Publications   

Archibald, R. D., J. M. Cox, and L. L. Deitz.  1979.  New records of plant pests in New Zealand.  III.  Six species of Homoptera.  New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 22: 201-207.

Bartlett, C. R., and L. L. Deitz.  2000.  Revision of the New World Delphacid Planthopper Genus Pissonotus (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea).  Thomas Say Publications in Entomology: Monographs, Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland.  vi + 234 pp.      

Bartlett, C. R., L. L. Deitz, M. J. Rothschild, and M. S. Wallace.  2008.  Treehopper diversity (Hemiptera: Membracidae) of Little Orleans, Allegany Co., Maryland.  Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 110(1): 130-143.

Cryan, J. R., and L. L. Deitz.  1995.  Revision of the Neotropical treehopper genus Smerdalea (Homoptera: Membracidae) with two new species.  Annals of the Entomological Society of America 88(1): 5-11.

Cryan, J. R., and L. L. Deitz.  1999a.  Review of the New World treehopper tribe Stegaspidini (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Stegaspidinae):  I.  Bocydium Latreille, Lirania Stål, and Smerdalea Fowler.  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 101(3): 469-489. 

Cryan, J. R., and L. L. Deitz.  1999b.  Review of the New World treehopper tribe Stegaspidini (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Stegaspidinae):  II.  Lycoderes Germar, Oeda Amyot and Serville, and Stegaspis Germar.  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 101(4): 760-778. 

Cryan, J. R., and L. L. Deitz.  2000.  Review of the New World treehopper tribe Stegaspidini (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Stegaspidinae):  III.  Flexocentrus Goding, Stylocentrus Stål, and Umbelligerus Deitz.  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 102(1): 82-98. 

Cyran, J. R., and L. L. Deitz.  2002.  Enigmatic treehopper genera (Hemiptera: Membracidae): Deiroderes Ramos, Holdgatiella Evans, and Togotolania, new genus.  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 104(4): 868-883. 

Cryan, J. R., J. A. Robertson, and L. L. Deitz.  [2004 (dated 2003)].  The New World Treehopper Tribe Microcentrini (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Stegaspidinae): Monographic Revision and Phylogenetic Position.  Entomological Society of America (Thomas Say Publications in Entomology: Monographs), Lanham, Maryland.  114 pp.

Cryan, J. R., B. M. Wiegmann, L. L. Deitz, and C. H. Dietrich.  2000.  Phylogeny of the treehoppers (Insecta: Hemiptera: Membracidae): evidence from two nuclear genes.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 17(2): 317-334. 

Cryan, J. R., B. M. Wiegmann L. L. Deitz, C. H. Dietrich, and M. F. Whiting. 2004. Treehopper trees: phylogeny of Membracoidea (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Membracoidea) based on molecules and morphology.  Systematic Entomology 29: 441-454.

Deitz, L. L.  1974.  Mildmannered minimonsters.  Smithsonian 5: 64-66, 68, 70-71.  [popular article on treehoppers with color photographs by Kjell B. Sandved]

Deitz, L. L.  1975.  Classification of the higher categories of the New World treehoppers (Homoptera: Membracidae).  North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 225: [i-iv], 1-177.

Deitz, L. L.  1979a.  Voucher specimens in entomology.  The Weta, Newsbulletin of the Entomological Society of New Zealand 2(2): 15-16.   

Deitz, L. L.  1979b.  Two new species of Colobopyga (Homoptera: Halimococcidae) from the Australian region.  New Zealand Journal of Zoology 6: 453-457.

Deitz, L. L.  1979c.  Records of Carulaspis juniperi (Homoptera: Diaspididae) in New Zealand.  New Zealand Journal of Zoology 6: 459-460.

Deitz, L. L.  1979d.  Curatorial note on genitalia vials.  New Zealand Entomologist 7(1): 10-11. 

Deitz, L. L.  1979e.  Selected references for identifying New Zealand Hemiptera (Homoptera and Heteroptera), with notes on nomenclature.  New Zealand Entomologist 7(1): 20-29.

Deitz, L. L.  1981.  Passionvine hopper, Scolypopa australis (Walker), life cycle.  New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Information Series 105/35.  2 pp.

