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THE NC STATE UNIVERSITY INSECT MUSEUM: ADVANCING COLLECTIONS-BASED RESEARCH AND ENHANCING DATA ACCESSIBILITY
Sponsoring Institution
State Agricultural Experiment Station
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
STATE
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
0099123
Grant No.
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Cumulative Award Amt.
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Proposal No.
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Multistate No.
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Project Start Date
Oct 1, 2008
Project End Date
Sep 30, 2013
Grant Year
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Program Code
[(N/A)]- (N/A)
Recipient Organization
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIV
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RALEIGH,NC 27695
Performing Department
Entomology
Non Technical Summary
The NC State University Insect Museum cares for close to 1.4 million insect specimens from all over North Carolina and the world. Thousands of these specimens serve as vouchers for ecological, biodiversity, genetic, agricultural, and/or physiological research, and hundreds of these specimens serve as types, each representing a taxonomic concept (i.e., a "species"). Vouchers are critical to verifying research outcomes, and types are indispensable for resolving taxonomic problems. Direct observation of these specimens, however, often requires their extraction from the confines of the collection, a repackaging, and shipment to a destination that can be 1000AEs of miles away. Any amount of handling and shipment exposes these priceless (and fragile) specimens to potential destruction. In order to safeguard their integrity we propose to expose images of the specimens and data summaries (e.g., where and when they were collected, and by whom) to our colleagues 1000AEs of miles away through the Web. This cuts handling and exposure time down dramatically. Our plan also calls for a more structured presentation of our museumAEs resources, organization, collection, news, and results using the Web.
Animal Health Component
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Research Effort Categories
Basic
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Applied
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Developmental
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Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
1360899113090%
1363090113010%
Knowledge Area
136 - Conservation of Biological Diversity;

Subject Of Investigation
0899 - Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other; 3090 - Other Pollinators;

Field Of Science
1130 - Entomology and acarology;
Goals / Objectives
The NC State University Insect Museum serves as the primary repository for voucher specimens representing basic and applied research conducted at NC State University. The Museum's research collection also retains specimens critical to taxonomic research worldwide, and we receive ~20 loan and/or data requests every year. We are working towards exposing the data housed within the Museum (via the Web, for example) without exposing the specimens to potential damage. Our goals for the next 5 years are: (1) to provide an enhanced, Web-accessible guide to the resources of the NC State University Insect Museum (i.e., clearer summaries of which taxa we have, which collections are housed in the Museum, what equipment we have available to enhance our research, how the Museum is structured); (2) to expand the Museum database to include georeferenced collecting event information and specimen images and to expose these data through an enhanced website; (3) to image all type specimens; (4) to curate and organize specimens according to current classifications; (5) to promote growth of our collection, especially in underrepresented and native taxa; (6) to safeguard collection resources (i.e., protect against environmental damage and museum pests).
Project Methods
Our existing database accounts for 500,000 of our 1,400,000 specimens and mainly focuses on specimen number, taxon, whether the taxon occurs in NC, and whether any of the specimens serve as types. The most up-to-date database is only available locally, however, and we're working to reveal these data remotely (i.e., through the Web) by migrating the data from Microsoft Access to MySQL. We also intend to expand the data captured to include specimen images and georeferenced collecting event information. We will implement a PHP or Ruby on Rails/MySQL-basedcontent management system (CMS) on our dedicated server that will serve as the backbone of an enhanced website. Components of the CMS facilitate: (1) creation of Web pages by people unfamiliar with HTML (allows more input from all our museum associates), (2) specimen data entry, (3) specimen image upload in coordination with existing offsite resources (mainly Morphbank, http://morphbank.net), (4) timely pest monitoring via electronic reminders/built-in calendars, (5) timely dissemination of news via the Web regarding recent Museum developments, (6) public engagement with the research community to promote the use of our resources and with citizens to educate non-entomologists about the wonderful world of insects and why systematics research and insect collections are relevant.

Progress 10/01/10 to 09/30/11

Outputs
OUTPUTS: The NCSU Insect Museum blog (http://blog.insectmuseum.org), started in January 2008 to communicate accomplishments and exciting developments in museum science, especially those events that involve the NCSU Insect Museum, continues to gain readership, with more than 36,000 visits during this reporting period. During this reporting period we wrote 104 posts (each of which essentially is a short article or note) about the importance of taxonomy, progress in our efforts to database the collection at the specimen level, interesting insects of North Carolina, recent acquisitions by the Museum, and detailed accounts of expeditions, etc. In addition to this enhanced communication with our colleagues and the public we have begun databasing individual specimens and making their collecting event data available. We continue to capture specimen data for the species of bees that are in decline, as well as ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and other taxa. We now have more than 50,000 specimens databased. We also reacquired our type specimens (at least 100) from a long term loan to the Smithsonian. These were databased and imaged. We also began a process to image every drawer in the collection (2,700 drawers) in high resolution. During the reporting period 1940 drawers were imaged and availed through the http://gigapan.org website for community comment, expert annotation, and for educational purposes. We also presented at the Entomological Collections Network on our progress regarding the the profiling of the wet-preserved holdings. PARTICIPANTS: Six graduate students, Trish Mullins, Rinchhuanawma, Andrew Ernst, Keith Bayless, Steve Turner, and Heather Campbell-Melvin (all NC State University) and five postdocs, Istvan Miko, Matt Bertone, Shelah Morita, Michelle Trautwein, Isaac Winkler, have been a part of this project directly, gaining experience in specimen preparation, curation, outreach, and databasing methods. Several collaborators have benefited from specimen-level data by incorporating them into niche modeling analyses (e.g. Jeff Lozier and Sydney Cameron, University of Illinois). TARGET AUDIENCES: The citizens of North Carolina are targeted for outreach efforts, such as classroom instruction and insect show-and-tell, as well as blog posts about entomology and an insect poetry contest (the Hexapod Haiku Challenge). Citizens of the world are targeted for our general outreach about curation and insect biology. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.

Impacts
Our collection has become a lot more exposed and available by exploiting numerous virtual resources. Anyone can now browse our pinned holdings virtually.

Publications

  • No publications reported this period


Progress 10/01/09 to 09/30/10

Outputs
OUTPUTS: The NCSU Insect Museum blog (http://blog.insectmuseum.org), started in January 2008 to communicate accomplishments and exciting developments in museum science, especially those events that involve the NCSU Insect Museum, continues to gain readership, with more than 17,000 visits during this reporting period. During this reporting period we wrote 124 posts (each of which essentially is a short article or note) about the importance of taxonomy, progress in our efforts to database the collection at the specimen level, interesting insects of North Carolina, recent acquisitions by the Museum, and detailed accounts of expeditions, etc. In addition to this enhanced communication with our colleagues and the public we have begun databasing individual specimens and making their collecting event data available. We continue to capture specimen data for the species of bees that are in decline, as well as ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and other taxa. We now have more than 26,000 specimens databased. We also reacquired our type specimens (at least 100) from a long term loan to the Smithsonian. These are being databased and imaged. We also began a process to image every drawer in the collection (2,700 drawers) in high resolution. During the reporting period 960 drawers were imaged and availed through the http://gigapan.org website for community comment, expert annotation, and for educational purposes. PARTICIPANTS: PARTICIPANTS: Five graduate students, Trish Mullins, Rinchhuanawma, Andrew Ernst, Keith Bayless, Steve Turner (all NC State University) and seven postdocs, Istvan Miko, Matt Yoder, Matt Bertone, Barb Sharanowski, Shelah Morita, Michelle Trautwein, Isaac Winkler, have been a part of this project directly, gaining experience in specimen preparation, curation, outreach, and databasing methods. Several collaborators have benefited from specimen-level data by incorporating them into niche modeling analyses (especially Sydney Cameron, University of Illinois). TARGET AUDIENCES: The citizens of North Carolina are targeted for outreach efforts, such as classroom instruction and insect show-and-tell, as well as blog posts about entomology and an insect poetry contest (the Hexapod Haiku Challenge). PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.

Impacts
Our collection has become a lot more exposed and available by exploiting numerous virtual resources.Anyone can now browse our holdings virtually.

Publications

  • Yoder MJ, Miko I, Seltmann KC, Bertone MA, Deans AR. 2010. A Gross Anatomy Ontology for Hymenoptera. PLoS ONE 5 (12): e15991.
  • Baker, James R. and James LaBonte, Thomas H. Atkinson, Stephen Bambara. 2009. Identification Tool for Bark Beetles of the Southeastern US. Lucid v.3.4.1, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 27695. 558 MB.
  • Southern, P. S. and C. H. Dietrich. 2010. Eight new species of Empoasca (Hemiptera: Cicadillidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini) from Peru and Bolivia. Zootaxa 2524: 1-23.
  • Trautwein, M.D., B. M. Wiegmann, D.K. Yeates. 2010. A multigene phylogeny of the fly superfamily Asiloidea (Insecta): Taxon sampling and additional genes reveal the sister group to all higher flies (Cyclorrhapha). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56: 918-930.
  • Miko I., Masner, L. & A. R. Deans. 2010. World revision of Xenomerus Walker (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae). Zootaxa 2708: 1-73.
  • Bertone, M.A. and A. R. Deans. 2010. Remote curation through GigaPans: examples from the NCSU Insect Museum. Proceedings of the Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science, November 11-13 2010.
  • Peterson, M. J., M. A. Bertone, B. M. Wiegmann, and G. W. Courtney. 2010. Phylogenetic synthesis of morphological and molecular data reveals new insights into the higher-level classification of the Tipuloidea (Diptera). Systematic Entomology 35 (3): 526-545.
  • Winterton, S. L. and B. M. Wiegmann. 2010. On wings of lace: phylogeny and Bayesian divergence time estimates of Neuropterida (Insecta) based on morphological and molecular data. Systematic Entomology 35 (3): 349-378.
  • Ronquist, F. and A. R. Deans. 2010. Bayesian phylogenetics and its influence on insect systematics. Annual Review of Entomology 55: 189-206


Progress 10/01/08 to 09/30/09

Outputs
OUTPUTS: The NCSU Insect Museum blog (http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/insects), started in January 2008 to communicate accomplishments and exciting developments in museum science, especially those events that involve the NCSU Insect Museum, continues to gain readership. In 2009 we wrote 90 posts (each of which essentially is a short article or note) about the importance of taxonomy, progress in our efforts to database the collection at the specimen level, interesting insects of North Carolina, recent acquisitions by the Museum, and detailed accounts of expeditions, etc. In addition to this enhanced communication with our colleagues and the public we have begun databasing individual specimens and making their collecting event data available. We continue to capture specimen data for the species of bumble bees that are in decline and have just started the process with ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Two students, Michelle Trautwein (PhD) and Whitney Swink (MS), graduated with their degrees in insect systematics. PARTICIPANTS: Six graduate students and six postdocs have been a part of this project, gaining experience in specimen preparation, curation, and databasing methods. SSeveral collaborators have benefited from specimen-level data by incorporating them into niche modeling analyses (especially Sydney Cameron, University of Illinois). TARGET AUDIENCES: The citizens of North Carolina are targeted for outreach efforts, such as classroom instruction and insect show-and-tell, as well as blog posts about entomology. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.

