Summary
I am responsible for the Museum Chalcidoidea collection and several other parasitoid Hymenoptera (Evanioidea, Megalyroidea, Mymarommatoidea, Stephanoidea and Trigonalyoidea).My curatorial work is currently mainly focused on Chalcidoidea, a difficult but fascinating superfamily of microhymenoptera (most are under 3mm long, and the group includes the smallest known insect: Dicopomorpha echmepterygis Mockford, 1997, a Mymaridae whose males are only 0.11 mm long). The Museum holds material of more than 12,000 Chalcidoidea species (out of about 22,000 described species), around 5,000 of which are represented by primary types.Current collection projects include cataloguing historically important specimens such as those collected by Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates.
Qualifications
Degrees
- MSc, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Highlighted publications
- CAO H-X, DALE-SKEY N, BURWELL CJ, ZHU C-D Review of the genus Pleurotroppopsis Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) with interspecific phylogenetic relationships based on morphological characters. Zootaxa, (4) Magnolia Press : 451 - 484. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.4.1
- Tselikh EV, Várkonyi G, Dale-Skey N Review of the genus Plutothrix Förster, 1856 (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae) with a key to Palaearctic species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, Pensoft Publishers : 1 - 32. doi: 10.3897/jhr.93.86238
Highlighted publications
- CAO H-X, DALE-SKEY N, BURWELL CJ, ZHU C-D Review of the genus Pleurotroppopsis Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) with interspecific phylogenetic relationships based on morphological characters. Zootaxa, (4) Magnolia Press : 451 - 484. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.4.1
- Tselikh EV, Várkonyi G, Dale-Skey N Review of the genus Plutothrix Förster, 1856 (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae) with a key to Palaearctic species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, Pensoft Publishers : 1 - 32. doi: 10.3897/jhr.93.86238