# Ivor Lansbury

Ivor Lansbury (1932-2015) est un entomologiste, spécialiste des hétéroptères (hétéroptériste) aquatiques et semi-aquatiques.

## Biographie

Il a travaillé au Museum d'histoire naturelle de Londres, puis au Musée d'histoire naturelle de l'université d'Oxford, au Département d'entomologie.

## Hétéroptériste

Ivor Lansbury a beaucoup travaillé sur les punaises aquatiques (Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha), et notamment celles d'Australie et de la zone indomalaise. Il a également travaillé sur les Stenocephalidae et les Mecistoscelidini (Miridae).

### Publications

* Lansbury, I. (1954). A new species of Micronecta (Hem., Corixidae) from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 90: 140-142.
* Lansbury, I. (1955). Distributional Records of North American Corixidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). The Canadian Entomologist, 87 (11): 474-481. DOI 10.4039/Ent87474-11.
* Lansbury, I. (1960). The Corixidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) of British Columbia. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia. 57: 34-43 lire en ligne.
* Lansbury, I. (1961a). Notes on the genus Anisops (Hemiptera, Notonectidae) in the Hungarian National Museum. Ann. hist.-nat. Mus. Hung. 53: 505–506.
* Lansbury, I. (1961b). A new species of Anisops (Hemiptera: Notonectidae) from East Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Series B, Taxonomy. 30 (9-10): 29-30. DOI 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1961.tb00181.x.
* Lansbury, I. (1962). Notes on the genus Anisops in Bishop Museum. Pacific Insects. 4: 141–151 lire en ligne.
* Lansbury, I. (1963a). Revision of the tribe Mecistoscelini Reuter (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Miridae). Bulletin of Entomology, 4: 1-12.
* Lansbury, I. (1963b). Notes on the Water-Bugs of Solomon Islands and New Hebrides. Pacific Insects. 5 (1): 5-10. lire en ligne.
* Lansbury, I. (1964a). The genus Anisops in Australia (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Notonectidae). Part I. Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 3: 52-65 DOI 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1964.tb00622.x.
* Lansbury, I. (1964b). A revision of the genus Paranisops Hale (Heteroptera: Notonectidae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B, Taxonomy. 33 (11-12): 181-188 DOI 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1964.tb01600.x.
* Lansbury, I. (1965a). Notes on the Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Diptera and other invertebrates of the Burren, Co. Clare and Inishmore, Aran Islands. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section B: Biological, geological, and chemical science. 64(7): 89-115.
* Lansbury, I. (1965b). New Organ in Stenocephalidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). Nature 205: 106, DOI 10.1038/205106a0.
* Lansbury, I. (1965c). A revision of the Stenocephalidae Dallas 1852 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Entomol. Mon. Mag . 101:52-92
* Lansbury, I. (1966a) A revision of the Stenocephalidae Dallas 1852 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) (continued). Entomol. Mon. Mag . 101: 145-160.
* Lansbury, I. (1966b). Notes on the Notonectidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) of Aden and the Yemen. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 (97-99): 37-43, DOI 10.1080/00222936608651636.
* Lansbury, I. (1966c). New synonymy in the genus Anisops (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Notonectidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 (100-102): 293-296, DOI 10.1080/00222936608656054.
* Lansbury, I. (1966d). Notes on Anisops milloti Poisson, 1948 (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Notonectidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 (103-105): 375-377, DOI 10.1080/00222936608651659.
* Lansbury, I. (1967). Comparative morphology of the male Australian Nepidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 641-649. DOI 10.1071/ZO9670641
* Lansbury, I. (1968a). The Enithares (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Notonectidae) of the Oriental region. Pacific Insects 10: 353-442.
* Lansbury, I. (1968b). Notes on the Notonectidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) of Ghana. Journal of Natural History 2 (2): 177-184, DOI 10.1080/00222936800770791.
* Lansbury, I. (1968c). Notonectidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) of Rennell Island. The Natural History of Rennell Island vol. 5 (Zoology), pp 95-98.
* Lansbury, I. (1969). The genus Anisops in Australia (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Notonectidae). Journal of Natural History 3: 433-458, DOI 10.1080/00222936900770371.
* Lansbury, I. (1970). Revision of the Australian Sigara (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Corixidae). Journal of Natural History 4: 39-54, DOI 10.1080/00222937000770051.
* Lansbury, I. (1972a). A review of the Oriental species of Ranatra Fabricius (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Nepidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 124(3): 287-341. DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1972.tb00367.x
* Lansbury, I. (1972b). A Revision of the Genus Telmatotrephes Stål (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Nepidae). Zoologica scripta 1(5): 271-286. DOI 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1972.tb00576.x
