Monday, 27 October 2003: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

204/210 (Convention Center (Second Floor))

Student Competition Ten-Minute Papers, A2, Systematics, Morphology, and Evolution

Moderator(s): Joseph McHugh
Rebecca B. Simmons
1:00 PM0349Building an interactive key for the families of Hymenoptera
Katja Seltmann, Michael J. Sharkey
1:12 PM0350Systematics of the enigmatic wasp family Evaniidae (Hymenoptera)
Andrew R. Deans, James B. Whitfield
1:24 PM0351Morphological and molecular analyses of generic limits within the subfamily Cenocoeliinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Kevin M. Pitz, Michael J. Sharkey
1:36 PM0352Phylogeny of proconiine sharpshooters (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) and the evolution of egg-powdering behavior
Daniela M. Takiya, Roman A. Rakitov, Christopher H. Dietrich
1:48 PM0353Molecular phylogeny of the Trichogrammatidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)
Albert Owen, Jeremiah George
2:00 PM0354Phylogenetic placement of Azotinae (Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae): O sister, where art thou?
James B. Munro, John M. Heraty
2:12 PM0355The role of host shifts and specialization in the speciation of Neodiprion sawflies (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae)
Catherine R Linnen, Brian D. Farrell
2:24 PM0356Phylogenetic analysis of the corbiculate Apinae based on morphology of the sting apparatus (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Sophie C. Cardinal, Laurence Packer
2:36 PMBreak
2:48 PM0357The entomologists’ net: putting today’s internet-based wireless technology to work for taxonomy
F. Michael McAloon
3:00 PM0358Does a flea see? An investigation of flea opsins (flopsins)
Sean David Taylor, Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz, Michael F. Whiting
3:12 PM0359Mecoptera (scorpionflies, hangingflies) of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (British Columbia, Canada; Washington State, USA)
S. Bruce Archibald
3:24 PM0360Investigating the evolutionary effects of specialization: how diet breadth influences population dynamics in the genus Crossidius (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
Christopher Elzinga, Brian D. Farrell
3:36 PM0361Genetic population structure of a featherwing beetle (Ptiliidae) in the Klamath Ecoregion of northern California
Ryan M. Caesar, Anthony I. Cognato
3:48 PM0362Taxonomic revisions: Species numbers, locality data & biodiversity research
Torsten Dikow, Rudolf Meier
4:00 PM0363Phylogeny of Mantodea based on molecular data: evolution of a charismatic predator
Gavin Svenson, Michael F. Whiting

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