale insects by Ryoichi Takahashi (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha). Zootaxa 4358(3): 598–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.3.13. Reference page.

Hardy, N.B. & Williams, D.J. 2018. Doubling the known endemic species diversity of New Caledonian armored scale insects (Hemiptera, Diaspididae). ZooKeys 782: 11–47. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.782.27938 Reference page.
Hodgson, C.J. & Williams, D.J. 2018. Revision of the soft scale genus Paralecanium (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) with the introduction of three new genera and twenty new species. Zootaxa 4443(1): 1–162. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4443.1.1 Reference page.

Williams, D.J. 2019. The status of three species names in the mealybug genus Rastrococcus Ferris (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae). Zootaxa 4565(3): 442–442. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4565.3.11 Reference page.

Williams, D.J. 2020. Recent family-group names (2013–2019) in the scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha). Zootaxa 4768(1): 143–145. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4768.1.9 Reference page.
Williams, D.J. & Denno, B.D. 2020. Scale insect genus names and their families in the scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha), a supplement. Zootaxa 4755(1): 197–200. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4755.1.14 Reference page.
Williams, D.J. & Matile-Ferrero, D. 2020. Report on two African mealybug species (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha). Zootaxa 4750(3): 439–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4750.3.11 Reference page.