Monday, December 10, 2001: 1:00 PM-3:15 PM

Garden Salon 1(Conference Center, East Side, Level 2)

Student Competition Ten-Minute Papers, Section A2. Systematics, Morphology, and Evolution

Moderator(s): Barry M. OConnor
Norman F. Johnson
1:00 PM0289Systematics and phylogeny of the genus Epectinaspis Blanchard 1851 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anomalini)
Aura C. Paucar-Cabrera
1:12 PM0290The reproductive system of Cassidinae and Hispinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): A new character system
Caroline S. Chaboo
1:24 PM0291Host race formation in a species of gall wasp (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Antistrophus rufus) feeding on native prairie forbs (Asteraceae: Silphium)
John F. Tooker, Lawrence M. Hanks
1:36 PM0292The phylogeny of the Erotylidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Erotylidae) based on molecular data
James A. Robertson, Joseph V. McHugh, Michael F. Whiting
1:48 PM0293The evolution of secondary sexual characters and the phylogeny of diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
Kelly B. Miller
2:00 PMBreak
2:12 PM0294The evolution of ambush predation in Hawaiian Eupithecia caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)
Mandy L. Heddle, Rosemary Gillespie, George K. Roderick
2:24 PM0295Molecular systematics of Aphytis (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae) and related genera
J. W. Kim, John M. Heraty
2:36 PM0296Climatic origins of the latitudinal diversity gradient: Eocene insects of the Okanagan Highlands
S. Bruce Archibald, Brian D. Farrell
2:48 PM0297Evolution of life history traits in euptychiine butterflies
Debra L. Murray
3:00 PM0298The Trichoptera of Nicaragua
Maria Lourdes Chamorro

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