Tuesday, December 11, 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Sunset, Meeting House, First Floor (Town & Country)

Ten-Minute Papers, Section A. Systematics, Morphology and Evolution

Moderator(s): Caroline Chaboo
Andrew Short
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM0824Phylogenetic analysis of the Chrysobothris femorata complex (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
Jason Hansen, William Klingeman, Kevin Moulton, Mark Windham, Jason Oliver
8:17 AM 0825A bark beetle in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
Anthony, I. Cognato, David Grimaldi
8:29 AM 0826Morphology and fecal ecology of immature stages of shining leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Criocerinae)
Caroline Chaboo, Fred Vencl
8:41 AM0827Comparative phylogeography of littoral beetles in southern California
Stylianos Chatzimanolis, Michael Caterino
8:53 AM0828Revision of the genus Hapalaraea (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae)
Taro Eldredge
9:05 AM0829Size does not matter: Phylogeny and classification of Corylophidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)
Adam Slipinski, Wioletta Tomaszewska
9:17 AM0830The phylogeny of whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae): Stopping the spin
Kelly B. Miller
9:29 AM0831Local endemics of the southern Appalachian "sky islands": Do all groups of staphylinid beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) fit the same distribution pattern?
Vladimir Gusarov
9:41 AM0832Phylogeny and evolution of the giant water scavenger beetles inferred from adult morphology (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilini)
Andrew Short
9:53 AM Break
10:05 AM 0833Genetic variation in Puerto Rican populations of the springtail Salina tristani (Collembola: Paronellidae), or is Salina wolcotti really extinct?
Felipe N. Soto-Adames
10:17 AM0834Phylogeography of Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787) (Acari: Ixodidae), a widespread American tick species, based on the analysis of mitochondrial gene sequences
Lorenza Beati, Darci Barros-Battesti, Marcelo B. Labruna, Alberto A. Guglielmone, Carmen Guzman Cornejo, Abraham Caceres, Joao L. H. Faccini, Renato Leon, Erica J. Blackford
10:29 AM0835Widow spiders of the world (Araneae, Theridiidae, Latrodectus): Taxonomy, distribution, and phylogeny
Jeremy Miller
10:41 AM0836Further studies of cryptic speciation in California turrett spiders (Antrodiaetidae: Atypoides)
M. Hedin, James Starrett
10:53 AM0837Insect succession on a dead black bear in northeastern Ohio
Joe B. Keiper, Laura Bock
11:05 AM 0838Reduction in population genetic diversity of an ephemerellid mayfly in deforested headwater streams
Laurie C. Alexander, David J. Hawthorne, William O. Lamp
11:17 AM0839Using a molecular phylogeny to turn the classification of Fulgoridae (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) on its head
Julie M. Urban, Jason R. Cryan
11:29 AM0840Evolution of hairy attachment structures in Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)
Christiane Weirauch
11:41 AM 0841A review of New World Toya and allies (Delphacidae: Hemiptera)
Anthony T. Gonzon, Charles Bartlett

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