Verner Michelsen

Verner Michelsen, Danish entomologist

• Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 København
• E-mail: vmichelsen@snm.ku.dk

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 2 taxon names authored by Verner Michelsen

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2014

• Michelsen, V. & O’Hara, J.E. 2014. A review of genus-group names in Diptera (Insecta) that J.C. Fabricius “borrowed” from other dipterists and proposed as new in his systematic works from 1775 to 1805. Zootaxa 3873(1): 73–81. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3873.1.6 . Reference page. 
• Sorokina, V.S. & Michelsen, V. 2014. Contributions to the taxonomy and faunistics of some arctic species of Spilogona Schnabl (Diptera: Muscidae). Zootaxa 3814(4): 512–520. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.4.4 Reference page. 

2015

• Michelsen, V. 2015. Taxonomic review of the major larval pests of bolete fungi (Boletaceae) in Europe: The Pegomya fulgens, furva and tabida species groups (Diptera: Anthomyiidae). Zootaxa 4020(1): 51–80. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4020.1.2. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

2017

• Michelsen, V. 2017. Tapantiomyia enigmatica, new genus and species proposed for a stilt-legged and otherwise bizarre coenosiine fly (Diptera: Muscidae) from Costa Rica. Zootaxa 4277(4): 583–590. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.4.8. Reference page. 

2018

• Borkent, A., Brown, B.V., Adler, P.H., Amorim, D. de S., Barber, K.N., Bickel, D.J., Boucher, S., Brooks, S.E., Burger, J., Burington, Z.L., Capellari, R.S., Costa, D.N.R., Cumming, J.M., Curler, G., Dick, C.W., Epler, J.H., Fisher, E., Gaimari, S.D., Gelhaus, J., Grimaldi, D.A., Hash, J., Hauser, M., Hippa, H., Ibáñez-Bernal, S., Jaschhof, M., Kameneva, E.P., Kerr, P.H., Korneyev, V., Korytkowski, C.A., Kung, G-A., Kvifte, G.M., Lonsdale, O., Marshal, S.A., Mathis, W.N., Michelsen, V., Naglis, S., Norrbom, A.L., Paiero, S.M., Pape, T., Pereira-Colavite, A., Pollet, M., Rochefort, S., Rung, A., Runyon, J., Savage, J., Silva, V.C., Sinclair, B.J., Skevington, J.H., Stireman, J.O. III, Swann, J., Vilkamaa, P., Wheeler, T., Whitworth, T.L., Wong, M.A., Wood, D.M., Woodley, N.E., Yau, T., Zavortnik, T.J. & Zumbado, M.A. 2018. Remarkable fly (Diptera) diversity in a patch of Costa Rican cloud forest: Why inventory is a vital science. Zootaxa 4402(1): 53–90. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4402.1.3. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2019

• Michelsen, V. 2019. Macaronesian Muscidae (Diptera). I. The genus Hebecnema Schnabl with description of a new Canarian endemic species and a review of the European fauna. Zootaxa 4706(2): 332–348. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4706.2.7 . Reference page. 
• Michelsen, V. & Grootaert, P. 2019. Co-existing species of Drapetis Meigen in Skåne (S Sweden) with description of a new species and a key to males of NW European species (Diptera: Hybotidae) Zootaxa 4624(3): 431–441. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4624.3.11. Reference page. 

2020

• Michelsen, V. & Palmer, M.W. 2020. Pegomya disticha Griffiths and P. cedrica Huckett (Diptera: Anthomyiidae)—first documented case of insects trespassing the silica barrier of Common scouring-rush, Equisetum hyemale L. Zootaxa 4718(3): 355–370. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4718.3.4 Reference page. 

2022

• Michelsen, V. 2022. Costal vein chaetotaxy, a neglected character source in Fanniidae and Muscidae (Diptera: Calyptratae). European Journal of Taxonomy. 826(1): 94–134. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.826.1839 Reference page.