William Douglas Shepard

William Douglas Shepard, entomologist. married with Cheryl Barkley Barr

Essig Museum of Entomology, 1101 Valley Life Sciences Bldg. #4780, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Baldinger, A.J., Shepard, W.D. & Threloff, D.L. 2000. Two new species of Hyalella (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyalellidae) from Death Valley National Park, California, U.S.A. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 113: 443–457. BHL Reference page.

Lee, C.-F., Satô, M., Shepard, W.D. & Jäch, M.A. 2007. Phylogeny of Psephenidae (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea) based on larval, pupal and adult characters. Systematic Entomology 32(3): 502–538. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00374.x .

Flowers, R.W., Shepard, W.D. & Troya Mera, R. 2010. A new species of Lepicerus (Coleoptera: Lepiceridae) from Ecuador. Zootaxa 2639: 35–39. Preview PDF. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2639.1.3 . Reference page.

Chaboo, C.S. & Shepard, W.D. 2015. Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A Survey of the Families. Hydroscaphidae and Sphaeriusidae (Myxophaga). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 88(2): 144–145. DOI: 10.2317/kent-88-02-144-145.1 . JSTOR.
Chaboo, C.S. & Shepard, W.D. 2015. Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A Survey of the Families. Dytisddae, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, and Noteridae (Suborder Adephaga). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 88(2): 146–150. DOI: 10.2317/kent-88-02-146-150.1 . JSTOR.
Shepard, W.D. & Chaboo, C.S. 2015. Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A Survey of the Families. Dryopidae, Limnichidae, Luctrochidae, Psphenidae, and Ptilodactylidae. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 88(2): 163–166. DOI: 10.2317/kent-88-02-163-166.1 . JSTOR.
Shepard, W.D. & Chaboo, C.S. 2015. Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A Survey of the Families. Elmidae. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 88(2): 167–168. DOI: 10.2317/kent-88-02-167-168.1 . JSTOR.
Shepard, W.D. & Chaboo, C.S. 2015. Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A Survey of the Families. Epimetopidae, Hydrochidae, Hydrophilidae (Hydrophiloidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 88(2): 169–172. DOI: 10.2317/kent-88-02-169-172.1 . JSTOR.
Chaboo, C.S. & Shepard, W.D. 2015. Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A Survey of the Families. Clambidae, Eucinetidae, Scirtidae (Scirtoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 88(2): 208–210. DOI: 10.2317/kent-88-02-208-210.1 . JSTOR.

Shepard, W.D. & Barr, C.B. 2016. Neoelmis guarani Shepard & Barr, a sexually dimorphic new species from Paraguay (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae). Zootaxa 4083(3): 418–430. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4083.3.6. . Reference page.

Barr, C.B. & Shepard, W.D. 2020. Hiding in plain sight: rediscovery and review of Parygrus Erichson, 1847, with description of five new species from the Neotropics (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea: Dryopidae). Zootaxa 4755(1): 099–128. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4755.1.4. . Reference page.

Shepard, W.D., Sites, R.W. & Rodrigues, H.D.D. 2021. A New, Sexually Dimorphic Species of Cylloepus Erichson from Brazil (Coleoptera: Elmidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 75(1): 270-274. DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.270 . Reference page.
Clavier, S., Barr, C.B., Le Page, P. & Shepard, W.D. 2021. Coléoptères aquatiques de la frange littorale de Guyane : Inventaire et iconographie des familles Elmidae, Dryopidae, Ptilodactylidae, Dityscidae et Noteridae. In: Touroult, J. (coord.). Contribution à l’étude des coléoptères de Guyane. Supplément au Bulletin de liaison d’ACOREP-France Le Coléoptériste 13: 3–15. Reference page.

Bilton, D.T. & Shepard, W.D. 2022. Rhithrops capensis gen. et sp. nov., a new aquatic dryopid beetle from the Western Cape of South Africa (Coleoptera: Dryopoidea: Dryopidae). Zootaxa 5195(6): 539–553. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5195.6.3. . Reference page.