Martin Villet’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro South African entomologist
Is Zoologist 
Entomologist 
From South Africa 
Type Biology 
Gender male

Martin Herrer Villet, South African entomologist.

  • Zoology Dept., Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Taxon names authored

  • 2 taxon names authored by Martin Herrer Villet
plus:
  • Engraulicypris howesi Riddin, Bills & Villet, 2016
  • Engraulicypris ngalala Riddin, Villet & Bills, 2016
  • Nyara thanatotica Villet, 1999
  • Platypleura argentata Villet, 1987
  • Platypleura brunea Villet, 1989
  • Platypleura chalybaea Villet, 1989
  • Platypleura maytenophila Villet, 1987
  • Platypleura mijburghi Villet, 1989
  • Platypleura zuluensis Villet, 1987
  • Severiana magna Villet, 1999
  • Stagea platyptera Villet, 1995
  • Stagira abagnata Villet, 1997
  • Stagira caffrariensis Villet, 1997
  • Stagira celsus Villet, 1997
  • Stagira chloana Villet, 1997
  • Stagira consobrinoides Villet, 1997
  • Stagira dendrophila Villet, 1997
  • Stagira dracomontana Villet, 1997
  • Stagira dracomontanoides Villet, 1997
  • Stagira elegans Villet, 1997
  • Stagira empangeniensis Villet, 1997
  • Stagira enigmatica Villet, 1997
  • Stagira eshowiensis Villet, 1997
  • Stagira furculata Villet, 1997
  • Stagira fuscula Villet, 1997
  • Stagira mystica Villet, 1997
  • Stagira nasuta Villet, 1997
  • Stagira natalensis Villet, 1997
  • Stagira ngomiensis Villet, 1997
  • Stagira nkandlhaensis Villet, 1997
  • Stagira oxyclypea Villet, 1997
  • Stagira pondoensis Villet, 1997
  • Stagira pseudaethlius Villet, 1997
  • Stagira purpurea Villet, 1997
  • Stagira selindensis Villet, 1997
  • Stagira sexcostata Villet, 1997
  • Stagira stygia Villet, 1997
  • Stagira sylvia Villet, 1997
  • Stagira viridoptera Villet, 1997
  • Stagira vulgata Villet, 1997
  • Stagira xenomorpha Villet, 1997
  • Stagira zebrata Villet, 1997
  • Stagira zuluensis Villet, 1997
  • Xosopsaltria brachyptera Sanborn & Villet, 2016
  • Xosopsaltria vitripennis Sanborn & Villet, 2016

Publications

1982

  • Villet, M. 1982. Discovery of cotypes of Poecilmitis felthami felthami (Trimen) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in the Feltham collection Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 45(1): 21. hdl: 10520/AJA00128789_2570 Reference page. 

2011

  • Kelly, C.M.R., Branch, W.R., Broadley, D.G., Barker, N.P. & Villet, M.H. 2011. Molecular systematics of the African snake family Lamprophiidae Fitzinger, 1843 (Serpentes: Elapoidea), with particular focus on the genera Lamprophis Fitzinger 1843 and Mehelya Csiki 1903. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58(3): 415–426. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.11.010 Reference page. 

2014

  • Williams, K.A. & Villet, M.H. 2014. Morphological identification of Lucilia sericata, Lucilia cuprina and their hybrids (Diptera, Calliphoridae). ZooKeys 420: 69–85. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.420.7645 Reference page. 

2016

  • Riddin, M.A., Bills, I.R. & Villet, M.H. 2016. Phylogeographic, morphometric and taxonomic re-evaluation of the river sardine, Mesobola brevianalis (Boulenger, 1908) (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Chedrini). ZooKeys 641: 121–150. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.641.10434 Reference page. 
  • Sanborn, A.F. & Villet, M.H. 2016. Two new species of Xosopsaltria Kirkaldy, 1904, with a key to the species of South African pygmy bladder cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae: Tettigomyiini). Zootaxa 4092(2): 195–206. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4092.2.3 Reference page. 
  • Williams, K., Villet, M. & Lamb, J.M. 2016. Phylogenetic radiation of the greenbottle flies (Diptera, Calliphoridae, Luciliinae). ZooKeys 568: 59-86. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.568.6696 Reference page. 

2017

  • Daniel, C.A., Midgley, J.M. & Villet, M.H. 2017. Determination of species and instars of the larvae of the Afrotropical species of Thanatophilus Leach, 1817 (Coleoptera, Silphidae). African Invertebrates 58(2): 1–10. DOI: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.12966 Reference page. 
  • Villet, M.H., Clitheroe, C. & Williams, K.A. 2017. The temporal occurrence of flesh flies (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) at carrion-baited traps in Grahamstown, South Africa. African Invertebrates 58(1): 1–8. DOI: 10.3897/AfrInvertebr.58.9537 Reference page. 

2018

  • Armstrong, A.J. & Villet, M.H. 2019. Checklist, endemism, English vernacular names and identification of the cicadas (Insecta, Hemiptera, Cicadidae) of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. African Invertebrates, 60: 165–193. DOI: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.60.35130 Reference page. 
  • Marshall, D.C., Moulds, M., Hill, K.B.R., Price, B.W., Wade, E.J., Owen, C.L., Goemans, G., Marathe, K., Sarkar, V., Cooley, J.R., Sanborn, A.F., Kunte, K., Villet, M.H. & Simon, C. 2018. A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification. Zootaxa 4424(1): 1–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4424.1.1. PDF Reference page. 

2020

  • Taylor, C.L., Barker, N.P., Barber-James, H.M., Villet, M.H. & Pereira-a-Conceicoa, L.L. 2020. Habitat requirements affect genetic variation in three species of mayfly (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae) from South Africa. ZooKeys, 936: 1–24. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.936.38587 Reference page. 
Authority control
  • ORCID: 0000-0002-4335-5667
  • Scopus: 7004262479
  • ResearchGate: Martin_Villet
  • Biodiversity Heritage Library author: 216600
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