Francis Xavier Williams

Francis Xavier Williams (1882–1967), U.S. entomologist.

Taxon names authored

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• 3 taxon names authored by Francis Xavier Williams

Eponyms

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• 2 eponyms of Francis Xavier Williams

Publications

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• Williams, F.X., 1911. The Butterflies and Hawk-Moths of the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4ː 289-322, 21 pls. Reference page. 

1914

• Williams, F.X. 1914. The Larridae of Kansas. The Kansas University Science Bulletin 18: 121–213, pls. XXII-XXX. BHL
• Williams, F.X. 1914. Notes on the habits of some solitary wasps that occur in Kansas, with the description of a new species. The Kansas University Science Bulletin 18: 223–230, pl. XXXIII. BHL

1919

• Williams, F.X. 1919. Some observations on the leaf-hopper wasp, Nesomimesa hawaiiensis Perkins, at Pahala, Hawaii. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 4: 63–68. BHL
• Williams, F.X. 1919. [Finding of Dolichurus stantoni]. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 4: 180. BHL
• Williams, F.X. 1919. [Finding a nest of Crabro tumidoventris]. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 4: 180. BHL
• Williams, F.X. 1919. Philippine wasps studies. Part II. Descriptions on new species and life history studies. Bulletin. Reports of Work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Entomological Series 14: 19–186. PDF

1921

• Williams, F.X. 1921. [Unnamed immigrant Trypoxylon]. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 4: 458. BHL
• Williams, F.X. 1921. [A nest of Silaon rohweri in a cactus twig]. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 4: 489. BHL

1926

• Williams, F.X. 1926. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, 1905–1906. The bees and aculeate wasps of the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 4) 2: 347–357. BHL

1927

• Williams, F.X. 1927. Notes on the habits of the bees and wasps of the Hawaiian Islands. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 6: 425–464. PDF

1928

• Williams, F.X. 1928. Studies in tropical wasps – their hosts and associates (with descriptions of new species). Bulletin. Reports of Work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Entomological Series 19: 1–179. PDF
• Williams, F.X. 1928. The natural history of a Philippine nipa house with descriptions of new wasps. The Philippine Journal of Science 35: 53–118, pls. 1–8. PDF
• Williams, F.X. 1928. Larridae, pp. 33–39 in Insects of Samoa and other Samoan terrestrial Arthropoda. Part V. Hymenoptera. Fasc. 1. British Museum (Natural History), London, 58 pp.
• Williams, F.X. 1928. The sphecid wasp, Podalonia violaceipennis (Lep.). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 7: 163. PDF

1929

• Williams, F.X. 1929. Notes on the habits of the cockroach-hunting wasps of the genus Ampulex, Sens. Lat., with particular reference to Ampulex (Rhinopsis) caniculatus [sic] Say. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 7: 315–329. PDF

1931

• Williams, F.X. 1931. Handbook of the insects and other invertebrates of Hawaiian sugar cane fields. Honolulu, Hawaii. 400 pp.

1932

• Williams, F.X. 1932. The sphegoid wasps of the Marquesas Islands. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 98: 149–153. PDF
• Williams, F.X. 1932. [Note on Tachysphex fusus]. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 8: 17. PDF
• Williams, F.X. 1932. [Note on Chalybion caeruleum]. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 8: 17. PDF
• Williams, F.X. 1932. [Holochlora japonica Brunn.] Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 8: 25. [contains information on Larra luzonensis and Isodontia harrisi]. PDF

1936

• Williams, F.X. 1936. Notes on two oxybelid wasps in San Francisco, California. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 12: 1–8. PDF
• Williams, F.X. 1936. Notes on some larrid wasps from the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, with the description of one new species. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 18: 124–130. PDF

1940

• Williams, F.X. 1940. [Astata bella Cresson (1882)]. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 10: 364. PDF
• Williams, F.X. 1940. [Capturing a pair of Tachysphex fusus]. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 10: 367. PDF

1941

• Williams, F.X. 1941. An apparently undescribed Tachysphex (Hymenoptera, Larridae) from Trinidad, B.W.I. Proc. The Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London (Series B) 10: 197–199. PDF

1942

• Williams, F.X. 1942. Ampulex compressa (Fabr.), a cockroach-hunting wasp introduced from New Caledonia into Hawaii. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 11: 221–233. PDF
• Williams, F.X. 1942. The New Caledonian cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa) in Hawaii. The Hawaiian Planters' Record 46: 43–48.

1945

• Williams, F.X. 1945. The aculeate wasps of New Caledonia, with natural history notes. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 12: 407–452. PDF

1946

• Williams, F.X. 1946. Two new species of Astatinae, with notes on the habits of the group (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 12: 641–650. PDF

1947

• Williams, F.X. 1947. Aculeate wasps of Fiji. Occasional Papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum 18: 317–336. PDF

1950

• Williams, F.X. 1950. The wasps of the genus Solierella in California (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae, Larrinae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 4) 26: 355–417. BHL

1951

• Williams, F.X. 1951. A new species of Diploplectron from California, with a description of the female of Diploplectron reticulatus Williams (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Astatinae). The Wasmann Journal of Biology 8: 363–366. PDF

1953

• Williams, F.X. 1953. Additions and corrections to "The wasps of the genus Solierella in California" (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Larrinae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 29: 157–162. PDF

1954

• Williams, F.X. 1954. Xenosphex xerophila, an apparently new genus and species of wasp from southeren California (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae, Nyssoninae, Gorytini). The Wasmann Journal of Biology 12: 97–103. PDF Reference page. 
• Williams, F.X. 1954. The wasps of the genus Pisonopsis Fox (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 30: 235–246. PDF

1955

• Williams, F.X. 1955. A new species of wasp of the genus Solierella from southern California (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 31: 85–86. PDF

1956

• Williams, F.X. 1956. A correction: a second species of Xenosphex (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Nyssoninae). The Wasmann Journal of Biology 13: 313–315. PDF

1958

• Williams, F.X. 1958. Four new sphecid wasps from western North America (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Larrinae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 34: 207–213. PDF

1959

• Williams, F.X. 1959. A new species of Solierella from Southern California (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 61: 74–76. BHL
• Williams, F.X. 1959. A preoccupied name in Solierella (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 35: 116. PDF

1960

• Williams, F.X. 1960. Three apparently rare sphecoid wasps from southern California, including a new subgenus and species of Dolichurus. The Wasmann Journal of Biology 17: 299–306. PDF Reference page. 
• Williams, F.X. 1960. The wasps of the genus Plenoculus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Larrinae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 4) 31: 1–49. BHL

1962

• Williams, F.X. 1962. A new species of wasp of the genus Dolichurus from southern Mexico (Hymenoptera: Ampulicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 63: 290–293. BHL
• Williams, F.X. 1962. The female of Solierella mirifica Pate (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 64: 185–186. BHL

1963

• Williams, F.X. 1963. The male of Dolichurus (Paradolichurus) californicus Williams (Hymenoptera: Ampulicidae). The Wasmann Journal of Biology 20: 297–298. PDF