Gerardo Lamas

Gerardo Lamas (Müller, born 1948), Peruvian entomologist.

• Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Apartado 14-0434, Lima-14, Peru.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 142 taxon names authored by Gerardo Lamas

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1973

• Lamas, G. 1973. Taxonomy and evolution of the "Prolepsis-complex" in the Americas (Diptera, Asilidae). Arquivos de Zoologia 24(1): Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

1976

• Lamas, G. 1976. Notes on Peruvian Butterflies (Lepidoptera). II. New Heliconius (Nymphalidae) from Cusco and Madre de Dios. Revista Peruana de Entomologia 19(1): 1–7. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

1978

• Lamas, G. 1978. A new name for Papilio ceres Cramer, [1776], nec Fabricius, [1775] (Nymphalidae, Danainae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 33(2): 116–117. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

1979

• Lamas, G. 1979. Paititia neglecta, gen. n., sp. n. from Peru (Nymphalidae: Ithomiinae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 33(1): 1–5. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

1993

• Brévignon, C. & Lamas, G. 1993. The genera Hyposcada Godman & Salvin, 1879 and Oleria Hübner, 1816 in French Guiana. Description of five new subspecies (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae Ithomiinae). Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat 80: 27–31. Reference page. 

1994

• Bálint, Zs. & Lamas, G. 1994: Polyommatine lycaenids of the Oreal Biome in the Neotropics, III: Descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 40 (3): 231–240. Reference page. 

1995

• Lamas, G. 1995. Las mariposas sudamericanas descritas por Vincez Kollar (Lepidoptera). Revista Peruana de Entomologia 37: 55–58. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Lamas, G. 1995. A critical review of J. Y. Millers Checklist of the Neotropical Castniidae (Lepidoptera). Revista Peruana de Entomologia 37: 73–87. Full article (PDF}. Reference page. 

1996

• Balint & Lamas, (1996). Polyommatine lycaenides of the oreal biome in the Neotropics, Part XI. On the taxonomy of the Neotropical Polyommatine lycaenids (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Polyommatini). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 88: 127-144. Reference page. 

1997

• Lamas, G. 1997. Comentarios taxonómicos y nomenclaturales sobre ninfalidos neotropicales (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), con la descripción de ocho subespecies nuevas. Revista Peruana de Entomologia 40(1): 111–125. full article (PDF}. Reference page. 

2001

• Hall, J.P.W. & Lamas, G. 2001. Five new Riodinid species from northwestern dry forest and northeastern Andean cloud forest habitats in Peru (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae). Revista peruana de Entomología 42: 9–19, 10 figs. PDF. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R., Hall, J.P.W. & Lamas, G. 2001. Systematics of Hypanartia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Nymphalinae), with a test for geographical speciation mechanisms in the Andes. Systematic Entomology 26: 369–399. PDF Reference page. 

2002

• Robbins, R. K. & Lamas, G. 2002. Nomenclatural Changes in the Neotropical Eumaeini (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Theclinae) Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 19 (Supl. 1): 197–214. PDF. Reference page. 

2003

• Lamas, G. 2003. Las Mariposas de Machu Picchu. Guía ilustrada de las mariposas del Santuario Histórico Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Perú. Lima, PROFONANPE. 1–221. Reference page. 

2004

• Lamas, G. 2004. (ed.) Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol.5A, Pt.4A. Assn. for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439pp. Reference page. 
• Lamas, G 2004. Twenty-five new Neotropical Dismorphiinae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Revista peruana de Entomología 44: 17–36. Reference page. 
• Lamas, G. & Bollino, M. 2004. Revisional notes on the amatris group of Catasticta Butler, 1870 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), with descriptions of new species and subspecies. Zootaxa 605: 1–19. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

2005

• Peña, C. & Lamas, G. 2005. Revision of the butterfly genus Forsterinaria Gray, 1973 (Lepidoptera:Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). Revista Peruana de Entomologia 12(1): 5–48. Full article (PDF}. Reference page. 
• Lamas, G. 2005. A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1866* – 1922†). Entomofauna 26(6): 57–100. PDF.

