Laurence Gordon Kirton

Laurence Kirton, entomologist. Head of the Biodiversity and Conservation of Fauna Programme in the Forest Research Institute Malaysia.

• Entomology Branch, Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), 52109 Kepong, Selangor, Malaysia.
• Email: kirton.frim@gmail.com

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 1 taxon names authored by Laurence Gordon Kirton

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1991

• Kirton, L.G. 1991. Butterflies in Peninsular Malaysia. Pp. 105–110 in Kiew, R. (Ed.) The State of Nature Conservation in Malaysia. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. Reference page. 

2000

• Eliot, J.N. & Kirton, L.G., 2000. Revisional notes and nomenclatural changes of some Peninsular Malaysian butterflies. Malayan Nature Journal 54: 131–141.. Reference page. 
• Phon, C-K., Kirton, L.G. & Goh, L-C., 2000. Discovery of the previously unknown female of Salanoemia shigerui Maruyama (Lepidoptera; Hesperiidae) from Peninsular Malaysia. The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 44: 129-131. Reference page. 

2003

• Kirton, L.G. & Brown, V.K. 2003. The taxonomic status of pest species of Coptotermes in Southeast Asia: Resolving the paradox in the pest status of the termites, Coptotermes gestroi, C. havilandi and C. travians (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). Sociobiology 42(1): 43–63. Reference page. 

2004

• Kirton, L.G. and Eliot, J.N., 2004. A revision of the rattan-feeding skipper genus Zela de Nicéville (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Malayan Nature Journal 56(4): 317-367. Reference page. 

2024

• Phon, C-K., Kirton, L.G. & Kuah, M.K. 2024. Morphological and genetic analyses verify the occurrence of the butterfly Graphium chironides (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) in Peninsular Malaysia and resolve the confusion on the validity of its subspecies malayanum Eliot, 1982. European Journal of Taxonomy 917: 94–121. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.917.2391. . Reference page.