Deitz, L. L.  1983a.  Name changes in the Membracidae (Homoptera).  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 85(4): 856-857.

Deitz, L. L.  1983b.  North Carolina State University Insect Collection.  Tymbal, Auchenorrhyncha Newsletter (Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, London) 2: 8.  

Deitz, L. L.  1984a.  The arrangement of insect collections: options and their merits.  New Zealand Entomologist 8: 120-124.

Deitz, L. L. (compiler).  [1984b (dated 1983)].  Featured institution–North Carolina State University at Raleigh.  Association of Systematics Collections Newsletter 11(6): 65-69.  

Deitz, L. L.  1985.  Placement of the genera Abelus Stål and Hemicentrus Melichar in the subfamily Centrotinae (Homoptera: Membracidae).  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 87(1): 161-170.

Deitz, L. L.  1986.  New taxa in the Membracoidea (Homoptera) 19561985.  Tymbal, Auchenorrhyncha Newsletter (CAB International Institute of Entomology, London) 7: 78.

Deitz, L. L.  1989.  Bibliography of the Membracoidea (Homoptera: Aetalionidae, Biturritiidae, Membracidae, and Nicomiidae) 1981-1987.  North Carolina Agricultural Research Service Technical Bulletin 290: 1-31.

Deitz, L. L.  1991a.  David Allan Young, Jr.  1915-1991.  Tymbal, Auchenorrhyncha Newsletter (CAB International Institute of Entomology, London) 17: 2-8.  [obituary with annotated bibliography of Young’s publications]    

Deitz, L. L.  1991b.  David Allan Young, Jr. (1915-1991).  American Entomologist 37(4): 251.  [obituary]

Deitz, L. L.  1992.  David Allan Young, Jr. (1915-1991).  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 94(3): 390-395.  [obituary with annotated bibliography of Young’s publications]

Deitz, L. L.  1993a.  Introduction.  pp. 228-229. In Young, D. A.  New genus and five new species of mileewine leafhoppers from New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae).  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 95(2): 228-240.

Deitz, L. L.  1993b.  Book review: “Bibliography of New Zealand Terrestrial Invertebrates 1775-1985, and Guide to the Associated Information Retrieval Database BUGS.”  Annals of the Entomological Society of America 86(4): 513-514.

Deitz, L. L. (team leader). 2008 (and updates). DrMetcalf: a resource on cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, spittlebugs, and treehoppers.  [online publication; additional authors are listed in each section]   

Deitz, L. L., and C. R. Bartlett.  2004.  Publications of Thomas Kenneth Wood (1942-2002).  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106(3): 586-591. 

[Deitz, L. L., and R. L. Blinn].  1998.  Grants and awards: the North Carolina State University Insect Collection.  Association of Systematics Collections Newsletter 26: 5.

Deitz, L. L., J. R. Cryan, C. H. Dietrich, S. H. McKamey, and B. M. Wiegmann.  1999.  Phylogeny of the Membracidae: morphological and molecular evidence.  10th International Auchenorrhyncha Congress, 6-10 Sept. 1999, Cardiff, Wales: Abstracts of Talks and Posters.  [published abstract, page 86, pages not numbered]

Deitz, L. L., and J. A. Davidson.  1986.  Synopsis of the armored scale genus Melanaspis in North America (Homoptera: Diaspididae).  North Carolina Agricultural Research Service Technical Bulletin 279: i-iv, 1-92.

Deitz, L. L., and C. H. Dietrich.  1993.  Superfamily Membracoidea (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha). I. Introduction and revised classification with new family-group taxa.  Systematic Entomology 18(4): 287-296.

Deitz, L. L., G. Hall, and M. F. Tocker.  1979.  Hemiptera in the DSIR Collection.  The Weta, Newsbulletin of the Entomological Society of New Zealand 2(2): 17-20. 

Deitz, L. L., and D. W. Helmore.  1979.  Illustrated key to the families and genera of planthoppers (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) from New Zealand.  New Zealand Entomologist 7(1): 11-19.

Deitz, L. L., and D. D. Kopp.  1987.  Bibliography of the Membracoidea (Homoptera: Aetalionidae, Biturritiidae, Membracidae, and Nicomiidae) 1956-1980.  North Carolina Agricultural Research Service Technical Bulletin 284: [i-ii], 1-39.

