ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB-6

Monday, November 14, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:45 AM
Room D3, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Organizer :
Jason R. Cryan
Moderators:
David Wagner
David Furth
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:51 AM
Untangling the spider beetle web: redefining generic groups based on morphology
Glené Mynhardt, The Ohio State University; T. Keith Philips, Western Kentucky University
9:03 AM
Bellopius (Braconidae) parasitoids of fruit-infesting Tephritidae (Diptera)
Lauren A. Ward, Texas A&M University; Robert Wharton, Texas A&M University; Thomas J. DeWitt, Texas A&M University; Sonja J. Scheffer, USDA - APHIS; Matthew L. Lewis, USDA-ARS; Marty A. Condon, Cornell College
9:15 AM
Generic revision of dorylomorph ants
Marek L. Borowiec, University of California
9:27 AM
Rediscovery and reconsideration of the bizarre Cretaceous ant Haidomyrmex
Phillip M. Barden, American Museum of Natural History; David Grimaldi, American Museum of Natural History
9:51 AM
Break
10:03 AM
10:15 AM
10:27 AM
Systematics of a more broadly interpreted Chionomus Fennah (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Delphacidae)
Kathryn Weglarz, University of Delaware; Charles Bartlett, University of Delaware
10:51 AM
The austral horse fly genus Scaptia (Diptera: Tabanidae): monophyletic clade or taxonomic dumping ground?
Bryan D. Lessard, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Ecosystem Sciences; John Trueman, Australian National University; Stephen Cameron, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; David K. Yeates, CSIRO
11:15 AM
11:27 AM
Systematics of the Erythraeina (Acari: Parasitengona): a story of parasitism, long legs, and polka dots
Ray Fisher, University of Arkansas; Ashley PG. Dowling, University of Arkansas
11:39 AM
Concluding Remarks