Poster Display Presentations, SysEB: Session 1

Tuesday, December 14, 2010: 8:00 AM-6:00 PM
Grand Exhibit Hall (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
All clone-mates are not created equal:  Fitness discounting theory predicts pea aphid colony structure
Edward Mondor, Georgia Southern University; Keely Duff, Georgia Southern University
Constraints and caste differences in brain investment:  A comparative analysis in paper wasps
Sean O'Donnell, Drexel University; Marie Clifford, University of Washington
Feeding deterrent effects of essential oils and their major constituents against the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni:  Potential insect behavior control agents
Yasmin Akhtar, University of British Columbia; Emmanuelle Pages, University of British Columbia; Alex Stevens, University of British Columbia; Murray B. Isman, The University of British Columbia
Understanding the link between kdr insecticide resistance and populationgenetic structure
Warren Booth, North Carolina State University; Coby Schal, North Carolina State University; Edward L. Vargo, North Carolina State University
Phylogenetic relationships of the Sarcophagidae (Diptera), using three mitochondrial loci (COI, COII, and ND4) and one nuclear locus (PER)
Alina Avanesyan, University of Maryland, College Park; Trevor I. Stamper, University of Findlay; Alicia Timm, Geisenheim Research Institute; Evan S. Wong, University of Cincinnati; Gregory A. Dahlem, Northern Kentucky University; Ronald Debry, University of Cincinnati
Genetic diversity in populations of Dacus punctatifrons (Karsch) using mitochondrial DNA markers
Samia Elfékih, Unité de recherche Physico-Chimie Moleculaire IPEST LaMarsa; David S. Haymer, University of Hawaii at Manoa
An updated catalogue of the bees of Cuba (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
Julio A Genaro, University of Puerto Rico; Nico Franz, University of Puerto Rico
Howdenium and Jarmilina:  Two new genera of Afrotropical Scelioninae (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea)
Norman Johnson, The Ohio State University; Luciana Musetti, The Ohio State University; Lubomir Masner, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
The evolution of polyembryony in parasitoid wasps
Michal Segoli, University of California, Davis; Ally R. Harari, Agricultural Research Organisation; Jay A Rosenheim, University of California; Amos Bouskila, Ben-Gurion University; Tamar Keasar, University of Haifa, Oranim
Interfaces to the Hymenoptera anatomy ontology
Matthew J. Yoder, University of Illinois, llinois Natural History Survey; Matthew Bertone, North Carolina State University; Katja Seltmann, North Carolina State University; István Mikó, Pennsylvania State University; Andrew Deans, North Carolina State University
LepWingID:  An interactive identification aid using digital image pattern matching
Jeffrey C. Miller, Oregon State University; Hang-Kwang Luh, Oregon State University
Montage-Ultra
Elijah Talamas, Ohio State University
A preliminary phylogeny of the vampire moths and their fruit-piercing relatives based on molecular data (Noctuidae: Calpinae)
Jennifer Zaspel, Purdue University; Reza Zahiri, University of Turku; Daniel H. Janzen, University of Pennsylvania; Marjorie A. Hoy, University of Florida; Susan J. Weller, University of Minnesota; Niklas Wahlberg, University of Turku
Diversity, abundance, and phenology of Macrolepidoptera in Wooster Ohio from 2001 through 2009
Timothy Ebert, University of Florida; Roger Downer, Ohio State University
Population genetics of the endangered Mitchell's satyr butterfly
Christopher A. Hamm, Michigan State University; Douglas Landis, Michigan State University
Molecular barcoding and phylogenetic analysis of Monochamus species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
Xinyue Cheng, Purdue University; Jeffrey D. Holland, Purdue University; Virginia R. Ferris, Purdue University
Informativeness of male and female genitalia in resolving relationships among lineages of New World Exosternini (Coleoptera: Histeridae)
Michael S. Caterino, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; Alexey K. Tishechkin, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Testing generic concepts:  Phylogenetic analyses of the pelidnotine leaf chafers (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini)
Mary Liz Jameson, Wichita State University; Matthew R. Moore, Wichita State University
Evaluation of manuka and phoebe oil baited purple sticky traps for the capture of buprestids and cerambycids (Coleoptera) in middle Tennessee
Nadeer Youssef, Tennessee State University; Jason B. Oliver, Tennessee State University; Joshua P. Basham, Tennessee State University
An inventory of carabid beetle diversity (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of the Gaoligong Mountains of western Yunnan Province, China
David H. Kavanaugh, California Academy of Sciences; Hongbin Liang, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Sciritid fauna of Louisiana
Matthew Gimmel, University of Kansas; Crystal A. Maier, University of Kansas
The riffle beetles (Elmidae) of Missouri state parks
Crystal A. Maier, University of Kansas; Michael L. Ferro, Louisiana State University
Sticky bugs on the tree:  Evolution of sticky trap predation in the assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)
Guanyang Zhang, Arizona State University; Christiane Weirauch, University of California
Reclassification of the leafhopper subfamily Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with emphasis on the polyphyletic tribe Athysanini
James N. Zahniser, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign; Christopher H. Dietrich, University of Illinois
A morphological phylogenetic analysis of the Ortheziidae scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) including 125 million years of fossils in amber
Isabelle M. Vea, American Museum of Natural History; David Grimaldi, American Museum of Natural History
Highway 51 revisited:  New insights into genetic relationships between greenbug (Schizaphis graminum) populations and biotypes
Kevin A. Shufran, USDA - ARS; Richard Harrington, Rothamsted Research; Mark S. Taylor, Rothamsted Research
A revision of Caenodelphax Fennah (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Delphacidae) to include species misallocated to Delphacodes Fieber
Ashley C. Kennedy, University of Delaware; Charles Bartlett, University of Delaware
Diversity of the African root and tuber scale (Stictococcus vayssierei) in Central Africa
Rachid Hanna, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture; Armand Doumtsop, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA); Benjamin B. Normark, University of Massachusetts
Neomazium typicum Distant, 1910:  Description of a unique stridulatory mechanism in the Pentatomidae (Hemiptera)
David A. Rider, North Dakota State University; Gerry Cassis, University of New South Wales; Jayma A Moore, North Dakota State University
Promoting entomology at LSU:  The Mad Dog Marathon
Katherine A. Parys, USDA - ARS; Matthew Gimmel, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; Michael L. Ferro, Louisiana State University; Stephanie Gil, Louisiana State University; Crystal A. Maier, University of Kansas; Jong-Seok Park, Louisiana State University; Erich Schoeller, Louisiana State University; Leigh-Anne Lawton, Louisiana State University
Cylindera cursitans:  Distribution and seasonal occurrence in southeast Missouri
Ted C. MacRae, Monsanto Company; Christopher R. Brown, Monsanto Company; Kent Fothergill, University of Missouri
Community organization in aquatic insects of Ozarks streams
Lloyd Morrison, Missouri State University; David E. Bowles, US National Park Service
Aquatic invertebrate community dynamics of large springs at Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri, 2007-2009
Jan A. Hinsey, US National Park Service; David E. Bowles, US National Park Service; Hope R. Dodd, US National Park Service; Jessica A. Luraas, US National Park Service; J. Tyler Cribbs, US National Park Service
Distribution of lady beetles in Missouri
Kent Fothergill, University of Missouri; Kelly V. Tindall, University of Missouri; John Losey, Cornell University; Rebecca R. Smyth, Cornell University
Status assessment survey for springtails (Collembola) in Illinois caves:  The Salem Plateau
Felipe N. Soto-Adames, University of Illinois; Steven J. Taylor, University of Illinois
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