Student Competition for the President's Prize Display Presentations, SEB: Systematics

Monday, December 14, 2009: 7:00 AM-6:00 PM
Hall D, First Floor (Convention Center)


Independent evolution of mycophagy among Ipini bark beetles
Rachel L. O'Donnell Olson, Michigan State University ; Anthony I. Cognato, Michigan State University
Reexamination of Rebel’s fossil Yponomeutidae reveals misidentifications
Jae-Cheon Sohn, University of Maryland ; Consortium The Leptree, University of Maryland
A revision of the ambrosia beetle genus Camptocerus Dejean (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
Sarah M. Smith, Michigan State University ; Anthony Cognato, Michigan State University
World species exploration of the genus Oxyteleia Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae)
Charuwat Taekul, The Ohio State University ; Norman F. Johnson, The Ohio State University
Systematics of subfamily Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from Madagascar
Sindhu M. Krishnankutty, University of Illinois ; Christopher H. Dietrich, Illinois Natural History Survey
Systematic studies of coccophagine aphelinids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) with emphasis on the enigmatic genus Coccobius
Jason Mottern, University of California, Riverside ; John M. Heraty, University of California-Riverside
Systematics of Mordellini species (Coleoptera; Mordellidae)
Brent C. Rahlwes, Sam Houston State University ; Sibyl R. Bucheli, Sam Houston State University ; Jerry L. Cook, Sam Houston State University
Mounds of diversity: towards a taxonomic revision of the Malagasy genus Ulpius Stal (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)
Grace A. Radabaugh, University of California-Riverside ; Christiane Weirauch, University of California-Riverside
Distinguishing Orasema (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae) parasitic on fire ants with molecular and morphological characters
Jessica Ortiz, University of California-Riverside ; John Heraty, University of California-Riverside ; David Hawks, University of California-Riverside ; Laura Varone, USDA-ARS-SABCL
Phylogenetic study of the weevil subfamily Ceutorhynchinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) based on morphology
Steven Ray Davis, University of Kansas ; Hiraku Yoshitake, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences