Ross Storey   1950 - 2008

 

Ross Storey discussing orthopteroid systematics. Photo by Helen Tunnah.

  

Although born and educated in Canada, Ross Storey lived and worked for about 39 years in Queensland, Australia. He had a long interest in Scarabaeidae, especially the Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae where he has described genera (4) and species (67) and proposed one aphodiine tribe (Stereomerini) with Henry Howden. Ross was curator and collection manager of the Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries insect collection in Mareeba for the last 34 years. He passed away at age of 58 after many years of debilitating illness, which he bore heroically. He was the Queensland Government taxonomic entomologist for the Queensland tropics for the last 30 years or so, but he never lost his Canadian accent. 

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  PUBLICATIONS:

1.  Storey, R. I. 1977. Six new species of Onthophagus Latreille (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society. 16(3): 313-320.

2.  Monteith, G.B. and Storey, R.I. 1981. The biology of Cephalodesmius, a genus of dung beetles which synthesizes "dung" from plant material (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 20(2): 253-277.

3.  Storey, R.I. 1984. A new species of Aptenocanthon Matthews from North Queensland (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 21(2): 387-390.

4.  Storey, R.I. 1986. A new flightless species of Aulacopris White from north Queensland (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 22(2): 197-203.

5.   Storey, R. I. and Weir, T. A. 1988. New localities and biological notes for the genus Onthophagus Latreille (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Australia. Australian Entomological Magazine. 15(1): 17-24.

6.  Storey, R.I. and Allsopp, P.G. 1989. A positive locality record for Lepidiota contigua Britton (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Australian Entomological Magazine. 16: 47.

7.  Storey, R.I., R. I. and Weir, T. A. 1990. New species of Onthophagus Latreille (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy.
3(6): 783-815.

8.  Howden, H. F., Howden, A. T. and Storey, R. I. 1991.Nocturnal perching of scarabaeine dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) in an Australian tropical rain forest. Biotropica. 23(1): 51-57.

9.  Storey, R.I. 1991. New species and new records of Tesserodon Hope (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from northern Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.   30(3): 577-588.

10. Howden, H.F. and Storey, R.I. 1992. Phylogeny of the Rhyparini and the new tribe Stereomerini, with descriptions of new genera and species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 70: 1810-1823.

11. Zborowski, P. and Storey, R. 1995. A Field Guide to Insects in Australia. Reed /New Holland, Sydney Australia. 207 pp.

12. Storey, R. I. and Howden, H. F. 1996. Revision of Australoxenella Howden & Storey in Australia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 39(2): 365-380.

13. Howden, H.F. and Storey, R.I. 2000. New Stereomerini and Rhyparini from Australia, Borneo and Fiji (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46(1): 175-182.

14. Reid, C.A.M. and Storey, R.I. 2000. Revision of the dung beetle genus Temnoplectron Westwood (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46(1): 253-297.

15. Storey, R.I. and Monteith, G.B. 2000. Five new species of Aptenocanthon Matthews (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from tropical Australia, with notes on distribution. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46(1): 349-358.

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