Andrew Deans

Professor of Entomology, Director of the Frost Entomological Museum

Andrew Deans

Huck Affiliations

Most Recent Publications

Review of the world genera of Phanacidini (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Cynipidae), with the first record from China and a new tribal diagnostic character

Louis F. Nastasi, Andrew R. Deans, 2025, Zootaxa on p. 401-419

Two new species of Ormyrus Westwood (Hymenoptera: Ormyridae) from Cynipidae (Hymenoptera) galls on Silphium L. (Asteraceae: Heliantheae)

Louis F. Nastasi, Charles K. Davis, Jelani K. Alcorn, Timothy S. Frey, M. J. Hatfield, Heather M. Hines, John F. Tooker, Andrew R. Deans, 2025, Zootaxa on p. 265-287

Description of two new species of Diastrophus Hartig, 1840 from Taiwan, Diastrophus renai and D. wushei (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Diastrophini)

Charles K. Davis, Louis F. Nastasi, Andrew R. Deans, 2024, Zootaxa on p. 367-374

New herb gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Aulacideini) from Kyrgyzstan, with description of a new genus and a review of the genus Panteliella Kieffer, 1901

Louis F. Nastasi, Andrew R. Deans, 2024, Zootaxa on p. 511-526

One must imagine Sisyphus happy: Integrative taxonomic characterization of 22 new Ceroptres species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Ceroptresini)

Louis F. Nastasi, Cecil N. Smith, Charles K. Davis, Anna K.G. Ward, Guerin Brown, Y. Miles Zhang, Shannon Rollins, Chris Friesen, Carly M. Tribull, Andrew A. Forbes, Andrew R. Deans, 2024, Zootaxa on p. 1-63

Cryptic or underworked? Taxonomic revision of the Antistrophus rufus species complex (Cynipoidea, Aulacideini)

Louis F. Nastasi, John F. Tooker, Charles K. Davis, Cecil N. Smith, Timothy S. Frey, M. J. Hatfield, Tara M. Presnall, Heather M. Hines, Andrew R. Deans, 2024, Journal of Hymenoptera Research on p. 399-439

Diversity and complexity of arthropod references in haiku

Andrew R. Deans, Laura Porturas, 2024, PLoS One

GallOnt: An ontology for plant gall phenotypes

Andrew R. Deans, Louis Frank Nastasi, Charles Davis, 2024, Biodiversity Data Journal on p. 1-13

Key to the North American tribes and genera of herb, rose, bramble, and inquiline gall wasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Cynipidae sensu lato)

Louis F. Nastasi, Matthew L. Buffington, Charles K. Davis, Andrew R. Deans, 2024, ZooKeys on p. 177-207

Catalog of Endophytic Insects Associated with Rosinweeds (Silphium L., Heliantheae, Asteraceae) in North America

Louis F. Nastasi, Cecil N. Smith, John Frazier Tooker, Andrew R. Deans, 2024, Psyche: Journal of Entomology

Most-Cited Papers

Finding Our Way through Phenotypes

Andrew R. Deans, Suzanna E. Lewis, Eva Huala, Salvatore S. Anzaldo, Michael Ashburner, James P. Balhoff, David C. Blackburn, Judith A. Blake, J. Gordon Burleigh, Bruno Chanet, Laurel D. Cooper, Mélanie Courtot, Sándor Csösz, Hong Cui, Wasila Dahdul, Sandip Das, T. Alexander Dececchi, Agnes Dettai, Rui Diogo, Robert E. Druzinsky, Michel Dumontier, Nico M. Franz, Frank Friedrich, George V. Gkoutos, Melissa Haendel, Luke J. Harmon, Terry F. Hayamizu, Yongqun He, Heather M. Hines, Nizar Ibrahim, Laura M. Jackson, Pankaj Jaiswal, Christina James-Zorn, Sebastian Köhler, Guillaume Lecointre, Hilmar Lapp, Carolyn J. Lawrence, Nicolas Le Novère, John G. Lundberg, James Macklin, Austin R. Mast, Peter E. Midford, István Mikó, Christopher J. Mungall, Anika Oellrich, David Osumi-Sutherland, Helen Parkinson, Martín J. Ramírez, Stefan Richter, Peter N. Robinson, Alan Ruttenberg, Katja S. Schulz, Erik Segerdell, Katja C. Seltmann, Michael J. Sharkey, Aaron D. Smith, Barry Smith, Chelsea D. Specht, R. Burke Squires, Robert W. Thacker, Anne Thessen, Jose Fernandez-Triana, Mauno Vihinen, Peter D. Vize, Lars Vogt, Christine E. Wall, Ramona L. Walls, Monte Westerfeld, Robert A. Wharton, Christian S. Wirkner, James B. Woolley, Matthew J. Yoder, Aaron M. Zorn, Paula Mabee, 2015, PLoS Biology on p. e1002033

Phylogenomics of Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera) and implications for evolution of mode of parasitism and viral endogenization

Barbara J. Sharanowski, Ryan D. Ridenbaugh, Patrick K. Piekarski, Gavin R. Broad, Gaelen R. Burke, Andrew R. Deans, Alan R. Lemmon, Emily C. Moriarty Lemmon, Gloria J. Diehl, James B. Whitfield, Heather M. Hines, 2020, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Malagasy Conostigmus (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea) and the secret of scutes

István Mikó, Carolyn Trietsch, Emily L. Sandall, Matthew Jon Yoder, Heather Hines, Andrew Robert Deans, 2016, PeerJ

Emerging semantics to link phenotype and environment

Anne E. Thessen, Daniel E. Bunker, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Laurel D. Cooper, Wasila M. Dahdul, Sami Domisch, Nico M. Franz, Pankaj Jaiswal, Carolyn J. Lawrence-Dill, Peter E. Midford, Christopher J. Mungall, Martin J. Ramírez, Chelsea D. Specht, Lars Vogt, Rutger Aldo Vos, Ramona L. Walls, Jeffrey W. White, Guanyang Zhang, Andrew R. Deans, Eva Huala, Suzanna E. Lewis, Paula M. Mabee, 2015, PeerJ

Catalogue of Rose Gall, Herb Gall, and Inquiline Gall Wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) of the United States, Canada and Mexico

Louis F. Nastasi, Andrew R. Deans, 2021, Biodiversity Data Journal on p. 1-41

The insect collectors' code

Carolyn Trietsch, Andrew R. Deans, 2018, American Entomologist on p. 156-158

Multi-gene phylogeny and divergence estimations for evaniidae (hymenoptera)

Barbara J. Sharanowski, Leanne Peixoto, Anamaria Dal Molin, Andrew R. Deans, 2019, PeerJ

Key to the North American tribes and genera of herb, rose, bramble, and inquiline gall wasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Cynipidae sensu lato)

Louis F. Nastasi, Matthew L. Buffington, Charles K. Davis, Andrew R. Deans, 2024, ZooKeys on p. 177-207

A taxonomic revision of nearctic conostigmus (hymenoptera: ceraphronoidea: megaspilidae)

Carolyn Trietsch, István Mikó, Briana Ezray, Andrew R. Deans, 2020, Zootaxa on p. 1-155

A new megaspilid wasp from Eocene Baltic amber (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea), with notes on two non-ceraphronoid families: Radiophronidae and Stigmaphronidae

István Mikó, Thomas van de Kamp, Carolyn Trietsch, Jonah M. Ulmer, Marcus Zuber, Tilo Baumbach, Andrew R. Deans, 2018, PeerJ