Impacts
The museum continues to serve the department and our national/international colleagues by protecting important voucher and type specimens. Our website receives more than 100 hits a day and is reaching and educating more people about insects than in the previous 2 years.

Publications

  • Jones, J. R. & L. L. Deitz. 2009. Phylogeny and systematics of the leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Zootaxa 2186: [1]-120.
  • Wallace, M. S., C. R. Bartlett, L. L. Deitz, & 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.
  • Dikow, T. & K. M. Bayless. 2009. Taxonomic revision of the genus Schildia Aldrich, 1923 (Diptera: Asilidae: Leptogastrinae) with the description of new extant and extinct species. Insect Systematics & Evolution. 40: 253-289
  • Miko, I. and A. R. Deans. 2009. Masner, a new genus of Ceraphronidae (Hymenoptera, Ceraphronoidea) described using controlled vocabularies. ZooKeys 20: 127-153
  • Barr, N. B. and B. M. Wiegmann. 2009. Phylogenetic relationships of Ceratitis fruit flies inferred from nuclear CAD and tango/ARNT gene fragments: testing monophyly of the subgenera Ceratitis (Ceratitis) and C. (Pterandrus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, in press.
  • Bertone, M. A., and B. M. Wiegmann. 2009. Diptera. In: S. Kumar and S. B. Hedges, eds. The Timetree of Life. Oxford University Press.
  • Winterton, S. L., and B. M. Wiegmann. 2009. Neuroptera. In: S. Kumar and S. B. Hedges, eds. The Timetree of Life. Oxford University Press.
  • Lambkin CL, JWH Trueman, D. K. Yeates, K. C. Holston, D. W. Webb, M. Hauser, M. A. Metz, H. N. Hill, J. H. Skevington, L. Yang, M. E. Irwin, and B. M. Wiegmann. 2009. Supertrees and the Tree of Life: Generating a metaphylogeny for a diverse invertebrate family (Insecta: Diptera: Therevidae) using constraint trees and the parsimony ratchet to overcome low taxon overlap. Invertebrate Systematics, 23:171-191.
  • Kutty, S. N., T. Pape, A. Pont, B. M. Wiegmann, and R. Meier. 2008. The Muscoidea (Diptera: Calyptratae) are paraphyletic: Evidence from four mitochondrial and four nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 639-652.
  • Peterson, M. J., M. A. Bertone, B. M. Wiegmann, and G. W. Courtney. 2009. Phylogenetic synthesis of morphological and molecular data reveals new insights into the higher-level classification of the Tipuloidea (Diptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, in press.
  • Winterton, S. L. and B. M. Wiegmann. 2009. On wings of lace: phylogeny and Bayesian divergence time estimates of Neuropterida (Insecta) based on morphological and molecular data, Systematic Entomology, in press.
  • Janzen, D. H., Hallwachs, W., Blandin, P., Burns, J. M., Cadiou, J.-M., Chacon, I., Dapkey, T., Deans, A. R, Epstein, M., Espinoza, B., Franclemont, J., Haber, W., Hajibabaei, M., Hallwachs, J., Hebert, P. Gauld, I. D., Harvey, D., Hausmann, A., Kitching, I., Lafontaine, D., Landry, J.-F., Lemaire, C., Miller, J., Miller, J., Miller, L., Miller, S., Montero, J., Munroe, E., Green, S., Rawlins, J., Robbins, R., Rodriguez, J., Rougerie, R., Sharkey, M., Smith, A., Solis, M. A., Sullivan, B., Thiaucourt, P., Wahl, D., Weller, S., Whitfield, J., Willmott, K., Wood, D. M., Woodley, N., Wilson, J. 2009. Integration of DNA barcoding into an ongoing inventory of complex tropical biodiversity. Molecular Ecology Resources 9(s1): 1-26.
  • Blinn, R. L. 2009. New records for the genus Diaditus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Stenopodainae) in America north of Mexico. Zootaxa 2125: 57-62.
  • Wiegmann, B. M., M D. Trautwein, J. Kim, M. Bertone, S. L. Winterton, B. K. Cassel, and D. K. Yeates. 2009. Nuclear genes resolve phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders. BMC Biology 34:7.
  • Wiegmann, B. M., J. Kim and M. D. Trautwein. 2009. Holometabola. In: S. Kumar and S. B. Hedges, eds. The Timetree of Life. Oxford University Press.
  • Bayless, K. 2008. Unplaced Acalyptratae. Version 25 March 2008. Available from: http://tolweb.org/Unplaced_Acalyptratae/119717 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/.
  • Bayless, K. 2008. Stratiomyidae. Soldier flies. Version 29 September 2008. Available from: http://tolweb.org/Stratiomyidae/10444 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/


Progress 10/01/07 to 09/30/08

Outputs
OUTPUTS: A new NCSU Insect Museum blog (http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/insects) was started in January 2008 to communicate accomplishments and exciting developments in museum science, especially those events that involve the NCSU Insect Museum. As of December 2008 we have written 155 posts (each of which essentially is a short article or note) about the importance of taxonomy, progress in our efforts to database the collection at the specimen level, interesting insects of North Carolina, recent acquisitions by the Museum, and detailed accounts of expeditions, etc. In addition to this enhanced communication with our colleagues and the public we have begun databasing individual specimens and making their collecting event data available. We started with the species of bumble bees that are in decline: http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/roller/insects/entry/building_a_specimen_co llecting_event. One student, Matt Bertone, graduated with his PhD in insect systematics. PARTICIPANTS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.

Impacts
The museum continues to serve the department and our national/international colleagues by protecting important voucher and type specimens. A recent analysis by Mike Wilson et al. (2008) determined that the NCSU Insect Museum houses the world's most diverse collection of Cicadellinae leaf hoppers - an economically important group that includes the glassy-winged sharpshooter.

Publications

  • Sterling, P. S. 2008. New species and color forms of Empoasca (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini) from South America. Zootaxa 1949: 51-62.
  • Blinn, R. L. 2008. Tagalis inornata cubensis McAtee & Malloch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Saicinae): First record from the continental United States. Zootaxa 1912: 66-68.
  • M. Alex Smith, J. J. Rodriguez, J. B. Whitfield, A. R. Deans, D. H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs, and P. D. N. Hebert. 2008. Extreme diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps exposed by iterative integration of natural history, DNA barcoding, morphology, and collections. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 105 (35): 12359-12364.
  • Bartlett, C. R., L. L. Deitz, M. J. Rothschild, and M. S. Wallace. 2008. Treehopper diversity (Hemiptera: Membracidae) of Little Orleans, Allegany Co., Maryland. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 110(1): 130-143.
  • Deans, A. R. & R. Kawada. 2008. Alobevania, a new genus of neotropical ensign wasps (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae), with three new species: integrating taxonomy with the World Wide Web. Zootaxa 1787: 28-44


Progress 10/01/06 to 09/30/07

Outputs
OUTPUTS: The Insect Museum website (http://entomology.ncsu.edu/insectmuseum/) has been updated to sport more modern look and to ready the site for future additions, including a blog and a more thorough database of specimens. An increased and updated Web presence has expanded the research community's awareness of our resources, as evidenced by: 21 requests for specimen loans (totaling 1,788 specimens), 12 requests for specimen data, 46 visitors (21 professionals) to the Museum, and 25 requests for outreach displays plus specimens for the Science Olympiad. Our inventory now lists 29,369 species, as well as holdings of 616 holotypes. Improvements to the Collection during 2007 included: 1) the incorporation of nine donated personal collections - J. H. Eads, Jr. (1109 specimens), Micou Browne (835 specimens), William Conner (534 slides), Charles Bartlett (9 specimens), Kye Hedlund (200 specimens), Henry Stockwell (93 specimens), Jim F. Cornell (1960 specimens), Will D. Merritt (623 specimens), Robert L. Blinn (3250 specimens) - 2) reincorporation of 830 returned and curated loaned specimens, 3) new ceiling and light fixtures to allow for more working light, 4) new workbench installed to allow for up to three more people to work with specimens.. At least 14 individuals were assisted or trained in photographing insect specimens using our Stereo-Microscopic Digital Imaging Station. Collection-based research by our faculty and graduate students included significant contributions on groups of flies, moths, leafhoppers, and treehoppers. Our researchers also presented findings at scientific meetings in Germany (2), Switzerland (1), and the United States (Southeastern Branch Meeting, Entomological Society of America - 6; North Carolina Entomological Society, Raleigh - 2) and at various institutions (the Field Museum, Chicago - 1). New acquisitions (9036 lots: 8079 pinned specimens, 415 vials, 542 slides) included voucher collections and gifts of specimens. Systematists affiliated with the Collection volunteered at the 2007 BugFest (Raleigh), prepared 4 educational exhibits, assisted with outreaches to local schools (displays used on 25 occasions), judged 4-H insect collections at the State Fair, and helped to update the online AgNIC site Systematic Entomology (NCSU Libraries). A collaboration project with the NCSU Libraries is developing two systematic web sites on the auchenorrhychous Hemiptera: DrMETCALF (online bibliographic resource on cicadas, leafhoppers, froghoppers, planthoppers and treehoppers) and TREEHOPPERS (extensive bibliographic and taxonomic information and a photographic library for the families Aetalionidae, Melizoderidae, and Membracidae). PARTICIPANTS: Andrew R. Deans, PI - As the new director for the Museum Deans has updated the website with a new look and new functionality. The site now incorporates a blog that will reach a broad audience of entomology colleagues, taxonomists, and the public. Bob Blinn - Blinn manages the collection, processing incoming and outgoing loans and adding specimens through targeted collecting. TARGET AUDIENCES: Our target audience includes insect taxonomists, entomologists working on a variety of applied and ecological projects, and members of the public with questions about insects. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: The major change instituted in 2007 was a major website redesign that will expose our resources and information to more members of our target audience.

