Session: Ten-Minute Papers, SEB: Systematics and Biogeography (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Tuesday, December 15, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Room 102, First Floor (Convention Center)

Moderators:

James Liebherr
Daniel Z. Rubinoff

1:30 PM

1:35 PM

Molecular identification and genetic diversity studies of a scale-like insect infesting mango and citrus orchards in Pakistan

Muhammad Ashfaq, University of Agriculture ; Jehan Ara, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering ; Shahid Mansoor, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering

1:47 PM

0960

Micro-orbweaving spiders of the Gaoligongshan: systematics in the age of cybertaxonomy

J.A. Miller, National Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis ; C. Griswold, California Academy of Sciences ; L. Penev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Pensoft Publishers

1:59 PM

0961

Evolution of elongation factor 1-alpha in insects and implications for early bee phylogeny

Seán Brady, Smithsonian Institution ; Bryan N. Danforth, Cornell University

2:11 PM

0962

Use of nuclear mitochondrial pseudogenes as molecular fossils: a case study using the grasshopper genus Schistocerca (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

Hojun Song, Brigham Young University ; Matthew J. Moulton, Brigham Young University ; Kevin Hiatt, Brigham Young University ; Michael F. Whiting, Brigham Young University

2:23 PM

0963

The spectacular diversity of larval cases of an endemic Hawaiian moth, genus Hyposmocoma (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae), radiation suggests complex evolutionary patterns

Daniel Rubinoff, University of Hawaii ; Patrick Schmitz, University of Hawaii

2:35 PM

0964

The habits, habitats, and relations of American wetland lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

Natalia J. Vandenberg, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory ; J. Adriano Giorgi, University of Georgia ; John J. Obrycki, University of Kentucky ; Warren E. Steiner, Smithsonian Institution ; Jil M. Swearingen, US National Park Service-National Capital Region

2:47 PM

Break

2:59 PM

0965

Biogeography of ants in the Australian wet tropics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Corrie S. Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History

3:11 PM

0966

Evolution and biogeography of a newly described genus Neophylidorea (Diptera: Tipuliodea)

Jessica D. Petersen, Iowa State University ; Greg Courtney, Iowa State University ; Irby Lovette, Cornell University

3:23 PM

0967

Fossils in Hawaii? The importance of a sub-fossil assemblage for understanding the Hawaiian Blackburnia radiation (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

James Liebherr, Cornell University ; Nick Porch, Australian National University

3:35 PM

0968

Biogeography and diversification of the Pacific ant genus Lordomyrma Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Andrea Lucky, University of North Carolina ; Eli M. Sarnat, University of California-Davis

3:47 PM

0969

Cospeciation and cophylogeography in Australian Fergusonina galling flies and their Fergusobia nematode mutualists

Sonja Scheffer, USDA - ARS ; Kerrie Davies, University of Adelaide ; Gary Taylor, University of Adelaide ; Robin Giblin-Davis, University of Florida ; David Yeates, CSIRO Entomology

3:59 PM

0970

What can we learn from studying areas of endemism defined by Hawaiian Carabidae (Coleoptera)?

James Liebherr, Cornell University

4:11 PM

0971

Multilocus phylogeography of the night walker (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Nyctoporis carinata) in the California Floristic Province

Michael Caterino, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History ; Maxi Polihronakis, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

4:23 PM

0972

Phylogeography of dwarf honeybees, Apis florea and A. andreniformis

Deborah Smith, University of Kansas ; Jason Palikij, University of Kansas

4:35 PM

Concluding Remarks

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