2006

• Blandin, P. & Lamas, G., 2006: Five new Peruvian subspecies of Morpho (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Morphinae). Revista Peruana de Entomologia, 45: 65–70. full article (pdf}. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R. & Lamas, G. 2006. A phylogenetic reassessment of Hyalenna Forbes and Dircenna Doubleday, with a revision of Hyalenna (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Ithomiinae). Systematic Entomology 31(3): 419-468. Reference page. 

2007

• Lamas, 2007. Four new names for Afrotropical Lycaenidae. Metamorphosis 18 (4): 128–130. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Lamas, 2007. Invalidation of six neotypes among Neotropical butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae and Nymphalidae). Revista peruana Entomologica 45: 115-119. pdf. Reference page. 
• Lamas, G. & Willmott, K.R. 2007. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100(4): 449–469. Abstract.
• Grieshuber, J. & Lamas, G. 2007. A Synonymic List of the Genus Colias FABRICIUS, 1807 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 97: 131-171. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Hall, J.P.W. & Lamas, G., 2007. Four new symmachiine taxa from the eastern Andes of Peru and Ecuador. Zootaxa 1533: 41-52, 11 figs. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R. & Lamas, G. 2007. A revision of Pachacutia, a new genus of rare Andean ithomiine butterflies (Nymphalidae: Ithomiinae), with the description of two new species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100: 449-469. DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[449:AROPAN]2.0.CO;2. . Reference page. 

2008

• Lamas, G. 2008. Twelve new species-group replacement names and further nomenclatural notes on Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 1848: 47–56. Abstract: [1]. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R. & Lamas, G. 2008. A revision of the genus Megoleria (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Ithomiini, (Ithomiina), Tropical Lepidoptera Research 18(1): 36-59 (PDF). Reference page. 
• Robbins, R.K. & G. Lamas, 2008. Balintus d'Abrera, 2001, Gulliveria d'Abrera & Bálint, 2001, Salazaria d'Abrera & Bálint, 2001, Megathecla Robbins, R.K., 2002 and Gullicaena Bálint, 2002 (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): proposed establishment of availability. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 65(3): 188–193 (PDF). Reference page. 
• Robbins, R.K. & G. Lamas, 2008. Nomenclature, variation, and the biological species concept in Lamasina (Lycaenidae: Theclinae: Eumaeini). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25(1): 116–127 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. 
• Pulido-B., H.W., Andrade-C., M.G., Peña, C. & Lamas, G. 2011. Two new taxa of Euptychia Hübner, 1818 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from the Andes of Colombia and Peru. Zootaxa 2906: 43–51. Preview Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2012

• Constantino, L.M., Salazar-Escobar, J.A., Rodríguez, G. 2012. Study on the Ancyluris Hübner 1819 genus in Colombia and description of new taxa. (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae). Boletín Científico del Centro de Museos de Historia Natural, 16(2): 209–235. full article (pdf). Reference page. 

2013

• Sohn, J.-C. & Lamas, G. 2013. Corrections, additions, and nomenclatural notes to the recently published world catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera. Zootaxa 3599(4): 395–399. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3599.4.8 Reference page. 

2014

• Lang, S.-Y., Lamas, G. & Lo, Y.F.P. 2014. Notes on the butterflies "described" in 1929 by Prof. Woon-Young Chun from Hainan Island, China (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea). Zootaxa 3765(1): 95–97. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.1.7 Reference page. 
• Siewert, R.R., Dias, F.M.S., Dolibaina, D.R., Mielke, O.H.H., Casagrande, M.M. & Lamas, G. 2014a. New species and taxonomic notes on Anteros Hübner, [1819] and Ourocnemis Bethune-Baker, 1887 (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae). Zootaxa 3860(5): 401–418. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3860.5.1 Reference page. 

2015

• Lamas, G. & Nakahara, S. 2015: Nomenclatural status of Euptychia mollina Hübner, 1818 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Zootaxa 3946(4): 587–590. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3946.4.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Nakahara, S., Hall, J.P.W., Lamas, G. & Willmott, K.R. 2015. Seven new species and one new subspecies of Euptychia Hübner, 1818 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from the tropical Andes. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 25(2): 63–79. Reference page. 
• Neild, A.F.E., Nakahara, S., Zacca, T., Fratello, S., Lamas, G., le Crom, J-F., Dolibaina, D.R., Dias, F.M.S., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H. & Espeland, M. 2015. Two new species of Euptychia Hübner, 1818 from the upper Amazon basin (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). ZooKeys 541: 87–108. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.541.6297 Full article Reference page. 

