Schalk Jacobus Botha de Meillon, South African entomologist (Prieska, Cape Province 15 October 1902 – Philadelphia, USA 06 December 2000)

Authored 189 papers

DESCRIBED TAXA

Diptera

Genera & Subgenera

Ankylohelea 1987 with Wirth

Capehelea 1987 with Wirth

Fanthamia 1939

Kolenohelea 1981 with Wirth

Luciamyia 1937

Notoceratopogon 1986 with Downes

Pedilohelea 1980 with Wirth

Rhinohelea 1979 with Wirth

Species

 423 being 219 in Ceratopogonidae  and 37 in Simuliidae

Siphonaptera

Genera

Cryptopsylla 1949

Epirimia 1940

Macroscelidopsylla 1958

Species

38

Acari

Species

At least 2 (Echinonyssus latiscutatus 1944 & Myonyssoides spinosus 1944 both with Lavoipierre) 

HONORS

Demeillonia Hopkins & Rothschild 1956 (Siphonaptera) 

Demeillonius Davidson 1980 (Diptera) 

Bothamia Meiswinkel 1987 (Diptera) 

Bothahelea Grogan & Wirth 1983 (Diptera) 

Subgenus Meilloniellum Rubtsov 1962 (Diptera)