Rupert Leon Wenzel

Rupert Leon Wenzel (1915–2006), U.S. entomologist (Histeridae (Coleoptera) & Streblidae (Diptera)).

• Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois

• 8taxon names authored by Rupert Leon Wenzel

• Wenzel, R.L. 1935. Notes on the sexual characters of Saprinus with the description of a new species. The Canadian Entomologist 67(9): 189–190. DOI: 10.4039/Ent67189-9
• Wenzel, R.L. 1936. Short Studies in the Histeridae (Coleop.)— No. 1. The Canadian Entomologist 68(12): 266–272. DOI: 10.4039/Ent68266-12
• Wenzel, R.L. 1938. New and little known Neotropical Hetaeriomorphini (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Revista de Entomologia 9: 317–321.
• Wenzel, R.L. 1939. Short Studies in the Histeridae (Coleop.)— No. 2. Ohio Journal of Science 39: 10–14. (PDF)
• Wenzel, R.L. 1939. A New Genus and Several New Species of North American Histeridae (Coleoptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 32(2): 384–394. DOI: 10.1093/aesa/32.2.384
• Wenzel, R.L. & Dybas, H.S. 1941. New and little known neotropical Histeridae (Coleoptera). Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 22(7): 433–472. BHL Reference page. 
• Wenzel, R.L. 1944. On the classification of the histerid beetles. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 28(2): 51–151. BHL.
• Dybas, H.S. & Wenzel, R.L. 1947 A new genus of batflies from Guatemala (Diptera Acalypterae: Streblidae). Fieldiana, Zoology 31(19): 149–154. BHL Reference page. 
• Wenzel, R.L. 1955. The histerid beetles of New Caledonia (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Fieldiana, Zoology 37(23): 601–634. BHL.
• Wenzel, R.L. 1960. Three new histerid beetles from the Pacific Northwest, with records and synonymies of additional species (Coleoptera: Histeridae) Fieldiana, Zoology 39(41): 447–463. BHL. Reference page. 
• Wenzel, R.L. 1966. The streblid batflies of Panama (Diptera: Calypterae: Streblidae), p 405–675 In Wenzel R.L., Tipton V.J. (ed), Ectoparasites of Panama. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
• Wenzel, R.L. 1976. The streblid batflies of Venezuela (Diptera: Streblidae). Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series 20(4): 1–177. (PDF) BHL Reference page. 
• Wenzel, R.L. 1984. Two name changes for neotropical Streblidae (Diptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 86(3): 647. Biostor Reference page. 
• Dick, C. & Wenzel, R.L. 2006 A new genus and species of trichobiine bat flies (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea: Streblidae) from Costa Rica. Insect Systematics & Evolution 37(4): 433–442. DOI: 10.1163/187631206788831489 Reference page.