Impacts
With material dating back as far as 1858, the NCSU Insect Museum is an essential resource for identifying specimens, training students, and documenting the insects of North Carolina, as well as a significant source of research material for systematists worldwide. The Museum promotes a broad range of systematic activities, not only in our state, but also across the nation and abroad, with several major orders represented by material collected from around the globe. As an unrivaled resource of North Carolina material, NCSU holds thousands of specimens collected from the mountains to the coast over a span of 100 years. Functioning much as a library, the Museum stores a wealth of data about our insect fauna, including the temporal and spatial distributions of many species, their biology, and associations with other organisms such as plant and animal hosts and animal prey. Unlike a library, however, the Museum holds much unique information not duplicated elsewhere. As ecological habitats are threatened or destroyed, this irreplaceable material is becoming increasingly important to understanding the native fauna of our state. The numbers of requests for specific data on various taxa are rapidly rising as workers elsewhere learn of the extensive online inventory of holdings (nearly 1.4 million prepared specimens representing approximately 27,000 insect species and 616 primary types), now widely accessible to the public and the scientific community through our homepage: http://entomology.ncsu.edu/insectmuseum/.

Publications

  • Holston, K. C., Wiegmann, B. M., and M. E. Irwin. (2007) Monophyly and phylogenetic relationships of Thereva and therevine genus groups (Insecta: Diptera: Therevidae) based on EF-1a, 28S rDNA, and mt16S rDNA sequences. Invertebrate Systematics, 21:279-276.
  • Petersen, F. T., Meier, R., S. Kutty, and B. M. Wiegmann (2007). The phylogeny and evolution of host choice in the Hippoboscoidea (Diptera) as reconstructed using four molecular markers Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 45: 111-122
  • Schnell e Schuli, G. C. J. B. de Carvalho, and B. M. Wiegmann (2007). Molecular phylogenetics of the Muscidae (Diptera: Calyptratae): new ideas in a congruence context. Invertebrate Systematics 21: 263-278.
  • Moulton, J. K. and B. M. Wiegmann (2007). The phylogenetic relationships of flies in the superfamily Empidoidea (Insecta: Diptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 43:701-713.
  • Scheffer, S. J., Winkler, I. S., and B. M. Wiegmann (2007). Phylogenetic relationships and host-use evolution within the leafmining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 42:756-775.
  • Winterton, S. L., Wiegmann, B. M., and E. I. Schlinger. (2007). Phylogeny and bayesian divergence time estimations of small-headed flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) using multiple molecular markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43: 808-832.


Progress 10/01/05 to 09/30/06

Outputs
Through our online presence, users elsewhere are becoming increasingly aware of the NCSU Insect Collection as evidenced by 18 requests for detailed information on material held here. Our inventory now lists 27,039 species as well as holdings of type material. Improvements to the Collection during 2006 included: the updating the collections of aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera; further curation and consolidation of our extensive collection of aphid slides; and the incorporation into the main collection of more than 3,450 specimens from the former NCDA Collection as well as the entire Wilhelm Wagner Collection of Old World Auchenorrhyncha. At least 14 individuals were assisted or trained in photographing insect specimens using our Stereo-Microscopic Digital Imaging Station. Collection-based research by our faculty and graduate students included significant contributions on groups of flies, moths, leafhoppers, and treehoppers (1 Masters thesis and at least 8 publications, with four additional works submitted or in press). Our researchers also presented findings at scientific meetings in Japan (6 presentations), Germany (1), and the United States (Southeastern Branch Meeting, Entomological Society of America, Wilmington, North Carolina - 6; North Carolina Entomological Society, Raleigh - 2) and at various institutions (American Museum of Natural History, New York - 1; Duke University, North Carolina - 2). New acquisitions (8326 lots: 8055 pinned specimens, 208 vials, 63 slides) included 4 voucher collections and 11 gifts of specimens and 1 donation of literature (estimated total value of nearly $13,000). Visitors (40) included 14 other professionals who used the Collection; 13 loans were issued (539 specimens), 14 were returned (2116 specimens). Systematists affiliated with the Collection volunteered at the 2005 BugFest (Raleigh), prepared 4 educational exhibits, assisted with outreaches to local schools (displays used on 30 occasions), judged 4-H insect collections at the State Fair, and helped to update the online AgNIC site Systematic Entomology (NCSU Libraries). A collaboration project with the NCSU Libraries is developing two systematic web sites on the auchenorrhychous Hemiptera: DrMETCALF (online bibliographic resource on cicadas, leafhoppers, froghoppers, planthoppers and treehoppers) and TREEHOPPERS (extensive bibliographic and taxonomic information and a photographic library for the families Aetalionidae, Melizoderidae, and Membracidae).

Impacts
With material dating back as far as 1858, the NCSU Insect Collection is an essential resource for identifying specimens, training students, and documenting the insects of North Carolina, as well as a significant source of research material for systematists worldwide. The Collection promotes a broad range of systematic activities, not only in our state, but also across the nation and abroad, with several major orders represented by material collected from around the globe. As an unrivaled resource of North Carolina material, NCSU holds thousands of specimens collected from the mountains to the coast over a span of 100 years. Functioning much as a library, the Collection stores a wealth of data about our insect fauna, including the temporal and spatial distributions of many species, their biology, and associations with other organisms such as plant and animal hosts and animal prey. Unlike a library, however, the Collection holds much unique information not duplicated elsewhere. As ecological habitats are threatened or destroyed, this irreplaceable material is becoming increasingly important to understanding the native fauna of our state. The numbers of requests for specific data on various taxa are rapidly rising as workers elsewhere learn of the extensive online inventory of holdings (nearly 1.4 million prepared specimens representing approximately 27,000 insect species and 330 primary types), now widely accessible to the public and the scientific community through our homepage: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/entomology/Museum/HomePage.htm.

Publications

  • DONAHUE, J. P. , and H. H. NEUNZIG.. 2006. Two new Dioryctia from California (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae) from Costa Rica. Holarctic Lepidoptera 10: 35-36.
  • JONES, J. R. 2006. Phylogeny and Systematics of the Leafhopper Subfamily Ledrinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). M. S. thesis, Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. viii + 222 pp.
  • LANDRY, B., and H. H. NEUNZIG. 2006. Additions to the Phycitinae of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, with description of a new species of Caudellia Dyar. Mittelungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 79(1-2): 1-6.
  • NEUNZIG, H. H. 2006. Cvihemiptilocera, a new genus for Myelois exoleta Zeller (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae). Journal of the Lepidopterists Society 60(2): 79-81.
  • NEUNZIG, H. H., and M. A. SOLIS. 2006a. Redescription of Bethulia championella Ragonot (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108(2): 235-208.
  • NEUNZIG, H. H., and M. A. SOLIS. 2006b. New species of Sematoneura, Nevacolima, and Eulogia (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae) from Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108(4): 953-963.
  • SOUTHERN, P.S. 2006. Three new species of Empoasca (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini) from northern South America. Zootaxa 1314: 41-51.
  • WALLACE, M. S., and L. L. DEITZ.. 2006a. Australian treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Centrotinae: Terentiini): phylogeny and biogeography. Invertebrate Systematics 20(2): 163-183.
  • WALLACE, M. S., and L. L. DEITZ. 2006b. Treehoppers. pp. 106-108. In LAMP, W., R. BERBERET, L. HIGLEY, and C. BAIRD (eds.). Handbook of Forage and Rangeland Insects. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland. 80 pp.
  • YEATES, D. K., M. E. IRWIN, and B. M. WIEGMANN. 2006. Evocoidae (Diptera: Asiloidea), a new family name for Ocoidae, based on Evocoa, a replacement name for the Chilean genus Ocoa Yeates, Irwin, and Wiegmann 2003. Systematic-Entomology 31(2): 373


Progress 10/01/04 to 09/30/05

Outputs
Notable improvements to the Collection in 2005 involved our Lepidoptera (1200 vials of immature Pyralidae accessioned), Hemiptera (nomenclature updated for all Cicadellidae; 70% of Wilhelm Wagner Auchenorrhyncha Collection incorporated into the main collection); Coleoptera (reorganization of Carabidae and Curculionidae), and Hymenoptera (reorganization of Formicidae). Also, 4,000 further specimens from the former NCDA Collection were curated. Our online inventory now lists 26,496 species, as well as our holdings of type material (a further195 holotypes were returned from the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.). Collection-based research published by our faculty and graduate students included descriptions of new braconid wasps (11 new species), pyralid moths (1 new genus, 4 new species), and cicadelline leafhoppers (1 new genus and 2 new species) and new phylogenetic hypotheses for various groups of flies. Our researchers also presented findings at scientific meetings in South Korea (1), Germany (1), and the United States (Entomological Society of America-6; North Carolina Entomological Society-2), as well as institutions in Iowa (1) and Illinois (1); 3 of our graduate students' presentations earned prominent awards. New acquisitions (6,448 lots: 5,143 pinned specimens, 1,287 vials, 18 vials) included 1 voucher collection, 8 gifts, and material collected in 9 counties of North Carolina. Visitors (40) included 14 other professionals who used the Collection; 16 loans were issued (3,513 specimens), 9 were returned (788 specimens). Systematists affiliated with the Collection volunteered at the 2005 BugFest (Raleigh) and Butterfly Bash (Durham) events, prepared 3 educational exhibits, assisted with outreaches to local schools (displays used on 34 occasions), judged 4-H insect collections at the State Fair, raised funds towards the purchase of Seguy's 'Papillons' for the NCSU Libraries, and helped to update the Libraries's online AgNIC site 'Systematic Entomology.' In collaboration with the NCSU Libraries, we are developing 'DrMETCALF,' an online resource on cicadas, leafhoppers, froghoppers, planthoppers and treehoppers scheduled for release in 2006.

