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

Monday, November 17, 2008: 7:00 AM-6:00 PM

Exhibit Hall 3, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Systematics and speciation of ants in the ecologically important but taxonomically difficult Monomorium rothsteini Forel species complex

Kathryn S. Sparks, University of Adelaide ; Andrew D. Austin, University of Adelaide ; Alan N. Andersen, CSIRO ; Steven O. Shattuck, CSIRO

D0127

A LUCID® key to the subgenera and species-groups of Sphenoptera Dejean of the Palaearctic (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)

Crystal A. Maier, Montana State University ; Mark Yu. Kalashian, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia ; Michael A. Ivie, Montana State University ; Mark G. Volkovitsh, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

D0128

Towards a revision of the genus Apodrosus Marshall (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)

Jennifer C. Girón, University of Puerto Rico ; Nico Franz, University of Puerto Rico

D0129

Revision of the genera of the family Phalacridae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)

Matthew L. Gimmel, Louisiana State University ; Christopher E. Carlton, Louisiana State University

D0130

“Leptree fossil data-base”: The first step to construct molecular “backbone” phylogeny and dating of Lepidoptera

Jae-Cheon Sohn, University of Maryland ; Conrad Labandeira, National Museum of Natural History ; Charles Mitter, University of Maryland ; Don Davis, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian ; Cynthia Parr, National Museum of Natural History

D0131

Addition of the 16S ribosomal RNA to an existing molecular data set to help determine higher level relationships within Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera)

Juan Carlos Garcia, Sam Houston State University ; Sibyl Bucheli, Sam Houston State University ; John W. Wenzel, The Ohio State University

D0132

Phylogenetic relationships of Central and South American flatwing damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera: Megapodagrionidae): An examination of monophyly in a convoluted group

Frank Andrew Fogarty, University of Florida ; Seth M Bybee, University of Florida ; Spencer J Ingley, University of Florida ; Marc A. Branham, University of Florida

D0133

Is molecular data supplanting morphological data in modern phylogenetic studies?

Seth M Bybee, University of Florida ; Jennifer M. Zaspel, University of Florida ; Kyle A. Beucke, University of Florida ; Clare H. Scott, University of Florida ; Bradley Smith, University of Florida ; Marc Branham, University of Florida

D0134

A molecular phylogeny of the genus Proctophyllodes (Acari = Astigmata) with implications of cospeciation in North American Passeriformes

Tara M. Roth, San Francisco State University

D0135

A preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the lichen moths of the genus Crambidia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Arctiinae)

Clare H. Scott, University of Florida ; Marc A. Branham, University of Florida

D0136

Systematics of coccophagine aphelinids

Jason Mottern, University of California, Riverside ; John M. Heraty, University of California-Riverside

D0137

Sociometry of Odontomachus brunneus

Lauren M. Hart, University of Missouri - Columbia ; Walter R. Tschinkel, Florida State University

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