Martin Herrer Villet

Martin Herrer Villet, South African entomologist.

• Zoology Dept., Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 9 taxon names authored by Martin Herrer Villet

plus:

• Engraulicypris howesi Riddin, Bills & Villet, 2016
• Engraulicypris ngalala Riddin, Villet & Bills, 2016
• Nyara thanatotica Villet, 1999
• Platypleura argentata Villet, 1987
• Platypleura brunea Villet, 1989
• Platypleura chalybaea Villet, 1989
• Platypleura maytenophila Villet, 1987
• Platypleura mijburghi Villet, 1989
• Platypleura zuluensis Villet, 1987
• Severiana magna Villet, 1999
• Stagea platyptera Villet, 1995
• Stagira abagnata Villet, 1997
• Stagira caffrariensis Villet, 1997
• Stagira celsus Villet, 1997
• Stagira chloana Villet, 1997
• Stagira consobrinoides Villet, 1997
• Stagira dendrophila Villet, 1997
• Stagira dracomontana Villet, 1997
• Stagira dracomontanoides Villet, 1997
• Stagira elegans Villet, 1997
• Stagira empangeniensis Villet, 1997
• Stagira enigmatica Villet, 1997
• Stagira eshowiensis Villet, 1997
• Stagira furculata Villet, 1997
• Stagira fuscula Villet, 1997
• Stagira mystica Villet, 1997
• Stagira nasuta Villet, 1997
• Stagira natalensis Villet, 1997
• Stagira ngomiensis Villet, 1997
• Stagira nkandlhaensis Villet, 1997
• Stagira oxyclypea Villet, 1997
• Stagira pondoensis Villet, 1997
• Stagira pseudaethlius Villet, 1997
• Stagira purpurea Villet, 1997
• Stagira selindensis Villet, 1997
• Stagira sexcostata Villet, 1997
• Stagira stygia Villet, 1997
• Stagira sylvia Villet, 1997
• Stagira viridoptera Villet, 1997
• Stagira vulgata Villet, 1997
• Stagira xenomorpha Villet, 1997
• Stagira zebrata Villet, 1997
• Stagira zuluensis Villet, 1997
• Xosopsaltria brachyptera Sanborn & Villet, 2016
• Xosopsaltria vitripennis Sanborn & Villet, 2016

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1982

• Villet, M. 1982. Discovery of cotypes of Poecilmitis felthami felthami (Trimen) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in the Feltham collection Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 45(1): 21. hdl: 10520/AJA00128789_2570 Reference page. 

2011

• Kelly, C.M.R., Branch, W.R., Broadley, D.G., Barker, N.P. & Villet, M.H. 2011. Molecular systematics of the African snake family Lamprophiidae Fitzinger, 1843 (Serpentes: Elapoidea), with particular focus on the genera Lamprophis Fitzinger 1843 and Mehelya Csiki 1903. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58(3): 415–426. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.11.010 Reference page. 

2014

• Strümpher, W.P., Sole, C.L., Villet, M.H. & Scholtz, C.H. 2014. Phylogeny of the family Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequence data. Systematic Entomology 39(3): 548–562. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12074 Reference page. 
• Williams, K.A. & Villet, M.H. 2014. Morphological identification of Lucilia sericata, Lucilia cuprina and their hybrids (Diptera, Calliphoridae). ZooKeys 420: 69–85. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.420.7645 Reference page. 
• Williams, K.A., Richards, C.S. & Villet, M.H. 2014. Predicting the geographic distribution of Lucilia sericata and Lucilia cuprina (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in South Africa. African invertebrates 55(1): 157–170. DOI: 10.5733/afin.055.0109 Reference page. 

2016

• Riddin, M.A., Bills, I.R. & Villet, M.H. 2016. Phylogeographic, morphometric and taxonomic re-evaluation of the river sardine, Mesobola brevianalis (Boulenger, 1908) (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Chedrini). ZooKeys 641: 121–150. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.641.10434 Reference page. 
• Sanborn, A.F. & Villet, M.H. 2016. Two new species of Xosopsaltria Kirkaldy, 1904, with a key to the species of South African pygmy bladder cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae: Tettigomyiini). Zootaxa 4092(2): 195–206. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4092.2.3 Reference page. 
• Williams, K., Villet, M. & Lamb, J.M. 2016. Phylogenetic radiation of the greenbottle flies (Diptera, Calliphoridae, Luciliinae). ZooKeys 568: 59–86. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.568.6696 Reference page. 

2017

• Daniel, C.A., Midgley, J.M. & Villet, M.H. 2017. Determination of species and instars of the larvae of the Afrotropical species of Thanatophilus Leach, 1817 (Coleoptera, Silphidae). African Invertebrates 58(2): 1–10. DOI: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.12966 Reference page. 
• Villet, M.H., Clitheroe, C. & Williams, K.A. 2017. The temporal occurrence of flesh flies (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) at carrion-baited traps in Grahamstown, South Africa. African Invertebrates 58(1): 1–8. DOI: 10.3897/AfrInvertebr.58.9537 Reference page. 

2018

• Armstrong, A.J. & Villet, M.H. 2019. Checklist, endemism, English vernacular names and identification of the cicadas (Insecta, Hemiptera, Cicadidae) of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. African Invertebrates, 60: 165–193. DOI: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.60.35130 Reference page. 
• Marshall, D.C., Moulds, M., Hill, K.B.R., Price, B.W., Wade, E.J., Owen, C.L., Goemans, G., Marathe, K., Sarkar, V., Cooley, J.R., Sanborn, A.F., Kunte, K., Villet, M.H. & Simon, C. 2018. A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification. Zootaxa 4424(1): 1–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4424.1.1. PDF Reference page. 

2020

• Sanborn, A.F. & Villet, M.H. 2020. Afromelampsalta, a new genus, a new species, and five new combinations of African cicadettine cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae). Zootaxa 4731(4): 531–542. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4731.4.6 Reference page. 
• Taylor, C.L., Barker, N.P., Barber-James, H.M., Villet, M.H. & Pereira-a-Conceicoa, L.L. 2020. Habitat requirements affect genetic variation in three species of mayfly (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae) from South Africa. ZooKeys, 936: 1–24. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.936.38587 Reference page. 

2021

• Thomas-Cabianca, A., Martínez-Sánchez, A., Villet, M.H. & Rojo, S. 2021. Revision of the Afrotropical genus Fainia Zumpt, 1958, with notes on the morphology of Rhiniidae subfamilies (Diptera, Oestroidea). Zookeys 1033: 127–157. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1033.58539 Reference page.