Sam W. Heads

Sam William Heads (born 22 April 1983), British entomologist and palaeontologist specialising in the systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of Orthoptera.

Taxon names authored

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• 1 taxon names authored by Sam W. Heads

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2012

• Rodríguez, F. & Heads, S.W. 2012. New mole crickets of the genus Scapteriscus Scudder from Colombia (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae; Scapteriscinae). Zootaxa 3282: 61–68. Preview [Erratum in Zootaxa 3337: 68–68. Preview PDF (2012)] Reference page. 

2013

• Hollier, J., Bruckner, H. & Heads, S.W. 2013. An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 5: Grylloidea. Revue suisse de Zoologie 120(3): 445–535. BHL. Reference page. 

2016

• Heads, S.W. & Hollier, J. 2016. The type specimen and generic placement of Tridactylus galla Saussure, 1895 (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Tridactylidae). Zootaxa 4193(1): 195–196. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4193.1.12. Reference page. 
• Jepson, J.E. & Heads, S.W. 2016. Fossil Megaloptera (Insecta: Neuropterida) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Zootaxa 4098(1): 134–144. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.1.5.Reference page. 

2017

• Swanson, D.R., Taylor, S.J. & Heads, S.W. 2017. Nine true bugs (Heteroptera) newly-discovered in Illinois. Zootaxa 4269(4): 571–585. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4269.4.10. Reference page. 

2018

• Baena-Bejarano, N. & Heads, S.W. 2018. First records of Dentridactylinae (Orthoptera: Tridactylidae) from Colombia, with description of two new species of Dentridactylus Günther. Zootaxa 4402(3): 575–584. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4402.3.10 Reference page. 
• Baena-Bejarano, N., Heads, S.W. & Taylor, S.J. 2018. Comments on the neglected nymphs of mud crickets in the genus Mirhipipteryx (Caelifera: Tridactyloidea: Ripipterygidae). Zootaxa 4486(2): 180–188. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4486.2.7 Reference page. 
• Heads, S.W. 2018. On the status of Araripegryllus romualdoi (Insecta: Orthoptera: Grylloidea) from the Cretaceous Santana Formation of Brazil. Zootaxa 4486(1): 83–84. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4486.1.6 Reference page. 
• Heads, S.W., Thomas, M.J. & Wang, Y-N. 2018. A new genus and species of Elcanidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) from Cretaceous Burmese amber. Zootaxa 4527(4): 575–580. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4527.4.8 Reference page. 
• Robinson, J.L., Thomas, M.J. & Heads, S.W. 2018. A fossil caddisfly (Insecta: Trichoptera) from the Eocene of Colorado. Zootaxa 4403(2): 389–394. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.2.10 Reference page. 

2019

• Thomas, M.J., Skejo, J. & Heads, S.W. 2019. The last batrachideine of Europe: A new genus and species of pygmy grasshopper (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) from Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa 4686(3): 435–445. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4686.3.9 pdf Reference page.