Willy De Prins (fl. 1995/2019), Belgian entomologist (Lepidoptera).

• Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
• active in The Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium.
• E-mail: willy.deprins@gmail.com

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• 23 taxon names authored byWilly De Prins

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• de Prins, W. &van der Poorten, D. 1982. Overzicht van het GenusPseudophilotes in Europa en Noord-Afrika, met Beschrijving van Een Sort Uit Sardinie, Nieuw Voor de Wetenschap (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae).Phegea 10(2):61–76.Reference page. 

• Prins De, W. 1985. On aGracillaria species from Morocco with some supplementary notes on the genusGracillaria Haworth (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae).Nota lepidopterologica (n.f.), 8(4): 351–362.Reference page. 

• De Prins, W.,van der Poorten, D. &Bálint, Z. 1992. Taxonomic revision of the North African species of the genusPlebejusKluk, 1802 (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae).Phegea 20(1): 11–34.BHLReference page. 

• De Prins, W. &van der Poorten, D. 1993. Rhopalocera and Grypocera of Turkey 11. Description of the females of two little known lycaenid butterflies from southeast Turkey:Polyommatus (Lysandra) dezinus (de Freina & Witt, 1983) andPolyommatus buzulmavi Carbonell, 1992 (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae).Phegea 21(1): 11–16.PDF.Reference page. 

• De Prins, W. &van der Poorten, D., 1995.Rhopalocera and Grypocera of Turkey14. Taxonomic revision of thePyrgus alveus (Hübner, [1803]) complex from Greece to West China, with description of two new species from southern Turkey (Lepidoptera:Hesperiidae).Phegea23(1):1-44 (PDF).Reference page. 
• Kolev, Z. &De Prins, W. 1995. A new species of the "brownAgrodiaetus" complex from the Crimea (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).Phegea 23(2): 119–132.full article (PDF).Reference page. 

• De Prins, W. &van der Poorten, D. 1996. Additions and corrections to "Die Tagfalter der Türkei". 2. Interesting observations of butterflies in Turkey during the 38th expedition of the "Werkgroep Grieks-Turkse dagvlinders" (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).Phegea 24(1): 25–32.PDF.Reference page. 

• Olivier, A.,Puplesiene, J.,van der Poorten, D.,De Prins, W. &Wiemers, M. 1999. Revision of some taxa of thePolyommatus (Agrodiaetus)transcaspicus group with description of a new species from Central Anatolia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).Phegea 27(1): 1–24.BHLPDF.Reference page. 
• Coutsis, J.G.,Puplesiene, J. &De Prins, W. 1999. The chromosome number and karyotype ofPolyommatus(Agrodiaetus) ripartii andPolyommatus(Agrodiaetus) aroaniensis from Greece (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).Phegea 27(3): 81–84.PDF.Reference page. 

• Olivier, A.,van der Poorten, D.,Puplesiene, J. &De Prins, W. 2000.Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) artvinensis stat. nov. andP. (A.) sigberti sp. nov., two vicariant species known so far only from Turkey (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).Phegea 28(2): 57–74.PDF.Reference page. 

• van Nieukerken, E.J.,Kaila, L.,Kitching, I.J.,Kristensen, N.P.,Lees, D.C.,Minet, J.,Mitter, C.,Mutanen, M.,Regier, J.C.,Simonsen, T.J.,Wahlberg, N.,Yen, S-H.,Zahiri, R.,Adamski, D.,Baixeras, J.,Bartsch, D.,Bengtsson, B.A.,Brown, J.W.,Bucheli, S.R.,Davis, D.R.,de Prins, J.,de Prins, W.,Epstein, M.C.,Gentili-Poole, P.,Gielis, C.,Hättenschwiler, P.,Hausmann, A.,Holloway, J.D.,Kallies, A.,Karsholt, O.,Kawahara, A.Y.,Koster, S.,Kozlov, M.V.,Lafontaine, J.D.,Lamas, G.,Landry, J-F.,Lee, S.,Nuss, M.,Park, K-T.,Penz, C.M.,Rota, J.,Schintlmeister, A.,Schmidt, B.C.,Sohn, J-C.,Solis, M.A.,Tarmann, G.M.,Warren, A.D.,Weller, S.,Yaklovlev, R.V.,Zolotuhin, V.V. &Zwick, A. 2011. Order LepidopteraLinnaeus, 1758. Pp 212–221In:Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011.Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness.Zootaxa 3148: 1–237.Open access.Reference page. PDF.Reference page. 

• De Prins, J.,De Prins, W.,de Coninck, E.,Kawahara, A.Y.,Milton, M.A. &Hebert, P.D.N. 2013. Taxonomic history and invasion biology of twoPhyllonorycter leaf miners (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) with links to taxonomic and molecular datasets.Zootaxa 3709(4): 341–362.DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3709.4.3Reference page. 

• De Prins, W. 2017. On the identity and status ofDarala lineosa (Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae).Zootaxa 4344(1): 163–164.DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4344.1.8.Reference page. 

• Freina de, J.J. &de Prins, W. 2018: Nomenclatural and taxonomic notes on three South-East Asian species ofAmata (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Syntomini).Zootaxa 4461(1): 141–145.DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4461.1.11Reference page. 

• Park, K-T. &De Prins, W. 2019. Re-examination of the type specimens of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera), deposited in the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Belgium, with descriptions of ten new species from DR Congo belonging toThubdora Park andTorodora Meyrick.Zootaxa 4571(4): 451–476.DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4571.4.1.Reference page. 
• Park, K-T. &De Prins, W. 2019a. A review of the Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) of southern Africa, based on type specimens deposited in the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (TMSA), with descriptions of three new species.Zootaxa 4623(1): 061–089.DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4623.1.5.Reference page. 

• de Prins, W. &Koo, J.M. 2020. A replacement name forDichomeris paulianella Viette, 1957 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae).Zootaxa 4858(3): 447–447.DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4858.3.10..Reference page. 
• Samira, K.,Malika, D.,Faiza, M.,De Prins, W.,Mohammed, R.,Flower, R. &Riadh, M. 2020. Diversity and abundance of Lepidoptera populations in the Theniet El Had National Park (Algeria).Zootaxa 4743(1): 35–46.DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4743.1.3Reference page. 

• de Prins, W. 2021. A replacement name forAcrapex albicostata Hampson, 1916 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).Zootaxa 4966(4): 497–500.DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4966.4.10..Reference page. 

• De Prins &De Prins 2023. A replacement name for the genus-group namePollex Fibiger, 2007 (Erebidae: Hypenodinae: Micronoctuini).Zootaxa 5228(1): 97–100.DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5228.1.7.Reference page. 
• Park, K.T.,Koo, J.M.,Jeong, S.Y.,de Prins, J. &de Prins, W. 2023. Review of the genusLecithocera Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) in DR Congo, with description of four new species.Zootaxa 5339(4): 355–368.DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5339.4.2.Reference page. 

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