ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB-4

Monday, November 12, 2012: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
200 D, Floor Two (Knoxville Convention Center)
Moderators:
Torsten Dikow
Michael Forthman


8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:03 AM
0711
Differing rates of character evolution in Schistocerca lineata Scudder, 1899 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae)
Tyler Raszick, University of Central Florida ; Hojun Song, University of Central Florida
8:15 AM
0712
Density-dependent phenotypic plasticity in birdwing grasshoppers, Schistocerca americana (Drury) and S. serialis cubense (Saussure) (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae)
Steve Gotham, University of Central Florida ; Hojun Song, University of Central Florida
8:27 AM
0713
Global biogeographic patterns of grassland Auchenorrhyncha
Therese Anne Catanach, University of Illinois ; Christopher H. Dietrich, University of Illinois, llinois Natural History Survey
8:39 AM
0714
The Neotropical cicada genus Zammara (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), untangling the taxonomic knot, using DNA, morphology and song
Geert Goemans, University of Connecticut
8:51 AM
0715
The black-headed conundrum: Species boundaries in Chyphotes (Hymenoptera: Chyphotidae)
Emily A. Sadler, Utah State University ; James P. Pitts, Utah State University
9:03 AM
0716
Elucidating the species and species’ limits in the tiger moth genus Euchaetes Harris (Lepidoptera: Erebidae)
Heather M. Cummins, University of Minnesota ; Susan J. Weller, University of Minnesota
9:15 AM
0717
Withdrawn
9:27 AM
0718
Analysis of morphology of neotropical Geometrinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) using exo- and endoskeletal characters
David M. Plotkin, Mississippi State University
9:39 AM
Break
9:51 AM
0719
Urban biodiversity of crambine sod webworms and their host preferences
Devon A. Rogers, Ohio State University ; David J. Shetlar, Ohio State University ; Steven Passoa, USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ)
10:03 AM
0720
Testing for genetic differentiation among populations of the North American native cranberry fruitworm, Acrobasis vaccinii (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), from blueberries and cranberries
Kyle Harrison, Texas A&M University ; Zsofia Szendrei, Michigan State University ; Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, Rutgers University ; Raul F. Medina, Texas A&M University
10:15 AM
0721
What an ancient ecosystem can tell us: scrub islands of the southeastern U.S. and their endemic grasshoppers within the Melanoplus Puer Group (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae)
Derek A. Woller, University of Central Florida
10:27 AM
0722
Unraveling the mysteries of Cremnops (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) biogeography
Erika Tucker, University of Kentucky ; Michael J. Sharkey, University of Kentucky
10:39 AM
0723
Diversification and biogeography of the Australian cicada genus Pauropsalta
Christopher L. Owen, University of Connecticut
10:51 AM
0724
Large-scale rearing and field sampling programs find many new species of Creagrura Townes (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Central and South America
Shelby E. Stedenfeld, University of Kentucky ; Ilari E. Sääksjärvi, University of Turku
11:03 AM
0725
Environmental controls on biofilm succession drive invertebrate grazing pressure
Jennifer M. Lang, University of Dayton ; M. Eric Benbow, University of Dayton
11:15 AM
0726
Host dynamics determine strength of fungal pathogen control of an insect pest
Erica J. Kistner, University of Notre Dame
11:27 AM
Concluding Remarks
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