Session: Systematics and Diversity of Coleoptera (2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008)

Systematics and Diversity of Coleoptera

Wednesday, November 19, 2008: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Room A5, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Organizer :

M. Fran Keller

1:00 PM

Welcoming Remarks

1:05 PM

The genus Neatus LeConte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in North America, with the description of a new and widespread “cryptic” species

Warren E. Steiner, Smithsonian Institution

1:20 PM

Break

1:25 PM

Diversity of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea)

Michael A. Ivie, Montana State University

1:40 PM

Break

1:45 PM

300+ ways to tumble in the canopy: A look at the Mordellidae of Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

Christy Jo Geraci, Smithsonian Institution; Terry Erwin, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History

2:00 PM

Break

2:05 PM

Phylogeny of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera): Are we making any progress?

Adam Slipinski, CSIRO; Wioletta Tomaszewska, Polish Academy of Sciences; Jose Adriano Giorgi, University of Georgia

2:20 PM

Break

2:25 PM

Diversity and status of Stenomorpha Solier 1836 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae: Asidini)

M. Fran Keller, Bohart Museum of Entomology

2:40 PM

Intermission

2:55 PM

How are new taxa discovered, with case histories from Tenebrionidae

Charles A. Triplehorn, Ohio State University

3:10 PM

Break

3:15 PM

Diversity of Paussinae (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Wendy Moore, California Academy of Sciences

3:30 PM

Break

3:35 PM

Diversity and evolution of Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Stylianos Chatzimanolis, University of Tennessee; Alexey Solodovnikov, University of Copenhagen, Zoological Museum; Alfred F. Newton, Field Museum of Natural History; Michael Engel, University of Kansas

3:50 PM

Break

3:55 PM

Systematics and diversity of Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)

Andrew R. Cline, California Department of Food and Agriculture

4:10 PM

Break

4:15 PM

Systematics, diversity and biogeography of the Anamorphinae (Coleoptera: Endomychidae), with additional comments about the neotropical genus Bystus

Floyd W. Shockley, University of Georgia

4:30 PM

Concluding Remarks

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