Impacts
The NCSU Insect Collection is an essential tool for identifying specimens, training students, and documenting the insects of North Carolina, as well as a vital resource for systematic research worldwide. It thus promotes a broad range of systematic activities in our state and elsewhere in the nation and abroad. Several major insect orders are represented by material collected around the world, some dating back to 1858. Furthermore, the Collection is an unrivaled resource for the study of North Carolina insects, with thousands of specimens collected from the mountains to the coast over a period of 100 years. Functioning much as a library, the Collection stores a wealth of information about our insect fauna, including the temporal and spatial distributions of insect species, their biology, and associations with other organisms such as plant and animal hosts and animal prey. Unlike a library, however, the Collection holds much unique information not duplicated elsewhere. As ecological habitats are lost through destruction or deterioration, this irreplaceable material will become increasingly important to understanding the native fauna of our state. The resources of the NCSU Insect Collection (nearly 1.4 million prepared specimens representing approximately 26,500 insect species and 330 primary types) are now more widely known to the public and more accessible to the scientific community through our homepage: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/entomology/Museum/HomePage.htm.

Publications

  • AHLSTROM, K. R. 2005. Revision of the Subfamily Macrocentrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in America North of Mexico. Entomological Society of America (Thomas Say Publications in Entomology: Monographs), Lanham, Maryland. v + 274 pp.
  • YEATES, D. K , and B. M. WIEGMANN. 2005. Phylogeny and evolution of Diptera: recent insights and new perspectives. pp. 14-44. In Yeates, D. K., and B. M. Wiegmann (eds.). The Evolutionary Biology of Flies. Columbia University Press, New York. ix + 430 pp.
  • NEUNZIG, H. H., and M. A. SOLIS. 2005. A review of the Neotropical genus Difundella Dyar (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 107(2): 303-314.
  • 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. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 113(1-2): 77-83.
  • YEATES, D. K , and B. M. WIEGMANN (eds.). 2005. The Evolutionary Biology of Flies. Columbia University Press, New York. ix + 430 pp.
  • LAAMANEN, T. R., R. MEIER, M. A. MILLER, A. HILLE, and B. M. WIEGMANN. 2005. Phylogenetic analysis of Themira (Sepsidae: Diptera): sensitivity analysis, alignment, and indel treatment in a multigene study. Cladistics 21(3): 258-271.
  • NEUNZIG, H. H., and M. A. SOLIS. 2005. Tumoriala, a new Neotropical phycitine genus (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 107(1): 84-89.


Progress 10/01/03 to 09/30/04

Outputs
The NCSU Insect Collection's online inventory of holdings now lists 24,684 species as well as all of our type material (201 holotypes were recently returned from the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.). Collection-based research published by our faculty and students included a major monograph on the treehopper subfamily Centrotinae (with 216 genera), descriptions of new pyralid moths, and new hypotheses (based on morphological and molecular evidence) on the phylogeny of treehoppers (Membracidae) and a genus of flies (Muscidae). These works include descriptions of 6 new insect tribes, 1 new genus, and 4 new species. Our researchers also presented findings at scientific meetings in Australia (3 presentations), Germany (2), and the United States (Entomological Society of America-3: Entomological Collections Network-1; National Science Foundation meetings-3), as well as institutions in Texas and California. New acquisitions (3637 lots: 3593 pinned specimens, 41 vials, 3 vials) included 4 voucher collections, 8 gifts, and material collected in Taiwan, Colorado, Maryland, and 16 counties of North Carolina. Visitors (50) included 2 Visiting Scientists working on leafhoppers (S. J. Suh, South Korea, 8 months; M.Yang, China, 3 months) and 26 other professionals who used the Collection; 16 loans were issued (738 specimens), 7 were returned (417 specimens). Systematists affiliated with the Collection volunteered at BugFest 2004 (North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh), prepared educational exhibits (Art of Illustrating Insects; Periodical Cicadas; Orders Mantophasmatodea and Grylloblattaria), assisted with outreaches to local schools (displays used on 29 occasions), judged 4-H insect collections at the State Fair, raised funds towards the purchase of Seguy's Papillons for the NCSU Libraries, and helped to update the Libraries's online AgNIC site Systematic Entomology. The Collection's homepage is at: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/entomology/Museum/HomePage.htm.

Impacts
Through our homepage, the resources of the NCSU Insect Collection (exceeding 1.4 million prepared specimens) are now more widely known to the public and more accessible to the scientific community. An inventory of species held and NCSU's type specimens are available online. Thus the Collection continues to promote a broad range of systematic activities in North Carolina as well as elsewhere in the nation and abroad. It is an unrivaled resource for the study of North Carolina insects and several major insect groups are represented by specimens from around the world. Functioning much as a library, the Collection stores a wealth of information about our insect fauna, including the temporal and spatial distributions of insect species, their biology, and associations with other organisms such as plant and animal hosts and animal prey. Unlike a library, however, the Collection holds much unique information not duplicated elsewhere. As ecological habitats are lost through destruction or deterioration, the Collection will become increasingly important to understanding the native fauna of our state. It holds specimens collected from our mountains to our coast over a period of 100 years. The Collection is not only an essential tool for identifying specimens, training students, and documenting the insects of North Carolina, but also a vital resource for systematic research worldwide.

Publications

  • CRYAN, J. R., B. M. WIEGMANN, L. L. DEITZ, C. H. DIETRICH, and M. F. WHITING. 2004. Treehopper trees: phylogeny of Membracidae (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Membracoidea) based on molecules and morphology. Systematic Entomology 29: 441-454.
  • DEITZ, L. L., and C. R. BARTLETT. 2004. Publications of Thomas Kenneth Wood (1942-2002). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106: 586-591.
  • 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]
  • NEUNZIG, H. H. 2004. A new species of Caristanius Heinrich (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae) from southern Mexico. Journal of the Lepidoptera Society 58: 187-189.
  • NEUNZIG, H. H., and M. A. SOLIS. 2004. Exguiana, a new genus of Neotropical phycitines (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106: 554-563.
  • SAVAGE, J., T. A. WHEELER, and B. M. WIEGMANN. 2004. Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Thricops Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae) based on molecular and morphological characters. Systematic Entomology 29: 395-414.
  • 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.


Progress 10/01/02 to 09/30/03

Outputs
Dissemination of collected-based research by our faculty and students included 3 major monographs (revisions of microcentrine treehoppers and phyctine moths and a doctoral dissertation on centrotine treehoppers), 7 journal articles, 1 M.S. thesis, 3 lectures at universities, and 5 presentations at entomological meetings in the United States (Entomological Society of America; Cincinnati) and Germany (International Meeting: Phylogenetic Relationships within the Insect Orders; Dresden). Newly described insect taxa include a new family as well as new tribes, genera, and species. New or revised hypotheses of phylogenetic relationships were presented for a number of groups, and a checklist of the treehoppers of Great Smoky Mountains National Park provided 24 new county records for North Carolina and 28 new state records for Tennessee. In addition to printed works, the NCSU Insect Collect's Web site now features an online inventory of the NCSU Insect Collection's species holdings (23,525 entered to date) and an extensive list of NCSU's type material. New acquisitions (6,850 lots: 6,821 pinned specimens and 29 vials) included 3 voucher collections, 10 gifts, and material collected in western Maryland (Allegany County) and in North Carolina (Anson, Bladen, Lee, Montgomery, Randolph, Richmond and Wake counties). The order Mantophasmatodea, recently described from South Africa, was also added to the Collection. Visitors (43) included 28 professionals who used the Collection; 13 loans were issued (478 specimens), 6 were returned (303 specimens). Systematists affiliated with the Collection served as volunteers at BugFest 2003 (North Carolina Museum of Natural History, Raleigh), helped with outreaches to various schools (displays used on 25 occasions), judged 4-H insect collections at the State Fair, prepared 2 educational exhibits, and assisted in updating the NCSU Libraries's on-line AgNIC site Systematic Entomology. The Collection's homepage is at: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/entomology/Museum/HomePage.htm.

Impacts
Ongoing efforts to database the NCSU Insect Collection are making its resources (more than 1.4 million prepared specimens) and data more widely known to the public and more accessible to the scientific community. Listings of NCSU type material and species held are now available on-line. The Collection promotes a broad range of systematic activities in North Carolina as well as elsewhere in the nation and abroad. It is an unrivaled resource for the study of North Carolina insects and several major insect groups are represented by specimens from around the world. Functioning much as a library, the Collection stores a wealth of information about our insect fauna, including the temporal and spatial distributions of insect species, their biology, and associations with other organisms such as plant and animal hosts and animal prey. Unlike a library, however, the Collection holds much unique information not duplicated elsewhere. As ecological habitats are lost through destruction or deterioration, the Collection will become increasingly important to understanding the native fauna of our state. It holds specimens collected from our mountains to our coast over a period of 100 years. The Collection is not only an essential tool for identifying specimens, training students, and documenting the insects of North Carolina, but also a vital resource for systematic research worldwide.

