Robert Bernard Benson

Robert Bernard Benson (1904–1967), British entomologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 28 taxon names authored by Robert Bernard Benson

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1935

• Benson, R.B. 1935. On the genera of the Cephidae, and the erection of a new family Syntexidae (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 16: 535–553. DOI: 10.1080/00222933508655081 .

1938

• Benson, R.B. 1938. A revision of the genus Pterygophorus Klug, sensu lato, with the description of two new genera (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11) 1(6): 610–625. DOI: 10.1080/00222933808526811 Reference page. 
• Benson, R.B. 1938. On the Australian Orussidae, with a key to the genera of the world (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11) 2(7): 1–15. DOI: 10.1080/03745481.1938.9755433 Reference page. 
• Benson, R.B. 1938. Sawflies of the Subfamily Trichorhachinae (Argidae) (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11) 2(8): 117–122. DOI: 10.1080/03745481.1938.9755444 .
• Benson, R.B. 1938. On the classification of sawflies (Hymenoptera Symphyta). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 87: 353–384. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1938.tb00721.x .

1939

• Benson, R.B. 1939. A revision of the Australian sawflies of the genus Perga Leach, sens. lat. (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Australian zoologist 9: 324–357. BHL Reference page. 

1940

• Benson, R.B. 1940. Three sawflies attacking guava in Brazil (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Bulletin of Entomological Research 30: 463–495.
• Benson, R.B. 1940. Sawflies of the Berkhamsted district: with a list of the sawflies of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, and a survey of the British species (Hymenoptera Symphyta). Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club 21(3): 177–231.

1941

• Benson, R.B. 1941. The ecology and control of the forest insects of India and the neighbouring countries. Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun. P. 511.

1943

• Benson, R.B. 1943. Studies in Siricidae, especially of Europe and southern Asia (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Bulletin of Entomological Research 34: 27–51.

1946

• Benson, R.B. 1946. Classification of the Cephidae (Hymenoptera Symphyta). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 96: 89–108. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1946.tb00445.x .

1951

• Benson, R.B. 1951. Hymenoptera, Symphyta. Handbooks for the identification of British Insects. Royal Entomological Society of London 6(2a). 49 pp.

1963

• Benson, R.B. 1963 ("1962"). The affinities of the Australian Argidae (Hymenoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (13) 5(58): 631–635. DOI: 10.1080/00222936208651295 Reference page. 

References

• Quinlan, J. 1974. The nominal taxa described by R. B. Benson and their types with a bibliography of his works (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 30(4): 217–265. BHL.