Owain Westmacott Richards

Owain Westmacott Richards, O.W. Richards (1901–1984), British entomologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 17 taxon names authored by Owain Westmacott Richards

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1927

• Richards, O. W. 1927. The specific characters of the British bumblebees. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1927: 233-268, pls. 24, 25.

1929

• Richards, O. W. 1929. A revision of the humble-bees allied to Bombus orientalis Smith, with the description of a new subgenus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)3: 378- 386.

1931

• Richards, O. W. 1931: Some notes on the bumble-bees allied to Bombus alpinus L. Tromse Museum Arshefer, (1927), 50(6): 1–32.

1932

• Richards, O. W. 1932. On species of Panurginus, Nyl. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)9: 84-91.

1935

• Richards, O. W. 1935: Bombus muscorum (Linnaeus) and B. smithianus White (Hym.). Transactions of the Society for British Entomology, 2: 73–85.
• Richards, O. W. 1935: Notes on the nomenclature of the aculeate Hymenoptera, with special reference to British genera and species. Transactions ofthe Royal Entomological Society of London, 83: 145–176.

1937

• Richards, O. W. 1937: Further notes on the nomenclature of the British aculeate Hymenoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 5: 169–173.
• Richards, O. W. 1937. A study of the British species of Epeolus Latr. and their races, with a key to the species of Colletes. Transactions of the Society for British Entomology 4: 89- 130.

1938

• Richards, O.W. 1938. Diptera Sphaeroceridae (Borboridae, Cypselidae). Mission scientifique de l’Omo. Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle 4(40): 381-405. Reference page. 

1950

• Richards, O.W. 1950. New species of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) found with driver ants (Dorylinae). Bollettino dellí Istituto di Entomologia della Università degli Studi di Bologna 18: 14–23. Reference page. 

1951

• Richards, O.W. 1951. Brachypterous Sphaeroceridae. British Museum (Natural History) Ruwenzori expedition 1934–35 2(8): 829–851. BHL Reference page. 

1955

• Richards, O.W. 1955. [The Diptera of Auckland and Campbell Islands. Part 3.] A species of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) from Campbell Island. Records of the Dominion Museum 2(4): 241. Full article on BUGZ (PDF) Reference page. 

1968

• Richards, O. W. 1968. The subgeneric divisions of the genus Bombus Latreille. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 22: 211-276.

1973

• Richards, O.W. 1973. The Sphaeroceridae (= Borboridae or Cypselidae; Diptera, Cyclorrhapha) of the Australian Region. Australian journal of zoology, supplementary series (22): 297–401. DOI: 10.1071/AJZS022 Reference page. 
• Richards, O.W. 1973. The subgenera of Polistes Latreille (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 17: 85–104. Reference page. 

1978

• Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 580 pp.
• Richards, O.W. 1978. Part 4, Hymenoptera, ix 􏰁 150 pp. in G. S. Kloet and W. D. Hincks, A Checklist of British Insects, 2nd ed. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. [Bees on pp. 134-140.]