* Lansbury, I. (1973). A review of the genus Cercotmetus Amyot & Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Nepidae). Tijdschrift voor entomologie 116: 83-106. lire en ligne.
* Lansbury, I. (1974a). Notes on Ranatra (Amphischizops) compressicollis Montandon with a Review of Its Systematic Position within the American Ranatra (Hemiptera‐Heteroptera, Nepidae). Zoologica Scripta 3 (1): 23-30 DOI 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1974.tb00800.x
* Lansbury, I. (1974b). A new genus of Nepidae from Australia with a revised classification of the family (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 219-227. DOI 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1974.tb02176.x
* Lansbury, I. (1974c). Montonepa gen.n. from India with notes on the genus Borborophyes Stål (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Nepidae). Zoologica scripta 2(2-3): 111–118. DOI 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1974.tb00742.x
* Lansbury, I. (1975). Notes on additions, changes and the distribution of the Australian water-bug fauna (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 36: 17-23 DOI https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.1975.36.02 lire en ligne.
* Lansbury, I. (1978a). A review of Goondnomdanepa Lansbury (Heteroptera: Nepidae). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 29: 117-126. DOI 10.1071/MF9780117
* Lansbury, I. (1978b). Comments on the species concept in some Australian Anisops Spinola (Hemiptera: Notonectidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 39: 101-115. DOI 10.24199/j.mmv.1978.39.08, lire en ligne.
* Lansbury, I. (1981). Aquatic and semi-aquatic bugs (Hemiptera) of Australia. pp. 1195-1211 in Keast, A. (ed.). Ecological Biogeography of Australia. The Hague : Dr. W. Junk Vol. 2(4).
* Lansbury, I. (1984). Some Nepomorpha (Corixidae, Notonectidae and Nepidae) (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) of north-west Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 108: 35-49.
* Lansbury, I. (1985). Notes on the identity of Nychia Stål (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Notonectidae) in Australia. Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 2: 1-9.
* Lansbury, I. (1988). Gelastocoridae (Hem.-Het.) in the Hope Entomological collections, University Museum, Oxford. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 124, supplement:243-250.
* Lansbury, I. (1989). Notes on marine Rheumatometroides from the Solomon Islands (Hem., Gerridae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 125: 63-71.
* Lansbury, I. (1990a). Notes on the Hebridae (Insecta: Heteroptera-Hemiptera) of Australia with descriptions of three new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 114: 55-66.
* Lansbury, I. (1990b). Notes on the location and status of some Walker types of Homoptera from the W.W. Saunders collection. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 126:121-132.
* Lansbury, I. (1991a). Naucoridae and Notonectidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) of the Northern Territory, Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences. 8(1):103-144 DOI 10.5962/p.262814, lire en ligne.
* Lansbury, I. (1991b). Cuticular blades and other structures of Diaprepocoris Kirkaldy and Stenocorixa Horvath (Heteroptera: Corixidae). Tijdschrift voor entomologie. 134:35-46, lire en ligne.
* Lansbury, I. (1992a). Notes on the marine-freshwater gerrid genus Rheumatometroides (Hemiptera, Gerridae) of Papua New Guinea. Tijdschrift voor entomologie 135:1-10. lire en ligne.
* Lansbury, I. (1992b). Strongylovelia (Veliidae) and Metrobatopsis (Gerridae) and associated pleuston Hemiptera of west New Britain. Tijdschrift voor entomologie 136:15-22.
* Lansbury, I. (1993). Rhagovelia of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Australia (Hemiptera-Veliidae). Tijdschrift voor entomologie 136:23-54. lire en ligne
* Lansbury, I. (1995a). Notes on the genus Anisops Spinola (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Notonectidae) of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, 12:65-74. DOI 10.5962/p.264278, lire en ligne.
* Lansbury, I. (1995b). Notes on the Corixidae and Notonectidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of southern Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum. 17:181-189 lire en ligne.
* Lansbury, I. (1996a) Two new species of Ciliometra (Hem., Gerridae) from Papua New Guinea. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 132: 55-60.
* Lansbury, I. (1996b). Notes on the marine veliid genera Haloveloides, Halovelia and Xenobates (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Veliidae) of Papua New Guinea. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 139(1), 17-28. lire en ligne.
* Lansbury, I., & Zettel H. (1997a). New Species and Subspecies of the Genus Strongylovelia Esaki (Insecta: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from Borneo and the Philippines. Annalen Des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie B Für Botanik Und Zoologie, 99: 51–77. lire en ligne.
* Polhemus, J.T. & Lansbury, I. (1997b). Revision of the genus Hydrometra Latreille in Australia, Melanesia, and the Southwest Pacific (Heteroptera: Hydrometridae). Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 47: 1-67.
* Chen P., Nieser, N. & Lansbury, I. (2008). Notes on aquatic and semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha) from Malesia with description of three new species. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48(2): 269-279 lire en ligne

