Paul H. Williams

Paul H. Williams, British entomologist

• Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
• Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 2 taxon names authored by Paul H. Williams

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1991

• Williams, P.H. 1991. The bumble bees of the Kashmir Himalaya (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 60(1): 1–204. BHL Reference page. 

1994

• Williams, P.H. 1994. Phylogenetic relationships among bumble bees (Bombus Latr.): a reappraisal of morphological evidence. Systematic Entomology 19(4): 327–344. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1994.tb00594.x Reference page. 

2007

• Cameron, S.A., Hines, H.M. & Williams, P.H. 2007. A comprehensive phylogeny of the bumble bees (Bombus). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91(1): 161–188. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00784.x Reference page. 

2008

• Williams, P.H., Cameron, S.A., Hines, H.M., Cederberg, B. & Rasmont, P. 2008. A simplified subgeneric classification of the bumblebees (genus Bombus). Apidologie 39(1): 46-74. DOI: 10.1051/apido:2007052 Reference page. 

2011

• Williams, P.H., An, J. & Huang, J. 2011. The bumblebees of the subgenus Subterraneobombus: integrating evidence from morphology and DNA barcodes (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163(3): 813–862. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00729.x Reference page. 

2016

• Williams, P.H., Huang, J-X., Rasmont, P. & An, J-D. 2016. Early-diverging bumblebees from across the roof of the world: the high-mountain subgenus Mendacibombus revised from species’ gene coalescents and morphology (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Zootaxa 4204(1): 1–72. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4204.1.1. Reference page. 

2019

• Dehon, M., Engel, M.S., Gérard, M., Aytekin, A.M., Ghisbain, G., Williams, P.H., Rasmont, P. & Michez, D. 2019. Morphometric analysis of fossil bumble bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombini) reveals their taxonomic affinities. ZooKeys, 891: 71–118. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.891.36027 Reference page. 
• Williams, P.H., Berezin, M.V., Cannings, S.G., Cederberg, B., Ødegaard, F., Rasmussen, C., Richardson, L.L., Rykken, J., Sheffield, C.S., Thanoosing, C. & Byvaltsev, A.M. 2019. The arctic and alpine bumblebees of the subgenus Alpinobombus revised from integrative assessment of species’ gene coalescents and morphology (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus). Zootaxa 4625(1): 1–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4625.1.1 Reference page. 

2020

• Williams, P.H., Altanchimeg, D., Byvaltsev, A., De Jonghe, R., Jaffar, S., Japoshvili, G., Kahono, S., Huan, L., Mei, M., Monfared, A.R., Nidup, T., Raina, R., Ren, X.R., Thanoosing, C., Zhao, Y. & Orr, M.C. 2020. Widespread polytypic species or complexes of local species? Revising bumblebees of the subgenus Melanobombus world-wide (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus). European Journal of Taxonomy 719 (1): 1–120. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.719.1107 PDF Reference page. 

2024

• Orr, M.C., Chesters, D., Williams, P,H., Wood, T.J., Zhou, Q., Bossert, S., Sless, T., Warrit, N., Rasmont, P., Ghisbain, G., Boustani, M., Luo, A-R., Feng, Y., Niu, Z-Q. & Zhu, C-D. 2024. Integrative taxonomy of a new species of a bumble bee-mimicking brood parasitic bee, Tetralonioidella mimetica (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Apidae), investigated through phylogenomics. Journal of Hymenoptera research, 97: 755–780. DOI: 10.3897/jhr.97.129470 . Reference page.