Wednesday, 29 October 2003: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

205/207 (Convention Center (Second Floor))

Ten-Minute Papers, Section A. Systematics, Morphology, and Evolution

Moderator(s): M. Alma Solis
James B. Woolley
1:00 PM0981The phylogeny and classification of the Dytiscinae (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
Kelly B. Miller, Johannes Bergsten
1:12 PM0982Phylogenetic revision of desert fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Microphotus)
Jessica L. Usener, Anthony I. Cognato
1:24 PM0983Phylogeny of the family Hybosoridae based on morphological and molecular data (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea)
Federico C. Ocampo
1:36 PM0984Absence asymmetry: the evolution of monorchid ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Kipling W. Will, David R. Maddison, James K. Liebherr
1:48 PM0985Phylogeny of the Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) based on 18S DNA data and morphology with special emphasis on the relationships amoung galerucines and flea beetles
Catherine N. Duckett, Joseph J. Gillespie, Karl M. Kjer
2:00 PM0986Accomodating the non-independence of pairing-regions in the phylogenetic analysis of rRNA sequences: an example from the rootworms (Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae; Luperini)
Joseph J. Gillespie, Anthony I. Cognato
2:12 PM0987Phylogeny of the orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apinae: Euglossini): DNA and morphology yield convergent patterns
Sydney A. Cameron, Alice Michel-Salzat
2:24 PM0988Morphological circumscription and molecular systematics of the Apameini (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): implications for the phylogenesis of host associations and larval behaviors
Paul Z. Goldstein
2:36 PM0989New musotimines (Crambidae: Pyraloidea) feeding on Old World climbing fern
M. Alma Solis, Shen-Horn Yen, John H. Goolsby
2:48 PM0990Molecular phylogenetics of the leafmining flies: genus-level relationships within the Agromyzidae (Diptera)
Sonja J. Scheffer, Brian M. Wiegmann
3:00 PMBreak
3:12 PM0991Adaptive radiation and trophic guild structure in snail-killing flies of the genus Tetanocera (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)
Benjamin A. Foote
3:24 PM0992Making taxonomic information about the parasitoid wasp genera Cotesia and Microplitis available to the user community
James B. Whitfield
3:36 PM0993Can we determine species distributions?: A comparison of spatial range prediction models
Eric J. Dotseth
3:48 PM0994The biogeography of Malagasy ants: the combination of new ant data and a distribution model based on remote sensing data
Donat Agosti, Sassan S. Saatchi, Brian L. Fisher
4:00 PM0995Preliminary analysis of planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) diversity from the Ecuadorian rainforest canopy
Charles Bartlett, Lois O'Brien, Terry Erwin
4:12 PM0996Eugnamptine weevils of La Selva, Costa Rica
Robert W. Hamilton, Andrew L. Novinger
4:24 PM0997Biodiversity of Gelechioidea (Microlepidoptera) in a re-established appalachian forest in southern Ohio
Sibyl R. Bucheli, David J. Horn
4:36 PM0998Patterns of ecological diversification in the Staphylinidae (Coleoptera)
Margaret K. Thayer
4:48 PM0999A Caribbean insect/plant specimen database with images for the WWW
Brian D. Farrell

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