Alan Charles Cassidy

Wing Commander Alan Charles Cassidy MBE MA CEng FRAeS MRES RAF (Retired)

Born: 7 April 1949. Aeronautical Engineer, Aerobatic Flying Instructor and International Medallist, Amateur Entomologist, United Kingdom.
Contact: 18 Woodhurst Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 8TF, England. Email: ACCassidy@aol.com

Eponyms

• Rapala cassidyi Takanami, 1992. reference page
• Rhamma cassidyi K. Johnson & M.J. Adams, 1993. reference page

Taxon names authored

• 32 taxon names authored by Alan Charles Cassidy

Works include

• Cassidy, A.C., 1982. An annotated checklist of Brunei butterflies including a new species of the genus Catapaecilma (Lycaenidae). Brunei Mus. J., 5 (2): 202–272.Reference page. 
• Cassidy, A.C., 1985. An enlarged checklist of Brunei butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) including descriptions of one new species and two new subspecies. Brunei Mus. J., 6(1): 135–168. Reference page. 
• Cassidy, A.C., 1990. On Nacaduba and allied genera (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the Sulawesi Region. Tyô to Ga, 41(4): 227–241. PDF. Reference page. 
• Hirowatari, T. and Cassidy, A.C., 1994. A new species of the genus Jamides Hübner from Sulawesi. Tyô to Ga, 45(1):1-4. pdf. Reference page. 
• Cassidy, A.C., 1995. On the Miletini (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) of the Sulawesi Region. Trans. Lepid. Soc. Japan 46: 1–12. pdf.Reference page. 
• Cassidy, A.C., 1995. On the Lycaenopsis group of genera (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) of the Sulawesi Region. Trans. Lepid. Soc. Japan 46: 45–62. pdf. Reference page. 
• Cassidy, A.C., Allen, M.G. & Harman, T., 2002. The generic position of Smerinthus decoratus Moore (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae). Trans. Lep. Soc. Japan, 53(4): 225–228 PDF.Reference page. 
• Cassidy, A.C., 2003. New information on lycaenid butterflies of the South-East Asian Islands. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society, Japan 54(2): 73–82. pdf. Reference page. 
• Cassidy, A.C.& Rawlins, A. 2011. On Hypolycaena from Maluku, Indonesia, including the first description of male Hypolycaena asahi (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). ZooKeys, 115: 53–84. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.115.1406Reference page. 
• Cassidy, A.C., 2013. On some type specimens of Lycaenidae from South East Asia (Lepidoptera). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 34(3): 137–144, 63 figs. web Reference page. 
• Rawlins, A., Cassidy, A., Müller, C., Schröder, S. & Tennent, W. J. 2014. An Illustrated and annotated checklist of Jamides Hübner, 1819, taxa occurring in the Indonesian Provinces of North Maluku and Maluku (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo N.F. 35(1/2): 5-39. web Reference page. 
• Cassidy, A.C., 2016. Pepliphorus euchylas Hubner, [1819]: a junior objective synonym of Papilio hylassus Herbst, 1800 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Lepidoptera Science 67(1): 1–6. Reference page. 
• Rawlins, A., Cassidy, A. & Schröder, S., 2017. An illustrated and annotated checklist of Arhopala, Boisduval, 1832, taxa in North Maluku and Maluku (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Pt.1. Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 38(4): 191–201. Reference page. 
• Rawlins, A. & A. C. Cassidy, 2017. An illustrated and annotated checklist of Amblypodia Horsfield, 1829, taxa occurring in the Indonesian provinces of North Maluku and Maluku. Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 38(2/3): 103-110. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Reference page. 
• Rawlins, A., Cassidy, A. & Schröder, S., 2018. An illustrated and annotated checklist of Arhopala, Boisduval, 1832, taxa in North Maluku and Maluku (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Pt.2. Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 39(1): 21–37. Reference page. 
• Rawlins, Schröder & Cassidy, 2018. A new subspecies of Arhopala admete (Hewitson, 1863) from Sorong, West Papua, Indonesia and a brief review of the taxonomy of the Arhopala fulla species-group (sensu Evans, 1957) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Butterflies 77: 39-42, 12 figs. Reference page. 
• Rawlins, A. & A. Cassidy, 2020. An illustrated and annotated checklist of Bindahara Moore, 1881, taxa occurring in North Maluku and Maluku, Indonesia. Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo. 41(3/4): 121-130. Reference page. 
• Rawlins, A., Cassidy, A. & Schröder, S., 2021. An illustrated and annotated checklist of Rapala, Moore, 1881, taxa in North Maluku and Maluku, Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 42(3): 164–174. Reference page.