Donald Peter Andrew Sands, Australian lepidopterist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 14 taxon names authored by Donald Peter Andrew Sands

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Sands, D.P.A., 1965. A new species of Pseudodipsas (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 4: 69-71, text figs 1,2, pl. 1. full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Kerr, J.F.R., J. Macqueen & D.P.A. Sands, 1969. A new species of Hypochrysops (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from South Queensland. Australian Journal of Entomology 8 (2): 117–120. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1969.tb00743.x. Full article: . Reference page. 
• J.F.R.Kerr & Sands, D.P.A., 1970: A new species of Trapezites Hübner (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from north Queensland. Australian Journal of Entomology 9 (1): 23–26. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1970.tb00765.x. Full article: Reference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A., 1971. Hypochrysops digglesii (Hewitson) comb. n. and H. rufimargo (Rothschild) comb. n.(Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 10 (2): 131-133. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1971.tb00021.x. Full article: . Reference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A. & Kerr, J.F.R., 1973. A New Species of Hesperilla (Lep. Hesp.) with a Redescription of Hesperilla sexguttata (Herrich-Schäffer). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 12: 277-283. PDF Reference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A. 1979. New species of Philiris Röber (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Papua New Guinea. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 18(2): 127-133. PDF. Reference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A. 1980: A new genus, Acrodipsas, for a group of Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) previously referred to Pseudodipsas C. & R. Felder with descriptions of two new species from northern Queensland. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 18(3): 251-265. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1979.tb00849.x Reference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A., 1980b. The identity of Philiris nitens (Grose-Smith) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with description of a new subspecies from Papua New Guinea. Aust. Ent. Mag. 6: 81-86. Reference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A. 1981. New species of Philiris Röber (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from mainland New Guinea. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 20(1): 89–96. PDF. Reference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A., 1981b. Biogeography and speciation in the Lycaenid butterfly tribe Luciini. News Bull. Ent. Soc. Qd. 9:18-28. Reference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A., 1981. The ecology, biogeography and systematics of the tribe Luciini. PhD thesis, University of Queensland, Australia. 2 vols: 1: 1-584 (text); 2: 1-168 (2pls & figs). (Unpublished). DOI: 10.14264/uql.2014.573 Reference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A., Miller, C.G., Kerr, J.F.R. & Atkins, A.F., 1984. The specific status of Trapezites praxedes (Plötz) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae): Previously considered to be a sub-species of T. maheta (Hewitson). Australian Entomological Magazine II(2): 27-33. Reference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A. 1986. A Revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Entomonograph 7, 116pp., 3 pls. Reference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A. 1997: A new species of Acrodipsas Sands (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from southern New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Australian journal of entomology 36(4): 339-344. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1997.tb01483.x Reference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A.; Miller, C.G.; Kerr, J.F.R. 1997: A new species of Acrodipsas Sands (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from inland New South Wales and southern Queensland. Australian journal of entomology 36(1): 19-23. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1997.tb01425.x Reference page. 
• Müller, C.J. & D.P.A. Sands, 1999: A new subspecies of Bindahara meeki Rothschild & Jordan (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Australian Entomologist 26 (4): 103–110. Reference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A. 2015. Review of Australian Philiris Röber (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with Notes on Variation and Descriptions of Two New Subspecies from Cape York Peninsula. Australian Entomologist 42(4): 219-252. Reference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A. & Sands, M.C. 2015. Review of variation in Acrodipsas cuprea (sands, 1965)and A. aurata sands, 1997 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with descriptions of a new subspecies of 'A. cuprea'and a new species of 'Acrodipsas' Sands from inland Southern Queensland. Australian Entomologist 42(4): 219-252. Reference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A. & Sands, M.C. 2017. Description of Anisynta cynone anomala subsp. n. (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, with a discussion of its variation, sympatry with and similarity to 'Aanisynta tillyardi' Waterhouse and Lyell. Australian Entomologist 44(2): 89-102. Reference page.