Prof. Michael S. Engel

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University of Kansas
Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center
Entomology
Curator-in-ChargeAppointed: 2005
University of Kansas
Natural History Museum
Senior CuratorAppointed: 2008
University of Kansas
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Geology
Courtesy ProfessorAppointed: 2008
University of Kansas
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
ProfessorAppointed: 2008
University of Kansas
Natural History Museum
Invertebrate Paleontology
Courtesy CuratorAppointed: 2006
American Museum of Natural History
Invertebrate Zoology
Research AssociateAppointed: 2000

Mailing Address

Division of Entomology
1501 Crestline Drive
Suite #140
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas 66049-2811
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (785) 864-4540
Fax: (785) 864-5260
msengel@ku.edu

Previous Positions

2005-2008, Associate Curator, University of Kansas, Natural History Museum, Entomology
2005-2008, Associate Professor, University of Kansas, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
2001-2002, Curator-in-Charge, University of Kansas, Natural History Museum, Entomology
2000-2005, Assistant Professor, University of Kansas, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
2000-2005, Assistant Curator, University of Kansas, Natural History Museum, Entomology
2000-2000, Assistant Professor, University of Kansas, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Entomology
1998-2000, Research Scientist, American Museum of Natural History, Invertebrate Zoology

Qualifications

Ph.D., Cornell University, Entomology, 1998.
B.A., University of Kansas, Chemistry, 1993.
B.S., University of Kansas, Biology, 1993.

Honors and Awards

2008, Charles Schuchert Award, The Paleontological Society
2006, Book Honor Award in Teaching Resources, Skipping Stones, For book "Evolution of the Insects"
2006, Choice Outstanding Academic Title, American Library Association, For book "Evolution of the Insects"
2006, Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, William T. Kemper Foundation, University of Kansas
2006-2007, Guggenheim Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2006, Honorable Mention in Biological Sciences, Association of American Publishers
1996, Ernst Mayr Award, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
1995-1998, Predoctoral Fellowship, National Science Foundation (NSF), Cornell University
1992-1993, Pew Fellowship in Systematic Biology, Pew Foundation, University of Kansas

Expertise and Research Interests

- Systematics and paleontology of insects, particularly Hymenoptera, Neuropterida (Neuroptera, Raphidioptera, Megaloptera), Zoraptera, and Paleozoic orders
- Comparative biology, phylogeny, and biogeography

