Melissa Sánchez Herrera

University of Alabama — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

13h-index418citations50works5.22yr avg
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Research Topics

Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy(32), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology(28), Species Distribution and Climate Change(27), Genetic diversity and population structure(6), Fish Ecology and Management Studies(5)

Publications50 total

Soaring Systematics: An Evaluation of Biogeography and Flight Behavior in Dragonflies and Damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) Using Phylogenomics
Systematic Biology·2026Open Access
Evaluating perceptions of STEM majors to explain diversity gaps in entomology and other sciences
Annals of the Entomological Society of America·2025Open Access
Zygoptera systematics: past, present, and future
Insect Systematics and Diversity·2025Open Access
Odonata systematics: past, present, and future: a review of the phylogenetic works in Anisoptera (dragonflies)
Insect Systematics and Diversity·2025· 2 cited
Scientists' warning on the need for greater inclusion of dragonflies in global conservation
Insect Conservation and Diversity·2025· 12 citedOpen Access
Promoting equity between the Global North and Global South in entomological research
Current Opinion in Insect Science·2025· 4 cited
Analysis of mixtures of birds and insects in weather radar profile data
Ornithological applications·2025· 3 cited
Can High Temperatures Affect Body Size in Insects? The Case of Rubyspot Damselflies in the Colombian Western Andes
Diversity·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Analysis of mixtures of birds and insects in weather radar data
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Commented checklist of the Odonata from Colombia
International Journal of Odonatology·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2024· 23 citedOpen Access
A new species of bannerwing damselfly, Polythore albistriata sp. nov. (Odonata: Polythoridae)
International Journal of Odonatology·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Abdominal microbiome composition and diversity of two Heliconius species (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Colombian Andes
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2023Open Access
Abdominal microbiome composition and diversity of two Heliconius species (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Colombian Andes
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2023Open Access
Geography shapes the microbial community in<i>Heliconius</i>butterflies
FEMS Microbiology Ecology·2023· 1 cited
Are wing contours good classifiers for automatic identification in Odonata? A view from the Targeted Odonata Wing Digitization (TOWD) project
International Journal of Odonatology·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Genetic structure, cryptic species, and hybridization
2022· 5 cited
Phylogeography
2022· 1 cited
Evolution and Biogeographic History of Rubyspot Damselflies (Hetaerininae: Calopterygidae: Odonata)
Diversity·2022· 17 citedOpen Access
Are wing contours good classifiers for automatic identification in Odonata? A view from the Targeted Odonata Wing Digitization (TOWD) project.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2022Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jessica L. Ware(24), Camilo Salazar(19), Christopher D. Beatty(18), Cornelio Andrés Bota-Sierra(10), Renato Nunes(9), Adolfo Cordero‐Rivera(6), Manpreet K. Kohli(6), Seth Bybee(5), Rhainer Guillermo Nascimento Ferreira(5), John C. Abbott(4), Aaron Goodman(4), Leandro Juen(4), Emilio Realpe(4), Vincent J. Kalkman(3), Paul B. Frandsen(3), Jeffrey H. Skevington(3), Yesenia Margarita Vega‐Sánchez(3), Carolina Pardo‐Díaz(3), Fredy Palacino‐Rodríguez(3), Yiselle Cano-Cobos(3)