Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
 

Register · Log In
Clickable Guide
Interactive image map to choose major taxa Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
Upcoming Events

National Moth Week was July 19-27, and the Summer 2025 gathering in Louisiana, July 19-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27
Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae)
Manual of the New World Genera of the Family Braconidae (Hymenoptera)
By Wharton, R.A., P.M. Marsh, M.J. Sharkey (Eds)
International Society of Hymenopterists, 1997
Cite: 1018556 with citation markup [cite:1018556]
Although some systematics info is dated (Sharanowski et al. (1) is the most recent phylogenetic update of the group as of this writing), contains comprehensive biological and taxonomic information, keys, and information on the biodiversity of the various groups, as well as habitus and wing diagrams, and SEM photographs of various morphological features helpful for identification. Very high quality work.
PDF
login or register to post comments
Contributed by josephfortier on 11 November, 2014 - 12:14am
Last updated 5 May, 2024 - 12:02am

now that Dr. Sharkey has retired
his U of K lab website is gone. However, the 1997 version of the manual can still be found at the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230818200616/https://www.sharkeylab.org/sharkeylab/docs/posts/web/Manual of the New World Genera of Braconidae.pdf
… Steve Scholnick, 22 July, 2025 - 3:48pm login or register to post comments

Typo in remarks
The updated paper should be cited as Sharanowski et al., not Sharonowski et al. This can only be corrected by the creator of the reference page (Joe). Rachel Behm has given similar comments on the linked reference (1048170) as well.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 4 May, 2024 - 7:50pm login or register to post comments

available online
PDF
… Steve Scholnick, 22 May, 2016 - 8:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Link
Your link does not work.
http://www.sharkeylab.org/sharkeylab/docs/posts/web/Manual%20of%20the%20New%20World%20Genera%20of%20Braconidae.pdf
… Matthias Buck, 9 June, 2016 - 10:56am login or register to post comments

 
The key is not available online.
A review of it by Richard Zack, that went online in 1999, may be found in Annals of the Entomology Society of America by going to: http://aesa.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/4/615
… josephfortier, 9 June, 2016 - 11:14am login or register to post comments

 
Dr. Buck's link works
mine would have too if I was smart enough to include the final "]" in [/url]
… Steve Scholnick, 14 June, 2016 - 2:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you.
I don't know why I didn't try the link Dr. Buck provided. I just saw the "your link does not work."
… josephfortier, 15 June, 2016 - 12:25am login or register to post comments

 
no problem at all
I'm just glad the paper's online
… Steve Scholnick, 15 June, 2016 - 11:33am login or register to post comments

 
Yes,it's a huge contribution.
.
… josephfortier, 15 June, 2016 - 1:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Publication has duplicate pages!
Be wary of page 162. The next page is 146. Pages 147 - 161 need to be deleted. Then the document seems correct with those duplicate pages removed.

Very confusing, just check it out.
… Glen Forister, 7 April, 2023 - 4:34pm login or register to post comments

 
.
.
… josephfortier, 15 June, 2016 - 12:24am login or register to post comments

Comment viewing options
Select your preferred way to display the comments and click 'Save settings' to activate your changes.

Disclaimer: Dedicated naturalists volunteer their time and resources here to provide this service. We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office.

Contributors own the copyright to and are solely responsible for contributed content.
Click the contributor's name for licensing and usage information.
Everything else copyright © 2003-2025 Iowa State University, unless otherwise noted.

Bugguide is hosted by:

Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology at Iowa State University logo

Printer Friendly Version 		Terms of Use
Privacy Statement
Site Map
Contact