Australian Lepidopterist

b. 21 May 1877 (Waverley, Sydney, N. S. Wales); d. 1950.

Collection to the Australian Museum, Sydney.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 59 taxon names authored by Gustavus Athol Waterhouse

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Waterhouse, G.A. 1897. The Life History of Apaustus lascivia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 22(86): 244. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1897. The Genus Heteronympha in New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 22(86): 240–244. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1900. Descriptions of new species of Australian Rhopalocera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25(1): 52–57. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1902. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae, 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27(3): 331–342]. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae, 2. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27(4): 648–653. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae, 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132–275, pls. ii–iii. Text, plates Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A., 1903. Descriptions and Notes of Australian Hesperidae, Chiefly Victorian. The Victorian Naturalist 20: 52-57. Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1904. On three collections of Rhopalocera from Fiji and one from Samoa. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1904: 491–495. BHL. Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. & Turner, R.E. 1905. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae, 4. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29(4): 798–804. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1909. New and rare Auistralian butterflies of the genus Miletus. Victorian Naturalist 26: 110–116. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1912. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae, 5. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 37(4): 698–702. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1912. Descriptions of and Notes on Some Australian Hesperidae. The Victorian Naturalist 28: 223–228. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1913. Description of a new Lycaenid butterfly with notes upon its life history. Victorian Naturalist 29(10): 156–160, pl. 9. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1914. The Butterflies of Australia. A monograph of the Australian Rhopalocera. 238 pp., 888 figs. Sydney. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1920. Descriptions of new forms of butterflies from the South Pacific. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 468–471. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1927. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 1. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of thew Linnaean Society of New South Wales 52(3): 275–283, pl. 26. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae, 6. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53(4): 401–412, pl. 25. Text, plate. Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 2. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57(4): 218–238, 2 text figs. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 3. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57(6): 409–410. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. What Butterfly is that? 291pp., 34 pls. Sydney. Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. New Genera of Australian Hesperiidae and a New Subspecies. Australian Zoologist 7(3): 198–201. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1933. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 4. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 58(6): 461–466. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1933. Notes on the Type Specimens of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) in the Museums in Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum 5: 49–62. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 5. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(6): 411–415. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae, 7. Descriptions of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(6): 416–420. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 6. Descriptions of new subspecies. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(1): 32-34 Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 7. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3): 107–125. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australian butterflies. Report Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of science 23rd meeting, Auckland, 1937. 23: 101–103. Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1938. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 8. Descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 63(6): 451–452. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1940. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 9. Description of a new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 65(6): 568. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 10. On Hesperilla donnysa Hewitson, 1868. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(4): 215–218. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae, 8. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(4): 234–238. BHL Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1942. Notes on Australian butterflies in the Australian Museum. Rec. Aust. Mus. 21(2): 123–125, 1 fig. Reference page. 
• Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, G.A. 1972. Butterflies of Australia Angus & Robertson, Sydney, Australia. 498 pp., 41 pls. Reference page. 
• Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, G.A. 1981. Butterflies of Australia Angus & Robertson, Sydney, Australia. 2nd Revised Edition. 682 pp., 49 pls. Reference page.