William Doherty was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and later also collected birds for the Natural History Museum at Tring. He died of dysentery while in Nairobi.
Troides plateni, the Dr. Platen's birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to Palawan, Balabac, Dumaran, and the Calamian Islands in the Philippines. It is named for Dr. Carl Constantin Platen.
Troides dohertyi, the Talaud black birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to the Talaud and Sangihe islands.
Troides rhadamantus, the golden birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly that inhabits the Philippines. There are many subspecies on islands of the Philippines and some authors consider Troides plateni and Troides dohertyi as subspecies of T. rhadamantus.
The chestnut-backed thrush is a ground thrush species endemic to Lombok, Timor and the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia. The species is rapidly declining and it is already extinct on Lombok and possibly on Lesser Sunda. There are a number of European institutions that hold this species, including: Berlin Zoological Garden, Birdworld, Bristol Zoo, Royal Burgers' Zoo, Chester Zoo, Edinburgh Zoo, Durrell Wildlife Park, and Waddesdon Manor aviary. Six of these zoos have successfully bred them since October 2011 and there are now 91 of them in these institutions. Private Members of the Foreign Bird League in the UK are participating in the breeding scheme for this species and are being particularly successful.
The red-naped fruit dove is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to Sumba.
Coracina is a large genus of bird in the Campephagidae family. A revision of this genus was involved since the group is found to be polyphyletic in relation to other genera within the Campephagidae. It contains the following species:
The pale-shouldered cicadabird or Sumba cicadabird is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is endemic to the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
The crested white-eye or crested ibon is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is endemic to the Lesser Sunda Islands.
The Sula pitta is a species of the pitta. It was considered a subspecies of the red-bellied pitta. It is endemic to Indonesia where it occurs in the Sula and Banggai Islands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Macroglossum dohertyi is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Queensland and Papua New Guinea.
Chaerocina dohertyi is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from highland forests in Kenya and Uganda.
Daphnis dohertyi is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Indonesia, New Guinea, the Philippines the Solomon Islands and Torres Strait.
Ambulyx dohertyi is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Walter Rothschild in 1894.
Hakea dohertyi, commonly known as the Kowmung hakea, is a shrub endemic to a restricted locale in the Great Dividing Range in central New South Wales in Australia.
Eupithecia dohertyi is a moth in the family Geometridae described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1935. It is found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda.
Attacus dohertyi is a moth in the family Saturniidae first described by Rothschild in 1895. It is found on Timor, Flores, Roma and Damar.
Sybra is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:
Sybra ordinata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1873.
Delias dohertyi is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Charles Oberthur in 1894. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
