Stephen J. Richards

Stephen J. Richards (Richards), Australian entomologist and herpetologist.

Department of Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.

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Günther, R. & Richards, S. 2012 "2011". Description of two new species of the microhylid frog genus Oreophryne (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from southern Papua New Guinea. Vertebrate Zoology 61(3): 343–372. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Günther, R., Richards, S.J., Bickford, D.P. & Johnston, G.R. 2012. A new egg-guarding species of Oreophryne (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae) from southern Papua New Guinea. Zoosystematics and Evolution 88(2): 223–230. doi: 10.1002/zoos.201200019 Reference page.

Günther, R., Richards, S.J. & Dahl, C.S. 2014. Nine new species of microhylid frogs from the Muller Range in western Papua New Guinea (Anura, Microhylidae). Vertebrate Zoology 64(1): 59–94. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Richards, S.J., Oliver, P. & Brown, R.B. 2014. A new scansorial species of Platymantis Günther 1858 (Anura: Ceratobatrachidae) from Manus Island, Admiralty Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. pp. 123–134 in Telnov, D. (ed.). Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea. Volume II. The Entomological Society of Latvia: Lettland, Latvia. ISBN 9789984976877 Reference page.

Theischinger, G., Gassmann, D. & Richards, S.J. 2015. Microcnemis gracilis, a new genus and species of Idiocnemidinae (Zygoptera: Platycnemididae) from Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 3990(3): 429–436. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.3.7. Preview (PDF) reference page
Brown, R.M., Siler, D.S., Richards, S.J., Diesmos, A.C. & Cannatella, D.C. 2015. Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for Southeast Asian and Melanesian forest frogs (family Ceratobatrachidae). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 174(1): 130–168. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12232 Reference page.
Xu, G., Tang, W., Skelley, P.E., Liu, N. & Richards, S.J. 2015. Cycadophila, a new genus (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Pharaxonothinae) inhabiting Cycas debaoensis (Cycadaceae) in Asia. Zootaxa 3986(3): 251–278. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.3.1. Preview (PDF) reference page

Gassmann, D., Richards, S.J. & Polhemus, D.A. 2016. Idiocnemis schorri sp. nov., a new damselfly species from southern Papua New Guinea (Odonata: Platycnemididae). Zootaxa 4171(3): 491–504. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.3.5. reference page
McDonald, K.R., Rowley, J.J.L., Richards, S.J. & Frankham, G.J. 2016. A new species of treefrog (Litoria) from Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Zootaxa 4171(1): 153–169. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.6. reference page
Oliver, P.M., Clegg, J.R., Fisher, R.N., Richards, S.J., Taylor, P.N. & Jocque, M.M.T. 2016b. A new biogeographically disjunct giant gecko (Gehyra: Gekkonidae: Reptilia) from the East Melanesian Islands. Zootaxa 4208(1): 61–76. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.1.3. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Orr, A.G. & Richards, S.J. 2016. Three new species of Papuagrion Ris, 1913 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) from the Hindenburg Wall region of western Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 4072(3): 319–332. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.2. reference page

Travers, S.L., Richards, S.J., Broadhead, T.S. & Brown, R.M. 2018. A new miniature Melanesian Forest Frog (Ceratobatrachidae: Cornufer) from New Britain Island, constituting the first record of the subgenus Batrachylodes from outside of the Solomon Archipelago. Zootaxa 4370(1): 23–44. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4370.1.2. Reference page.