Wednesday, December 12, 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Pacific Salon Seven, Golden Pacific Ballroom, Second Floor (Town & Country)

Section Symposium: Diversity of the Tenebrionoidea

Organizer(s): Katie J. Hopp, khopp@montana.edu
M. Fran Keller, mfkeller@ucdavis.edu
8:00 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:10 AM1148Diversity of Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea):  Ecological and geographical perspective
Adam Slipinski, Adam.Slipinski@csiro.au
8:35 AM1149Generic diversity of world Pyrochroinae (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae)
Daniel K. Young, young@entomology.wisc.edu
9:00 AM1150Diversity of West Indian Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)
Katie J. Hopp, khopp@montana.edu
9:25 AM1151Habitats and metapopulations of Eschatomoxys
Donald B Thomas, dthomas@weslaco.ars.usda.gov, Rolf Aalbu, raalbu@comcast.net, Robert B. Pape, elcavador@aol.com
9:50 AM Break
10:05 AM1152The darkling beetles of the eastern United States (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
James Dunford, dunford@ufl.edu
10:30 AM1153A revision of the genus Sisenes Champion (Coleoptera: Oedemeridae)
Nadine Kriska, nlkriska@entomology.wisc.edu
10:55 AM1154Phylogeographic and faunistic diversity of California Tenebrionidae
Michael Caterino, mcaterino@sbnature2.org, Stylianos Chatzimanolis, schatzimanolis@sbnature2.org
11:20 AM 1155A survey of the “salpingid group” of families (Coleoptera:Tenebrionoidea), with emphasis on several enigmatic taxa
Darren Pollock, Darren.Pollock@enmu.edu
11:45 AM Concluding Remarks

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