Publications

  • NEUNZIG, H. H. 2003b. Pyraloidea: Pyralidae (part) Phycitinae (part). In Dominick R. B., et al. The Moths of America North of Mexico 15.5: 1-338. [to be published in December 2003]
  • WALLACE, M. S. 2003. Phylogeny and Systematics of the Treehopper Subfamily Centrotinae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Membracidae). Ph.D. dissertation, Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. [ii] + xix + 485 pp.
  • WALLACE, M. S., 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., 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.
  • WIEGMANN, B. M., D. K. YEATES, J. L. THORNE, and H. KISHINO. 2003. Time flies: a new molecular time-scale for fly evolution without a clock. Systematic Biology 52 (6): 735-746.
  • YEATES, D. K., M. E. IRWIN, and B. M. WIEGMANN. 2003. Ocoidae, a new family of asiloid flies (Diptera: Brachycera: Asiloidea), based on Ocoa chilensis gen. and sp. nov. from Chile, South America. Systematic Entomology 28: 417-431.
  • CRYAN, J. R., J. A. ROBERTSON,& L. L. DEITZ. 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. [to be published in December 2003]
  • DEITZ, L. L., C. [A.] NALEPA, and K.D. KLASS. 2003. Phylogeny of the Dictyoptera re-examined (Insecta). Entomologische Abhandlungen 61(1): 69-91.
  • FLYNN, D. J., G. R. BALME, L. L. DEITZ, and M. J. ROTHSCHILD. 2003. Archasia pallida (Fairmaire) (Hemiptera: Membracidae)in North Carolina. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 105(4):1060-1061.
  • HILL, H. N. 2003.Investigation of the Phylogenetic Utility of Two Nuclear Genes, Opsin and CAD, within Stiletto Flies (Diptera: Therevidae). M.S. thesis, Dept.of Entomology, NCSU, Raleigh. [ii] + ix + 126 pp.
  • NEUNZIG, H. H. 2003a. New records of Phycitinae from the Dominican Republic, and a description of anew species of Nefundella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Tropical Lepidoptera 11: 7-12. [to be published in December 2003]


Progress 10/01/01 to 09/30/02

Outputs
The NCSU Insect Collection currently holds nearly 1.4 million prepared specimens. An extensive list of NCSU's type material is now on-line at the Collection's Web site; an inventory of collection holdings (in preparation) lists 21,114 insect species; and, specimen-level databases are being compiled to document holdings of the economically important leafhopper subfamily Typhlocybinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) and of treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park. New acquisitions (2,020 lots: 1,989 pinned, 31 vials) included 4 voucher collections, 7 gifts, and material collected in Berkeley, California (1-7 June), western Maryland (Allegany County, 14-16 June), and poorly collected areas of western North Carolina (Alamance, Cherokee, Clay, Henderson and Polk Counties, 7-9 May). A freezer was purchased to treat incoming pinned specimens in order to prevent the introduction of museum pests in the Collection. Visitors (62) included 30 professionals who used the Collection; 22 loans were issued (1,052 specimens), 10 were returned (799 specimens). Four educational exhibits were prepared. R. L. Blinn, collection manager, assisted with outreaches to various schools (displays used on 30 occasions) and judged 4-H insect collections at the State Fair; L. L. Deitz, collection director, served as a volunteer for BugFest 2002 (North Carolina Museum of Natural History, Raleigh) and assisted in updating the NCSU Libraries's on-line AgNIC site, Systematic Entomology. Dissemination of research, based in part on the Collection, included 6 journal publications, 1 departmental seminar, and 4 talks and 10 poster presentations at meetings in the United States (NSF-sponsored PEET IV, University of California, Berkeley, June; ESA Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, November [M.S. Wallace won award for best student poster]; Evolution Meetings, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, June-July) and Australia (International Congress of Dipterology, Brisbane, Australia, October).

Impacts
The NCSU Insect Collection promotes a broad range of systematic activities in North Carolina as well as elsewhere in the nation and abroad. Boasting more than 1.4 million prepared specimens, the Collection is an unrivaled resource for the study of North Carolina insects and several insect groups are represented by specimens from around the world. Functioning much as a library, the Collection stores a wealth of information about our insect fauna, including the temporal and spatial distributions of insect species, their biology, and associations with other organisms such as hosts and prey. The Collection is not only a vital resource for systematic research, but an essential tool for identifying specimens, training students, and documenting the insects of North Carolina. As ecological habitats are lost through destruction or deterioration, the Collection will become increasingly important to understanding the native fauna of our state. It holds specimens collected from the mountains to the coast over a period of 100 years. Ongoing efforts to database the NCSU Insect Collection are making its resources and data more widely known to the public and more accessible to the scientific community. Notably, in 2002, a listing of NCSU's type material was released on-line at the Collection's Web site.

Publications

  • MEIER, R., and B. M. WIEGMANN. 2002. A phylogenetic analysis of Coelopidae (Diptera) based on morphological and DNA sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 25:393-407.
  • 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 M. A. SOLIS. 2002a. The Ceracanthia complex (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae) in Costa Rica. I. Ceracanthia Ragnot. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 104: 837-855.
  • NEUNZIG, H. H., and M. A. SOLIS. 2002b. The Ceracanthia complex (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae) in Costa Rica. II. Megarthria Ragonot, Drescoma Dyar, and Lascelina Heinrich. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 104: 980-992.
  • WIEGMANN, B. M., J. C. REGIER, and C. MITTER. 2002. Combined molecular and morphological evidence on phylogeny of the earliest lepidopteran lineages. Zoologica Scripta 31:67-81.
  • CRYAN, 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 104:868-883.


Progress 10/01/00 to 09/30/01

Outputs
Most pinned material (121,690 specimens) from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services Insect Collection (transferred to NCSU in June 2000) has been tagged and incorporated into our collection. New acquisitions (11,150 lots: 11,141 pinned, 10 vials) included 5 voucher collections, 7 gifts, and material collected in Mexico (L. L. Deitz: 11-20 October) and Great Smoky Mountains National Park (All Taxa Biotic Inventory: M. S. Wallace: 13-16 October). Collection databases: our holdings inventory now lists 19,247 insect species; a list of NCSU's type material is being prepared for the Collection's web site; and specimen-level databases are being compiled to document our holdings of the economically important leafhopper subfamily Typhlocybinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) and of treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae) from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Visitors (57) included 20 professionals who used the Collection; 8 loans were issued (962 specimens), 5 were returned (1074 specimens); 1 new educational exhibit was prepared. Dissemination of research, based in part on the Collection, included papers presented at meetings (Entomological Society of America, San Diego, 10-12 December: Deitz & Wallace [poster] and Wallace & Deitz [award for best student talk]; North Carolina Academy of Sciences, Greensboro, 24 March: Wallace [talk]) and three journal publications. Outreach: R. L. Blinn, collection manager, judged 4-H insect collections at the State Fair and assisted with outreaches to the 4-H Club (Smithfield), BugFest (North Carolina Museum of Natural History, Raleigh), and various schools (displays used on 36 occasions); Deitz assisted with the NCSU Libraries' exhibit on the Tippmann Collection of Entomological Literature.

Impacts
The NCSU Insect Collection now includes more than 1.4 million prepared specimens, making it an unrivaled resource for the study of North Carolina insects. It holdings are not limited to North Carolina, however, and in some groups include worldwide representation. Thus the Collection promotes a broad range of systematic activities in North Carolina as well as elsewhere in the nation and abroad. Functioning much as a library, the Collection stores a wealth of information about our insect fauna, including the temporal and spacial distributions of species, their biology, and associations with other organisms such as hosts and prey. The Collection is not only a vital resource for systematic research, but an essential tool for identifying specimens, training students, and documenting the insects of North Carolina. As ecological habitats are lost through destruction or deterioration, the Collection will become increasingly important to understanding the native fauna of our state. Ongoing efforts to database the NCSU Insect Collection are making its resources and data more widely known to the public and more accessible to the scientific community.

Publications

  • 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: 213-239.
  • IRWIN, M.E., and B. M. WIEGMANN. 2001. A review of the southern African genus Tongamya (Diptera: Asiloidea: Mydidae: Megascelinae), with a molecular assessment of the phylogenetic placement of Tongamya and the Megascelinae. African Invertebrates 421: 225-253.
  • WINTERTON, S.L., L. YANG, B. M. WIEGMANN, and D. K. YEATES. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of the Agapophytini tribe n. (Diptera: Therevidae) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Systematic Entomology 26: 173-211.


Progress 10/01/99 to 09/30/00

Outputs
The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services officially transferred (15 June) its historically important insect collection (including the material of C.S. Brimley, F. Sherman, D.L. Wray, and K.R. Ahlstrom) to the NCSU Insect Collection. Since its relocation (7 August), nearly 65,120 pinned specimens (fewer than half of the total) have been tagged and incorporated into our collection. Other acquisitions (19,929 lots: 4,126 pinned, 10 vials, 15,793 slides) included 11 gifts, 4 voucher collections, and material collected by staff and associates in North Carolina (8 counties), Maryland, and Tennessee (Great Smoky Mountains: All Taxa Biotic Inventory: Membracidae and Heteroptera). The remainder of the late C.F. Smith's aphid reference collection was incorporated into our collection. Our database now lists 16,736 insect species. Visitors (81) included 23 professionals who used the Collection; 14 loans were issued (7,689 specimens), 9 were returned (233 specimens); 6 new educational exhibits were prepared. Blinn assisted with outreaches to schools (displays used on 36 occasions), judging 4-H insect collections at the State Fair, evaluating the Schiele Museum of Natural History (Gastonia, N.C.), and identifying Heteroptera for the University of Delaware Collection. Works based in part on the Collection included 12 publications and 3 Ph.D. dissertations by departmental students and staff.