Deitz, L. [L.], L. [A.] McCormick, and D. [H.] Westmoreland.  2004.  “DR METCALF”: a resource on cicadas, froghoppers, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and treehoppers (Hemiptera).  p. 66.  In National Science Foundation, PEET V, Spatial and Temporal Issues in Taxonomy, Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy, Fifth Biennial Conference, September 20-23, 2004, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.   112 pp.  [abstract]    

Deitz, L. L., C. [A.] Nalepa, and K.-D. Klass.  2003.  Phylogeny of the Dictyoptera re-examined (Insecta).  Entomologische Abhandlungen 61(1): 69-91.

Deitz, L. L., and L. M. Osegueda.  1989.  Effectiveness of bibliographic databases for retrieving entomological literature: a lesson based on the Membracoidea (Homoptera).  Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America 35(2): 33-39.

Deitz, L. L., and D. L. Stephan.  1984.  Records of Diradius vandykei (Ross) in North Carolina and Virginia (Embiidina: Teratembiidae).  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 86(1): 239-241. 

Deitz, L. L., and L. Z. Tajiri.  1993.  Software note: " `BUGS' On-disc: Index to Information in the Literature on New Zealand Terrestrial Invertebrates 1775-1985."  Annals of the Entomological Society of America 86(4): 514-515.   

Deitz, L. L., and M. F. Tocker.  1980.  W. M. Maskell's Homoptera: species-group names and type-material.  New Zealand Department Scientific Industrial Research Information Series 146: 1-76.

Deitz, L. L., J. W. Van Duyn, J. R. Bradley, Jr., R. L. Rabb, W. M. Brooks, and R. E. Stinner.  1976.  A guide to the identification and biology of soybean arthropods in North Carolina.  North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 238: 1-264.  [Second printing 1980, with corrections]

Dietrich, C. H., and L. L. Deitz.  1991a.  Revision of the Neotropical treehopper tribe Aconophorini (Homoptera: Membracidae).  North Carolina Agricultural Research Service Technical Bulletin 293: 1-134.

Dietrich, C. H., and L. L. Deitz.  1991b.  Numerical phenetic and cladistic analyses of the treehopper tribe Aconophorini (Homoptera: Membracidae: Membracinae).  Annals of Entomological Society America 84(3): 228-238.

Dietrich, C. H., and L. L. Deitz.  1993.  Superfamily Membracoidea (Homoptera:  Auchenorrhyncha). II. Cladistic analysis and conclusions.  Systematic Entomology 18(4): 297-311.

Dietrich, C. H., T. H. Emigh, and L. L. Deitz.  1991.  Morphometric discrimination among females of sibling species of Aconophorini (Homoptera: Membracidae).  Systematic Entomology 16(3): 311-318.

Dietrich, C. H., S. H. McKamey, and L. L. Deitz.  2001.  Morphology-based phylogeny of the treehopper family Membracidae (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Membracoidea).   Systematic Entomology 26(2): 213-239.

Dietrich, C. H., M. J. Rothschild, and L. L. Deitz.  1999.  Checklist and host plants of the treehoppers of North Carolina.  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 101(2): 242-262. 

Farrier, M. H., and L. L. Deitz.  2000a.  Clyde Fuhriman Smith.  American Entomologist 46(2): 126-127.  [obituary]

Farrier, M. H., and L. L. Deitz.  2000b.  Obituary.  Clyde Fuhriman Smith (1913-2000).  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 102(4): 1077-1087.  [includes comprehensive bibliography of Smith's publications]

Flynn, D. J., G. R. Balme, L. L. Deitz, and M. J. Rothschiled.  2003.  Archasia pallida (Fairmaire) (Hemiptera: Membracidae) in North Carolina.  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 105(4): 1060-1061.

Jones, J. R., and L. L. Deitz.  2009.  Phylogeny and systematics of the leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae).  Zootaxa 2186: [1]-120.   [available online]

Kosztarab, M., L. B. O'Brien, M. B. Stoetzel, L. L. Deitz, and P. H. Freytag.  1990.  Problems and needs in the study of Homoptera in North America.  pp. 119-145. In Kosztarab, M., and C. W. Schaefer (eds.).  Systematics of the North American Insects and Arachnids: Status and Needs.  Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station Information Series 901.  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.  xii + 247 pp.

