Alexander Steven Corbet

Alexander Steven Corbet (1896-1948), entomologist.

• British Museum (Natural History) in May 1939, after an already varied career which had included appointments as bacteriologist at the School of Agriculture, Cambridge, bacteriologist and entomologist to the Rubber Research Institute, Kuala Lumpur, F.M.S., soil microbiologist at the I.C.I. Experiment Station, Bracknell, and bacteriological work with the Water Pollution Research Board.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 99 taxon names authored by Alexander Steven Corbet

Publications

• Pendlebury, H. M. & Corbet, A. S., 1933. Some Lycaenidae new to the Malay peninsula. J. Fed. Malay St. Mus. 17(2): 402–405. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A.S., 1933. The forms of Elymnias kuenstleri, Honrath. (Lep.Satyridae) Stylops 2: 130-133. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1937. A revision of the Malayan species of Celastrina (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 86: 19–34, 12 figs. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1937. A revision of the Malayan species of Curetis Hübner Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond (B) 6(12): 224. Wiley Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1938. A Revision of the Malayan Species of the Nacaduba Group of Genera (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Trans. R. ent. Soc, Lond. 87: 125–146, 1 pl., 26 text figs. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1938b. Observations on certain species of Rhopalocera from the Malay Peninsula. J. Fed. Malay St. Mus. 18(2): 242–262. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1938c. A revision of the Malayan species of Pratapa Moore (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (3)7(4): 166–172, figs 1-17. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1938. New Celastrina and Taraka forms from the Malay Peninsula (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Trans. R. ent. Soc, Lond. 87(5): 161–165, 1 pl., 7 text-figs. Reference page. 
• Riley, N.D. & Corbet, A. S., 1938. A Revision of the Malayan Species of Jamides Hübner (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Trans. R. ent. Soc. London 87(5): 147-159. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1939a. A revision of the Malayan species of Allotinus Felder & Felder (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 89: 63–78, 1pl., 21figs. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1939b. A revision of the Malayan species of Miletus Hübner (=Gerydus Boisduval) Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B)8(2): 25. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1939. A revision of the Malayan species of Rapala Moore (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B)8(6): 103–112, fig. 1-20a. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1940. Observations on species of Lycaenidae from the Malay Peninsula (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 9(1): 1–6, 7 figs. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1940b. A revision of the Malayan species of Chliaria Moore, (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 9(5): 90-92. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1940. A revision of the Malayan species of Logania Dist. (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 9: 111. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1940. A revision of the Malayan species of Tajuria Moore (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 90(5): 107. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1940. A revision of the Malayan species of Poritiinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 90: 337–350, 1 pl., 21 figs. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1940. Revisional notes on Malayan Lepidoptera. Entomologist 73(2): 39–43. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1940. The identity of the Fabrician species Papilio sphinx and Papilio hylax. Entomologist 73: 275. Reference page. 

1941

• Corbet, A. S., 1941. The Linnaean Names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B)10ː 8-16; 17-22. Wiley Lib. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1941. A revision of the Malayan species of Horaga Moore (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 10(3): 46. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1941. Observations on certain of the Fabrician names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B)10: 98–106. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1941. A further contribution to a knowledge of the Rhopalocera of the Malay Peninsula. J. Fed. Malay St. Mus. 18(5): 805-813. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A.S. 1941. A list of the butterflies of Hong Kong (3), Lycaenidae, Hesperiidae. Hongkong nat. 10(3/4): 148. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1941. Revisional notes on the genus Catapaecilma Butler (Lepid. Rhop.) Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B)10(5): 81. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A.S. 1941. A key to the Indo-Malayan species of Arhopala Boisduval. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B)10: 149–170. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S. 1941g. A revision of the Malaysian Genus Tanaecia Butler. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11) 7 (42): 507-520. Reference page. .

1942

• Corbet, A. S., 1942. Miscellaneous notes on butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Entomologist 75: 39. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1944. Some notes on the butterflies of the Langkawi Islands. Entomologist 77: 39. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1946. Observations on the Indo-Australian species of the genus Arhopala Boisduval. Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 96: 73–88. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1947. Nacaduba ollyetti. A new species of Lycaenid from Ceylon. Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B)16: 1–2, 2 text figs. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1948. Revisional Notes on Oriental Lycaenidae: 1. Proc. R. ent. Soc Lond. (B)17(7/8):93-97. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1948b. Revisional Notes on Oriental Lycaenidae: 2. Proc. R. ent. Soc Lond. (B)17(7/8):98-102. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S., 1948c. Papers on Malaysian Rhopalocera. III: The Butterflies of Singapore Island. Entomologist 81(1): 9. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S. & Pendlebury, H. M., 1934. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula Edn. 1. Reference page. 
• Corbet, A. S. & Pendlebury, H. M., 1956. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula Edn. 2. Edinburgh Oliver and Boyd xi+537 pp, 159 figs, 55 pls. Reference page. 

2020

• van der Poorten, G.M. & van der Poorten, N.E. 2020; in Corbet & Pendlebury. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 5th Edn. Southdene Sdn. Bhd., Kuala Lumpur. Reference page.