Philip Don Perkins

Philip Don Perkins, U.S. entomologist.

• Department of Entomology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.

Taxon names authored

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• 381 taxon names authored by Philip Don Perkins

Eponyms

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• 1 eponym of Philip Don Perkins

Publications

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1976

• Perkins, P.D. 1976: Psammophilous aquatic beetles in southern California: a study of microhabitat preferences with notes on responses to stream alteration (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae and Hydrophilidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 30(4): 309-324. Reference page. 

1979

• Perkins, P.D. 1979: Six new Neotropical species of aquatic beetles in the Epimetopus costatus complex (Hydrophilidae: Epimetopinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 33(3): 319–325. JSTOR Reference page. 

1980

• Perkins, P.D. 1980. Aquatic beetles of the family Hydraenidae in the Western Hemisphere: classification, biogeography and inferred phylogeny (Insecta: Coleoptera). Quaestiones Entomologicae 16: 3–554. Reference page. 

1994

• Perkins, P.D. & Balfour-Browne, J. 1994. A contribution to the taxonomy of aquatic and humicolous beetles of the family Hydraenidae in southern Africa. Fieldiana: Zoology 77: 1–159. BHL. Reference page. 

1997

• Perkins, P.D. 1997: Life on the effective bubble: exocrine secretion delivery systems (ESDS) and the evolution and classification of beetles in the family Hydraenidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Annals of the Carnegie Museum 66(2): 89–207. Reference page. 

2004

• Perkins, P.D. 2004. A revision of the South African endemic water beetle genus Pneuminion Perkins (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 538: 1–38. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 
• Perkins, P.D. & Short, A.E.Z. 2004. Omniops gen. n. and two new species of Hydrophilini from Papua New Guinea (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zootaxa 494: 1–14. Abstract & excerpt. . Reference page. 
• Short, A.E.Z. & Perkins, P.D. 2004. A revision of Oocyclus Sharp of Mexico and Central America (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zootaxa 783: 1–45. Abstract & excerpt. . Reference page. 

2008

• Perkins, P.D. 2008. New species and new collection records of prosthetopine water beetles from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 1864: 1–124. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

2009

• Perkins, P.D. 2009. Revisions of the genera Parhydraena Orchymont, Protozantaena Perkins, Decarthrocerus Orchymont, and Parhydraenopsis nomen novum, aquatic and humicolous beetles from Africa and Madagascar, and comparative morphology of the tribe Parhydraenini (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 2038: 001–119. Abstract & excerpt. . Reference page. 

2011

• Perkins, P.D. 2011. New species (130) of the hyperdiverse aquatic beetle genus Hydraena Kugelann from Papua New Guinea, and a preliminary analysis of areas of endemism (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 2944: 1–417. Preview Reference page. 
• Perkins, P.D. 2011a. New records and description of fifty-four new species of aquatic beetles in the genus Hydraena Kugelann from South America (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 3074: 1–198. Preview. . Reference page. 

2012

• Bilton, D.T. & Perkins, P.D. 2012. Two new species of Parhydraenini from South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 3342: 51–59. Preview Reference page. 
• Perkins, P.D. 2012: A revision of Epimetopus Lacordaire, the New World hooded shore beetles (Coleoptera: Epimetopidae). Zootaxa 3531: 1–95. Preview Reference page. 

2014

• Perkins P.D. 2014: A revision of the water beetle genus Hydraena Kugelann for southern Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 3758(1): 1–92. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3758.1.1 Reference page. 

2015

• Perkins, P.D. 2015: Taxonomy of the water beetle genus Limnebius Leach in southern Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 3948(1): 41–59. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3948.1.3. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Perkins, P.D. & Chaboo, C.S. 2015. Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A Survey of the Families. Hydraenidae. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 88(2): 180–181. DOI: 10.2317/kent-88-02-180-181.1 . JSTOR.

2017

• Perkins, P.D. 2017. Hydraenidae of Madagascar (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 4342(1): 1–264. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4342.1.1. Reference page. 

2018

• Perkins, P.D. 2018. A new genus and new species of Meropathina from Lord Howe Island (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 4444(4): 409–420. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.4.3 Reference page. 

2019

• Perkins, P.D. 2019. Type designations for Neotropical water beetles in the genus Hydrochus Leach, 1817 (Coleoptera: Hydrochidae). Zootaxa 4701(2): 149–167. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4701.2.2 Reference page. 
• Perkins, P.D. 2019. Hydrochus spanglerorum n. sp., a remarkable, highly derived species from Brazil, Guyana, and Suriname (Coleoptera: Hydrochidae). Zootaxa 4701(6): 581–587. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4701.6.7 Reference page. 
• Perkins, P.D. 2019. Taxonomy of Venezuelan water beetles in the genus Hydrochus Leach, 1817, and an analysis of male genitalia morphology (Coleoptera: Hydrochidae). Zootaxa 4708(1): 1–59. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4708.1.1 Reference page. 
• Perkins, P.D. & Bergsten, J. 2019. New Myxophagan water beetles from Madagascar (Coleoptera: Torridincolidae, Hydroscaphidae). Zootaxa 4657(1): 57–96. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4657.1.2 pdf Reference page. 

2022

• Perkins, P.D. 2022. Thirty-three new species of water beetles in the genus Hydraena Kugelann from Cameroon (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 5203(1): 001–066. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5203.1.1. . Reference page. .

2023

• Perkins, P.D. 2023. Taxonomic revision of African water beetles in the genus Ochthebius Leach (1815), subgenus Aulacochthebius Kuwert (1887) (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 5228(5): 501–546. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5228.5.1. Reference page.