Publications

  • Kumar Krishna, Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2009) Termites of the World (Isoptera), Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, In Press
  • Steven R. Davis, Michael S. Engel (2009) An orthognathine weevil of the genus Mesocordylus in Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Dryophthoridae), Beiträge zur Entomologie, 59 (1), 233-238
  • Michael S. Engel, Holger H. Dathe (2009) In memoriam: Donald Burton Baker (1922-2004), Beiträge zur Entomologie, 59 (1), 3-18
  • Michael S. Engel (2009) The first fossil leptofoenine wasp (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae): A new species of Leptofoenus in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic, ZooKeys, 13, 57-66
  • Michael S. Engel (2009) A new species of Ranthidiellum from Thailand, with a key to the species (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), Acta Entomologica Slovenica, 17 (1), 29-35
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi, Kumar Krishna (2009) Termites (Isoptera): Their phylogeny, classification, and rise to ecological dominance, American Museum Novitates, 3650, 1-27
  • Sonja Wedmann, Torsten Wappler, Michael S. Engel (2009) Direct and indirect fossil records of megachilid bees from the Paleogene of Central Europe (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), Naturwissenschaften, 96 (6), 703-712
  • Isabel Alves dos Santos, Maria C. Gaglianone, Sandra R.C. Naxara, Michael S. Engel (2009) Male sleeping aggregations of solitary oil-collecting bees in Brazil (Centridini, Tapinotaspidini, and Tetrapediini; Hymenoptera: Apidae), Genetics and Molecular Research, 8 (2), 515-524
  • Michael S. Engel (2009) The bee genus Chiasmognathus in the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Fauna of Arabia, 24, 237-247
  • Roy J. Beckemeyer, Michael S. Engel (2009) An enigmatic new genus of biarmohymenid from the Early Permian Wellington Formation of Noble County, Oklahoma (Palaeodictyopterida: Diaphanopterodea), Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 112 (1-2), 103-108
  • Michael S. Engel (2009) A new Lower Permian bristletail from the Wellington Formation in Kansas (Archaeognatha: Dasyleptidae), Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 112 (1-2), 40-44
  • Michael S. Engel, Jaime Ortega-Blanco, Daniel J. Bennett (2009) A remarkable tiphiiform wasp in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae), Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 112 (1-2), 1-6
  • Michael S. Engel, Ismael A. Hinojosa-Díaz, Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn (2009) A honey bee from the Miocene of Nevada and the biogeography of Apis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apini), Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 60 (3), 23-38
  • Ismael A. Hinojosa-Díaz, Teresa P. Feria-Arroyo, Michael S. Engel (2009) Potential distribution of orchid bees outside their native range: The cases of Eulaema polychroma (Mocsáry) and Euglossa viridissima Friese in the USA (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Diversity and Distributions, 15 (3), 421-428
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2009) Diversity and phylogeny of the Mesozoic wasp family Stigmaphronidae (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea), Denisia, 26, 53-68
  • Michael S. Engel, Patrice Bouchard (2009) Nomiidae Gozis, 1875 (Insecta, Coleoptera): Proposed emendation of spelling to Nomiusidae to remove homonymy with Nomiinae Robertson, 1904 (Insecta, Hymenoptera), Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 66 (1), 30-33
  • Michael S. Engel (2009) Gregarious behaviour in Cretaceous earwig nymphs (Insecta, Dermaptera) from southwestern France, Geodiversitas, 31 (1), 129-135
  • Caroline S. Chaboo, Michael S. Engel (2009) Eocene tortoise beetles from the Green River Formation in Colorado, U.S.A. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), Systematic Entomology, 34 (2), 202-209
  • Michael S. Engel, Stylianos Chatzimanolis (2009) An oxyteline rove beetle in Dominican amber with possible African affinities (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae), Annals of Carnegie Museum, 77 (4), 425-429
  • Charles D. Michener, Michael S. Engel (2009) Caupolicana in Central America (Hymenoptera, Colletidae, Diphaglossinae), ZooKeys, 5, 53-64
  • Michael S. Engel, Martin Gross (2009) A giant termite from the Late Miocene of Styria, Austria (Isoptera), Naturwissenschaften, 96 (2), 289-295
  • Michael S. Engel (2008) A stem-group cimicid in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hemiptera: Cimicoidea), Alavesia, 2, 233-237
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2008) A jugular-horned beetle in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Coleoptera: Prostomidae), Alavesia, 2, 215-218
  • Dong Ren, Michael S. Engel (2008) A second antlion from the Mesozoic of China (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae), Alavesia, 2, 183-186
  • Michael S. Engel, Martin Gross (2008) The Pannonian insect fauna of Styria: A preliminary overview, Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 101, 52-59
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2008) Diverse Neuropterida in Cretaceous amber, with particular reference to the paleofauna of Myanmar (Insecta), Nova Supplementa Entomologica, 20, 1-86
  • Ken Tan, Stefan Fuchs, Michael S. Engel (2008) An adventitious distal abscissa in the forewing of honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apis), Apidologie, 39 (6), 674-682
  • Michael S. Engel, Ragnar K. Kinzelbach (2008) A primitive moth from the earliest Eocene Fur Formation ("Mo-clay") of Denmark (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae), Linzer Biologische Beiträge, 40 (2), 1443-1448
  • Michael S. Engel, Zachary H. Falin (2008) The zorapteran Zorotypus huxleyi in Guyana (Zoraptera: Zorotypidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 81 (4), 394-395
  • Michael S. Engel, Daniel J. Bennett (2008) Anoblepsis, a new, bizarre braconid wasp genus in Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 81 (4), 368-372
  • Michael S. Engel (2008) Documenting the apoid wasps of Turkey, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 81 (4), 396
  • Michael S. Engel, Jaime Ortega-Blanco (2008) The fossil crown wasp Electrostephanus petiolatus Brues in Baltic amber (Hymenoptera, Stephanidae): Designation of a neotype, revised classification, and a key to amber Stephanidae, ZooKeys, 4, 55-64
  • Olivier Béthoux, Niels P. Kristensen, Michael S. Engel (2008) Hennigian phylogenetic systematics and the `groundplan' vs. `post-groundplan' approaches: A reply to Kukalová-Peck, Evolutionary Biology, 35 (4), 317-323
  • Michael S. Engel (2008) A new apterous Zorotypus in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Zoraptera: Zorotypidae), Acta Entomologica Slovenica, 16 (2), 127-136
  • Michael S. Engel (2008) A new species of Megachile (Eutricharaea) from western Saudi Arabia related to Megachile walkeri (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), Acta Entomologica Slovenica, 16 (2), 151-156
  • Michael S. Engel (2008) A new species of Ctenoplectrella in Baltic amber (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 54 (4), 319-324
  • José A. Rafael, Fabio S.P. Godoi, Michael S. Engel (2008) A new species of Zorotypus from eastern Amazonia, Brazil (Zoraptera: Zorotypidae), Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 111 (3-4), 193-202
  • Michael S. Engel (2008) Phylogeny and geological history of termites, Proceedings of the 2008 National Conference on Urban Entomology, 41 pages