2016

• Freitas, A.V.L., Barbosa, E.P., Willmott, K.R., Wahlberg, N. & Lamas, G. 2016. ‘Species’ from two different butterfly genera combined into one: description of a new genus of Euptychiina (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with unusually variable wing pattern. Revista Brasileire de Entomologia 60(3): 157–165. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Lang, S-Y. & Lamas, G. 2016. What is Lethe hyrania (Kollar, 1844) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)? Zootaxa 4072(3): 396–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.10. Reference page. 
• Nakahara, S., Tan, D., Lamas, G., Parus, A. & Willmott, K.R. 2016. A distinctive new species of Hermeuptychia Forster, 1964 from the eastern tropical Andes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) Tropical Lepidoptera Research 26(1): 6-12. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2017

• Dolibaina, D.R., Carneiro, E., Mielke, O.H.H., Casagrande, M.M. & Lamas, G. 2017. Monotypic no longer: a new species of Panca Evans (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Moncini) from South America. Zootaxa 4269(1): 124–132. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4269.1.6. Reference page. 
• Lamas, G. 2017. An annotated checklist of the Pericopina (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini). Zootaxa 4319(2): 263–316. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4319.2.2. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R., Lamas, G. & Hall, J.P.W. 2017. Notes on the taxonomy of Actinote intensa Jordan (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae) and the description of a new sibling species from eastern Ecuador. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 27(1): 6-15. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Worthy, R., González, J.M. & Lamas, G. 2017. A review of the genus Haemonides Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Castniidae). Zootaxa 4320(2): 245–271. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4320.2.3. Reference page. 

2018

• Barbosa, E.P., Siewert, R.R., Mielke, O.H.H., Lamas, G., Willmott, K.R. & Freitas, A.V.L.. 2018. Redescription of Yphthimoides patricia (Hayward, 1957), with taxonomic notes on the names Euptychia saltuensis Hayward, 1962 and Yphthimoides manasses (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867) (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Zootaxa 4422(4): 537–557. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.4.5 Reference page. 
• Benmesbah, M., Zacca, T., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H., Lamas, G. & Willmott, K.R. 2018. Taxonomic notes on Papilio ocypete Fabricius, 1776 and Papilio helle Cramer, 1779 with description of two new similar species from South America (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Zootaxa 4425(1): 115–145. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4425.1.7. Reference page. 
• Nakahara, S., Zacca, T., Huertas, B., Neild, A.F.E., Hall, J.P.W., Lamas, G., Holian, L.A., Espeland, M. & Willmott, K.R. 2018: Remarkable sexual dimorphism, rarity and cryptic species: a revision of the ‘aegrota species group’ of the Neotropical butterfly genus Caeruleuptychia Forster, 1964 with the description of three new species (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 49(2): 130–182. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-00002167 . Reference page. 
• Nakahara, S., Willmott, K.R., Mielke, O.H.H., Schwartz, J., Zacca, T., Espeland, M. & Lamas, G. 2018a: Seven new taxa from the butterfly subtribe Euptychiina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with revisional notes on Harjesia Forster, 1964 and Pseudeuptychia Forster, 1964. Insecta Mundi 0639: 1–38. Reference page. 
• Wiemers, M., Balletto, E., Dincă, V., Fric, Z.F., Lamas, G., Lukhtanov, V.A., Munguira, M.L., van Swaay, C.A.M., Vila, R., Vliegenthart, A., Wahlberg, N. & Verovnik, R. 2018. An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea). Zookeys, 811: 9–45. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.811.28712 Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R., Lamas, G., Radford, J.T., Marín, M.A., Nakahara, S., Espeland, M., Xiao, L. & Hall, J.P.W. 2018. A distinctive new species of cloud forest Euptychiina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from Ecuador and Peru. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 28(1): 39-45. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2019

