Career
Sabrosky specialized in Diptera, especially Chloropidae. Sabrosky worked at the Systematic Entomology Laboratory of United States Department of Agriculture and at the National Museum of Natural History. His collection is found in that museum.
Important systematic/nomenclatural work.
Contributions to the knowledge of Old World. Identification of Winthemia of America north of Mexico, with a revised key to the females (Diptera, ).
A revised key to the Nearctic species of Lespesia (Diptera: ). Family (Larvaevoridae). pp.
961–1108 in Stone, A., et al.
(eds), A Catalog of the Diptera of America North of Mexico. United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook 276: 1–1696.