Philip Don Perkins

Philip Don Perkins, U.S. entomologist.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.
Perkins, P.D. & Ribera, I. 2020. Three new species and DNA sequence data of the rare South American water beetle genus Adelphydraena Perkins, 1989 (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 4858(35): 52–2. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4858.35.{{{6}}} Reference page.

Perkins, P.D. 2020. Taxonomy of Peruvian water beetles in the genus Hydrochus Leach, 1817 (Coleoptera: Hydrochidae). Zootaxa 4868(1): 61–89. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4868.1.4 Reference page.

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. .

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.