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Zachary Lahey

Zach Lahey

Zachary Lahey

Research Associate

USDA-ARS, U.S. Vegetable Laboratory
2700 Savannah Highway
Charleston, South Carolina 29414
Zachary.Lahey@usda.gov

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Areas of Expertise

  • Evolution
  • Systematics of Parasitic Hymenoptera
  • Phylogenomics

Education

  • MS University of Florida
  • BA Florida Gulf Coast University
  • PhD Ohio State University 2021

Biography

Zachary Lahey is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the U.S. Vegetable Laboratory (USDA-ARS) in Charleston, South Carolina, where he is involved with various projects focused on the control of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. His PhD research at Ohio State University consisted of taxonomic revisions, genomics, and phylogenetics of the parasitic wasp superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera).

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Recent publications:

  • Chen H, Lahey Z, Talamas EJ, Valerio AA, Popovici OA, Musetti L, Klompen H, Polaszek A, Masner L, Austin AD, Johnson NF (2021) An integrated phylogenetic reassessment of the parasitoid superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha) results in a revised familial classification. Systematic Entomology 46: 1088-113.
  • Lahey Z, Musetti L, Masner L, Johnson NF (2021) Revision of Phoenoteleia Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae, Scelioninae). In: Lahey Z, Talamas E (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea III. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87: 575–611. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.59794
  • Talamas EJ, Bremer JS, Moore MR, Bon M-C, Lahey Z, Roberts CG, Combee LA, McGathey N, van Noort S, Timokhov AV, Hougardy E, Hogg B (2021) A maximalist approach to the systematics of a biological control agent: Gryon aetherium Talamas, sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae). In: Lahey Z, Talamas E (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea III. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87: 323–480. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.72842
  • Lahey Z, Talamas E, Masner L, Johnson NF (2021) Revision of the Australian genus Alfredella Masner & Huggert (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Sceliotrachelinae). In: Lahey Z, Talamas E (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea III. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87: 81–113.  https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.58368
  • van Noort S, Lahey Z, Talamas EJ, Austin AD, Masner L, Polaszek A, Johnson NF (2021) Review of Afrotropical sceliotracheline parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae). In: Lahey Z, Talamas E (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea III. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87: 115–222.  https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.73770

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