Jessica Lee Ware

Jessica Lee Ware

Jessica Lee Ware, U.S. entomologist.

Address (2025):

Division of Invertebrate Zoology,

American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 9 taxon names authored by Jessica Lee Ware

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2006

• Kjer, K.M., Carle, F.L., Litman, J. & Ware, J. 2006. A molecular phylogeny of Hexapoda. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 64(1): 35–44. DOI: 10.3897/asp.64.e31642 . Reference page. 

2007

• Ware, J., May, M. & Kjer, K. 2007. Phylogeny of the higher Libelluloidea (Anisoptera: Odonata): an exploration of the most speciose superfamily of dragonflies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45(1): 289–310. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.05.027 . Reference page. 

2013

• Dijkstra, K.-D.B., Bechly, G., Bybee, S.M., Dow, R.A., Dumont, H.J., Fleck, G., Garrison, R.W., Hämäläinen, M., Kalkman, V.J., Karube, H., May, M.L., Orr, A.G., Paulson, D.R., Rehn, A.C., Theischinger, G., Trueman, J.W.H., van Tol, J., von Ellenrieder, N. & Ware, J. 2013. The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2013. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness (Addenda 2013). Zootaxa 3703(1): 36–45. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.9 . Reference page. 
• Evangelista, D.A., Bourne, G. & Ware, J.L. 2014. Species richness estimates of Blattodea s.s. (Insecta: Dictyoptera) from northern Guyana vary depending upon methods of species delimitation. Systematic Entomology 39(1): 150–158. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12043 Reference page. 

2014

• Misof, B., Liu, S., Meusemann, K., Peters, R.S., Donath, A., Mayer, C., Frandsen, P.B., Ware, J., Flouri, T., Beutel, R.G., Niehuis, O., Petersen, M., Izquierdo-Carrasco, F., Wappler, T., Rust, J., Aberer, A.J., Aspöck, U., Aspöck, H., Bartel, D., Blanke, A., Berger, S., Böhm, A., Buckley, T.R., Calcott, B., Chen, J., Friedrich, F., Fukui, M., Fujita, M., Greve, C., Grobe, P., Gu, S., Huang, Y., Jermiin, L.S., Kawahara, A.Y., Krogmann, L., Kubiak, M., Lanfear, R., Letsch, H., Li, Y., Li, Z.-Y., Li, J., Lu, H., Machida, R., Mashimo, Y., Kapli, P., McKenna, D.D., Meng, G., Nakagaki, Y., Navarrete-Heredia, J.L., Ott, M., Ou, Y., Pass, G., Podsiadlowski, L., Pohl, H., Reumont, B.M. von, Schütte, K., Sekiya, K., Shimizu, S., Slipinski, A., Stamatakis, A., Song, W., Su, X., Szucsich, N.U., Tan, M., Tan, X., Tang, M., Tang, J., Timelthaler, G., Tomizuka, S., Trautwein, M., Tong, X., Uchifune, T., Walzl, M.G., Wiegmann, B.M., Wilbrandt, J., Wipfler, B., Wong, T.K.F., Wu, Q., Wu, G., Xie, Y., Yang, S., Yang, Q., Yeates, D.K., Yoshizawa, K., Zhang, Q., Zhang, R., Zhang, W., Zhang, Y., Zhao, J., Zhou, C., Zhou, L., Ziesmann, T., Zou, S., Li, Y., Xu, X., Zhang, Y., Yang, H.-M., Wang, J., Wang, J., Kjer, K.M. & Zhou, X. 2014. Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution. Science 346(6210): 763–767. DOI: 10.1126/science.1257570 . Reference page. 
• Ware, J.L., Beatty, C.D., Sánchez Herrera, M., Valley, S., Johnson, J., Kerst, C., May, M.L. & Theischinger, G. 2014. The petaltail dragonflies (Odonata: Petaluridae): Mesozoic habitat specialists that survive to the modern day. Journal of Biogeography 41(7): 1291-1300. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12273 Reference page. 

