Session: Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB: Taxonomy, Classifications, and Revisions (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Monday, December 13, 2010: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Brittany (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Organizer :

Margaret

Moderators:

Hojun Song
Yves Alarie

9:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

9:05 AM

0603

Morphological and systematic investigations of Trachymolgus (Bdellidae: Cytinae): The unusual purple tank

Ray Fisher, University of Arkansas

9:17 AM

0604

Evidence of possible new cryptic species in the genus Polythore (Polythoridae: Odonata) in the eastern Andes foothills of Colombia

Melissa Sanchez Herrera, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Emilio Realpe, Universidad de los Andes; Camilo Salazar, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

9:29 AM

0605

Examination of the status of Protaphis (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

Doris Lagos, University of Illinois; David Voegtlin, University of Illinois

9:41 AM

0606

A revision of the genus Chionomus Fennah (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Delphacidae): cleaning out Delphacodes Fieber

Kathryn Weglarz, University of Delaware; Charles Bartlett, University of Delaware

9:53 AM

0607

Traces of evolution: Genetic, chemical and ecological differentiation in two sibling species of the genus Lasius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

William R. Morrison, Michigan State University; Volker Witte, University of Munich

10:05 AM

0608

A revision of the New World Hypoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) a neglected ant genus

Shawn T. Dash, University of Texas - El Paso; William Mackay, University of Texas - El Paso

10:17 AM

Break

10:30 AM

0609

Species delimitation in a taxonomically challenging genus: Ophion (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Canada

Marla D. Schwarzfeld, University of Alberta; Felix A. H. Sperling, University of Alberta

10:42 AM

0610

Revisiting the subspecies conundrum of the bumble bee Bombus bifarius Cresson (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in North America

Jonathan Koch, Utah State University; James Strange, USDA - ARS

10:54 AM

0611

Revision of the world species of Cremnops (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Erika Tucker, University of Kentucky

11:06 AM

0612

Molecular and morphological revision of Evania, Hyptia, and Decevania (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae) of Costa Rica

Patricia Mullins, North Carolina State University; Barbara Sharanowski, North Carolina State University; Andrew Deans, North Carolina State University

11:18 AM

0613

Revision of the subfamily Megaspilinae (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea)

Andrew F. Ernst, North Carolina State University; Andrew Deans, North Carolina State University; István Mikó, Pennsylvania State University; Barbara J. Sharanowski, University of Manitoba

11:30 AM

0614

Early evolution of the weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea): evidence from the Yixian Formation, China, and the Karatau site, Kazakhstan

Steven Ray Davis, University of Kansas; Michael Engel, University of Kansas

11:42 AM

0615

Resolving conflict and outgroup sampling in the diachlorine grade; a new classification system for Tabaninae (Diptera: Tabanidae)

Keith M. Bayless, North Carolina State University; Shelah Morita, Smithsonian Institution; Brian M. Wiegmann, North Carolina State University

11:54 AM

Concluding Remarks

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