Douglas John Williams

Douglas John Williams, 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)

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