Donald Robert Whitehead

Donald Robert Whitehead (1938–1990), entomologist and myriapodologist

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 3 taxon names authored by Donald Robert Whitehead

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1972

• Whitehead, D.R. 1972: Classification, phylogeny, and zoogeography of Schizogenius Putzeys (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritini). Quaestiones entomologicae 8(3): 131-348. PDF Reference page. 

1974

• Kingsolver, J.M. & Whitehead, D.R. 1974. Biosystematics of Central American species of Ctenocolum, a new genus of seed beetles (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 87(27): 283–312. BHL. Reference page. 
• Kingsolver, J.M. & Whitehead, D.R. 1974. Classification and comparative biology of the seed beetle genus Caryedes Hummel (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 100(4): 341–436. JSTOR . Reference page. 

1975

• Whitehead, D.R. & Kingsolver, J.M. 1975. Beetles and wasps associated with Cassia biflora L. (Caesalpiniaceae) fruits in Costa Rica, with a new species of Sennius (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 65(4): 154–157. BHL.
• Whitehead, D.R. & Kingsolver, J.M. 1975. Megasennius, a new genus for Acanthoscelides muricatus (Sharp) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae), a seed predator of Cassia grandis L. (Caesalpiniaceae) in Central America. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 77(4): 460–465. BHL.
• Whitehead, D.R. & Kingsolver, J.M. 1975. Biosystematics of the North and Central American species of Gibbobruchus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae: Bruchinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 101(2): 167–225. JSTOR .

1976

• Kingsolver, J.M. & Whitehead, D.R. 1976. The North and Central American species of Meibomeus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae: Bruchinae). Technical Bulletin (United States. Dept. Of Agriculture) No. 1523: 54 pp. DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.158536 .

1980

• Hoebeke, E.R.; Whitehead, D.R. 1980: New records of Rhinoncus bruchoides (Herbst) for the Western Hemisphere and a revised key to the North American species of the genus Rhinoncus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Ceutorhynchinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 82(4): 556–561. BHL

1982

• Whitehead, D. R.; Shelley, R.M. (1992). Mimicry among aposematic Appalachian xystodesmid millipeds (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 94(2): 177-188

2012

• Prena, J.; Whitehead, D.R. 2012: A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical weevil genus Cleogonus Schönherr (Curculionidae, Molytinae). Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, 59(1): 55–79. DOI: 10.1002/mmnd.201200004 (Posthumously published)

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

• 4 eponyms of Donald Robert Whitehead
• Clivina (Leucocara) Bousquet, 2009
• Whiteheadiana Perrault, 1994
• Whiteheadia Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal, 1999
• Geoballus caputalbus, Crabill, 1969
• Ornidia whiteheadi Thompson, 1991

References

• Obituary
• Bousquet, Y. 2009. Rediscovery of Clivina morio Dejean with the description of Leucocara, a new subgenus of Clivina Latreille (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Clivinini). ZooKeys 25: 37–48. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.25.276 .
• Thompson, F.C. 1991. Don Whitehead Remembered. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 93(2): 261. hdl: 10088/17487