  • Michael S. Engel, John S. Ascher, Douglas A. Yanega (2008) Ancylini Michener, 1944 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): Proposed emendation of spelling to Ancylaini, to remove homonymy with Ancylini Rafinesque, 1815 (Mollusca, Gastropoda), Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 65 (3), 198-201
  • Michael S. Engel, Martin Gross (2008) A giant fossil termite from the Late Miocene of Austria, Journal of Alpine Geology, 49, 21
  • David A. Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel, Kumar Krishna (2008) The species of Isoptera (Insecta) from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation: A revision, American Museum Novitates, 3626, 1-30
  • Michael S. Engel (2008) Two new termites in Baltic amber (Isoptera), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 81 (3), 194-203
  • Michael S. Engel, Dong Ren (2008) New snakeflies from the Jiulongshan Formation of Inner Mongolia, China (Raphidioptera), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 81 (3), 188-193
  • Michael S. Engel (2008) The wasp family Rhopalosomatidae in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 81 (3), 168-174
  • Dong Ren, Michael S. Engel (2008) Aetheogrammatidae, a new family of lacewings from the Mesozoic of China (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontiformia), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 81 (3), 161-167
  • Steven R. Davis, Michael S. Engel (2008) A new species of Ceratosolen from the Philippines (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae), Genus, 19 (2), 307-312
  • Daniel J. Bennett, Michael S. Engel (2008) Pison menkei, a new crabronid wasp in Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae), Beiträge zur Entomologie, 58 (1), 113-119
  • Ismael A. Hinojosa-Díaz, Michael S. Engel (2008) Juxtocellar structures in euglossine bees: A new character for corbiculate studies (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Beiträge zur Entomologie, 58 (1), 97-105
  • Lyubomir Penev, Terry Erwin, F. Christian Thompson, Hans-Dieter Sues, Michael S. Engel, Donat Agosti, Richard Pyle, Michael Ivie, Thorsten Assmann, Thomas Henry, Jeremy Miller, Natalia B. Ananjeva, Achille Casale, Wilson Lourenço, Sergei Golovatch, Hans-Peter Fagerholm, Stefano Taiti, Miguel Alonzo-Zarazaga, Erik van Nieukerken (2008) ZooKeys, unlocking Earth's incredible biodiversity and building a sustainable bridge into the public domain: From "print-based" to "web-based" taxonomy, systematics, and natural history, ZooKeys, 1, 1-7
  • Michael S. Engel (2008) New species and records of ammobatine bees from Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Sri Lanka (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Acta Entomologica Slovenica, 16 (1), 19-36
  • Michael S. Engel (2008) A new Andean species of Augochloropsis from Peru (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Sociobiology, 52 (1), 5-11
  • David A. Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel (2008) A termite bug in Early Miocene amber of the Dominican Republic (Hemiptera: Termitaphididae), American Museum Novitates, 3619, 1-10
  • Michael S. Engel (2008) [Book review of Gilbert, P., A Source Book of Biographical Literature on Entomologists], Quarterly Review of Biology, 83 (2), 224
  • Dany Azar, Michael S. Engel (2008) A sphaeropsocid bark louse in Late Cretaceous amber from Siberia (Psocoptera: Sphaeropsocidae), Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 111 (1-2), 141-146
  • Michael S. Engel (2008) An orussid wood wasp in amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Orussidae), Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 111 (1-2), 39-44
  • Roy J. Beckemeyer, Michael S. Engel (2008) A second specimen of Permocoleus (Coleoptera) from the Lower Permian Wellington Formation of Noble County, Oklahoma, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 81 (1), 4-7
  • David A. Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel (2008) An unusual, primitive Piesmatidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Burma), American Museum Novitates, 3611, 1-17
  • Xavier Delclòs, André Nel, Dany Azar, Günter Bechly, Jason A. Dunlop, Michael S. Engel, Sam W. Heads (2008) The enigmatic Mesozoic insect taxon Chresmodidae (Polyneoptera): New palaeobiological and phylogenetic data, with the description of a new species from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 247 (3), 353-381
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi, Kumar Krishna (2007) A synopsis of Baltic amber termites (Isoptera), Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie), 372, 1-20
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi, Kumar Krishna (2007) Primitive termites from the Early Cretaceous of Asia (Isoptera), Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie), 371, 1-32
  • Michael S. Engel, Kumar Krishna (2007) Drywood termites in Dominican amber (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae), Beiträge zur Entomologie, 57 (2), 263-275
  • Michael S. Engel, Kumar Krishna (2007) Reticulitermes Holmgren, 1913 (Insecta, Isoptera): Proposed precedence over Maresa Giebel, 1856, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 64 (4), 230-234
  • Steven R. Davis, Michael S. Engel (2007) Cossonine weevils in Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Linzer Biologische Beiträge, 39 (2), 803-820
  • Michael S. Engel (2007) A new species of Amegilla from northeastern Egypt (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Linzer Biologische Beiträge, 39 (2), 821-828
  • Sébastien Patiny, Michael S. Engel, Piet Vanmarsenille, Denis Michez (2007) A new record of Thaumastobombus andreniformis Engel 2001 in Eocene amber (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 43 (4), 505-508
  • Ming-luen Jeng, Michael S. Engel, Ping-shih Yang (2007) Oculogryphus, a remarkable new genus of fireflies from Asia (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), American Museum Novitates, 3600, 1-19
  • Vincent Perrichot, Michael S. Engel (2007) Early Cretaceous snakefly larvae in amber from Lebanon, Myanmar, and France (Raphidioptera), American Museum Novitates, 3598, 1-12
  • Michael S. Engel, Kumar Krishna (2007) New Dolichorhinotermes from Ecuador and in Mexican amber (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae), American Museum Novitates, 3592, 1-8
  • Michael S. Engel, Ismael A. Hinojosa-Díaz, Olivia Yáñez-Ordóñez (2007) The Augochlora-like Dialictus from Guatemala and southern México (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Acta Zoológica Mexicana, 23 (3), 125-134
  • Ming-luen Jeng, Ping-shih Yang, Michael S. Engel (2007) The firefly genus Vesta in Taiwan (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 80 (4), 265-280
  • Evandson J. dos Anjos-Silva, Michael S. Engel, Sergio R. Andena (2007) Phylogeny of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Exaerete (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Apidologie, 38 (5), 419-425
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2007) New false fairy wasps in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey and Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea), Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 110 (3-4), 159-168
  • Nathan Lo, Michael S. Engel, Stephen Cameron, Christine A. Nalepa, Gaku Tokuda, David Grimaldi, Osamu Kitade, Kumar Krishna, Klaus-Dieter Klass, Kiyoto Maekawa, Toru Miura, Graham J. Thompson (2007) Spare Isoptera: A comment on Inward et al., Biology Letters, 3 (5), 562-563
  • Michael Ohl, Michael S. Engel (2007) Die Fossilgeschichte der Bienen und ihrer nächsten Verwandten (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), Denisia, 20, 687-700
