Michael J. Sharkey

University of Kentucky — United States

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Insect-Plant Interactions and Control(122), Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny(117), Forest Insect Ecology and Management(95), Insect behavior and control techniques(80), Plant and animal studies(23)

Publications187 total

Tachinid Flies (Diptera), Caterpillar Hosts (Lepidoptera) and Their Food Plants, Reared in Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Northwestern Costa Rica: Documenting Community Structure with the Aid of DNA Barcodes
Diversity·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
New host record of Doggerella chasanica (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae) as a larval parasitoid of the serious forest pest Monochamus alternatus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Korea
Journal of Hymenoptera Research·2025Open Access
Discovery of the Old World genus Rogas Nees (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae) in the New World by DNA barcoding
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift·2025Open Access
A new species of Braunsia (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae), a natural enemy of Cydalima perspectalis (Lepidoptera, Crambidae) from South Korea: species description and notes on its biology
Journal of Hymenoptera Research·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Dickyyuella argentinensis a tentative new genus and species of Cardiochilinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the Neotropical region
ZooKeys·2024Open Access
Leuroagathis Sharkey, 2017 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae) newly recorded from China with a detailed description of the type species
Zootaxa·2024Open Access
Ophiclypeus, a new genus of Cardiochilinae Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the Oriental region with descriptions of three new species
ZooKeys·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Phylogeny of the Braconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): A new tribal order!
Systematic Entomology·2023· 9 cited
Minimalist revision of Mesochorus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Mesochorinae) from Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with 158 new species and host records for 129 species
Revista de Biología Tropical·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
Phylogeny of the Braconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): a new tribal order!
2023Open Access
Phylogeny of the Braconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): a new tribal order!
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2023Open Access
Communities of Small Terrestrial Arthropods Change Rapidly Along a Costa Rican Elevation Gradient
2023· 3 cited
A new genus Anamalysia van Achterberg (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae), six new species, and two new combinations from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam
ZooKeys·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Cryptic biodiversity of tropical hesperiid caterpillar-attacking parasitoid wasps: three new species of Creagrura Townes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cremastinae) from Costa Rica and Perú
Biodiversity Data Journal·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Phaenospila gen. nov. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) and three new species from Thailand
Zootaxa·2022· 2 cited
More discussion of minimalist species descriptions and clarifying some misconceptions contained in Meier et al. 2021
ZooKeys·2022· 5 citedOpen Access
Description of Chilearinus Sharkey gen. nov. and status of Nearctic Earinus Wesmael, 1837 (Braconidae, Agathidinae) with the description of new species
ZooKeys·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Subfamily Agathidinae Haliday, 1833
Elsevier eBooks·2022
Subfamily Proteropinae van Achterberg, 1976
Elsevier eBooks·2022
Subfamily Cardiochilinae Ashmead, 1900
Elsevier eBooks·2022· 1 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Daniel H. Janzen(9), Winnie Hallwachs(8), Paul D. N. Hebert(8), M. Alex Smith(8), Donаld L. J. Quicke(8), Barbara J. Sharanowski(6), Eric G. Chapman(5), Sujeevan Ratnasingham(4), Ashley P. G. Dowling(4), Suresh Naik(4), Ramya Manjunath(4), Scott Richard Shaw(4), John M. Burns(3), Tanya Dapkey(3), Andrew Deans(3), Scott E. Miller(3), David B. Wahl(3), James B. Whitfield(3), Shu‐Jun Wei(3), Min Shi(3)