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An Inordinate Neglect of Dytiscids: International Endeavors to Understand the Behavior, Ecology, and Systematics of Predaceous Diving Beetles

Tuesday, December 14, 2010: 1:00 PM-5:05 PM
Sunset (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Organizer :
Donald A. Yee
1:00 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:10 PM
1031
The phylogeny and classification of diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
Kelly B. Miller, University of New Mexico
1:30 PM
1032
DNA-aided species discovery of predaceous diving beetles in Madagascar
Johannes Bergsten, Swedish Museum of Natural History
1:50 PM
1033
Ecophysiology of the differences in the size of the geographical range in western Mediterranean dytiscids
Ignacio Ribera, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2:10 PM
1034
Surviving submerged - a new respiratory adaptation of predaceous diving beetles to their environment
Siegfried Kehl, University of Bayreuth; Konrad Dettner, University of Bayreuth
2:30 PM
1035
Testing mechanisms of co-occurrence between two morphologically similar species of predaceous diving beetles in Mississippi
Kristopher Alexander Pitcher, University of Southern Mississippi; Donald A. Yee, University of Southern Mississippi
2:50 PM
Break
3:02 PM
1036
Feeding habits of two diving beetle larvae, Cybister brevis and Cybister japonicus in Japanese wetlands
Shin-ya Ohba, Kyoto University
3:22 PM
1037
Ecology of predaceous diving beetles in agricultural ponds in Alberta, Canada:  Habitat domain, hunting behavior, and dispersal
Donald A. Yee, University of Southern Mississippi
3:42 PM
1038
Predictors of dytiscid species composition in Irish farmland ponds
Margherita Gioria, University College Dublin
4:02 PM
1039
Ecology of the predaceous diving beetles, Hydroporus morio and Colymbetes dolabratus, in a rapidly changing Arctic environment
Lauren E. Culler, Dartmouth College
4:22 PM
1040
Intraguild predation in larval dytiscids: Implications for the community structure of fishless ponds in eastern North America
Patrick Crumrine, Rowan University
4:42 PM
1041
Bridging ecology and systematics:  20 years of study of larval morphology of world Dytiscidae
Yves Alarie, Laurentian University
5:02 PM
Concluding Remarks
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