Impacts
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Publications

  • BARTLETT, C.R., and L.L. DEITZ. 2000. Revision of the New World Delphacid Genus Pissonotus (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea). Entomol. Soc. Am., Lanham, Maryland. vi + 234 pp. CRYAN, J.R., and L.L. DEITZ. 2000. Review of the New World treehopper tribe Stegaspidini (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Stegaspidinae): III. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 102;82-98.
  • 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. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 17:317-334.
  • FARRIER, M.H., and L.L. DEITZ. 2000. Obituary. Clyde Fuhriman Smith (1913-2000). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 102:1077-1087.
  • NEUNZIG, H.H. 2000. Uncitruncata leuschneri, a new genus and species of Pyralidae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) from California and Oregon. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 102:408-411.
  • NEUNZIG, H.H. 2000. New species of Puerto Rican Pyralidae (Lepidoptera) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 102:838-842.
  • WIEGMANN, B.M., S.C. TSAUR, D.W. WEBB, D.K. YEATES, and B.K. CASSEL. 2000. Monophyly and relationships of the Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera) based on 28S ribosomal gene sequences. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 93:1031-1038.
  • CLEMENTS, K.M., B.M. WIEGMANN, C.E. SORENSON, C.F. SMITH, P.A. NEESE, and R.M. ROE. 2000. Genetic variation in the Myzus persicae complex (Homoptera: Aphididae): evidence for a single species. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 93:31-46.
  • SCHEFFER, S.J., and B.M. WIEGMANN. 2000. Molecular phylogenetics of the holly leafminers (Diptera: Agromyzidae: Phytomyza): species limits, speciation, and dietary specialization. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 17:244-255.
  • YANG,L., B.M. WIEGMANN, D.K. YEATES, and M.E. IRWIN. 2000. Higher-level phylogeny of the Therevidae (Diptera: Insecta) based on 28S ribosomal and elongation factor-1a gene sequences. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 15:440-451.
  • CLEMENTS, K.M., C.E. SORENSON, B.M. WIEGMANN, and R.M. ROE. 2000. Insecticide resistance in the Myzus persicae complex (Homoptera: Aphididae) with emphasis on tobacco pest management. Rev. Toxicol. 3:1-23.
  • CLEMENTS, K.M.,B.M. WIEGMANN, C.F. SMITH, C.E. SORENSON, and R.M. ROE. 2000. Genetic, biochemical, and behavioral uniformity among populations of Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Homoptera: Aphididae). Entomol. Exper. Appl. 95:269-281.
  • MUKHA, D.V., A.P. SIDORENKO, I.V. LAZEBNAYA, B.M. WIEGMANN, and C. SCHAL. 2000. Analysis of intraspecies polymorphism in the ribosomal DNA cluster of the cockroach, Blattella germanica. Insect Mol. Biol. 9(2):217-222.
  • FARRIER, M.H., and L.L. DEITZ. 2000. Clyde Fuhriman Smith. Am. Entomol. 46:126-127. [obituary]
  • AHLSTROM, K.R. 2000. Revision of the Subfamily Macrocentrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in America North of Mexico). Unpubl. Ph.D. diss. N.C. State Univ., Raleigh. xxii + 409 pp.
  • COLLINS, K. P. 2000. Investigation of the Phylogenetic Relationships within the Eremoneura (Diptera: Brachycera) Based on DNA Sequence Data. Unpubl. Ph.D. diss. N.C. State Univ., Raleigh. ix + 147 pp.
  • YANG, L. 2000. Molecular Phylogenetics of the Therevidae and Their Position Among the Families of the Asiloidea (Insecta: Diptera). Unpubl. Ph.D. diss. N.C. State Univ., Raleigh. ix + 106 pp.


Progress 10/01/98 to 09/30/99

Outputs
Collecting efforts focused on the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (All Taxa Biotic Inventory: Diptera, Membracidae, Heteroptera) and poorly collected counties in western North Carolina. Acquisitions (6,980 lots: 6,880 pinned, 68 vials, 32 slides: total estimated prepared specimens: 7,112) included 12 gifts, 9 voucher collections, and material collected by staff and associates in North Carolina (16 counties), Tennessee, Delaware, and Maryland. The Tom Daggy collection (92,000 specimens) was fully incorporated in the Collection; at least half of C. F. Smith's reference collection (7,434 aphid slides) was also incorporated. More than 15,200 species are now listed in the Collection's database. Visitors (56) included 28 professionals who used the Collection; 11 loans were issued (1,275 specimens), 8 were returned (2,223 specimens); 2 honorary research cooperators were designated; 3 new educational exhibits were prepared. Blinn assisted with outreaches to schools (displays used on 35 occasions), the Science Olympiad, and judging of 4-H insect collections at the State Fair. The NCSU Insect Collection web site and AgNIC-NCSU Libraries' Systematic Entomology web site were installed on-line.

Impacts
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Publications

  • CRYAN, J. R.,& L. L. DEITZ. 1999. Review of the New World treehopper tribe Stegaspidini (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Stegaspidinae): I.Bocydium Latreille, Lirania Stal, & Smerdalea Fowler. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 101(3): 469-489.
  • CRYAN, J. R., & L. L. DEITZ. 1999. Review of the New World treehopper tribe Stegaspidini (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Stegaspidinae): II. Lycoderes Germar, Oeda Amyot and Serville, and Stegaspis Germar. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 101(4): 760-778.
  • DIETRICH, C. H., M. J. ROTHSCHILD, & L. L. DEITZ. 1999. Checklist & host plants of the treehoppers of North Carolina. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 101(2): 242-262.
  • WALLACE, M. S., & 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.
  • DEITZ, L. L., J. R. CRYAN, C. H. DIETRICH, S. H. McKAMEY, & B. M. WIEGMANN. 1999. Phylogeny of the Membracidae: morphological & molecular evidence. 10th International Auchenorrhyncha Congress, 6-10 September 1999, Cardiff, Wales: Abstracts of Talks and Posters. [1 page abstract, pages not numbered]
  • BAKER, J. R. 1999. The cypress weevil, a threat to Cryptomeria? N. C. Assoc. Nurserymen Nursery Notes 33(3): 21.


Progress 01/01/98 to 12/31/98

Outputs
Deitz and Blinn developed the NCSU Insect Collection web site and helped to develop the AgNIC-NCSU Libraries Systematic Entomology web site (both for release in early 1999). A stereomicroscopic workstation with digital imaging was purchased using University funds; 5 24-drawer cabinets and 10 alcohol cabinets were purchased with the NSF grant Expansion of the NCSU Insect Collection. The Daggy collection (92,000 specimens) was largely (90%) incorporated into the Collection; the Wray springtail collection was fully curated. Acquisitions (3376 lots: 3,126 pinned, 235 bulk samples in ethanol, 12 slides: estimated total specimens: 3,162 prepared, 10,000 unprepared) included 3 gifts, 3 voucher collections, and material collected by staff and associates in North Carolina (14 counties) and Maryland. Visitors (48) included 17 professionals who used the Collection; 15 loans were issued (741 specimens), 8 were returned (808). Deitz assisted with BugFest (State Museum of Natural Sciences); Blinn assisted with BugFest and the Science Olympiad (2 schools), and judged 4-H insect collections at the State Fair; outreach displays were used on 40 occasions.

Impacts
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Publications

  • [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.
  • LANDRY, B., and H. H. NEUNZIG. 1998. A review of the Phycitinae of the Galapalagos Islands (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 28: 493-508.
  • NEUNZIG, H. H. 1998. Myelopsoides venustus, a new genus and species of phycitinae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) from the western United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 100: 695-699.


Progress 01/01/97 to 12/31/97

Outputs
New storage facilities (notably 18 24-drawer cabinets) were ordered through a grant, "Expansion of the NCSU Insect Collection" ($49,569), from the National Science Foundation. Curatorial activities: the D. L. Wray collection of Collembola (11,246 slides) was arranged; curation of the T. Daggy collection (about 92,000 specimens) is in progress. Acquisitions: 11,203 lots (9,409 pinned, 1,779 vials, 15 slides: estimated total of 13,012 specimens) included 4 voucher collections, 10 gifts (notably, from the United States Forest Service, C. F. Smith, and C. L. Staines), and material collected by staff and associates in North Carolina (34 counties, emphasis on western counties), Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, Vermont, Virginia, and Chile. The Collection Manager spoke at 2 local schools, judged 4-H insect collections at the State Fair, and attended the annual meeting of the Entomological Collections Network, Nashville, Tennessee; the Director attended the annual meeting of the Association of Systematics Collections, Atlanta, Georgia. Visitors (40) included 13 professionals who used the Collection; 15 loans were issued (2,299 specimens), 10 were returned (1,576); outreach displays were used on 36 occasions, including "BigFest" at the State Museum of Natural Science, Raleigh; 2 educational displays were prepared.

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Publications

  • McKAMEY, S. H., and L. L. DEITZ. 1996 [received 1997]. Generic revision of the New World tribe Hoplophorioinini (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Membracinae). Systematic Entomology 21: 295-342.
  • NEUNZIG, H. H. 1997. Pyraloidea: Pyralidae (part), Phyctinae (part). In Dominick, R. B., et al. The Moths of America North of Mexico


Progress 01/01/96 to 12/30/96

Outputs
Estimated holdings now exceed one million prepared insect specimens, with a record number of accessions during 1996: 121,361 lots (107,361 pinned, 2,795 vials, 11,360 slides: estimated total of 147,031 specimens), including 2 voucher collections and 11 gifts (notably the personal collections of T. Daggy, M. O. Fleming, and D. L. Wray); workers and associates gathered insects from North Carolina (38 counties total, with emphasis in the Coastal Plain and an intensive effort in Bladen County), Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. With the addition of room 4315 Gardner Hall (240 square feet), the Collection now occupies 1,888 square feet. Our database was expanded to include inventory data on 4,619 genera and 12,940 species, and the design of a WWW homepage for the Collection was initiated. Visitors (56) included 18 professionals and 1 group; 22 loans were issued (4,250 pinned, 63 slides), 19 were returned (5,342 pinned, 61 slides, 19 vials); 2 honorary curators and 9 research cooperators were appointed. Outreach displays were used on 28 occasions, including "BugFest" at the State Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh; also 5 displays were prepared. The Collection Manager spoke on entomology at 3 local schools and judged 4-H insect collections at the State Fair; the Director attended the annual meeting of the Association of Systematics Collections, Beltsville, Maryland.

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Publications

  • BARTLETT, C.R. 1996. Revision of the New World Delphacid Planthopper Genus Pissonotus Van Duzee, 1897 (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Ph.D. thesis, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. xiv 309pp.
  • BLINN, R.L. 19.


Progress 01/01/95 to 12/30/95

Outputs
The Collection gained 520 square feet in adjoining rooms, which advanced severalgoals: (1) pinned holdings were segregated from those in alcohol and on slides providing new storage areas in each section, (2) cabinets of pinned material were arranged to provide wider aisles and improve lighting, (3) dispersed holdings from various areas and H. H. Neunzig's office were consolidated in the Collection, and (4) new storage areas for taxonomic literature, equipment and supplies permitted better organization. Accessions totaled 17,567 lots (17,077 pinned, 373 vials, 117 slides) including 6 voucher collections (graduate research) and 15 gifts (notably from the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, and California); workers and associates gathered specimens from North Carolina (emphasis on poorly collected counties), Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, and Vermont. We established the NCSU Genome Bank to house research and voucher specimens for our Insect Molecular Systematics Program. Visitors (87) included 11 professionals and 3 groups; 15 loans were issued (6,943 pinned, 5 vials), 9 were returned (1,439 pinned, 48 vials); 4 curators, 4 honorary curators, and 8 research cooperators were appointed; outreach displays were used on 23 occasions and 3 new displays were prepared. The Collection Manager submitted a redescription of a nabid new to this region and compiled data on our types on loan to the Smithsonian Institution for a forthcoming catalog.