  • Ismael A. Hinojosa-Díaz, Michael S. Engel (2007) A new fossil orchid bee in Colombian copal (Hymenoptera: Apidae), American Museum Novitates, 3589, 1-8
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2007) The neuropterid fauna of Dominican and Mexican amber (Neuropterida: Megaloptera, Neuroptera), American Museum Novitates, 3587, 1-58
  • Zhiwei Liu, Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2007) Phylogeny and geological history of the cynipoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea), American Museum Novitates, 3583, 1-48
  • David A. Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel (2007) Why descriptive science still matters, BioScience, 57 (8), 646-647
  • Michael S. Engel (2007) Ferdinand Meunier and the destruction of his Hymenoptera collections, Entomologist's Gazette, 58, 183-184
  • Dong Ren, Michael S. Engel (2007) A split-footed lacewing and two epiosmylines from the Jurassic of China (Neuroptera), Annales Zoologici, 57 (2), 211-219
  • Michael S. Engel (2007) A new ctenoplectrine bee from Sulawesi (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Acta Entomologica Slovenica, 15 (1), 31-46
  • Michael S. Engel (2007) Two new augochlorine bees from Ecuador (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Acta Entomologica Slovenica, 15 (1), 21-29
  • Ismael A. Hinojosa-Díaz, Michael S. Engel (2007) Two new orchid bees of the subgenus Euglossella from Peru (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Beiträge zur Entomologie, 57 (1), 93-104
  • Michael S. Engel (2007) Zoraptera, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th Edition, New York, New York, McGraw-Hill, 778-779 pages, ISBN=007-144143-3 (bookchapter)
  • Michael S. Engel, Fabian Haas (2007) Family-group names for earwigs (Dermaptera), American Museum Novitates, 3567, 1-20
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2007) Cretaceous Scolebythidae and phylogeny of the family (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), American Museum Novitates, 3568, 1-16
  • Steven R. Davis, Michael S. Engel (2007) A new ambrosia beetle in Miocene amber of the Dominican Republic (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae), Alavesia, 1, 121-124
  • Michael S. Engel (2007) A new species of Chiasmognathus from southeastern Pakistan (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 80 (2), 169-174
  • Michael S. Engel (2007) A new Amegilla of the zonata group from Malaysia and Thailand (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 110 (1-2), 16-22
  • Michael S. Engel, Kumar Krishna (2007) Two overlooked family-group names for fossil termites (Isoptera: Mastotermitidae), Entomological News, 118 (1), 105-106
  • Michael S. Engel (2007) The Zorotypidae of Fiji (Zoraptera), Bishop Museum Occasional Papers, 91, 33-38
  • Michael S. Engel (2007) A lateral gynandromorph in the bee genus Thyreus and the sting mechanism in the Melectini (Hymenoptera: Apidae), American Museum Novitates, 3553, 1-11
  • Donald B. Baker, Michael S. Engel (2007) A note on the nomenclature of two Coelioxys species (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), Entomologist's Gazette, 58 (1), 59-62
  • John S. Ascher, Michael S. Engel, Terry L. Griswold (2006) A new subgenus and species of Oxaea from Ecuador (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 75 (4), 539-552
  • Michael S. Engel (2006) A new cuckoo wasp of the genus Ceratochrysis in amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 75 (4), 499-504
  • Steven R. Davis, Michael S. Engel (2006) A zygopine weevil in Early Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Caribbean Journal of Science, 42 (2), 255-257
  • Stylianos Chatzimanolis, Michael S. Caterino, Michael S. Engel (2006) The first fossil of the subfamily Trypanaeinae (Coleoptera: Histeridae): A new species of Trypanaeus in Dominican amber, Coleopterist's Bulletin, 60 (4), 333-340
  • Michael S. Engel (2006) A new species of Osmia from Iran (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), Acta Entomologica Slovenica, 14 (2), 123-130
  • Michael S. Engel (2006) A new genus of minute ammobatine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Acta Entomologica Slovenica, 14 (2), 113-121
  • Enrique Peñalver, Michael S. Engel (2006) Two wasp families rare in the fossil record (Hymenoptera): Perilampidae and Megaspilidae from the Miocene of Spain, American Museum Novitates, 3540, 1-12
  • Enrique Peñalver, Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2006) Fig wasps in Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae), American Museum Novitates, 3541, 1-16
  • Antonio Arillo, Michael S. Engel (2006) Rock crawlers in Baltic amber (Notoptera: Mantophasmatodea), American Museum Novitates, 3539, 1-10
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2006) The first Cretaceous spider wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 79 (4), 359-368
  • Michael S. Engel (2006) A note on the relic silverfish Tricholepidion gertschi (Zygentoma), Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 109 (3-4), 236-238
  • Steven R. Davis, Michael S. Engel (2006) Dryophthorine weevils in Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 109 (3-4), 191-198
  • Ismael A. Hinojosa-Díaz, Elisa Bonaccorso, Michael S. Engel (2006) The potential distribution of Zorotypus hubbardi (Zoraptera: Zorotypidae) in North America, based on an ecological niche model, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 108 (4), 860-867
  • Michael S. Engel (2006) Oxaea flavescens Klug, 1807: Stabilization by designation of a lectotype (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 75 (3), 439-442
  • Michael S. Engel (2006) Two ensign wasps in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey and Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae), Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 75 (3), 443-454
  • Michael S. Engel (2006) The giant honey bee, Apis lithohermaea Engel, from the Miocene of Japan and geological history of Apis (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Honeybee Science, 26 (4), 141-144
  • Daniel J. Bennett, Michael S. Engel (2006) A new moustache wasp in Dominican amber, with an account of apoid wasp evolution emphasizing Crabroninae (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae), American Museum Novitates, 3529, 1-10
  • José A. Rafael, Michael S. Engel (2006) A new species of Zorotypus from Central Amazonia, Brazil (Zoraptera: Zorotypidae), American Museum Novitates, 3528, 1-11
  • Michael S. Engel, Donald B. Baker (2006) A new species of Tetralonia (Thygatina) from India, with notes on the oriental fauna (Hymenoptera: Apidae), American Museum Novitates, 3527, 1-9
  • Michael S. Engel, Donald B. Baker (2006) A remarkable new leaf-cutter bee from Thailand (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), Beiträge zur Entomologie, 56 (1), 69-74
  • Michael S. Engel (2006) A new bee of the genus Cubitalia from Israel (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Beiträge zur Entomologie, 56 (1), 61-67
  • David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel (2006) Extralimital fossils of the "Gondwanan" family Sphaeropsocidae (Insecta: Psocodea), American Museum Novitates, 3523, 1-18
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2006) A diminutive pelecinid wasp in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey (Hymenoptera: Pelecinidae), Northeastern Naturalist, 13 (2), 291-297
  • Michael S. Engel (2006) A new genus of cleptoparasitic bees from the West Indies (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 49B (1-2), 1-8
  • Michael S. Engel (2006) The Sphecodes of Cuba (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 49B (1-2), 73-78