2015

• Evangelista, D.A., Chan, K., Kaplan, K.L., Wilson, M.M. & Ware, J.L. 2015. The Blattodea s.s. (Insecta, Dictyoptera) of the Guiana Shield. ZooKeys 475: 37–87. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.475.7877 . Reference page. 

2017

• Gonzalez-Mozo, L., McKamey, S., Ware, J.L. & Hamilton, G. 2017. Two new species of Darnini (Hemiptera: Membracidae) from Colombia and Peru. Pp 108—114 in: Evangelista, O., Takiya, D.M. & Dietrich, C.H. (eds.) 2017. The art and science of describing nature’s surrealists: Festschrift Celebrating the Career of Albino Morimasa Sakakibara. Zootaxa 4281(1): 1–290. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4281.1.1. title page (PDF) Reference page. . Reference page. 

2021

• Bybee, S.M., Kalkman, V.J., Erickson, R.J., Frandsen, P.B., Breinholt, J.W., Suvorov, A., Dijkstra, K.-D.B., Cordero-Rivera, A., Skevington, J.H., Abbott, J.C., Sanchez Herrera, M., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E. & Ware, J.L. 2021. Phylogeny and classification of Odonata using targeted genomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 160: 107115. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107115 . Reference page. 

2022

• Büsse, S. & Ware, J.L. 2022. Taxonomic note on the species status of Epiophlebia diana (Insecta, Odonata, Epiophlebiidae), including remarks on biogeography and possible species distribution. Zookeys 1127ː 79–90. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1127.83240 Reference page. 
• Simonsen, T.J., Archibald, S.B., Rasmussen, J.A., Sylvestersen, R.L., Olsen, K. & Ware, J.L. 2022. Danowhetaksa gen. nov. with two species from the early Eocene Ølst Formation from Denmark, the first Palearctic Whetwhetaksidae (Odonata: Cephalozygoptera). Zootaxa 5099(5): 586–592. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5099.5.5. PMID 35391395.  Reference page. 

2023

• Wilson, M.M., Emam, A., Davis, S.R., Hall, G., Barden, P. & Ware, J.L. 2023. Description of a novel termite ectoparasite, Termitaria hexasporodochia sp. nov. (Kathistaceae), presenting an unusual six-sectioned infestation, and a key to the fungal family Kathistaceae. Phytotaxa 591(2): 106–124. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.591.2.3 . ResearchGate . Barden Lab (PDF) Reference page. 

2025

• Goodman, A., Abbott, J.C., Bybee, S., Ehlert, J., Frandsen, P.B., Guralnick, R., Kalkman, V.J., Newton, L., Pinto, Â.P. & Ware, J.L. 2025 [2026]. Systematic and taxonomic revision of emerald and tigertail dragonflies (Anisoptera: Synthemistidae and Corduliidae). Systematic Entomology 51(1): e70000. DOI: 10.1111/syen.70000 . Reference page. 
• Ware, J.L., Simonsen, T.J., Rasmussen, J.A. & Archibald, S.B. 2025. Systematics of the extinct suborder Cephalozygoptera (Odonata): a wing-based analysis comparing its genera with those of extant Zygoptera. American Museum Novitates 4043: 1–19. doi:10.1206/4043.1. ISSN 0003-0082.  [pdf] Reference page. 

2026

• Carter, P., Goodman, A., Abbott, J., Bota Sierra, C., Bybee, S.M., Dow, R.A., Fomekong Lontchi, J., Frandsen, P.B., Gonzalez Mozo, L., Guralnick, R., Hämäläinen, M., Joshi, S., Kohli, M.K., Lupiyaningdyah, P., Montana, K.O., Newton, L., Onsongo, V., Orr, A.G., Pinto, Â.P., Sanchez-Herrera, M., Sutherland, L.N., Theischinger, G., Ware, J.L., Zhang, H. & Kalkman, V.J. 2026. The classification and diversity of extant dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). International Journal of Odonatology 29: 95–124. DOI: 10.48156/1388.2026.1917385 . Reference page.