Michael S. Engel

Research interests

Publications

• Stingless bee classification and biology (Hymenoptera, Apidae): a review, with an updated key to genera and subgenera

  ZooKeys · 2023 · 10.3897/zookeys.1172.104944

• Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles

  Royal Society Open Science · 2022 · 10.1098/rsos.211771

• The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches

  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab072

• The evolution of insect biodiversity

  Current Biology · 2021 · 10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.057

• Termite evolution: mutualistic associations, key innovations, and the rise of Termitidae

  Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences · 2021 · 10.1007/s00018-020-03728-z

• Phylogeny and Evolution of Neuropterida: Where Have Wings of Lace Taken Us?

  Annual Review of Entomology · 2018 · 10.1146/annurev-ento-020117-043127

• Evolution of lacewings and allied orders using anchored phylogenomics ( N europtera, M egaloptera, R aphidioptera)

  Systematic Entomology · 2017 · 10.1111/syen.12278

• Wing Tracheation in Chrysopidae and Other Neuropterida (Insecta): A Resolution of the Confusion about Vein Fusion

  American Museum Novitates · 2017 · 10.1206/3890.1

• Treatise on the Isoptera of the World

  Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History · 2013 · 10.1206/377.6

• Treatise on the Isoptera of the World

  Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History · 2013 · 10.1206/377.1

• Order Hymenoptera. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)

  Zootaxa · 2013 · 10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.12

• The earliest known holometabolous insects

  Nature · 2013 · 10.1038/nature12629

• Early evolution and ecology of camouflage in insects

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 10.1073/pnas.1213775110

• Biogeographic and evolutionary implications of a diverse paleobiota in amber from the early Eocene of India

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · 10.1073/pnas.1007407107

• Population structure and classification ofApis cerana

  Apidologie · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1051/apido/2010008

• Termites (Isoptera): Their Phylogeny, Classification, and Rise to Ecological Dominance

  American Museum Novitates · 2009 · 10.1206/651.1

• Evolution of the Insects

  Journal · 2005

• New light shed on the oldest insect

  Nature · 2004 · 10.1038/nature02291

• Fossiliferous Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar (Burma): Its Rediscovery, Biotic Diversity, and Paleontological Significance

  American Museum Novitates · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2002)361<0001:fcafmb>2.0.co;2

• A MONOGRAPH OF THE BALTIC AMBER BEES AND EVOLUTION OF THE APOIDEA (HYMENOPTERA)

  Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History · 2001 · 10.1206/0003-0090(2001)259<0001:amotba>2.0.co;2

• A New Interpretation of the Oldest Fossil Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

  American Museum Novitates · 2000 · 10.1206/0003-0082(2000)3296<0001:anioto>2.0.co;2

• CLASSIFICATION OF THE BEE TRIBE AUGOCHLORINI (HYMENOPTERA: HALICTIDAE)

  Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History · 2000 · 10.1206/0003-0090(2000)250<0001:cotbta>2.0.co;2

• The Taxonomy of Recent and Fossil Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Apis)

  Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution) · 1999 · 10.5281/zenodo.16256754

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