William Phillips Comstock

William Phillips Comstock (1880–1956), American entomologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 27 taxon names authored by William Phillips Comstock

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1913

• Comstock, W.P., 1913. A New North American Butterfly in the Family Lycaenidae. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 8(3): 33, pl.2, figs A-H. text, plate. Reference page. 

1920

• Watson, F.E. & Comstock, W.P., 1920. Notes on American Lepidoptera with descriptions of new varieties. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 42(10): 447-457. Reference page. 

1940s

• Comstock, W. P. & Huntington, E. I., 1943. Lycaenidae of the Antilles. (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 45(2): 49–130, figs 1-2, pl. 1, tbl. 1-3. pdf. Reference page. 
• Comstock, W.P., 1944. Insects of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Rhopalocera or Butterflies. In Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 12(4): 29 figs, 12 pls. Reference page. 
• Bell, E.L. & Comstock, W.P. 1948. A new genus and some new species and subspecies of American Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). American Museum Novitates 1379: 1–23. PDF. Reference page. 

1950s

• Comstock, W.P. & Brown, F.M. 1950. Geographical variation and subspeciation in Heliconius charitonius Linnaeus (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). American Museum Novitates 146: 1–21. PDF. Reference page. 
• Comstock, W.P. & Huntington, E.I. 1958–1964. An annotated list of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) of the Western Hemisphere. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 21 parts. [1958] 66: 103–118; [1959] 67: 59–95, 163–212; [1960] 68: 49–62, 105–122, 176–186, 232–240; [1961] 69: 54–58, 105–118, 157–176, 191–200; [1962] 70: 39–46, 100–118, 177–179; [1963] 71: 45–57, 115–119, 189–197' 262–264; 1964 72: 62–64, 120–130, 173–192. Reference page.