Richard Irwin Vane-Wright

Richard Irwin Vane-Wright, entomologist.

Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 7 taxon names authored by Richard Irwin Vane-Wright

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1976

• Vane-Wright, 1976. The Butterflies Named by J. F. Gmelin (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology 32(2): 17-64, 6 pls. Reference page. 

1982

• Feltwell, J. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 1982. Large White Butterfly; the biology, biochemistry and physiology of Pieris brassicae (Linnaeus). Series Entomologica 18: xxvi + 450pp. Dr. Junk, The Hague. ResearchGate Reference page. 

1984

• Ackery, P.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 1984. Milkweed butterflies, their cladistics and biology. British Mueum (Natural History), London: i-ix, 1–425. ISBN 978-0-8014-1688-0. Reference page. 

1994

• Vane-Wright, R. in D'Abrera, B.L. 1981–2009. Butterflies of the Neotropical Region, Part 6: 1002. Hill House, Melbourne. Reference page. 

1995

• Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. (Editors), 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, U.K.: i–xi, 1–803. Open Library. Reference page. 

1999

• Ackery, P.R., de Jong, R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 1999. The Butterflies: Hedyloidea, Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea. in Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. 1. Evolution, Systematics and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology 4(35): 263–300 (ed. N.P. Kristensen). Berlin: de Gruyter. Reference page. 

2001

• Peggie, D., Rawlins, A. & Vane-Wright, R. 2001. An illustrated checklist of the papilionid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) of northern and central Maluku, Indonesia. Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo, N.F. 26 (1/2): 41–60. PDF. Reference page. 
• Smith C.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 2001. A review of the afrotropical species of the genus Graphium (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera: Papilionidae). Bulletin of The Natural History Museum London (Entomology) 70: 502–719. Reference page. 

2003

• Vane-Wright, R.I. & Fermon, H. 2003. Taxonomy and identification of Lohora Moore (Lepidoptera : Satyrinae), the Sulawesi bush browns. Invertebrate Systematics 17(1): 129–141. DOI: 10.1071/IS02020 Reference page. 
• Vane-Wright, R.I. & de Jong, R. 2003. The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island fauna. Zoologische Verhandelingen 343: 3–267, figs 1–14, pls 1–16. Online. Reference page. 

2006

• Vane-Wright, R.I. & Gaonkar, H. 2006. The Arhopala butterflies described by Fabricius: A. centaurus is from Java, A. democritus from Phuket (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Entomological Science 9(3): 295–311. ResearchGate Reference page. 

2007

• Vane-Wright, R.I., 2007. Linnaeus’ Butterflies. The Linnaean Special Issue 7: 59-74. Reference page. 
• Vane-Wright, R.I. & Hughes, H.W.D. 2007. Did a member of the Vanessa indica complex (Nymphalidae) formerly occur in North America? Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 61(4): 199–212. PDF. Reference page. 

2009

• Peggie, D., Vane-Wright, R.I. & van Mastrigt, H.J.G. 2009. A new member of the Ideopsis gaura superspecies (Lepidoptera: Danainae) from the Foja Mountains, Papua, Indonesia. Suara Serangga Papua 3(4): 1-18. Reference page. 

2010

• Vane-Wright, R.I. 2010. Papilio enceladus Linnaeus, 1758. The Linnean 26(3): 12–18. PDF. Reference page. 

2011

• Simonsen, T.J., Zakharov, E.V., Djernaes, M., Cotton, A.M., Vane-Wright, R.I. & Sperling, F.A.H. 2011. Phylogenetics and divergence times of Papilioninae (Lepidoptera) with special reference to the enigmatic genera Teinopalpus and Meandrusa. Cladistics 27(2): 113–137. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2010.00326.x Reference page. 
• Larsen, T.B. et al. 2011. Case 3503. Papilio hesperus Westwood, 1843 (Insecta, Lepidoptera, PAPILIONIDAE): proposed conservation by the suppression of Papilio hesperus Fabricius, 1793 (NYMPHALIDAE). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 68(3): 190–196. ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Vane-Wright, R.I. & Liseki, S.D. 2011. On the status of Pseudomylothris Neustetter, a supposed endemic butterfly genus from the Uluguru Mountains of Tanzania (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 44: 85–93. ResearchGate Reference page. 

2012

• Vane-Wright, R.I. 2012. Subspecies of the Violet Lacewing, Cethosia myrina (Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae), a protected butterfly from Sulawesi. The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 45: 55–64. Reference page. 

2015

• Braby, M.F., Farias-Quilpidor, G.E., Vane-Wright, R.I. & Lohman, D.J. 2015. Morphological and molecular evidence supports recognition of Danaus petilia (Stoll, 1790) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) as a species distinct from D. chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758). Systematics and Biodiversity 13(4): 386–402. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2014.992378 Reference page. 

2019

• Vane-Wright, R.I. 2019. The Identity of Euploea tulliolus goodenoughi Carpenter, 1942, a Crow Butterfly from Papua New Guinea. Treubia 46: 21–34. Online. Reference page. 

2021

• Vane-Wright, R.I. 2021. Papilio vanessa Fabricius, 1793, nomen oblitum, is a synonym of Liptena septistrigata (Bethune-Baker, 1903), nomen protectum (Papilionoidea: Lycaenidae: Poritiinae). Metamorphosis 32: 43–46. ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Vane-Wright, R.I., with Oxford University Museum of Natural History. 2021. Iconotypes. A compendium of Butterflies and Moths. Jones's Icones complete. 687pp. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-02432-4. Reference page.