Andrew Deans
Professor of Entomology, Director of the Frost Entomological Museum
Huck Affiliations
Most Recent Publications
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
Checklists of the Ceraphronoidea, Cynipoidea, Evanioidea, Stephanoidea and Trigonalyoidea (Hymenoptera) of Canada, Alaska and Greenland
Andrew M.R. Bennett, Matthew L. Buffington, Andrew R. Deans, Mattias Forshage, George Melika, Istvan Miko, David R. Smith, 2024, Journal of Hymenoptera Research on p. 1163-1220
Aulacidea manchuria Nastasi sp. nov., a new herb gall wasp from China (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Aulacideini), with commentary on hawkweed (Asteraceae: Hieraciinae) gall wasps
Louis F. Nastasi, Andrew R. Deans, 2024, Zootaxa on p. 582-588
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
The insect collectors' code
Carolyn Trietsch, Andrew R. Deans, 2018, American Entomologist on p. 156-158
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
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
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
Fat in the Leg: Function of the Expanded Hind Leg in Gasteruptiid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Gasteruptiidae)
Maxwell Wetherington, Istvan Miko, Sarthok Rasique Rahman, Salvatore S. Anzaldo, Thomas Van De Kamp, Ben A. Parslow, Nikolai J. Tatarnic, Julie Anderson, Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Jonah M. Ulmer, Andrew Robert Deans, Heather M. Hines, 2019, Insect Systematics and Diversity
News Articles Featuring Andrew Deans
Dec 13, 2024
8-year-old boy’s discovery rewrites 100 years of insect and plant knowledge
A boy’s mammoth tooth and another’s ant-inspired study reveal nature’s secrets, linking past and present through curiosity and discovery.
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Oct 18, 2024
Penn State entomology graduate student identifies 22 new species of gall wasps
Twenty-two new species of gall wasps have been identified and named for the first time, thanks to new research led by a Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences graduate student.
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Apr 03, 2023
8-year-old boy disrupts 100 years of scientific knowledge regarding insects and plants
Penn State scientists, thanks to 8-year old Hugo Dean's curiousity, have discovered a new level of complexity in plant-insect interactions through a groundbreaking study that has turned a century of knowledge about the relationship on its head.
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Sep 01, 2022
Boy’s discovery reveals highly complex plant-insect interaction
When 8-year-old Hugo Deans discovered a handful of BB-sized objects lying near an ant nest beneath a log in his backyard, he thought they were a type of seed
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