### Taxons décrits

I. Lansbury a décrit deux tribus, quatre genres, et plus d'une centaine d'espèces nouvelles. Parmi les taxons décrits par I. Lansbury, on peut mentionner, selon BioLib (4 février 2023) et Coreoidea Species Files :
* infra-ordre Cimicomorpha
** famille Miridae
*** espèce Mecistoscelis phillipinensis Lansbury, 1963
* infra-ordre Pentatomomorpha
** famille Stenocephalidae
*** espèces Dicranocephalus kashmiriensis Lansbury, 1966, D. prolixus Lansbury, 1965, D. pseudotestaceus Lansbury, 1966
* infra-ordre Gerromorpha
** famille Gerridae :
*** espèces Ciliometra hirsuta Lansbury, 1996, C. priori Lansbury, 1996
*** espèces Thetibates matawa (Lansbury, 1989), T. serena (Lansbury, 1992)
*** espèces Ventidius karen Lansbury, 1990, V. wallacei Lansbury, 1990
** famille Hebridae :
*** espèces Hebrus monteithi Lansbury, 1990, H. nourlangiei Lansbury, 1990
** famille Hydrometridae :
*** espèces Hydrometra claudie J. Polhemus & Lansbury, 1997, H. darwiniana J. Polhemus & Lansbury, 1997, H. eioana J. Polhemus & Lansbury, 1997, H. jourama J. Polhemus & Lansbury, 1997, H. kiunga J. Polhemus & Lansbury, 1997, H. novaehollandiae J. Polhemus & Lansbury, 1997
** famille Veliidae:
*** espèce Halovelia carinata Lansbury, 1989
*** espèce Haloveloides browni (Lansbury, 1989)
*** espèce Neusterensifer stysi Chen, Nieser & Lansbury, 2008
*** espèce Ocheovelia anderseni (Lansbury, 1996)
*** espèces Rhagovelia amnica Lansbury, 1993, R. aureospicata Lansbury, 1993, R. browni Lansbury, 1993, R. caesia Lansbury, 1993, R. crinita Lansbury, 1993, R. fulva Lansbury, 1993, R. herzogensis Lansbury, 1993, R. hirsuta Lansbury, 1993
*** espèces Strongylovelia aberrans Lansbury & Zettel, 1997, S. bukidnonica Lansbury & Zettel, 1997, S. cebuana Lansbury & Zettel, 1997, S. connexivum Lansbury & Zettel, 1997, S. esakii Lansbury & Zettel, 1997, S. hirsutula Lansbury & Zettel, 1997, S. mindoroensis Lansbury & Zettel, 1997, S. palawanensis Lansbury & Zettel, 1997, S. philippinensis Lansbury & Zettel, 1997, S. priori Lansbury, 1993, S. sibuyana Lansbury & Zettel, 1997
*** espèces Xenobates myorensis (Lansbury, 1989), X. oculatus (Lansbury, 1989), X. pilosellus Lansbury, 1996, X. solomonensis Lansbury, 1989
* infra-ordre Nepomorpha
** famille Corixidae
*** espèce Agraptocorixa gambrei Lansbury, 1984
*** espèces Micronecta christiniana Lansbury, 1954, M. lumutensis Chen, Nieser & Lansbury, 2008
*** espèce Sigara mullaka Lansbury, 1970, S. neboissi Lansbury, 1970
** famille Gelastocoridae :
*** espèce Nerthra parallelus Lansbury, 1988
** famille Naucoridae :
*** espèces Naucoris magela Lansbury, 1991, N. subaureus Lansbury, 1985