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Publications

  • CRYAN, J.R. and DEITZ, L.L. 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. 1995. Revision and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Subfamily Stegaspidinae (Homoptera: Membracidae). M.S. thesis, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. xiv + 325 pp.


Progress 01/01/94 to 12/30/94

Outputs
Our database now includes inventory data on 3,942 genera and 10,163 species, a mailing list of current Collection users, and records on loans and accessions. Seventeen loans (2,115 specimens) were issued, 9 (1,201 specimens) were returned, and renewal notices were sent for loans issued 3 or more years ago. Accessions totaled 15,382 lots of specimens (14,548 pinned, 828 vials, 6 slides) including 10 voucher collections (notably 648 lepidopterans from a project on the Asian gypsy moth in coastal North Carolina--these represent 107 species, 42 new for our Collection; 647 vials of aquatic insects from western North Carolina), 11 gifts (notably 916 pinned membracids; 2,950 pinned insects from the Pacific Northwest; 838 pinned insects from India and Kenya), and material collected by departmental systematists in Maryland, North Carolina, and the Virgin Islands. At least 516 insect families are now held in the Collection: the Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera), Delphacidae (Homoptera), Formicidae and Megachilidae (Hymenoptera), Mantodea, Trichoptera, Ephemerida, and Plecoptera were further curated. Traveling exhibits were used on 25 occasions; the Collection Manager gave 6 talks on insects (5 at public schools; 1 to Master Gardeners on Bald Head Island); a new educational display was designed for the State Fair and 3 others were featured in Gardner Hall. Of 69 visitors, 10 were professionals (2 used the Collection regularly throughout 1994).

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Publications


    Progress 01/01/93 to 12/30/93

    Outputs
    Development of the Collection's database included the entry of: more than 2,000 genus-group and 5,700 species-group names (with inventory information); a mailing list of current Collection users; data on outstanding loans since 1984; data on new accessions. This system now facilitates tracking outstanding loans, generating annual reports, and sending thank-you letters for donations. The Odonata (pinned and in envelops) were arranged according to a recent classification and nearly all 1,435 specimens were identified to genus or species; extensive collection and identification of the family Formicidae (Hymenoptera) resulted in the discovery of new genera and species for the Collection, as well as new species records for 4 states. Accessions totaled 23,162 lots of specimens (12,534 pinned, 199 vials, 10,429 slides), including 5 voucher collections, 10 gifts, and material collected by staff; specimens were collected in the Virgin Islands and North Carolina. Twelve loans (1,185 specimens) were issued, 9 (2,831 specimens) were returned. Traveling exhibits were used on 24 occasions; 7 educational displays were featured in Gardner Hall. Of 80 visitors, 13 were professionals (one used the Collection weekly). The Collection Manager attended the annual meeting of the Entomology Collections Network (Purdue University, 11-12 December).

    Impacts
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    Publications

    • SMITH, C.F., ECKEL, R.W., and LAMPERT, E. 1992. A key to many of the common alate aphids of North Carolina (Aphididae: Homoptera). N. C. Agric. Res. Serv. Tech. Bull. 299:i-vi, 1-92.
    • FARRIER, M.H. and HENNESSEY, M.K. 1993. Soil-inhabiting and free-living Mesostigmata (Acari-Parasitiformes) from North America. An annotated checklist with bibliography and index. N. C. Agric. Res. Serv. Tech. Bull. 302:i-xvi, 1-408.
    • GOODSON, R.L. and NEUNZIG, H.H. 1993. Taxonomic revision of the genera Homoeosoma Curtis and Patagonia Ragonot (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae) in America north of Mexico. N. C. Agric. Res. Serv. Tech. Bull. 303: i-v, 1-105. YOUNG, D.A. (deceased). 1993. New genus and five new species of mileewine leafhoppers from New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 95(2):228-240. (with introduction by L. L. DEITZ)
    • BAKER, J.R. 1993. Insects. pp. 101-153. In DE HERTOGH, A. and LE NARD, M. (eds.). The Physiology of Flower Bulbs. Elsevier, Amsterdam. xii + 811 pp.


    Progress 01/01/92 to 12/30/92

    Outputs
    The Director represented the University at the Association of Systematics Collections Workshop 'Data Sharing and Database Ethics' and Annual Meeting (Honolulu, August). The Collection Manager attended the NSF-sponsored workshop 'Computerization of Natural History Collections' (Berkeley, May) and began designing a database application to inventory holdings and to manage accessions and loans; all family names and nearly 2,000 species names with their associated generic names are now entered. Accessions totaled 8,119 lots of specimens (7,189 pinned, 442 vials, 488 slides), including 9 voucher collections, 9 gifts, 1 exchange, and material collected by staff. A catalog (85 percent complete) of type specimens now documents 8,852 primary and secondary types of 1,464 species (including many holotypes on indefinite loan to the Smithsonian). Numerous Tabanidae (Diptera), Deltocephalinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae), Megachilidae (Hymenoptera), and Carabidae (Coleoptera) were further curated. Fourteen new loans (4,357 specimens) were issued; 10 loans were returned. Traveling exhibits were used on 35 occasions. Of 50 visitors, 19 were professionals (one used the Collection weekly).

    Impacts
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    Publications

    • BLINN, R.L. 1992. Seasonal occurrence of the Miridae (Heteroptera) associated with Ohio Buckeye, Aesculus glabra Willd., in Missouri. J. New York Entomol. Soc. 100:480-487.
    • DEITZ, L.L. 1992. David Allan Young, Jr. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 94:390-395. (includes annotated bibliography)
    • NEUNZIG, H.H. 1991. Late stage larva and pupa of Glyptocera consobrinella (Zeller) (Pyralidae: Phycitinae). J. Lepid. Soc. 45:112-116.


    Progress 01/01/91 to 12/30/91

    Outputs
    A catalog of the Collections type material (now 75 percent complete) documents 8,744 primary and secondary types of 1,315 species. The feasibility of transferring the Collection to a high density storage system is being explored. Establishment of membership in the Entomological Collections Network, listing in the North American Insect Collections hypercard stack, and connection to ENT-LIST opened new lines of communication to other insect collections. Eleven families were curated: ACARI (Argasidae, Ixodidae, Parasitidae, Parholaspidae, Tetranychidae); COLEOPTERA (Byrrhidae, Buprestidae, Cryptophagidae, Elateridae, Meloidae); HOMOPTERA (Aphididae on slides; Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae in part). Accessions totaled 4,858 lots of specimens (4,447 pinned, 330 vials, 81 slides) including 5 voucher collections (notably 1,118 culicid larvae by C.S. Apperson), 6 gifts (notably 405 pinned insects by R. Allison), Plant Disease and Insect Clinic material, and specimens collected by staff in Chatham (White Pines Natural Area, 10 trips), Bladen, Dare, and Hoke counties; 178 publications were donated. A paper is in press on 3 species of Miridae (Heteroptera). Traveling exhibits were used on 34 occasions; 9 new loans (939 specimens) were issued; 4 new educational exhibits were prepared. Of 89 visitors, 21 were professionals.

    Impacts
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    Publications

    • DIETRICH, C.H. and DEITZ, L.L. 1991. Numerical phenetic and cladistic analyses of the treehopper tribe Aconophorini (Homoptera: Membracidae: Membracinae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 84:228-238.
    • DIETRICH, C.H. EMIGH, T.H. and DEITZ, L.L. 1991. Morphometric discrimination among females of sibling species of Aconophorini (Homoptera: Membracidae). Syst. Entomol. 16:311-318.
    • McKAMEY, S.H. and DEITZ, L.L. 1991. Revision of the Neotropical treehopper genus Metcalfiella (Homoptera: Membracidae). N.C. Agric. Res. Serv. Tech. Bull. 294:1-89.
    • McKAMEY, S.H. and DEITZ, L.L. 1991. Nomenclatural changes in the treehopper tribes Hoplophorionini, Smiliini, and Talipedini (Homoptera: Membracidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 93:193-196.
    • NEUNZIG, H.H. and J.R. BAKER. 1991. Order Megaloptera. pp. 112- 122. In STEHR, F. W. Immature Insects. Vol. 2. Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa.
    • DEITZ, L.L. 1991. David Allan Young 1915-1991 (with annotated bibliography). Tymbal, Auchenorrhyncha Newsletter (CAB International Institute of Entomology, London) 17:2-8.
    • DIETRICH, C.H. and DEITZ, L.L. 1991. Revision of the Neotropical treehopper tribe Aconophorini (Homoptera: Membracidae). N.C. Agric. Res. Serv. Tech. Bull. 293:1-135.


    Progress 01/01/90 to 12/30/90

    Outputs
    Over 25 families were curated: COLEOPTERA (8 families; including Carabidae, Curculionidae, and Scarabaeidae); HOMOPTERA (Flatidae, Cicadellidae in part, Aphididae in part); HYMENOPTERA (16 families including Cynipidae, Gasteruptiidae, Ichneumonidae, and Siricidae). Also, more than 17,800 beetles from the J.F. Cornell donation were incorporated into the Collection; the unidentified Cercopoidea were sorted to genus. Acquisitions exceeded 4,654 specimens (4,192 pinned, 47 vials, 415 slides) including 9 gifts (notably L. Dow, 526 Lepidoptera; W.W. Wirth, 72 Ceratopogonidae slides; M. Ivie, 78 Membracidae; E. Grove, 305 general insects collection), 5 voucher collections (notably B.M. Furlow, 1,646 Tabanidae; C.S. Apperson, 417 Acari), Plant Disease and Insect Clinic material, and staff collecting in North Carolina (notably Bluff Mountain and White Pines Natural Area). A new genus and species of Reduviidae (Heteroptera) were described. Four 25 drawer insect cabinets and 41 museum drawers were acquired, 17 new loans (1,927 specimens) were made, 3 educational exhibits were prepared, and further leafhoppers on loan to a retiree (57 specimens, including 2 holotypes) were returned. Of 96 visitors, 8 were professionals.

