Tuesday, December 11, 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

California, Atlas Ballroom, First Floor (Town & Country)

Section Symposium: Integrating Larval Ecology and Behavior to Illuminate the Evolution of Lepidoptera

Organizer(s): Amanda Roe, roexx068@umn.edu
Susan Weller, welle008@umn.edu
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM0740Moving along the branches: Evolution of larval locomotion
Marc Epstein, mepstein@cdfa.ca.gov
8:30 AM0741Phylogeny of the Gelechioidea based on larval and adult morphology
Lauri Kaila
8:55 AM0742Contributions of juvenile characters to butterfly systematics
Andre Freitas
9:20 AM0743Evolution of arctiid larval morphology and life histories
Susan J Weller, welle008@umn.edu
9:45 AM Break
10:05 AM Scrapping and scraping: Evolution of vibrational communication in caterpillars
Jayne Yack, jyack@ccs.carleton.ca
10:30 AM0745Interspecific interactions and the evolutionary ecology of forest caterpillars
John T Lill, lillj@gwu.edu
10:55 AM0746Part I, Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) caterpillar biology: Food plants, DNA barcodes, and parasitoids in a complex tropical forest
Daniel Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs
11:20 AM 0747Part II, ACG caterpillar biology: Food plants, DNA barcodes, and parasitoids in a complex tropical forest
Winnie Hallwachs, Daniel Janzen
11:45 AM Concluding Remarks

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