Australian Lepidopterist

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

Collection to the Australian Museum, Sydney.

Authored taxa

• 16 taxon names authored by Gustavus Athol Waterhouse (List may be incomplete)

Works Include

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1902a. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae, 1. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 27(3): 331-342, pl. 14. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A., [1903]. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae, 2. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 27(4): 648-653. BHL Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae, 3. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 28(1): 132-275, pls. ii - iii. text, plates. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A. & Turner, R. E., 1905. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae, 4. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 29(4): 798-804. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1912. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae, 5. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 37(4): 698-702. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A. & Lyell, G., 1909. New and rare Auistralian butterflies of the genus Miletus. Victorian Naturalist 26: 110-116. 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. 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. Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. 45: 468-471. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1927. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 1. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. 52(3): 275-283, pl. 26. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1928. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae, 6. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 53(4): 401-412, pl. 25. text, plate. Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G. A., 1932. What butterfly is that? 291pp., 34 pls. Sydney.

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1932a. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 2. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. 57(4): 218-238, 2 text figs. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1932b. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 3. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. 57(6): 409-410. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1933. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 4. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. 58(6): 461-466. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1934a. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 5. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. 59(6): 411-415. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1934b. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae, 7. Descriptions of new races. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 59(6): 416-420. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1937a. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 6. Descriptions of new subspecies. Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. 62(1): 32-34. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1937b. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 7. Notes on the types and type localities. Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. 62(3): 107-125. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1937c. 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. Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. 63(6): 451-452. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1940. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 9. Description of a new species. Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. 65(6): 568. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1941a. Australian Hesperiidae. Part 10. On Hesperilla donnysa Hewitson, 1868. 66(4): 215-218. Reference page. 

• Waterhouse, G. A., 1941b. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae, 8. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 66(4): 234-238. 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.