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2006) The earliest webspinners (Insecta: Embiodea), American Museum Novitates, 3514, 1-15
  • Wilfried Wichard, Michael S. Engel (2006) A new alderfly in Baltic amber (Megaloptera: Sialidae), American Museum Novitates, 3513, 1-9
  • Michael S. Engel, Evgeny E. Perkovsky (2006) Sphaeropsocus kuenowii Hagen in Rovno amber from the Ukraine (Psocoptera: Sphaeropsocidae), Entomological News, 117 (2), 243-245
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2006) The first Cretaceous sclerogibbid wasp (Hymenoptera: Sclerogibbidae), American Museum Novitates, 3515, 1-7
  • Michael S. Engel, Favizia Freitas de Oliveira, Allan H. Smith-Pardo (2006) A new species of the bee genus Chlerogas Vachal from Ecuador (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 142 (1703-1705), 103-106
  • Michael S. Engel, Jong-Deock Lim, K.-S. Baek (2006) Fossil snakeflies from the Early Cretaceous of southern Korea (Raphidioptera: Mesoraphidiidae), Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 2006 (4), 249-256
  • Steven R. Davis, Michael S. Engel (2006) A weevil of the genus Caulophilus in Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 75 (1), 101-104
  • Michael S. Engel, Evgeny E. Perkovsky (2006) Psocoptera (Insecta) in Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine), Vestnik Zoologii, 40 (2), 79-83
  • John S. Ascher, Michael S. Engel (2006) On the availability of family-group names based on Scrapter (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), Entomological News, 117 (1), 117-119
  • Michael S. Engel (2006) A new species of Microsphecodes from St. Kitts (West Indies) (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Mitteilungen des Internationalen Entomologischen Vereins, 31 (1-2), 51-54
  • Michael S. Engel (2006) A new nocturnal bee of the genus Megalopta, with notes on other Central American species (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Mitteilungen des Internationalen Entomologischen Vereins, 31 (1-2), 37-49
  • David A. Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel (2006) Fossil Liposcelididae and the lice ages (Insecta: Psocodea), Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, Biological Sciences, 273 (1586), 625-633
  • Torsten Wappler, Michael S. Engel (2006) A new record of Mastotermes from the Eocene of Germany (Isoptera: Mastotermitidae), Journal of Paleontology, 80 (2), 380-385
  • Michael S. Engel, Evgeny E. Perkovsky (2006) An Eocene bee in Rovno amber, Ukraine (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), American Museum Novitates, 3506, 1-11
  • Donald B. Baker, Michael S. Engel (2006) A new subgenus of Megachile from Borneo with arolia (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), American Museum Novitates, 3505, 1-12
  • Michael S. Engel (2006) A giant honey bee from the middle Miocene of Japan (Hymenoptera: Apidae), American Museum Novitates, 3504, 1-12
  • Michael S. Engel, Enrique Peñalver (2006) A Miocene halictine bee from Rubielos de Mora Basin, Spain (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), American Museum Novitates, 3503, 1-10
  • Michael S. Engel (2005) A dryinine wasp in Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae), Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 74 (4), 485-494
  • Michael S. Engel (2005) A new sawfly from the Triassic of Queensland, Australia (Hymenoptera: Xyelidae), Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 51 (2), 558
  • Michael S. Engel (2005) A new species of the bee genus Melitta from Afghanistan (Hymenoptera: Melittidae), Mitteilungen des Internationalen Entomologischen Vereins, 30 (3-4), 81-84
  • Michael S. Engel (2005) The Russian melittological tradition, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 78 (3), 296
  • Michael S. Engel (2005) The crown wasp genus Electrostephanus (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae): Discovery of the female and a new species, Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 74 (3), 317-332
  • Torsten Wappler, Michael S. Engel, Fabian Haas (2005) The earwigs from the middle Eocene Eckfeld maar, Germany (Dermaptera: Forficulidae), Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 74 (3), 227-250
  • Michael S. Engel, Stylianos Chatzimanolis (2005) Early Cretaceous earwigs from the Santana Formation, Brazil (Dermaptera), Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 74 (3), 219-226
  • Michael S. Engel (2005) An Eocene ectoparasite of bees: The oldest definitive record of phoretic meloid triungulins (Coleoptera: Meloidae; Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 48B (1-2), 43-48
  • Daniel J. Bennett, Michael S. Engel (2005) A primitive sapygid wasp in Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Sapygidae), Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 48B (1-2), 1-9
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2005) Primitive new ants in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar, New Jersey, and Canada (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), American Museum Novitates, 3485, 1-23
  • Michael S. Engel (2005) Geological history of the bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), Revista de Tecnologia e Ambiente, 10 (2), 9-33
  • Michael S. Engel (2005) The wasp genus Clystopsenella in Belize (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 78 (2), 186-188
  • Michael S. Engel (2005) Three replacement names in the bee genus Andrena (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 78 (2), 179-180
  • Michael S. Engel (2005) Family-group names for bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), American Museum Novitates, 3476, 1-33
  • Allan H. Smith-Pardo, Michael S. Engel (2005) The bee genus Micrommation (Hymenoptera: Halictidae): A new diagnosis and description of the male, Folia Heyrovskyana, 12 (4), 179-189
  • Michael S. Engel (2005) A remarkable kalligrammatid lacewing from the Upper Jurassic of Kazakhstan (Neuroptera: Kalligrammatidae), Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 108 (1-2), 59-62
  • David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel (2005) Evolution of the Insects, First Edition, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, xv+755 pages, ISBN=9780521821490
  • Michael S. Engel, Kumar Krishna (2005) Nasutitermes Dudley, 1890, Microcerotermes Silvestri, 1901 and Nasutitermitinae Hare, 1937 (Insecta, Isoptera): Proposed conservation, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 62 (1), 8-13
  • Ismael A. Hinojosa-Díaz, Olivia Yáñez-Ordóñez, Guojun Chen, A. Townsend Peterson, Michael S. Engel (2005) The North American invasion of the giant resin bee (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 14 (1), 69-77
  • Michael S. Engel (2005) A note on the taxonomy of some fossil bees from Germany (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 78 (1), 82-83
  • Sara H. Lubkin, Michael S. Engel (2005) Permocoleus, new genus, the first Permian beetle (Coleoptera) from North America, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 98 (1), 73-76
  • Michael S. Engel (2004) On the identity of Halictus cubensis Spinola, 1851 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Entomological News, 115 (3), 169-170
  • Michael S. Engel, Kumar Krishna (2004) An overlooked family-group name for termites (Isoptera), Entomological News, 115 (3), 168
  • Michael S. Engel (2004) Fideliine phylogeny and classification revisited (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 77 (4), 821-836
