Position Title
Distinguished Professor of Entomology, Director of The Bohart Museum of Entomology
Position Title
Distinguished Professor of Entomology, Director of The Bohart Museum of Entomology
1124 Academic Surge Building
Bio
Appointment: 20% Instruction and Research
80% Organized Research
Teaches: General Entomology, Biodiversity of California Insects
Selected Publications:
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- Kimsey, L. S.. 2007. The case of the red-shanked grasshopper. LA Times: Op-Ed article 1 p. July 4, 2007..
- Kimsey, L. S.. 2006. California Cuckoo Wasps in the Family Chrysididae. UC Publications in Entomology 28:1-319..
- Kimsey, L. S.. 2006. Competing Taxonomies: Reexamination of the female-based genera of Brachycistidinae (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae). Zootaxa 1121:21-34..
- Kimsey, L. S. and M. S. Wasbauer.. 2006. Phylogeny and Checklist of the Nocturnal Tiphiids of the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Brachycistidinae).Journal of Hymenoptera Research 15:9-25..
- Kimsey, L. S.. 2005. Revision of the northern South American tiphiid genus Merithynnus. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Washington 107(3):576-595..
- Kimsey, L. S.. 2005. Hymenopteran waifs: Hymenopteran Waifs: A New Genus and Species of Chrysidid from Réunion (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 36:57-61..
- Kimsey, L. S.. 2004. Taxonomic changes and new generic synonymies in the tiphiid wasp subfamily Thynninae (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106:508-512..
- Kimsey, L. S.. 2004. Illustrated keys to males of the genera of wasps in the subfamily Thynninae (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 106:571-585..
- Kimsey, L. S. and M. S. Wasbauer.. 2004. Revision of New World Species of the Cleptoparasitic Pompilid Genus Irenangelus Schulz (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae).Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77:650-668..
- Kimsey, L. S.. 2003. A peculiar new genus of locally abundant Australian thynnines.Journal of Hymenoptera Research 12:102-124..
- Kimsey, L. S.. 2002. A new genus and four new species of heat tolerant tiphiid wasps from Western Australia Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 41 345-353.
- Kimsey, L. S. . 2001. The new Western Australian tiphiid genus Dythynnus KimseyJournal of Hymenoptera Research 10:76-80.
- Kimsey, L. S.. 2001. Zythynnus, a new genus of Thynninae from Queensland.Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 103:858-862..
- Kimsey, L. S. . 2000. . The Western Australian genus Oncorhinothynnus Salter: new species and relationships Proceedings of the Washington Entomological Society 102:421-426.
- Kimsey, Lynn S. . 2000. Revision of the Australian Genus Leiothynnus Journal of Hymenoptera Research 9:18-28.
- Baptise, Lawrence A. and Lynn S. Kimsey. 2000. New Caledonian Tiphiidae: Revision of the Genus Eirone Journal of Hymenoptera Research 9:395-415.
- Kimsey, L. S. and M. S. Wasbauer. 1999. New genera and species of brachycistidinae wasps from southwestern North America Journal of Hymenoptera Research 8:65-73.
- Kimsey, L. S. . 1999. A turn of the century conundrum - reexamination of Aeolothynnus Ashmead Proceedings of the Washington Entomological Society 101:263-269.
- Kimsey, L. S. . 1999. What is the real Iswaroides? Proceedings of the Washington Entomological Society 101:503-513.
- Kimsey, Lynn S. . 1999. A turn of the century conundrum-reexamination of Aeolothynnus Ashmead Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 101(2):263-269.
- Kimsey, Lynn S. and Marius S. Wasbauer. 1998. Revision of the American tiphiid genus Quemaya Pate (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Brachycistidinae) Journal of Hymenoptera Research 7(l):38-47.
- Carmean, D. and L. S. Kimsey. 1998. Phylogenetic revision of the parasitoid wasp family Trigonalidae Systematic Entomology 23:35-76.
- Kimsey, Lynn S. . 1996. Status of terrestrial insects In Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project, Final Report to Congress, Status of the Sierra Nevada, Volume II, 735-741.
