Wesley Bicha

Wesley Bicha, U.S. entomologist.

• 121 Old Batley Road, Oliver Springs, TN 37840 USA.

• 40taxon names authored by Wesley Bicha

• Bicha, W. 1983. A new species of scorpionfly (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) from North Carolina. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 85(1): 152–155. BHL Reference page. 
• Bicha, W. 2006. New scorpionflies (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) from Jalisco, Michoacán, and Oaxaca, Mexico. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108(1): 24–34. BHL Reference page. 
• Bicha, W. 2007. The first hangingfly (Mecoptera: Bittacidae) described from Vietnam. Russian Entomological Journal 16(3): 333–335. PDF. Reference page. 
• Bicha, W. 2010. A review of the scorpionflies (Mecoptera) of Indochina with the description of a new species of Neopanorpa from Northern Thailand. Zootaxa 2480: 61–67. Preview (PDF). Reference page. 
• Bicha, W. 2011. A review of the Hangingflies (Mecoptera: Bittacidae) of South Asia with the description of a new species of Bittacus from Nepal. Zootaxa 3032: 60–64. Abstract. Reference page. 
• Bicha, W., Schiff, N.M., Lancaster, A. & Scheffler, B. 2015. A nearly cryptic Scorpionfly, Panorpa cryptica n. sp. (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) from North America. Zootaxa 3973(3): 591–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.3.12. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Bicha, W. 2015. The scorpionflies (Mecoptera) of Indochina with the description of new species of Bittacus and Neopanorpa. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 117(4): 435–451. DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.117.4.435 Reference page. 
• Bicha, W., Schiff, N., Pham, T.H., Lancaster, A. & Scheffler, B. 2017. New species of Neopanorpa (Mecoptera) from Vietnam, with a key to the species of Mecoptera of Vietnam. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 119(4): 529–544. DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.119.4.529
• Bicha, W. 2018. Biodiversity of Mecoptera. Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society, Volume II. Foottit, R. G. and Adler, P. H. (Eds.). Wiley-Blackwell, West Sussex, UK: 705–720.
• Bicha, W. & Schiff, N. 2019. A New Species of Scorpionfly from the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky (Mecoptera: Panorpidae). Entomological News 128(4): 356–364. DOI: 10.3157/021.128.0408
• Bicha, W. 2019. Scorpionflies (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) collected during Project Tiger with descriptions of three new species from Thailand. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 95(2): 49–63.
• Nakamura, T., Bicha, W., & Saigusa, T. 2019. Systematic Study of the Short-faced Scorpionfly Genus Panorpodes M‘Lachlan with Descriptions of Seven New Species (Mecoptera: Panorpodidae) Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 25(1): 19–38. ZooBank: F1D637C7-E31A-4E7E-8B0A-A143BAF88FA9 Reference page. 
• Flint, O.S., Byers, G.W. & Bicha, W. 2020. Scorpionflies, Hangingflies and Allies of Virginia (Insecta: Mecoptera). Insects of Virginia, Number 16. Ivanov, K. and Roble, S. (Eds.). Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, Virginia: 1–43.
• Bicha, W., Chiu, Y-C., Nakamura, T. & Almquist, D. 2020. Unusual Scorpionfly (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) Collecting Techniques. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 122(4):1001–1004. DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.122.4.1001
• Bicha, W., Schiff, N., Lancaster, A., Suttiprapan, P., Dokjan. T., & Scheffler, B. 2022. A Key to Species of the Scorpionflies of Thailand with the Description of New species of Panorpa and Neopanorpa (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) based on Morphology and DNA Barcodes. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 146: 201–228. DOI: 10.3157/061.148.0202
• Nakamura T. & Bicha, W. 2023. A New Genus and Eight New Species of Japanese Hangingflies (Mecoptera: Bittacidae). Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 29(2): 297–315. Reference page.