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2004) The first Mesozoic stephanid wasp (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae), Journal of Paleontology, 78 (6), 1192-1197
  • Michael S. Engel (2004) A new species of the bee genus Eoanthidium with extraordinary male femoral organs from the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, 34, 1-6
  • Michael S. Engel (2004) The alderflies of Kansas (Megaloptera: Sialidae), Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 107 (3-4), 119-125
  • Michael S. Engel, Kumar Krishna (2004) Comment on the proposed conservation of prevailing usage of Termopsidae Holmgren, 1911, Termopsis Heer, 1849 and Miotermes Rosen, 1913 (Insecta, Isoptera), Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 61 (3), 169-170
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2004) A primitive earwig in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Dermaptera: Pygidicranidae), Journal of Paleontology, 78 (5), 1018-1023
  • Michael S. Engel (2004) Thorny lacewings (Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae) in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2 (2), 137-140
  • Michael S. Engel (2004) The dustywings in Cretaceous Burmese amber (Insecta: Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2 (2), 133-136
  • Michael S. Engel (2004) Zoraptera, Biodiversidad, Taxonomia y Biogeografia de Artropodos de Mexico, 1st Edition, Mexico D.F., Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 637-640 pages, ISBN=9703210414 (bookchapter)
  • Michael S. Engel (2004) Arthropods in Mexican amber, Biodiversidad, Taxonomia y Biogeografia de Artropodos de Mexico, First Edition, Mexico D.F., Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 175-186 pages, ISBN=9703210414 (bookchapter)
  • Victor H. Gonzalez, Michael S. Engel (2004) The tropical Andean bee fauna (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apoidea), with examples from Colombia, Entomologische Abhandlungen, 62 (1), 65-75
  • Michael S. Engel, Allan H. Smith-Pardo (2004) The bee genus Andinaugochlora in Central America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 77 (2), 116-120
  • Michael S. Engel (2004) Labiidae Burr, 1909 (Insecta, Dermaptera): Proposed precedence over Isolabellinae Verhoeff, 1902, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 61 (1), 23-24
  • Michael S. Engel, Charles D. Michener, Molly G. Rightmyer (2004) The cleptoparasitic bee tribe Rhathymini (Hymenoptera: Apidae): Description of a new genus and a tribal review, Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 13 (1), 1-12
  • Michael S. Engel (March 2004) Notes on a megachiline bee (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from the Miocene of Idaho, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 107 (1-2), 97-100
  • Michael S. Engel, Kumar Krishna (2004) Family-group names for termites (Isoptera), American Museum Novitates, 3432, 1-9
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2004) A new rock crawler in Baltic amber, with comments on the order (Mantophasmatodea: Mantophasmatidae), American Museum Novitates, 3431, 1-11
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2004) New light shed on the oldest insect, Nature, 427, 627-630
  • Ismael A. Hinojosa-Díaz, Michael S. Engel (2003) Megalopta (Noctoraptor) furunculosa sp. n., a new nocturnal, cleptoparasitic bee from Guyana (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Folia Heyrovskyana, 11 (3-4), 137-141
  • Michael S. Engel (2003) Phylogeny of the Zoraptera, Entomologische Abhandlungen, 61 (2), 147-148
  • Michael S. Engel (2003) A new bee of the genus Chlerogella from Ecuador (Hymenoptera, Halictidae), Apoidea Neotropica: Homenaem aos 90 anos de Jesus Santiago Moure, 1st Edition, Criciuma, Brazil, Editora Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense, 135-137 pages, ISBN=8588390183 (bookchapter)
  • William T. Wcislo, Victor H. Gonzalez, Michael S. Engel (2003) Nesting and social behavior of a wood-dwelling neotropical bee, Augochlora isthmii (Schwarz), and notes on a new species, A. alexanderi Engel (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 76 (4), 588-602
  • Michael S. Engel, Alex Fain (2003) The mite Histiostoma halictonida phoretic on nocturnal bees of the genus Megalopta (Acari: Histiostomatidae; Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 76 (4), 649-650
  • Alvin F. Shinn, Michael S. Engel (2003) Three replacement names in the bee genus Calliopsis (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 76 (4), 653-654
  • Michael S. Engel (2003) An anteonine wasp in Cenomanian-Albian amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 76 (4), 616-621
  • Michael S. Engel, Charles D. Michener, Molly G. Rightmyer (2003) A replacement name for the cleptoparasitic bee genus Rhathymodes (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 13 (2), 316
  • Michael S. Engel (2003) A new Eocene-Oligocene snakefly from Florissant, Colorado (Raphidioptera: Raphidiidae), Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 106 (3-4), 124-128
  • Michael S. Engel (2003) The earwigs of Kansas, with a key to genera North of Mexico (Insecta: Dermaptera), Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 106 (3-4), 115-123
  • Michael S. Engel (2003) A new species of the bee genus Chlerogella from Panama (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Zootaxa, 286, 1-4
  • Torsten Wappler, Michael S. Engel (2003) The middle Eocene bee faunas of Eckfeld and Messel, Germany (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), Journal of Paleontology, 77 (5), 908-921
  • Michael S. Engel, Kumar Krishna, Christopher Boyko (2003) Termopsidae Holmgren, 1911, Termopsis Heer, 1849 and Miotermes Rosen, 1913 (Insecta, Isoptera): Proposed conservation of prevailing usage by the designation of Termes bremii Heer, 1849 as the type species of Termopsis, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 60 (2), 119-123
  • Molly G. Rightmyer, Michael S. Engel (2003) A new Palearctic genus of melectine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae), American Museum Novitates, 3392, 1-22
  • Michael S. Engel (2003) Zoraptera, Encyclopedia of Insects, 1st Edition, San Diego, California, Academic Press, 1201-1203 pages, ISBN=0125869908 (bookchapter)
  • Michael S. Engel (2003) A replacement name in Apis (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 76 (1), 71
  • Molly G. Rightmyer, Michael S. Engel (2003) Contributions Dedicated to Jerome G. Rozen, Jr., Lawrence, Kansas, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 306 pages
  • Stylianos Chatzimanolis, Michael S. Engel, Apostolos Trichas (2002) Taxonomic changes for Aegean species of the Mediterranean darkling beetle genus Dendarus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 75 (4), 259-267
  • Dong Ren, Michael S. Engel, Wei Lü (2002) New giant lacewings from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China (Neuroptera: Polystoechotidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 75 (3), 188-193
  • Michael S. Engel (2002) Phylogeny of the bee tribe Fideliini (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), with the description of a new genus from southern Africa, African Entomology, 10 (2), 305-313
  • Michael S. Engel, Jong-Deock Lim, Kwang-Seok Baek, Larry D. Martin (2002) An earwig from the Lower Cretaceous of Korea (Dermaptera: Forficulina), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 75 (2), 86-90
  • Michael S. Engel (2002) Halictine bees from the Eocene-Oligocene boundary of Florissant, Colorado (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 225 (2), 251-273