• Bozano, G.C., Lang, S-Y. & Lamas, G. 2019. A review of the article "A new genus and two new species of Lepidoptera Satyridae, Sphingidae from Yunnan China" by D.-Z. Dong et al. (2018). Zootaxa 4571(1): 137–137. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.1.9 Reference page. 
• Nakahara, S., Lamas, G., Tyler, S., Marín, M.A., Huertas, B., Willmott, K.R., Mielke, O.H.H. & Espeland, M. 2019: A revision of the new genus Amiga Nakahara, Willmott & Espeland, gen. n., described for Papilio arnaca Fabricius, 1776 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). ZooKeys 821: 85–152. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R., Marín, M.A., Nakahara, S., Pomerantz, T., Lamas, G., Huertas, B., Espeland, M., Xiao, L., Hall, J.P.W., Willmott, J.I.R. & Freitas, A.V.L. 2019. A revision of the new Andean butterfly genus Optimandes Marín, Nakahara & Willmott, n. gen., with the description of a new species (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Euptychiina). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 29(1): 29-44. Online. Reference page. .

2020

• Farfán, J., Lamas, G. & Cerdeña, J.A. 2020. A new species of Mathania Oberthür, 1890 from Peru (Lepidoptera, Pieridae). Zootaxa 4758(3): 589–595. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4758.3.11. . Reference page. 
• Nakahara, S., Kleckner, K., Lamas, G., Huertas, B. & Willmott, K.R. 2020. A contribution towards the systematics of Magneuptychia Forster, 1964: Caeruleuptychia francisca (Butler, 1870), n. comb. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 163(1): 51-61. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R., Lamas, G., Hall, J.P.W., Mota, L.L. & Kell, T. 2020. The common, the rare, and the lost: Descriptions of twelve new species and three new subspecies of equatorial Ithomiini (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Danainae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 30(1): 1-49. Reference page. 
• Zacca, T., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H., Huertas, B., Espeland, M., Freitas, A.V.L., Willmott, K.R., Nakahara, S. & Lamas, G. 2020. Revalidation of Vareuptychia Forster, 1964, description of Vanima gen. nov., and notes on Euptychia cleophes Godman & Salvin, 1889 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Zootaxa 4858(1): 1–34. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4858.1.1. . Reference page. 

2021

• Nakahara, S., Barbosa, E.P., Nakamura, I., Lamas, G. & Freitas, A.V.L. 2021c. Description of a new species of Yphthimoides Forster, 1964 from Peru (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(3): 138-144. Reference page. 
• Willmott, K.R., Lamas, G., Hall, J.P.W., Vitale, F., Boyer, P., Petit, J.C., Radford, J.T. & Elias, M. 2021. A new species and thirty-eight new subspecies of equatorial Ithomiini (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Danainae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31 (Supplement 3): 1-80. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5526837. Reference page. 
• Zacca, T., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H., Huertas, B., Barbosa, E.P., Freitas, A.V.L.. Lamas, G., Espeland, M., Brévignon, C., Nakahara, S., Checa, M.F. & Willmott, K.R. 2021. Systematics of the Neotropical butterfly genus Paryphthimoides Forster, 1964 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae), with descriptions of seven new taxa. Insect Systematics & Evolution 52(1): 42–96. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-00001027 . Reference page. 

2022

• Farfán, J., Cerdeña, J., Vargas, H.A., Gonçalves, G.L., Lamas, G. & Moreira, G.R.P. 2022. A peculiar new species of Dione (Agraulis) Boisduval & Le Conte (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae) associated with Malesherbia Ruiz & Pavón (Passifloraceae) in xeric western slopes of the Andes. Zookeys 1113ː 199–226. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1113.85769 Reference page. 

2024

• Willmott, K.R., Lamas, G., Hall, J.P.W., Boyer, P., Pyrcz, T.W. & Florczyk, K. 2024. A new species and eight new subspecies of high elevation Actinote from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru (Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae, Acraeini). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 34(1): 1-20. Reference page. 

2025

• Cajé, S., Casagrande, M.M., Piovesan, M., Lamas, G. & Mielke, O.H.H. 2025. Opoptera Aurivillius, 1882 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae, Brassolini): Taxonomic revision, molecular phylogeny and description of a new species. Zootaxa 5582(1): 1–76. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5582.1.1. Reference page. 

External links

• Gerardo Lamas Müller. Mallet, J. University College London.