Wednesday, November 19, 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Room A5, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Ten-Minute Papers, Section SEB4 Ten-Minute Papers, Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity

Moderator(s): Stephen Cameron
Matthew Buffington
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM1083Evolution of eusociality in termites driven by carbon-nitrogen imbalance
Yutaka Kobayashi, Paul Bardunias, Nan-Yao Su
8:29 AM1085Caste in the swarming wasps: Queenless societies in highly social insects
Fernando Noll, John W. Wenzel
8:41 AM1086The mass departure of a honey bee (Apis mellifera) swarm from its parental nest: Triggering signals, identity of signalers, and functional organization
Juliana Rangel, Thomas D. Seeley
8:53 AM1087Determinants and scaling of body size and fecundity in the sexual and asexual generations of the gall former Belonocnema treatae (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)
Glen Hood, James R. Ott
9:05 AM 1088Divergence estimates of the Cynipoidea: Insights into the evolution of gall induction
Matthew L. Buffington, Seán Brady
9:17 AM1089Development of Melittobia digitata Dahms (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) parasitizing Anastrepha ludens (Loew) (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Jorge M. Gonzalez, S. Bradleigh Vinson, Martin Aluja
9:29 AM1090Taxonomic study on the genus Coccobius Ratzeburg (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), with description of three new species from Georgia
George Japoshvili, Ismail Karaca
9:41 AM Break
9:53 AM 1091Pan trap color preference for Hymenoptera in a forest clearing
Robert Kula
10:05 AM1092Diversity of North American Pogonognathellus (Collembola: Tomoceridae)
Ernest C. Bernard, Kelly L. Felderhoff, Kyung-Hwa Park, John K. Moulton
10:17 AM 1093The dance flies of Madagascar: Revealing an unknown diversity
Whitney Swink
10:29 AM1094Molecular phylogeny of the horse flies: A framework for renewing tabanid taxonomy
Shelah I. Morita, Keith Bayless, Brian Wiegmann
10:41 AM 1095Population and community structure of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) at a former aluminum processing center
Meaghan Sutherland
10:53 AM1096Distribution and relative abundance of economically important Anobiidae (Coleoptera) in Wisconsin forests and structures
Rachel Ann Arango, Daniel K. Young
11:05 AM1097Long-term metapopulation dynamics of Bahamian ants
Lloyd Morrison
11:17 AM1098Revision of Cliniodes genus (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)
James E. Hayden
11:29 AM Concluding Remarks

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