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Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Room A1, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center) |
Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section SEB3. Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiverstiy |
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| Moderator(s): | Yves Alarie
Terry Erwin
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| 8:00 AM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 8:05 AM |  | 0514 | | A revision of the braconid subfamily Euphorinae
C. Andy Boring |
| 8:17 AM | | 0515 | | A Madagascan explosion of species: The genus Trichoteleia (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae)
Elijah Talamas, Norman F. Johnson |
| 8:29 AM | | 0516 | | Evolution of nocturnal velvet ants (Hymentoptera: Mutillidae): Driven by Neogene vicariance or Pleistocene climate change?
Joseph S. Wilson, James P. Pitts |
| 8:41 AM | | 0517 | | A revisionary study of the genus Dasychela (Diptera: Tabanidae) with reference to the evolution of extreme morphologies
Keith Bayless |
| 8:53 AM | | 0518 | | Towards a revision of the entire-eyed owlflies (Ascalaphidae: Haplogleniinae)
Joshua R. Jones |
| 9:05 AM | | 0519 | | Revision of the North American Asidini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Aaron D. Smith |
| 9:17 AM | | 0520 | | Progress towards a revision of Camptocerus Dejean (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
Sarah M. Smith, Anthony I. Cognato |
| 9:29 AM | | | | Break |
| 9:41 AM | | 0521 | | A controversial evolutionary oddball: Life table analysis of the wekiu bug (Nysius wekiuicola), a unique high alpine desert scavenger lygaeid from Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Jesse A. Eiben, Dan Rubinoff |
| 9:53 AM | | 0522 | | A generic revision of ichneutine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Ray Fisher, Michael J. Sharkey, Ashley P. G. Dowling |
| 10:05 AM | | 0523 | | Phylogeny and biogeography of the ant genus Stenamma: Uncovering the evolutionary origins of Mesoamerican taxa
Michael G. Branstetter |
| 10:17 AM | | 0524 | | Nesocyrtosoma (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): A classic Greater Antillean/Montserrat distribution
Katie J. Hopp, Michael Ivie |
| 10:29 AM | | 0525 | | Rapid evolution of hybrid male sterility in the phytophogous insect, Dendroctonus ponderosae
Ryan Bracewell, Barbara J. Bentz, Karen Mock, Michael Pfrender |
| 10:41 AM | | 0526 | | When the small beetles tell the story of the big world: Towards the monograph of the rove beetle genus Hyperomma (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)
Andrea M. Schomann, Alexey Y. Solodovnikov |
| 10:53 AM | | 0527 | | Evolution of horny weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae) |