- Kimsey, L. S. and M. S. Wasbauer. 2006. Phylogeny and Checklist of the Nocturnal Tiphiids of the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Brachycistidinae) Journal of Hymenoptera Research 15:9-25.
- Kimsey, L. S. 2006. California Cuckoo Wasps in the Family Chrysididae Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 28:1-319.
- Kimsey, L. S. 2008. Zoogeography and Phylogeny of the American Amisegine Genus Adelphe (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 17(2):157-174.
- Kimsey, L. S. 2009. Review of the Malagasy Anthobosca, the Bizarre and the Sublime (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Anthoboscinae) Zootaxa 2175:1-18.
- Kimsey, L. S. 2009. Taxonomic Purgatory: Sorting out the Wasp Genus Myzinum Latreille in North America (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae) Zootaxa 2224:30-50.
- Kimsey, L. S. 2011. Re-examination of the genus Exova Riek, with the first chrysidid recorded from Fiji Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 113:436-441.
- Kimsey, L. S. 2011. Tiphiidae Wasps of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae) Journal of Hymenoptera Research 22:45-68.
- Kimsey, L. S. and M. Ohl. 2012. Megalara garuda, a new genus and species of larrine wasps from Indonesia (Larrinae, Crabronidae, Hymenoptera) ZooKeys 177:49-57.
- Kimsey, L. S. 2012. Revision of the odd chrysidid genus Loboscelidia Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae: Loboscelidiinae) ZooKeys 213:1-40.
- Kimsey, L. S. and J. M. Carpenter. 2012. The Vespinae of North America (Vespidae, Hymenoptera) Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 28:37-65.
- Soliman, A. M. and L. S. Kimsey. 2013. Oligogaster gen. nov., a new chrysidid genus from Egypt (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae, Elampini) Zootaxa 3681(2):197-200.
- Kimsey, L.S. and M.S. Wasbauer. 2013. Revision of the brachycistidine genus Colocistis Krombein (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae) Journal of Hymenoptera Research 33:1-24.
- Shelomi M, Kimsey LS. 2013. Vital staining of the stick insect digestive system identifies appendices of the midgut as novel system of excretion Journal of Morphology 275:623-633.
- Kimsey, L. S. 2014. Reevaluation of the odd chrysidid genus Atoposega Krombein ZooKeys 409:35-47.
- Shelomi, M., I. R. Sitepu, K. L. Boundy-Mills and L. S. Kimsey. 2015. Review of the gross anatomy and microbiology of the Pasmatodea digestive tract Journal of Orthoptera Research 24(1):1-12.
- Kimsey, L.S. and M. S. Wasbauer. 2015. Revision of the odd brachycistidine genus Acanthetropis Wasbauer, 1958 Journal of Hymenoptera Research 44:19-30. https://doi.org/10.3897/JHR.44.4691
- Kimsey, L. S. 2015. Delusional infestation and chronic pruritus: a review Acta Dermato-Venereologica. doi: 10.2340/00015555-2236.
- Kimsey, L.S., T. Mita and H.T. Pham. 2016. New species of the genus Mahinda Krombein, 1983 Zookeys 551:145-154. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.551.6168.
- Kimsey, L. S. and D. J. Brothers. 2016. The life, publications and new taxa of Qabir Argaman Journal of Hymenoptera Research 50:141-178. doi: 10.3897/JHR.50.7973.
- Kimsey, L. S., T. J. Zavortink, R. B. Kimsey and S. L. Heydon. 2017. Insect biodiversity of the Algodones Dunes of California Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e21715, doi: 10.3897/BDJ.5.e21715.
- Kimsey, L. S. 2017. Morphology and review of the odd genus Rhadinoscelidida Kimsey, 1988 Journal of Hymenoptera Research 62:45-54, https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.62.20888.
- Kimsey, L. S., R. B. Kimsey and S. Gaimari. 2018. Novel biology for the heleomyzid Tephrochlamys rufiventris (Meigen, 1830) Proceedings of the Washington Entomological Society. In press.
- Research Interests:
- Biology and evolution of insects; systematics and phylogeny of Tiphiidae, Chrysididae, Sphecidae, Pompilidae and Apidae; functional morphology; mating behavior of wasps and bees; biogeography of insects.