Session: Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section SEB3. Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiverstiy (2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section SEB3. Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiverstiy

Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Room A1, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Moderators:

Yves Alarie
Terry Erwin

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:05 AM

A revision of the braconid subfamily Euphorinae

C. Andy Boring, University of Kentucky

8:17 AM

A Madagascan explosion of species: The genus Trichoteleia (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae)

Elijah Talamas, Ohio State University; Norman Johnson, The Ohio State University

8:29 AM

Evolution of nocturnal velvet ants (Hymentoptera: Mutillidae): Driven by Neogene vicariance or Pleistocene climate change?

Joseph S. Wilson, Utah State University; James P. Pitts, Utah State University

8:41 AM

A revisionary study of the genus Dasychela (Diptera: Tabanidae) with reference to the evolution of extreme morphologies

Keith M. Bayless, North Carolina State University

8:53 AM

Towards a revision of the entire-eyed owlflies (Ascalaphidae: Haplogleniinae)

Joshua R. Jones, Texas A&M University

9:05 AM

Revision of the North American Asidini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

Aaron D. Smith, Michigan State University

9:17 AM

Progress towards a revision of Camptocerus Dejean (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

Sarah M. Smith, Michigan State University; Anthony Cognato, Michigan State University

9:29 AM

Break

9:41 AM

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, University of Hawaii, Manoa; Daniel Rubinoff, University of Hawai'i

9:53 AM

A generic revision of ichneutine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Ray Fisher, University of Arkansas; Michael J. Sharkey, University of Kentucky; Ashley PG. Dowling, University of Arkansas

10:05 AM

Phylogeny and biogeography of the ant genus Stenamma: Uncovering the evolutionary origins of Mesoamerican taxa

Michael G. Branstetter, University of California, Davis

10:17 AM

Nesocyrtosoma (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): A classic Greater Antillean/Montserrat distribution

Katie J. Hopp, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; Michael A. Ivie, Montana State University

10:29 AM

Rapid evolution of hybrid male sterility in the phytophogous insect, Dendroctonus ponderosae

Ryan Bracewell, Utah State University; Barbara J. Bentz, USDA - Forest Service; Karen Mock, Utah State University; Michael Pfrender, University of Notre Dame

10:41 AM

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, SNM, Zoologisk Museum; Alexey Solodovnikov, Statens Naturhistoriske Museum

10:53 AM

Evolution of horny weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae)

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