McKamey, S. H., and L. L. Deitz.  [1990 (dated 1989)].  Missing types in the tribe Hoplophorionini (Membracidae).  Tymbal, Auchenorrhyncha Newsletter (CAB International Institute of Entomology, London) 14: 21-24.

McKamey, S. H., and L. L. Deitz.  1991a.  Synonymy in the treehopper genera Hoplophorion, Metcalfiella, and Ochropepla (Homoptera Membracidae).  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 93(1): 159-162.  [see also editor's corrections: 93(3):793] 

McKamey, S. H., and L. L. Deitz.  1991b.  Nomenclatural changes in the treehopper tribes Hoplophorionini, Smiliini, and Talipedini (Homoptera: Membracidae).  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington  93(1): 193-196.  [see also editor's corrections: 93(3):793] 

McKamey, S. H., and L. L. Deitz.  1991c.  Revision of the Neotropical treehopper genus Metcalfiella (Homoptera: Membracidae).  North Carolina Agricultural Research Service Technical Bulletin 294: [1]-89.

McKamey, S. H., and L. L. Deitz.  1996.  Generic revision of the New World tribe Hoplophorionini (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Membracinae).  Systematic Entomology 21(4): 295-342.

Nalepa, C. A., P. Luykx, K.-D. Klass, and L. L. Deitz.  2002.  Distribution of karyotypes of the Cryptocercus punctulatus species complex (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae) in the Southern Appalachians: relation to habitat and history.  Annals of the Entomological Society of America 95(3): 276-287.       

Neunzig, H. H., and L. L. Deitz.  1988.  Review: "Eaton, John C.  1988.  Lepidopteran Anatomy.  Wiley-Interscience Series in Insect Morphology.  John Wiley and Sons, NY. $49.95.  257 pp."  ASB Bulletin (Association of Southeastern Biologists) 35(4): 233-234.  [book review]

Sprenkel, R. L., W. M. Brooks, J. W. Van Duyn, and L. L. Deitz.  1979.  The effects of three cultural variables on the incidence of Nomuraea rileyi, phytophagous Lepidoptera and their predators on soybeans.  Environmental Entomology 8(2): 334-339.

Walker, A. K., and L. L. Deitz.  1979.  A review of entomophagous insects of the Cook Islands.  New Zealand Entomologist 7(1): 70-82.

Wallace, M. S., C. R. Bartlett, L. L. Deitz, and M. J. Rothschild.  2009.  New state records of treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae) for Delaware, Maryland, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 111(3): 734-738. 

Wallace, M. S., and L. L. Deitz.  1999.  [Photo of first Helonica treehopper found in Smokies National Park].  p. 83.  In Pedersen, D.  The search for hidden life.  Newsweek 133(21): 82-83. 

Wallace, M. A., and L. L. Deitz.  2003.  Aconophora lineosa Walker 1858, new junior synonym of Thelia bimaculata (Fabricius 1794) (Hemiptera: Membracidae).  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 105(4): 1051-1052. 

Wallace, M. S., and L. L. Deitz.  2004.  Phylogeny and systematics of the treehopper subfamily Centrotinae (Hemiptera: Membracidae).  Memoirs on Entomology, International, 19: [i]-iv, 1-377.

Wallace, M. S., and L. L. Deitz.  2006.  Australian treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Centrotinae: Terentiini): phylogeny and biogeography.  Invertebrate Systematics 20(2): 163-183.  

Wallace, M. S., and L. L. Deitz.  2007.  Treehoppers.  In Lamp, W. O., R. C. Berberest, L. G. Higley, and C. R. Baird (eds.).  Handbook of Forage and Rangeland Insects.   Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland.  vi + 180 pp.   

Wallace, M. S., L. L. Deitz, and M. J. Rothschild.  2003.  Checklist of the treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 105(3): 578-591.

Yang, M., L. L. Deitz, and Z. Li.  2005.  A new genus and two new species of Cicadellinae from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with a key to the Chinese genera of Cicadellinae.  New York Entomological Society 113(1-2): 77-83. 

Updated 10 Sep 2009