Monday, December 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Pacific Salon One, Golden Pacific Ballroom, First Floor (Town & Country)

A, Session A1. Systematics, Morphology, and Evolution

Organizer(s): Amy Vandergast
Corrie Saux Moreau
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM 0253Systematics and color mimicry evolution of the cyanide-producing millipedes of Appalachia
Paul Marek, Jason Bond
8:17 AM0254Origins of Synsphyronus (Pseudoscorpiones) diversity on the outcrops of southwestern Australia
Roberta S. Engel, Elizabeth L. Jockusch, Mark S. Harvey
8:29 AM 0255A test of the monophyly of the genus Pseudosinella (Collembola: Entomobryidae), with comments on speciation and the phylogenetic relevance of some subgeneric diagnostic characters
Joseph Reznik, Felipe N. Soto-Adames
8:41 AM0256Revision of Tomoceridae (Collembola) of the southern Appalachians using morphological and molecular approaches
Kelly L. Felderhoff, Ernest C. Bernard
8:53 AM 0257The phylogeny, biogeography, and evolution of male genitalia within the praying mantis genus Tenodera (Mantodea: Mantidae)
Dana Jensen, Gavin Svenson, Michael F. Whiting
9:05 AM0258Resolving internal relationships within the Dictyoptera poses new questions: Difficulty in the placement of Polyphaga
Jessica L. Ware, Jesse R. Litman, Klaus-Dieter Klass, Lauren A. Spearman
9:17 AM Break
9:29 AM0260Mealybug (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) phylogeny and classification revisited
Nate B Hardy, P. J. Gullan, Chris J Hodgson
9:41 AM0261A phylogeny of the leafhopper genus Flexamia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) constructed with morphological and molecular characters
Therese A. Catanach, Chris H. Dietrich, Robert F. Whitcomb, James B. Woolley
9:53 AM0262Molecular systematic comparison of North American Lygus species
Prasad S. Burange, Richard L. Roehrdanz, Mark A. Boetel
10:05 AM0263Revealing Australia's Miridae diversity: New species and genera of Leucophoropterini (Heteroptera: Miridae) from Australia
Katrina L Menard
10:17 AM 0264Morphology, molecules, and the evolution of grass specialization in the leafhopper subfamily Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae)
James N. Zahniser, Chris H. Dietrich

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