** famille Nepidae :
*** tribu Goondnomdanepini Lansbury, 1974, genre Goondnomdanepa Lansbury, 1974, espèces Goondnomdanepa brittoni Lansbury, 1978, G. prominens Lansbury, 1978, G. weiri Lansbury, 1974
*** genre Montonepa, Lansbury, 1974
*** espèces Ranatra flagellata Lansbury, 1972, R. megalops Lansbury, 1972, R. natunaensis Lansbury, 1972, R. occidentalis Lansbury, 1972, R. thai Lansbury, 1972
*** espèce Telmatotrephes ecuadorensis Lansbury, 1972, T. chinensis Lansbury, 1972
** famille Notonectidae :
*** espèces Anisops ariva Lansbury, 1966, A. baylii Lansbury, 1995, A. browni Lansbury, 1963, A. cheesmanae Lansbury, 1963, A. dostini Lansbury, 1991, A. douglasi Lansbury, 1984, A. elkedraensis Lansbury, 1995, A. gressitti Lansbury, 1962, A. hayesi Lansbury, 1995, A. lestoni Lansbury, 1968, A. lihiriensis Lansbury, 1978, A. lundbladiana Lansbury, 1962, A. megalops Lansbury, 1962, A. nabillus Lansbury, 1969, A. paraexigerus Lansbury, 1964, A. planifacies Lansbury, 1975, A. poissoni Lansbury, 1961, A. popovi Lansbury, 1966, A. spinosus Lansbury, 1961, A. ungarinyin Lansbury, 1995
*** tribu Aphelonectini Lansbury, 1965, genre Aphelonecta Lansbury, 1965, espèces A. alexis Lansbury, 1965, A. gavini Lansbury, 1966, A. nakatae Lansbury, 1965
*** espèces Enithares alexis Lansbury, 1967, E. amboinensis Lansbury, 1968, E. digitata Lansbury, 1974, E. elongata Lansbury, 1973, E. foveata Lansbury, 1968, E. gwini Lansbury, 1984, E. hebridiensis Lansbury, 1968, E. lombokensis Lansbury, 1968, E. maai Lansbury, 1968, E. megalops Lansbury, 1968, E. nigra Lansbury, 1968, E. paramegalops Lansbury, 1968, E. producta Lansbury, 1968, E. quadrispinosa Lansbury, 1967, E. rinjani Chen, Nieser & Lansbury, 2008, E. ripleyana Lansbury, 1968, E. stylata Lansbury, 1968, E. subparallela Lansbury, 1968, E. vicintricata Lansbury, 1968, E. vulgaris Lansbury, 1968, E. woodwardi Lansbury, 1968
*** genre Walambianisops Lansbury, 1984, espèce W. wandjina Lansbury, 1984

## Taxons nommés en son hommage

Plusieurs taxons ont été nommés en son hommage, selon BioLib (4 février 2023) :
* Anisops lansburyi Leong, 1963 (Notonectidae)
* Arctocorisa carinata lansburyi Jansson, 1979 (Corixidae)
* Enithares lansburyi Nieser & Chen, 1991 (Notonectidae)
* Haloveloides lansburyi Zettel, 1998 (Veliidae)
* Macroscytus lansburyi J.A. Lis, 1994 (Cydnidae)
* Myiomma lansburyi (Carvalho, 1951) (Miridae)
* Parasigmoidella lansburyi Roth, 1997 (Ectobiidae)
* Pseudovelia lansburyi (Hoberlandt, 1956) (Veliidae)
* Ranatra lansburyi Chen, Nieser & Ho, 2004 (Nepidae)
* Rhagovelia lansburyi Zettel, 1995 (Veliidae)
* Xenobates lansburyi Andersen & Weir, 1999 (Veliidae)