Willy De Prins

Willy De Prins (fl. 1995/2019), Belgian entomologist (Lepidoptera).

• Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
• active in The Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium.
• E-mail: willy.deprins@gmail.com

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 23 taxon names authored by Willy De Prins

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1982

• de Prins, W. & van der Poorten, D. 1982. Overzicht van het Genus Pseudophilotes in Europa en Noord-Afrika, met Beschrijving van Een Sort Uit Sardinie, Nieuw Voor de Wetenschap (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Phegea 10(2): 61–76. Reference page. 

1985

• Prins De, W. 1985. On a Gracillaria species from Morocco with some supplementary notes on the genus Gracillaria Haworth (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Nota lepidopterologica (n.f.), 8(4): 351–362. Reference page. 

1992

• De Prins, W., van der Poorten, D. & Bálint, Z. 1992. Taxonomic revision of the North African species of the genus Plebejus Kluk, 1802 (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae). Phegea 20(1): 11–34. BHL Reference page. 

1993

• De Prins, W. & van der Poorten, D. 1993. Rhopalocera and Grypocera of Turkey 11. Description of the females of two little known lycaenid butterflies from southeast Turkey: Polyommatus (Lysandra) dezinus (de Freina & Witt, 1983) and Polyommatus buzulmavi Carbonell, 1992 (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae). Phegea 21(1): 11–16. PDF. Reference page. 

1995

• De Prins, W. & van der Poorten, D., 1995. Rhopalocera and Grypocera of Turkey 14. Taxonomic revision of the Pyrgus alveus (Hübner, [1803]) complex from Greece to West China, with description of two new species from southern Turkey (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Phegea 23(1): 1-44 (PDF). Reference page. 
• Kolev, Z. & De Prins, W. 1995. A new species of the "brown Agrodiaetus" complex from the Crimea (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Phegea 23(2): 119–132. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

1996

• De Prins, W. & van der Poorten, D. 1996. Additions and corrections to "Die Tagfalter der Türkei". 2. Interesting observations of butterflies in Turkey during the 38th expedition of the "Werkgroep Grieks-Turkse dagvlinders" (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Phegea 24(1): 25–32. PDF. Reference page. 

1999

• Olivier, A., Puplesiene, J., van der Poorten, D., De Prins, W. & Wiemers, M. 1999. Revision of some taxa of the Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) transcaspicus group with description of a new species from Central Anatolia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Phegea 27(1): 1–24. BHL PDF. Reference page. 
• Coutsis, J.G., Puplesiene, J. & De Prins, W. 1999. The chromosome number and karyotype of Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) ripartii and Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) aroaniensis from Greece (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Phegea 27(3): 81–84. PDF. Reference page. 

2000

• Olivier, A., van der Poorten, D., Puplesiene, J. & De Prins, W. 2000. Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) artvinensis stat. nov. and P. (A.) sigberti sp. nov., two vicariant species known so far only from Turkey (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Phegea 28(2): 57–74. 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

• De Prins, J., De Prins, W., de Coninck, E., Kawahara, A.Y., Milton, M.A. & Hebert, P.D.N. 2013. Taxonomic history and invasion biology of two Phyllonorycter leaf miners (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) with links to taxonomic and molecular datasets. Zootaxa 3709(4): 341–362. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3709.4.3 Reference page. 

2017

• De Prins, W. 2017. On the identity and status of Darala lineosa (Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae). Zootaxa 4344(1): 163–164. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4344.1.8. Reference page. 

2018

• Freina de, J.J. & de Prins, W. 2018: Nomenclatural and taxonomic notes on three South-East Asian species of Amata (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Syntomini). Zootaxa 4461(1): 141–145. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4461.1.11 Reference page. 

2019

• Park, K-T. & De Prins, W. 2019. Re-examination of the type specimens of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera), deposited in the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Belgium, with descriptions of ten new species from DR Congo belonging to Thubdora Park and Torodora Meyrick. Zootaxa 4571(4): 451–476. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.4.1. Reference page. 
• Park, K-T. & De Prins, W. 2019a. A review of the Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) of southern Africa, based on type specimens deposited in the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (TMSA), with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 4623(1): 061–089. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4623.1.5. Reference page. 

2020

• de Prins, W. & Koo, J.M. 2020. A replacement name for Dichomeris paulianella Viette, 1957 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa 4858(3): 447–447. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4858.3.10. . Reference page. 

2021

• de Prins, W. 2021. A replacement name for Acrapex albicostata Hampson, 1916 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Zootaxa 4966(4): 497–500. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4966.4.10. . Reference page. 

2023

• De Prins & De Prins 2023. A replacement name for the genus-group name Pollex Fibiger, 2007 (Erebidae: Hypenodinae: Micronoctuini). Zootaxa 5228(1): 97–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5228.1.7. Reference page. 
• Park, K.T., Koo, J.M., Jeong, S.Y., de Prins, J. & de Prins, W. 2023. Review of the genus Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) in DR Congo, with description of four new species. Zootaxa 5339(4): 355–368. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5339.4.2. Reference page.