Tuesday, December 12, 2006: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 204 (Convention Center)
Section A Symposium: Notes from the Field: Biodiversity of Coleoptera. A Symposium Honoring the Memory and Contributions of Steve Ashe, Part I
Organizer(s):	Brett C. Ratcliffe, bratcliffe1@unl.edu Christopher E. Carlton, ccarlt@lsu.edu
8:00 AM			Welcoming Remarks
8:10 AM	0662		James Stephen Ashe: Neotropical field recollections    Robert D. Anderson, randerson@mus-nature.ca
8:35 AM	0663		Austral Staphylinidae   Margaret K. Thayer, mthayer@fieldmuseum.org, Alfred F. Newton, anewton@fmnh.org
9:00 AM	0664		The dynastine scarab beetles of Mesoamerica   Ronald D. Cave, rdcave@mail.ifas.ufl.edu, Brett C. Ratcliffe, bratcliffe1@unl.edu
9:25 AM	0665		Evolution and diversification of grass-associated scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae: Anomalinae: Anisopliini) Mary Lilz Jameson, mjameson1@unl.edu
9:50 AM	0666		Southern South American Scarabaeidae Andrew B. T. Smith, asmith@unlserve.unl.edu, Federico Ocampo, asmith@unlserve.unl.edu
10:15 AM			Break
10:30 AM	0667		Beetle diversity and discoveries in Great Smoky Mountains National Park   Christopher E. Carlton, ccarlt@lsu.edu
10:55 AM	0668		The beetles of the West Indies   Michael Ivie, mivie@montana.edu
11:20 AM	0669		Phylogeography of rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) across Southern California   Stylianos Chatzimanolis, schatzimanolis@sbnature2.org, Michael Caterino, mcaterino@sbnature2.org

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