Owain Westmacott Richards (1901–1984), British entomologist.

Authored taxa

• 10 taxon names authored by Owain Westmacott Richards (List may be incomplete)

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Richards, O.W. 1931: Some notes on the bumble-bees allied to Bombus alpinus L. Tromse Museum Arshefer, (1927), 50(6): 1–32.
• Richards, O.W. 1935: Bombus muscorum (Linnaeus) and B. smithianus White (Hym.). Transactions of the Society for British Entomology, 2: 73–85.
• Richards, O.W. 1935: Notes on the nomenclature of the aculeate Hymenoptera, with special reference to British genera and species. Transactions ofthe Royal Entomological Society of London, 83: 145–176.
• Richards, O.W. 1937: Further notes on the nomenclature of the British aculeate Hymenoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 5: 169–173.

• Richards, O.W. 1938. Diptera Sphaeroceridae (Borboridae, Cypselidae). Mission scientifique de l’Omo. Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle 4(40): 381-405. Reference page. 

• Richards, O.W. 1950. New species of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) found with driver ants (Dorylinae). Bollettino dellí Istituto di Entomologia della Università degli Studi di Bologna 18: 14–23. Reference page. 

• Richards, O.W. 1973a: The Sphaeroceridae (= Borboridae or Cypselidae; Diptera, Cyclorrhapha) of the Australian Region. Australian journal of zoology, supplementary series, (22): 297-401. DOI: 10.1071/AJZS022 Reference page. 
• Richards, O.W. 1978: The social wasps of the Americas, excluding the Vespinae. London.