Michael John Parsons (fl. 1986), U.S. entomologist. Also published some aristolochiaceous names.

Entomology Section, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007, U.S.A. (in 1996)

IPNI standard form: Mich.J.Parsons

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 25 taxon names authored by Michael J. Parsons

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Parsons, M.J. 1986. A revision of the genus Callictita Bethune-Baker (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from the mountains of New Guinea. Bull. Allyn Mus. (Ent) 103: 27pp., 111 figs. PDF. Reference page. 
• Parsons, M.J. 1986. A new genus and twenty-six new species of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae) from Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. Tyô to Ga 37(3): 103–177, 160 figs. Jstage. Reference page. 
• Parsons, M.J. & Hirowatari, T. 1988. A new species of Callictita from Irian Jaya. Tyô to Ga 39(4): 259–262, 2 figs. web. Reference page. 
• Parsons, M.J., 1989. A New Delias Subspecies, a new Sabera and a new Parantica from Papua New Guinea (Lepidoptera; Pieridae, Hesperiidae, Nymphalidae. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 29ː 193-212, 15 figs. Reference page. 
• Parsons, M.J., 1989. Taxonomic studies in New Guinea and Solomons Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera), and discovery of abdominal scent organs in the females of various nyphalinae genera.. Occ. Pap. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 29ː 174-192, 25 figs. Reference page. 
• Parsons, M.J. 1991. Butterflies of the Bulolo-Wau Valley. Handbook of the Wau Ecological Institute 12: 280pp, 258 pls, 23 figs. Reference page. 
• Parsons, M.J. 1996. New species of Aristolochia and Pararistolochia (Aristolochiaceae) from Australia and New Guinea. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 120(3): 199–238. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1996.tb00772.x Reference page. 
• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea xvi+736pp., 136 pls. Academic Press, London, ISBN 0125455550. Reference page.