  • Michael S. Engel (2002) A new dustywing (Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae) in Turonian amber from New Jersey, with a reassessment of Glaesoconis in Neocomian amber from Lebanon, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 75 (1), 38-42
  • Michael S. Engel, Kumar Krishna (2002) Cryptotermes dudleyi Banks, 1918 (Insecta, Isoptera): Proposed precedence over Calotermes (Cryptotermes) jacobsoni Holmgren, 1913, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 59 (2), 90-92
  • Michael S. Engel (29 Apr 2002) A new era in termite research, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 74 (4), 243-244
  • Tam C. Nguyen, Molly G. Rightmyer, Michael S. Engel (2002) On the identity of the spittlebug Clastoptera lawsoni Doering (Homoptera: Cercopidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 74 (4), 237-242
  • Michael S. Engel (2002) The honey bees of India, Hymenoptera: Apidae, Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 99 (1), 3-7
  • Michael S. Engel (2002) The fossil pelecinid Pelecinopteron tubuliforme Brues in Baltic amber (Hymenoptera: Pelecinidae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 11 (1), 5-11
  • Michael S. Engel (2002) The smallest snakefly (Raphidioptera: Mesoraphidiidae): A new species in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar, with a catalog of fossil snakeflies, American Museum Novitates, 3363, 1-22
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2002) The first Mesozoic Zoraptera (Insecta), American Museum Novitates, 3362, 1-20
  • David A. Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel, Paul C. Nascimbene (2002) Fossiliferous Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Burma): Its rediscovery, biotic diversity, and paleontological significance, American Museum Novitates, 3361, 1-72
  • Michael S. Engel (2002) The first leucospid wasp from the fossil record (Hymenoptera: Leucospidae), Journal of Natural History, 36, 435-441
  • Michael S. Engel, Robert W. Brooks (2002) A new bee of the genus Ischnomelissa, with a key to the known species (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Entomological News, 113 (1), 1-5
  • Allan H. Smith-Pardo, Michael S. Engel (2001) Distribution records for Trigona subgenus Duckeola outside of Brazil (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 74 (2), 115-117
  • Michael S. Engel (2001) New neotropical records for three Zorotypus species (Zoraptera: Zorotypidae), Entomological News, 112 (4), 278-280
  • Michael S. Engel (2001) The honey bees of Thailand (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society, 49 (1), 113-116
  • Michael S. Engel (2001) Three new Habralictellus bee species from the Caribbean (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Solenodon, 1, 33-37
  • Theodore R. Schultz, Michael S. Engel, John S. Ascher (2001) Evidence for the origin of eusociality in the corbiculate bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 74 (1), 10-16
  • Michael S. Engel, Kumar Krishna (2001) Kalotermes Hagen, 1853 (Insecta, Isoptera): Proposed designation of Termes flavicollis Fabricius, 1793 as the type species, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 58 (2), 100-104
  • Michael S. Engel (2001) The first large carpenter bee from the Tertiary of North America, with a consideration of the geological history of Xylocopinae (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 127 (2), 245-254
  • Gregory J. Anderson, Gabriel Bernardello, Michael S. Engel (2001) Conservation implications of a newly discovered bee species on Isla Robinson Crusoe, Chile, Conservation Biology, 15 (3), 803-805
  • Michael S. Engel (2001) A monograph of the Baltic amber bees and evolution of the Apoidea (Hymenoptera), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 259, 1-192
  • Michael S. Engel (2001) Monophyly and extensive extinction of advanced eusocial bees: Insights from an unexpected Eocene diversity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 98 (4), 1661-1664
  • Michael S. Engel (2000) A new Lasioglossum from the Juan Fernandez Islands (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Revista Chilena de Entomologia, 27, 5-10
  • Michael S. Engel (2000) A new Zorotypus from Peru, with notes on related neotropical species (Zoraptera: Zorotypidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 73 (1), 11-20
  • Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi (2000) A winged Zorotypus in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Zoraptera: Zorotypidae), with discussion on relationships of and within the order, Acta Geologica Hispanica, 35 (1-2), 149-164
  • Michael S. Engel (2000) Fossils and phylogeny: A paleontological perspective on social bee evolution, Anais do IV Encontro sobre Abelhas, 217-224 pages
  • Jorge F. Genise, Michael S. Engel (2000) The evolutionary history of sweat bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae): Integration of paleoentomology, paleoichnology, and phylogeny, International Meeting on Paleoarthropodology, 116-117 pages
  • Michael S. Engel (2000) A review of the Indo-Malayan meliponine genus Lisotrigona, with two new species (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Oriental Insects, 34, 229-237
  • Michael S. Engel, Molly G. Rightmyer (2000) A new augochlorine bee in Tertiary amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Apidologie, 31, 431-436
  • Michael S. Engel (2000) A revision of the panurgine bee genus Arhysosage (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 9 (1), 182-208
  • Michael S. Engel (2000) A new interpretation of the oldest fossil bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae), American Museum Novitates, 3296, 1-11
  • Michael S. Engel (2000) Classification of the bee tribe Augochlorini (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 250, 1-90
  • Michael S. Engel (2000) The Huxley of America, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 73 (4), 245-247
  • Michael S. Engel (2000) Cretaceous amber: Origins, inclusions, and implications, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 73 (2), 126-128
  • Theodore R. Schultz, Michael S. Engel, Michael Prentice (1999) Resolving conflict between morphological and molecular evidence for the origin of eusociality in the corbiculate bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae): A hypothesis-testing approach, The University of Kansas Natural History Museum Special Publication, 24, 125-138
  • Michael S. Engel, Robert W. Brooks (1999) The augochlorine bee genus Megaloptilla (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), The University of Kansas Natural History Museum Special Publication, 24, 9-15
  • Michael S. Engel (1999) A new xeromelissine bee in Tertiary amber of the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), Entomologica Scandinavica, 30 (4), 453-458
  • Michael S. Engel (1999) Megachile glaesaria, the first megachilid bee fossil from amber (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), American Museum Novitates, 3276, 1-13
  • Michael S. Engel (1999) The first fossil record of a pleasing lacewing (Neuroptera: Dilaridae), Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 101, 822-826
  • Michael S. Engel (1999) The taxonomy of Recent and fossil honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Apis), Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 8 (2), 165-196
  • Michael S. Engel (1999) Augochlorini Beebe, 1925 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): Corrected authorship and date (not Moure, 1943), Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 56 (3), 198
  • Alex Fain, Michael S. Engel, Carlos H.W. Flecthmann, Barry M. OConnor (1999) A new genus and new species of Acaridae (Acari) phoretic on Thectochlora alaris (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini) from South America, International Journal of Acarology, 25, 163-172
