Yuanmeng Miles Zhang

Yuanmeng Miles Zhang, Chinese-Canadian evolutionary biologist and entomologist.

US Department of Agriculture Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, Hilo, United States of America

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(List may be incomplete)

Quicke, D.L.J., Shaw, M.R., van Achterberg, C., Bland, K.P., Butcher, B.A., Lyszkowski, R. & Zhang, Y.M. 2014. A new Australian genus and five new species of Rogadinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), one reared as a gregarious endoparasitoid of an unidentified limacodid (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 3881(3): 237–257. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3881.3.3 Reference page.
Zhang, Y.M. & Sharanowski, B.J. 2014. New species of Eudiospilus (Braconidae, Brachistinae) from Madagascar with a review of the genus and key to species. Zootaxa 3838(1): 120–126. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3838.1.7 Reference page.

Zhang, Y.M., Gates, M.W. & Shorthouse, J.D. 2017. Revision of Canadian Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) associated with galls induced by cynipid wasps of the genus Diplolepis Geoffroy (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae) and description of a new species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 61: 1–29. DOI: 10.3897/jhr.61.13466 Reference page.
Egan, S.P., Weinersmith, K.L., Liu, S., Ridenbaugh, R.D., Zhang, Y.M. & Forbes, A.A. 2017. Description of a new species of Euderus Haliday from the southeastern United States (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae): the crypt-keeper wasp. ZooKeys 645: 37–49. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.645.11117. Reference page.

Gates, M.W., Zhang, Y.M. & Buffington, M.L. 2020. The great greenbriers gall mystery resolved? New species of Aprostocetus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) gall inducer and two new parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Eurytomidae) associated with Smilax L. in southern Florida, USA Journal of Hymenoptera Research 80: 71–98. DOI: 10.3897/jhr.80.59466 Reference page.
Stigenberg, J. & Zhang, Y.M. 2020. New findings of the subfamily Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Papua New Guinea, with descriptions, illustrations and molecular data. In: Robillard, T., Legendre, F., Villemant, C. & Leponce, M. (eds.) Insects of Mount Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea – volume 2. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 214: 377–420. ISBN 978-2-85653-836-4. Reference page.

Zhang, Y.M., Sasan, K. O'Kennon, R.J. & Kranz, A.J. 2021. Discovery through iNaturalist: new species and new records of oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from Texas, USA. Zootaxa 5168(1): 63–74. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5168.1.5 Reference page.
Zhang, Y.M., Gates, M.W., Silvestre, R. & Scarpa, M. 2021. Description of Kavayva, gen. nov., (Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae) and two new species associated with Guarea (Meliaceae), and a review of New World eurytomids associated with seeds. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 86: 101–121. DOI: 10.3897/jhr.86.71309 Reference page.
Zhang, Y.M., Egan, S.P., Driscoe, A.L. & Ott, J.R. 2021. One hundred and sixty years of taxonomic confusion resolved: Belonocnema (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) gall wasps associated with live oaks in the USA Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193: 1234–1255. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab001. Reference page.

Brandão-Dias, P.F.P., Zhang, Y.M., Pirro, S., Vinson, C.C., Weinersmith, K.L., Ward, A.K.G., Forbes, A.A. & Egan, S.P. 2022. Describing biodiversity in the genomics era: A new species of Nearctic Cynipidae gall wasp and its genome. Systematic Entomology 47: 94–112. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12521. Reference page.
Zhang, Y.M., Gates, M.W., Hanson, P.E. & Jansen-González, S. 2022. Description of a Neotropical gall inducer on Araceae: Arastichus, gen. nov. (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) and two new species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 92: 145–172. DOI: 10.3897/jhr.92.85967 Reference page.

Gibson, G.P., Uriel, Y., Sherwood, J., Abram, P.K., Gariepy, T.D., Zhang, Y.M., Baur, H., Gates, M., & Franklin, M.T. 2024. The species of Pteromalus Swederus in America north of Mexico with a 4:4 mandibular formula, and description of a potential biocontrol agent of the introduced pest Anthonomus rubi (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Zootaxa 5501(2): 201–236. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5501.2.1 Reference page.
Nastasi, L.F., Smith, C.N., Davis, C.K., Ward, A.K.G., Brown, G., Zhang, Y.M., Rollins, S., Friesen, C., Tribull, C.M., Forbes, A.A. & Deans, A.R. 2024. One must imagine Sisyphus happy: Integrative taxonomic characterization of 22 new Ceroptres species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Ceroptresini). Zootaxa 5508(1): 1–63. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5508.1.1 Full text (PDF) Reference page.

Fang, Z., Hu, W., Nieves-Aldrey, J.L., McCormack, K., Tang, C.T., Zhu, Y., Csóka, G., Hearn, J., Sinclair, F.H., Mao, K.,Stone, G.N. & Zhang, Y.M. 2025. A new species of gall wasp Diastrophus Hartig, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) from Sichuan, China. Zootaxa 5693(4): 524–536. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5693.4.4 Reference page.
Fang, Z., Hu, W., McCormack, K., Dal Pos, D., Tang, C.T., Zhu, Y., Mao, K., Stone, G.N. & Zhang, Y.M. 2025. New species of rose gall wasp Diplolepis Geoffroy, 1762 (Hymenoptera: Diplolepididae) and its parasitoid Orthopelma Taschenberg, 1865 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) on a rare endemic rose species in Sichuan, China. Zootaxa 5706(2): 231–246. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5706.2.5 Reference page.