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Heteropterists Conference

Tuesday, November 18, 2008: 7:30 PM-11:30 PM
Room A2, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Organizers:
Scott Bundy
Jeffrey Bradshaw


7:30 PM
Welcoming Remarks
7:35 PM
0953
Potential taxonomic value of the male naughty bits of Murgantia, based on comparison of M. histrionica, M. varicolor, and M. violascens (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)
Je. McPherson, Southern Illinois University ; Imtiaz Ahmad, University of Karachi
7:55 PM
0954
The higher classification of the Rhyparochromidae (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea)
Merrill Sweet, New Mexico State University
8:15 PM
0955
Tur pod bugs (Hemiptera: Coreidae: Clavigrallini) in India
Paula Levin Mitchell, Winthrop University ; Reetika Gupta Hegde, University of Delhi ; Ashok Kumar Singh, University of Delhi
8:35 PM
0956
The first New World representative of Chorosoma (Heteroptera: Rhopalidae): A contribution in honor of Michail Josifov
Carl W. Schaefer, University of Connecticut ; J. D. Lattin, Oregon State University ; M. D. Schwartz, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
8:55 PM
Mo' Molecules
9:15 PM
Break
9:25 PM
0957
Revisionary work on the New World phylinae genus Reuteroscopus (Heteroptera: Miridae)
Randall T. Schuh, American Museum of Natural History ; Christine Johnson, American Museum of Natural History
9:45 PM
0958
Ant mimicry in the Miridae: Occurrence across subfamilies, general habits, and novel morphological characteristics
Thomas J. Henry, USDA-ARS, Systematic Entomology Laboratory
10:05 PM
0959
Feeding, nutrition and ovarian development in closely-related, cohabiting species: Orius insidiosus and Orius pumilio (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae)
Jeffery Shapiro, USDA ARS ; Paul D. Shirk, USDA ARS
10:25 PM
0960
Quo vadis, Heteroptera: Progress in true bug cladistics during the past two decades
Christiane Weirauch, University of California Riverside
10:45 PM
Concluding Remarks
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