Abstract

We honor the life and contributions of Donald Byron Thomas, Jr. with a short review of his professional life followed by three appendices listing his published papers, taxa described, and patronyms.

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• Arismendi N, Thomas DB. 2003. Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Honduras: a checklist with description of a new ochlerine genus. Insecta Mundi 17(3–4): 219–236.  
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• Ortega-Leon G, Thomas DB. 2016. Pseudocromata, a new genus of Ochlerini based on a new species from Ecuador (Discocephalinae: Pentatomidae). Zootaxa 4137: 286–290.  
• Pape RB, Thomas DB, Aalbu RL. 2007. A revision of the genus Eschatomoxys Blaisdell (Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae: Edrotini) with notes on the biology. The Coleopterists Bulletin 4: 519–540.  
• Pérez-Gelabert DE, Thomas DB. 2005. Stink bugs (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) of the island of Hispaniola, with seven new species from the Dominican Republic. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 37: 319–352.  
• Ratcliffe BC, Cave RD. 2010. New species of Orizabus Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Pentodontini) from Mexico and Guatemala, with a revised key and checklist of the species in the genus. Insecta Mundi 0127: 1–16.  
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• Rolston LH. 1973. A review of Hymenarcys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 81(2): 111–117.  
• Rolston LH, McDonald FJD, Thomas DB. 1980. A conspectus of Pentatomini genera of the Western Hemisphere. Part I (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 88(2): 120–132.  
• Santos-Silva A, Wappes JE, Galileo MHM. 2018. Descriptions and synonymies in American Desmiphorini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae). Zootaxa 4375(4): 451–501.  
• Thomas DB. 1992. Eludocoris, a new genus of Pentatomidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) from Costa Rica. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 61: 63–67.  
• Thomas DB. 1993. Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) of the Chiapanecan forests: a faunal survey and chorographic analysis. The Coleopterists Bulletin 47(4): 363–408.  
• Thomas DB. 2001. A new, ocellate species in the genus Lojus McDonald (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 103(4): 854–857.  
• Thomas DB. 2024. Notes on the tribe Chlorocorini with the description of a new species of Chlorocoris Spinola (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) from Panama. Insecta Mundi 1042: 1–7.  
• Thomas DB, Yonke TR. 1981. A review of the Nearctic species of the genus Banasa Stål (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 54(2): 233–248.  
• Thomas DB, Yonke TR. 1988. Review of the genus Banasa Stal 1860 (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) for Mexico, Central America and the Antilles. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 81(1): 28–49.  
• Thomas DB, Yonke TR. 1990. Review of the genus Banasa (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in South America. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 83(4): 657–688.