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    Publications

    • BLINN, R.L. 1990. Pseudosaica panamaensis, a new genus and species of assassin bug from Panama (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Saicinae). J. New York Entomol. Soc. 98:347-351.
    • DIETRICH, C.H. 1990. A revision of the Neotropical treehopper tribe Aconophorini (Homoptera: Membracidae). Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Entomol., N.C. State Univ., Raleigh. xi + 384 pp. (+ 2 color plates).
    • DIETRICH, C.H. and MCKAMEY, S.H. 1990. Three new idiocerine leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) from Guyana with notes on ant-mutualism and subsociality. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 92:214 223.
    • KOSZTARAB, M., et al. 1990. Problems and needs in the study of Homoptera in North America. Systematics of the North American Insects and Arachnids: Status and Needs. VPI&SU Blacksburg. xii + 247 pp.
    • NEUNZIG, H.H. 1990. Fascicle 15.3. Phycitinae. In Dominick, R.B. Moths of America north of Mexico. Allen Press, Lawrence, Kansas. 165 pp.
    • NEUNZIG, H.H. 1990. A new species of Dioryctria (Pyralidae: Phycitinae) from Mexico. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 92:493-496.


    Progress 01/01/89 to 12/30/89

    Outputs
    Acquisitions exceeded 25,157 specimens (24,609 pinned, 309 vials, 247 slides, 256 unmounted lots in alcohol) including 21 gifts (notably J.F. Cornell, 19,069 Coleoptera; P.C. Kennedy, 654 Hymenoptera; C.H. Dietrich, 1580 Neotropical membraciods, C.T. Yang, 150 Taiwanese delphacids), 3 voucher collections, Plant Disease and Insect Clinic material, and staff collecting in North Carolina (notably by R.L. Blinn, White Pines Natural Area) and Mexico. Over 50 families were curated: COLEOPTERA (18 families including Cerambycidae, Coccinellidae, and Staphylinidae; 13,169 specimens incorporated in the Collection); DIPTERA (3 families including Sarcophagidae); HETEROPTERA (7 families organized according to Henry and Froeschner 1988, including Lygaeidae, Miridae, and Reduviidae); HOMOPTERA (3 families including Cicadellidae in part and Cercopidae); HYMENOPTERA (14 families including Braconidae, Scoliidae, and Vespidae); MEGALOPTERA (2 families); and NEUROPTERA (5 families including Chrysopidae). R.L. Blinn submitted a manuscript on a new reduviid genus. L.L. Deitz, M.H. Farrier, and H.H. Neunzig revised a proposal to NSF requesting funds to develop the Homoptera, Acarina and Lepidoptera collections. Additionally, 10 new loans were made and 2 educational exhibits were prepared. Specimens (533, including 29 holotypes) loaned to D.A. Young were returned. Of 63 visitors, 24 were professionals.

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    Publications

    • DEITZ, L.L. 1989. Bibliography of the Membracoidea (Homoptera: Aetalionidae, Biturritiidae, Membracidae, and Nicomiidae) 1981-1987. N.C. Agric. Res. Serv. Tech. Bull. 290. 31 p.
    • DIETRICH, C.H. 1989. Surface sculpturing of the abdominal integument of Membracidae and other Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 91(2):143-152.
    • HENNESSEY, M.K. and FARRIER, M.H. 1989. Mites of the family Parasitidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) inhabiting forest soils of North and South Carolina. N.C. Agric. Res. Serv. Tech. Bull. 291. 78 p.
    • LEIDY, N.A. and NEUNZIG, H.H. 1989. Taxonomic study of the larvae of six eastern North American Dioryctria (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 91(3):325-341.
    • MCKAMEY, S.H. 1989. Revision of the genus Metcalfiella (Homoptera: Membracidae) with review of the nomenclature and etc. M.S. thesis, Dept. Entomol., N.C. State Univ., Raleigh. 315 p.
    • NEUNZIG, H.H. and LEIDY, N.A. 1989. A new species of Dioryctria (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae) from the southeastern United States. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 91(3):321-324.


    Progress 01/01/88 to 12/30/88

    Outputs
    Over 50 families were curated: HEMIPTERA (12 families) including Lygaeidae, Pentatomidae, and Reduviidae; HOMOPTERA (9) including Membracidae, Cicadidae, and Tibicinidae, also cicadellid tribe Proconiini; COLEOPTERA (5) including Chrysomelidae and Scolytidae; LEPIDOPTERA (20) including Danaidae, Pyralidae, Sphingidae, Arctiidae, Notodontidae, Noctuidae, Geometridae, and Saturniidae; DIPTERA (Muscidae); ACARI (6) including Digamasellidae, Laelapidae, and Phytoseiidae. L.L. Deitz, M.H. Farrier, and H.H. Neunzig submitted a proposal to NSF requesting funds to develop the Homoptera, Acarina, and Lepidoptera collections. A formal agreement was signed concerning the donation of the J.F. Cornell Coleoptera collection to NCSU, most of which (25,577 pinned specimens, 1677 jars of unmounted specimens) is now on loan to NCSU. Other acquisitions, totaling 34 books, 4.5 feet of reprints, and 11,572 specimens (5690 pinned, 5438 slides, 444 vials), included 22 gifts (notably J.A. Adams collection of 1596 Lepidoptera; A.T. Olive, 5049 aphid slides and literature; J.D. Barbour, 942 specimens), 14 voucher collections, Plant Disease and Insect Clinic material, and staff collecting in Peru and Ecuador (C.H. Dietrich and S.H. McKamey) and numerous localities in N.C. Funds were received for 150 USNM drawers. Additionally, 14 new loans were made and 5 educational exhibits were prepared. Of 45 visitors, 23 were professionals.

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    Publications

    • NEUNZIG, H.H. and DEITZ, L.L. 1988. Review: "Eaton, John C. 1988. Lepidopteran Anatomy...". ASB Bull. (Assoc. Southeastern Biol.) 35(4):233-234.
    • BAKER, J.R. 1988. White fuzzy insects -- how to tell them apart. N.C. Agric. Ext. Serv. Ornamentals and Turf Insect Notes 89. 5pp.
    • BLINN, R.L. 1988. Pseudoxenetus regalis (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae): seasonal history and description of fifth instar. J. N.Y. Entomol. Soc. 96(3):310-313.
    • DROOZ, A.T. and NEUNZIG, H.H. 1988. Notes on the biology of two phycitines (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) associated with Toumeyella pini (Homoptera: Coccidae) on pine. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 90(1):44-46.
    • HENNESSEY, M.K. and FARRIER, M.H. 1988. Systematic revision of thirty species of free-living, soil-inhabiting gamasine mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of North America. N.C. Agric. Res. Ser. Tech. Bull. 285. (iv) + 123 pp.
    • NEUNZIG, H.H. 1988. A taxonomic study of the genus Salebriaria (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae) in America north of Mexico. N.C. Agric. Res. Ser. Tech. Bull. 287. iii + 95 pp.


    Progress 01/01/87 to 12/30/87

    Outputs
    The entire Collection was organized to improve systematic arrangement, accommodate additional cabinets, and create new work areas. LEPIDOPTERA, 29 families were arranged by the Hodges et al. 1983 checklist; HEMIPTERA, Anthocoridae, Miridae, Nabidae, Reduviidae, and Coreidae were further identified and arranged; HOMOPTERA, a species inventory of aphid slides was 50% completed. Acquisitions totaling 225 publications and 11,020 specimens (8718 pinned, 2132 vials, 170 slides) included 21 gifts (notably large collections from L.L. Deitz, D.C. McLain, R.L. Rabb), 7 voucher collections, Insect Clinic material, and staff collecting. Additionally, a new collection manager, R.L. Blinn, was hired, 19 new loans (2473 specimens/slides) were made, ll returned loans (2799 specimens) were incorporated into the Collection; 36 shipments of leafhoppers (19,080 specimens including 61 holotypes) on loan to D.A. Young were returned; educational exhibits were prepared for the N. C. State Fair (l) and Gardner Hall (4); Deitz presented talk "The NCSU Insect Collection" (Carolina Area Benthos Workshop, 6 Nov.); Blinn and Deitz presented 4-H workshop "Looks May Be Deceiving" (22 July); collecting trips were made to Ashe, Bladen, Hoke, and Robeson Cos., N. C., and the Republic of Guyana; active loans were computerized. Articles on the Collection by the Associated Press and N. C. Agric. Ext. Serv. appeared in 8 newspapers. Of 56 visitors, 18 were systematists.

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    Publications

    • BAKER, J.R. 1987a-d. Yellowjackets; Azalea stem borer; Bagworm; Southern pine beetle. N. C. Agric. Ext. Serv. Ornamentals & Turf Insect Notes 69, 2pp.; 76, 2pp.; 81, 2pp.; 82.
    • DEANGELIS, J.D. 1987. The NCSU Insect Collection. N. C. Pest Survey Newsletter 2(18):3.
    • DEITZ, L.L. and KOPP, D.D. 1987. Bibliography of the Membracoidea (Homoptera: Aetalionidae, Biturritiidae, Membracidae, and Nicomiidae) 1956-1980. N. C. Agric. Res. Serv. Tech. Bull. 284.
    • LEIDY, N.A. and NEUNZIG, H.H. 1986. New host record and range extension for Dioryctria abietivorella (Grote) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 88:395.
    • NEUNZIG, H.H. 1987. Pyralidae, Hyblaeidae, Thyrididae, Pterophoridae. pp. 462-500. In Stehr, F. Immature Insects. Part 1. Kendall/Hunt Publ. Co., Dubuque, Iowa.
    • SCHNELL, M. 1986 (published 1987). N. C. S. U. Collections: the Insect Museum. Res. Perspectives (N. C. Agric. Res. Serv., N. C. State Univ., Raleigh) 5(3):8-9.