Michael J. Sharkey (Biological Resources Division/CLBRR; Agriculture Canada; K.W.
Neatby Building, C.E.F.; Ottawa, Ontario; CANADA K1A 0C6). Mike has the following projects either in
press or near completion: cladistics of Ichneumonoidea (with Wahl); cladistics of Agathidinae, a critique
of the Achterberg & Quicke phylogeny of Braconidae (with Wharton et al.), and the
braconid section of the Agriculture Canada manual Hymenoptera of the World. As part of
the project to write keys to New World braconid genera, Mike will be dealing with the Agathidinae,
Ichneutinae, and Helconinae s.l. It might be noted that Mike spent April 1989-May 1990 in Japan at the
National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences. He collected extensively in Hokkaido, Honshu, and
Kyushu. The resulting specimens are in the Canadian National Collection and the American Entomological
Institute.
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