Session: Praying Mantises (Mantodea): Diversity of Form, Function, and Biology (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Praying Mantises (Mantodea): Diversity of Form, Function, and Biology

Wednesday, December 15, 2010: 7:45 AM-11:50 AM

Garden Salon 2 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Organizers:

Lawrence E. Hurd
Gavin Svenson
Frederick Prete

7:45 AM

Welcoming Remarks

7:50 AM

The phylogeny structured investigation of mantodean origins and evolution

Gavin Svenson, New York State Museum

8:10 AM

Evolution of the praying mantids: a morphological perspective

Frank Wieland, Pfalzmuseum für Naturkunde

8:30 AM

Evidence from male genitalic morphology on basal phylogenetic splitting events in Mantodea

Klaus-Dieter Klass, Senckenberg Natural History Collections

8:50 AM

The mantodean egg case: Utility as a taxonomic character and its functional diversity

Julio Rivera, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola; Hiromi Yagui, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina

9:10 AM

Two new synonyms in the updated checklist of Indian mantids with notes on classification

Tushar Kanti Mukhopadhyay, Presidency College

9:30 AM

Behavioral and morphological variation within the Mantodea

Michael R. Maxwell, National University

9:50 AM

Intermission

10:05 AM

The mantis prey recognition algorithm: Species variations on a theme

Frederick Prete, Northeastern Illinois University; Salina Dominguez, Northeastern Illinois University; Justin Komito, Northeastern Illinois University; Robert Theis, Northeastern Illinois University; Jessica Dominguez, Northeastern Illinois University

10:25 AM

An auditory bicyclops: Two-eared mantises

David D. Yager, University of Maryland

10:45 AM

Ecological perspectives for mantis research

Lawrence E. Hurd, Washington & Lee University

11:05 AM

Praying mantids: Big arthropods producing big effects in food webs

Matthew D. Moran, Hendrix College

11:25 AM

A paternity advantage for speedy males? Sperm precedence patterns and female re-mating frequencies in a sexually cannibalistic praying mantid

Katherine L. Barry, Macquarie University

11:45 AM

Concluding Remarks

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