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Tuesday, November 18, 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Room A5, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center) |
Ten-Minute Papers, Section SEB1 Ten-Minute Papers, Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity |
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| Moderator(s): | Hojun Song
Christiane Weirauch
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| 8:00 AM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 8:05 AM |  | 0723 | | Phylogeny, homoplasy and divergence estimates within Libelluloidea (Anisoptera: Odonata): An exploration of the usefulness of molecular and morphological characters
Jessica L. Ware, Michael L. May, Karl M. Kjer |
| 8:17 AM | | 0724 | | ITS2 structure, species-specificity and implications for insect genetics and evolution
Michael W. Ruhl, Tracie M. Jenkins |
| 8:29 AM | | 0725 | | A review of delphacid planthopper systematics (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) with emphasis on the New World
Charles Bartlett |
| 8:41 AM | | 0726 | | Fossils, systematic methods, and heteropteran classification
Randall T. Schuh, Gerry Cassis |
| 8:53 AM | | 0727 | | Assassin to bloodsucker: Unraveling higher-level phylogenetics of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)
Christiane Weirauch, James Munro |
| 9:05 AM | | 0728 | | Systematics and phylogeny of the plant bug tribe Orthotylinae: Austromirini (Heteroptera: Miridae)
Gerry Cassis |
| 9:17 AM | | 0729 | | Effects of natal environment on male-male competitive success in the cactus bug Narnia femorata (Hemiptera: Coreidae)
Fae A. Nageon de Lestang, Christine W. Miller |
| 9:29 AM | | 0730 | | The advantage of calling second: Influence of vibrational masking on male mating success in the leafhopper Macropsis fumipennis
Randy Hunt |
| 9:41 AM | | | | Break |
| 9:53 AM | | 0731 | | Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the grassland leafhopper tribe Chiasmini (Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae)
James N. Zahniser |
| 10:17 AM | | 0733 | | Systematics, biogeography and conservation of the Pheidole roosevelti group (Hymenoptera: formicidae) in Fiji
Eli M. Sarnat, Corrie S. Moreau |
| 10:29 AM | | 0734 | | Phylogeny and taxonomy of the ant genus Paratrechina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and close relatives
John S. LaPolla, Seán Brady, Steven O. Shattuck |
| 10:41 AM | | 0735 | | Phylogeny of xyleborine ambrosia beetles (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) inferred from multiple genes
Anthony I. Cognato, Jiri Hulcr, Stephanie A. Dole, Bjarte Jordal |
| 10:53 AM | | 0736 | | Reassessment of critical type species in the Entiminae: Eustylini, with phylogenetic considerations (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Nico M. Franz |
| 11:05 AM | | 0737 | | Phylogeny of the tribe Athetini Casey, 1910 and its position in the subfamily Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
Hallvard Elven, Vladimir Gusarov |
| 11:17 AM | | 0738 | | A reconstructed phylogeny and geographical history of the tribe Omophronini (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Roberta L. Brett |
| 11:29 AM | | 0739 | | A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of Coleoptera (Insecta): Overcoming systematic bias from base compositional heterogeneity
Hojun Song, Nathan Sheffield, Michael F. Whiting |
| 11:41 AM | | | | Concluding Remarks |
