Shen-Horn Yen

Shen-Horn Yen (顏聖紘, fl. 1997), Entomologist, Taiwan (Lepidoptera, "primitive" superfamilies, Tineioidea, Zygaenoidea (esp. Zygaenidae), Pyraloidea, Thyrididae, Macrolepidoptera, Systematics, Phylogenetics, Evolutionary Ecology)

• Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, TAIWAN.
• E-mail: shenhornyen@mail.nsysu.edu.tw

IPNI standard form: S.H.Yen

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 8 taxon names authored by Shen-Horn Yen

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1997

• Hsu, Y.-F. & Yen, S.-H. 1997. Notes on Boloria pales yangi, ssp. nov., a remarkable disjunction in butterfly biogeography (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 34: 1–5. PDF. Reference page. 

2000

• Yen, S.H., Nässig, W.A., Naumann, S. & Brechlin, R. 2000. A new species of the miranda–group of the genus Loepa from Taiwan (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo NF 21(3): 153-162. full article zobodat (PDF). Reference page. 

2003

• Yen, S.-H., Kitching, I.J. & Hsu, Y.-F. 2003. A New Subspecies of Hawkmoth from Lanyu Island, Taiwan, with a Revised and Annotated Checklist of Taiwanese Sphingidae (Lepidoptera). Zoological Studies 42 (2): 292–306. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2004

• Hsu, Y.-F., Dongsun, D., Yen, S.-H. & Qian, Z. 2004. Systematic problems surrounding Howarthia melli (Forster) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae), with description of a new species and a review of Rhododendron-assiciation in Lycaenid butterflies. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97(4): 653–666. Reference page. 
• Als, T.D., Vila, R., Kandul, N.P., Nash, D.R., Yen, S.-H., Hsu, Y.-F., Mignault, A.A., Boomsma, J.J., & Pierce, N.E. 2004. The evolution of alternative parasitic life histories in large blue butterflies. Nature 432: 386–390. DOI: 10.1038/NATURE03020 Reference page. 

2006

• Hsu, Y.-F. & Yen, S.-H. 2006. Immature biology of Prosotas reveals an ovipositing strategy unusual in Polyommatinae Lycaenids (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae), with a description of a new subspecies of P. dubiosa from Taiwan. Zoological Studies 45(3): 308–321. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2011

• van Nieukerken, E.J., Kaila, L., Kitching, I.J., Kristensen, N.P., Lees, D.C., Minet, J., Mitter, C., Mutanen, M., Regier, J.C., Simonsen, T.J., Wahlberg, N., Yen, S-H., Zahiri, R., Adamski, D., Baixeras, J., Bartsch, D., Bengtsson, B.A., Brown, J.W., Bucheli, S.R., Davis, D.R., de Prins, J., de Prins, W., Epstein, M.C., Gentili-Poole, P., Gielis, C., Hättenschwiler, P., Hausmann, A., Holloway, J.D., Kallies, A., Karsholt, O., Kawahara, A.Y., Koster, S., Kozlov, M.V., Lafontaine, J.D., Lamas, G., Landry, J-F., Lee, S., Nuss, M., Park, K-T., Penz, C.M., Rota, J., Schintlmeister, A., Schmidt, B.C., Sohn, J-C., Solis, M.A., Tarmann, G.M., Warren, A.D., Weller, S., Yaklovlev, R.V., Zolotuhin, V.V. & Zwick, A. 2011. Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. Pp 212–221 In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  PDF. Reference page. 

2013

• Wu, S., Owada, M., Shiao, S.F. & Yen, S.H. 2013: Review of the genus Cidariplura Butler, 1879 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Herminiinae) in Taiwan with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa 3746(1): 143–160. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3746.1.6 Reference page. 

2014

• Yu, F., Chen, F.-Q., Yen, S.-H., Tu, L.-H., Zhu, C.-D., Guerrieri, E. & Zhang, Y.-Z. 2014. Preliminary phylogeny of the genus Copidosoma (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae), polyembryonic parasitoids of Lepidoptera. Systematic Entomology 39(2): 325–334. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12057 Reference page. 

2017

• Wei, C-H., Lohman, D.J., Peggie, D. & Yen, S-H. 2017. An illustrated checklist of the genus Elymnias Hübner, 1818 (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). ZooKeys 676: 47—152. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.676.12579. Reference page. 
• Wei, C-H. & Yen, S-H. 2017. Mimaporia, a new genus of Epicopeiidae (Lepidoptera), with description of a new species from Vietnam. Zootaxa 4254(5): 537–550. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.5.3. Reference page. 

2019

• Wu, S. & Yen, S.H. 2019: Evaluating the generic definition of Lithopolia Yoshimoto, 1993 with a description of one new species of Taiwan (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Orthosiini). Zootaxa 4555(3): 425–432. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.3.11 Reference page. .