Session: Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB: Taxonomy, Classifications, and Revisions (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB: Taxonomy, Classifications, and Revisions

Monday, December 13, 2010: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Brittany (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Organizer:

Moderators:

Hojun Song
Yves G. Alarie

9:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

9:05 AM

Morphological and systematic investigations of Trachymolgus (Bdellidae: Cytinae): The unusual purple tank

Ray Fisher, University of Arkansas

9:17 AM

Evidence of possible new cryptic species in the genus Polythore (Polythoridae: Odonata) in the eastern Andes foothills of Colombia

Melissa Sánchez Herrera, Rutgers University ; Emilio Realpe, Universidad de los Andes ; Camilo Salazar, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

9:29 AM

Examination of the status of Protaphis (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

Doris Lagos, University of Illinois ; David Voegtlin, University of Illinois

9:41 AM

A revision of the genus Chionomus Fennah (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Delphacidae): cleaning out Delphacodes Fieber

Kathryn Weglarz, University of Delaware ; Charles Bartlett, University of Delaware

9:53 AM

Traces of evolution: Genetic, chemical and ecological differentiation in two sibling species of the genus Lasius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

William R. Morrison, Michigan State University ; Volker Witte, University of Munich

10:05 AM

A revision of the New World Hypoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) a neglected ant genus

Shawn T. Dash, University of Texas - El Paso ; William Mackay, University of Texas - El Paso

10:17 AM

10:30 AM

Species delimitation in a taxonomically challenging genus: Ophion (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Canada

Marla D. Schwarzfeld, University of Alberta ; Felix A. H. Sperling, University of Alberta

10:42 AM

Revisiting the subspecies conundrum of the bumble bee Bombus bifarius Cresson (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in North America

Jonathan Koch, Utah State University ; James Strange, USDA - ARS

10:54 AM

Revision of the world species of Cremnops (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Erika Tucker, University of Kentucky

11:06 AM

Molecular and morphological revision of Evania, Hyptia, and Decevania (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae) of Costa Rica

Patricia Mullins, North Carolina State University ; Barbara Sharanowski, North Carolina State University ; Andrew R. Deans, North Carolina State University

11:18 AM

Revision of the subfamily Megaspilinae (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea)

Andrew F. Ernst, North Carolina State University ; Andrew R. Deans, North Carolina State University ; István Mikó, North Carolina State University ; Barbara J. Sharanowski, North Carolina State University

11:30 AM

Early evolution of the weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea): evidence from the Yixian Formation, China, and the Karatau site, Kazakhstan

Steven Ray Davis, University of Kansas ; Michael S. Engel, University of Kansas

11:42 AM

Resolving conflict and outgroup sampling in the diachlorine grade; a new classification system for Tabaninae (Diptera: Tabanidae)

Keith Bayless, North Carolina State University ; Shelah Morita, Smithsonian Institution ; Brian Wiegmann, North Carolina State University

11:54 AM

Concluding Remarks

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