Robert W. Sites

Robert W. Sites, U.S. entomologist.

Enns Entomology Museum, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, U.S.A.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Sites, R.W. & Suputa 2008. New species of Nesocricos and Tanycricos (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae: Cheirochelinae: Tanycricini) in the mountains of West Papua, Indonesian New Guinea. Zootaxa 1714: 19–30. Abstract & excerpt DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1714.1.2 Reference page.

Novelo-Gutiérrez, R., Sites, R.W. & Vitheepradit, A. 2014. New province record of Rhinagrion for Thailand and description of the larva of R. mima (Odonata: Zygoptera: Philosinidae). Zootaxa 3852(5): 562–568. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3852.5.4 Reference page.
Raruanysong, S., Vitheepradit, A. & Sites, R.W. 2014. Key to the species of Ptilomerinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae) of Thailand and review of the fauna of the Tennaserim Mountain Range. Zootaxa 3852(1): 101–117. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3852.1.4 Reference page.

Sites, R.W. 2015. Pelocoris balius La Rivers (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae) in Florida: New Status of an Enigmatic Saucer Bug. Zootaxa 3915(3): 433–438. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3915.3.8 Reference page.
Sites, R.W. 2015: A new species, new synonymy, and notes on Neomacrocoris (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Naucoridae). Zootaxa 3964(5): 553–560. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3964.5.5. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Sites, R.W. 2015. New taxa of Cryphocricinae (Heteroptera: Naucoridae) from the Guiana Shield: Hygropetrocoris Sites, n. gen. and two new species of Ambrysus Stål. Zootaxa 4033(3): 427–438. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4033.3.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Sites, R.W. & Reynoso-Velasco, D. 2015. Review of the Ambrysus stali La Rivers species complex (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Naucoridae) with the description of a new species from Mesoamerica. Zootaxa 4018(2): 279–291. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.2.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page.

Reynoso-Velasco, D. & Sites, R.W. 2016. Revision of the Ambrysus guttatipennis Stål species complex (Heteroptera: Naucoridae: Cryphocricinae) with the descriptions of six new species from Mexico. Zootaxa 4154(3): 201–250. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4154.3.1. Reference page.
Reynoso-Velasco, D. & Sites, R.W. 2016. Revision of the Ambrysus hybridus Montandon species complex (Heteroptera: Naucoridae: Cryphocricinae) with the description of a new species from Mexico. Zootaxa 4169(1): 87–114. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.1.4. Reference page.
Reynoso-Velasco, D., Sites, R.W. & Novelo-Gutiérrez, R. 2016. The Ambrysus Stål (Heteroptera: Naucoridae: Cryphocricinae) of Mexico: Revision of the subgenus Syncollus La Rivers. Zootaxa 4126(1): 44–76. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4126.1.2. Reference page.
Rodrigues, H.D.D., Sites, R.W. & Giehl, N.F.S. 2016. Revision of the Neotropical genus Carvalhoiella De Carlo (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Naucoridae). Zootaxa 4138(3): 577–590. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.3.11. Reference page.

Sites, R.W., Rodrigues, H.D.D. & Reynoso-Velasco, D. 2017. New combinations, status, and species of Neotropical Ambrysini (Heteroptera: Naucoridae: Cryphocricinae). Zootaxa 4323(4): 503–518. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.4.4. Reference page.

Reynoso-Velasco, D. & Sites, R.W. 2018. Revision of the Ambrysus pulchellus Montandon species complex (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Naucoridae). Zootaxa 4442(3): 351–377. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4442.3.1 Reference page.
Reynoso-Velasco, D. & Sites, R.W. 2018. Revision of the Ambrysus pudicus Stål species complex (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Naucoridae) with the description of a new species from southern Mexico. Zootaxa 4491(1): 1–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4491.1.1 Reference page.

Novelo-Gutiérrez, R. & Sites, R.W. 2019. The larva of Amphigomphus somnuki Hämäläinen, 1996 and the first records of the genus Stylogomphus Fraser, 1922 for Thailand (Odonata: Gomphidae). Zootaxa 4555(1): 121–126. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.1.10 Reference page.
Novelo-Gutiérrez, R. & Sites, R.W. 2019. The probable larva of Anotogaster gregoryi Fraser, 1923, with new distributional records of the genus from northern Thailand (Odonata: Cordulegastridae). Zootaxa 4656(1): 138–144. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4656.1.12 Reference page.
Novelo-Gutiérrez, R. & Sites, R.W. 2019. The larvae of Phaenandrogomphus Lieftinck, 1964 in Thailand, including the description of P. tonkinicus (Fraser, 1926) with a larval diagnosis and new province records of P. asthenes Lieftinck, 1964 (Odonata: Gomphidae). Zootaxa 4700(3): 377–384. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4700.3.6 Reference page.
Reynoso-Velasco, D. & Sites, R.W. 2019. Descriptions of four new species of the Ambrysus signoreti Stål species complex (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Naucoridae. Zootaxa 4615(2): 285–302. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4615.2.3 Reference page.
Rodrigues, H.D.D. & Sites, R.W. 2019. Revision of Limnocoris (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Naucoridae) of North America. Zootaxa 4629(4): 451–497. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4629.4.1. Reference page.

Cook, J.L., Sites, R.W. & Vitheepadit, A. 2020. The Pleidae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) of Thailand, with the descriptions of two new species and a discussion of species from Southeast Asia. ZooKeys, 973: 35–68. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.973.54026 Reference page.
Moreira, F.F.F., Floriano, C.F.B., Rodrigues, M.D.D. & Sites, R.W. 2020. Revision of the American genus Steinovelia Polhemus & Polhemus, 1993 (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Veliidae). Zootaxa 4729(1): 77–91. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.1.5 Reference page.

Shepard, W.D., Sites, R.W. & Rodrigues, H.D.D. 2021. A New, Sexually Dimorphic Species of Cylloepus Erichson from Brazil (Coleoptera: Elmidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 75(1): 270-274. DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.270 . Reference page.

Sites, R.W., Clavier, S. & Shepard, W.D. 2024. The Saucer Bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae) of French Guiana. Journal of the International Heteropterists’ Society 1(1): 33–56. DOI: 10.11646/jihs.1.1.2 Reference page.

Rodrigues, H.D.D., Sites, R.W., Polhemus, D.A. & Moreira, F.F.F. 2025. The Genus Stridulivelia Hungerford, 1929, Subgenus Aenictovelia Polhemus, 1979 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae): Review and Comparative Morphology. Journal of the International Heteropterists' Society 2(2): 68–85. DOI: 10.11646/jihs.2.2.1 Reference page.