  • Michael S. Engel (1999) The first fossil Euglossa and phylogeny of the orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Euglossini), American Museum Novitates, 3272, 1-14
  • Michael S. Engel (1999) A new species of the bee genus Neocorynura from the Andes of Ecuador (Hymenoptera, Halictidae, Augochlorini), Spixiana, 22, 173-178
  • Michael S. Engel (1999) Apis proava Menge, 1856 (currently Electrapis proava; Insecta, Hymenoptera): Proposed conservation by designation of a neotype, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 56 (2), 134-135
  • Robert W. Brooks, Michael S. Engel (1999) A revision of the augochlorine bee genus Chlerogas Vachal (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 125, 463-486
  • Michael S. Engel (1999) Augochlorini Moure, 1943 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): Proposed precedence over Oxystoglossini Schrottky, 1909, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 56 (1), 19-22
  • Michael S. Engel, Robert W. Brooks (1999) A new Chlerogelloides from French Guiana, with comments on the genus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 72, 160-166
  • Michael S. Engel (1998) Comparative morphology and the phylogeny of the corbiculate bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Apinae), Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of IUSSI, Adelaide, 151 pages
  • Michael S. Engel (1998) Megatypus parvus spec. nov., a new giant dragonfly from the Lower Permian of Kansas (Protodonata: Meganeuridae), Odonatologica, 27, 361-364
  • Michael S. Engel (1998) Fossil honey bees and evolution in the genus Apis (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Apidologie, 29, 265-281
  • Michael S. Engel (1998) A new species of the Baltic amber bee genus Electrapis (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 7 (1), 94-101
  • Michael S. Engel, Robert W. Brooks (1998) The nocturnal bee genus Megaloptidia (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 7 (1), 1-14
  • Robert W. Brooks, Michael S. Engel (1998) New bees of the genus Ischnomelissa Engel, with a key to the species (Hymenoptera, Halictidae, Augochlorini), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 45, 181-189
  • Michael S. Engel, Robert W. Brooks, Douglas Yanega (1997) New genera and subgenera of augochlorine bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, 5, 1-21
  • Michael S. Engel (1997) Two new species of the neotropical bee genus Caenaugochlora (s. str.) Michener (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini), Reichenbachia, 32, 91-95
  • Michael S. Engel (1997) Ischnomelissa, a new augochlorine bee genus (Halictidae) from Colombia, Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 32, 41-46
  • Michael S. Engel (1997) Two new neotropical bee species of the genus Neocorynura from Panama (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 44 (1), 19-25
  • Michael S. Engel (1997) A new fossil bee from the Oligo-Miocene Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Apidologie, 28, 97-102
  • Michael S. Engel, Barrett A. Klein (1997) Neocorynurella, a new augochlorine bee genus from South America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Detusche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 44 (2), 155-163
  • Michael S. Engel, Theodore R. Schultz (1997) Phylogeny and behavior in honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 90 (1), 43-53
  • Michael S. Engel (1996) Taxonomic and geographic notes on some halictine bee species (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 104, 106-110
  • Michael S. Engel (1996) New augochlorine bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) in Dominican amber, with a brief review of fossil Halictidae, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, supplement, 69 (4), 334-345
  • William T. Wcislo, Michael S. Engel (1996) Social behavior and nest architecture of nomiine bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae; Nomiinae), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, supplement, 69 (4), 158-167
  • Michael S. Engel (1996) Phylogeny of the sweat bee tribe Augochlorini (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), with implications for social evolution, Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Entomology, Florence, 416 pages
  • Michael S. Engel, Byron A. Alexander (1996) In Memoriam: George Campbell Eickwort (1940-1994), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 69 (4), 3-14
  • Michael S. Engel, Byron A. Alexander (1996) Proceedings of the Eickwort Memorial Symposium, Lawrence, Kansas, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 406 pages
  • Michael S. Engel (1995) Three new species of Caenaugochlora (Ctenaugochlora) (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 103, 281-286
  • Michael S. Engel (1995) The bee genus Rhectomia (Hymenoptera: Halictidae): Discovery of the male and two new species, Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 103, 302-310
  • Michael S. Engel (1995) Neocorynura electra, a new fossil bee species from Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 103, 317-323
  • Michael S. Engel (1995) A new snake-fly species from Baltic amber (Raphidioptera: Inocelliidae), Psyche, 102, 187-193
  • Michael S. Engel (1995) A new name for Pseudogramma Carpenter (Caloneurodea: Paleuthygrammatidae), Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 103, 220-221
  • Michael S. Engel (1995) Notes on gasteruptiid wasps (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea), Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 103, 214-215
  • Deborah R. Smith, Michael S. Engel (1994) Population structure in an Indian cooperative spider, Stegodyphus sarasinorum Karsch (Eresidae), Journal of Arachnology, 22, 108-113
  • Michael S. Engel, Deborah R. Smith (1993) Population genetics of a cooperative spider, Stegodyphus sarasinorum Karsch (Araneae: Eresidae), American Arachnology, 48, 6

Memberships

American Association for Zoological Nomenclature
American Beethoven Society
American Entomological Society
International Association for Neuropterology
International Society of Hymenopterists
Kansas Entomological Society
Linnean Society of London
Orthopterist's Society
Paleontological Society
Willi Hennig Society

Funding Received

  • National Science Foundation (NSF): Expansion of the Collections of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center, $498,821, 2007 to 2008.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): Collaborative research: Phylogenetic reclassification and generic revision of the rove beetle tribe Staphylinini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), $235,258, 2007 to 2010.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): Collaborative Research: Cretaceous Insects and the Origins of Modern Insect Diversity, $86,014, 2006 to 2009.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): New Insect Cabinetry for the Division of Entomology, University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, $235,998, 2005 to 2007.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): AToL: Collaborative Research: Large-scale phylogeny of Hymenoptera., $228,000, 2003 to 2008.
  • Kansas NSF-EPSCoR First Award: Hymenoptera in Cretaceous ambers and Mesozoic diversification of the order., $49,924, 2002 to 2003.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): A specimen-level database of the North American and Mexican wild bees (Apoidea) at the University of Kansas., $236,000, 2001 to 2004.

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