Herbert Womersley

Herbert Womersley (1889–1962), acarologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 19 taxon names authored by Herbert Womersley

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1932

• Womersley, H. 1932. A preliminary account of the Protura of Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57: 69–75. BHL Reference page. 

1934

• Womersley, H. 1934: On the Australian species of Japygidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 37-47. BHL Reference page. 

1936

• Womersley, H. 1936: Additions to the trombidiid and erythraeid acarine fauna of Australia and New Zealand. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, zoology 40(269): 107-121. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1936.tb01680.x Reference page. 

1937

• Womersley, H. 1937: Acarina. Scientific reports of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 (C) 10(6): 1-24. PDF Reference page. 

1939

• Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive insects of South Australia. Silverfish, springtails and their allies. Adelaide: South Australian branch of the British Science Guild (incorporated with the British Association for the Advancement of Science). Reference page. 

1955

• Womersley, H. 1955: The Acarina fauna of mutton birds' nests on a Bass Strait island. Australian journal of zoology 3(3): 412-438. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9550412 Reference page. 

1960

• Womersley, H. 1960: New records of species of Leptolaelaps (Acarina, Mesostigmata) from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 83: 25-29. PDF Reference page. 
• Womersley, H. 1960: A new genus and species Laelaptoseius novae-zelandiae from New Zealand (Acarina, Aceosejidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 83: 31-32. PDF (title page incorrect!) Reference page. 

1961

• Womersley, H. 1961: New species of Acarina from the intertidal zone in Netherlands New Guinea. Zoologische mededelingen 37(12): 189-209. abstract and pdf Reference page. 
• Womersley, H. 1961: A new record of the little known Calotrachytes sclerophyllus (Michael, 1908) from New Zealand (Acarina, Polyaspidae), with description of the male and nymph. Records of the South Australian Museum 14: 125-129. PDF Reference page. 

1963

• Womersley, H. & Strandtmann, R.W. 1963. On some free living prostigmatic mites of Antarctica. Pacific Insects 5(2): 451–472. PDF. Reference page. 

Links

• ZooBank LSID: 9A20A8CC-5AC8-45AA-99EB-FC578A2C27D4
• Southcott, R.V. 1964: [Obituary notice] Herbert Womersley, A.L.S. (Honoris causa), F.R.E.S. Records of the South Australian Museum, 14(4): 603–632.