ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Ten-Minute Papers, SysEB Section, Phylogeny and Taxonomy

Tuesday, November 13, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
301 C, Floor Three (Knoxville Convention Center)
Moderators:
Torsten Dikow
Hojun Song


1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:32 PM
The 1KITE insect phylogenetics initiative
Karl M. Kjer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ; Bernhard Misof, Museum Alexander Koenig ; Xin Zhou, Beijing Genomics Institute
2:20 PM
Withdrawn
2:32 PM
Too many tribes: A molecular phylogeny of a morphologically diverse Asian cicada clade (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae)
Katherine B. R. Hill, University of Connecticut ; David C. Marshall, University of Connecticut ; Chris Simon, University of Connecticut
2:44 PM
Withdrawn
2:56 PM
Preliminary phylogenetic analysis of North American Exaeretia (Gelechioidea; Elachistidae; Depressariinae)
Melissa S. Sisson, Sam Houston State University ; Sibyl R. Bucheli, Sam Houston State University
3:08 PM
Preliminary molecular phylogeny of Limacodidae (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea) and the evolution of sluglike caterpillars
Susan J. Weller, University of Minnesota ; Jennifer Zaspel, Purdue University ; Marc Epstein, California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) ; C. Taylor Wardwell, University of Minnesota
3:20 PM
A molecular phylogeny for the pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea)
Jerome C. Regier, University of Maryland ; Charles Mitter, University of Maryland ; M. Alma Solis, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEL) ; James E. Hayden, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) ; Bernard Landry, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris ; Matthias Nuss, Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden Museum für Tierkunde ; Thomas Simonsen, Natural History Museum ; Shen-horn Yen, Department of Biological Sciences ; Andreas Zwick, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart ; Michael C. Cummings, University of Maryland
3:32 PM
Break
3:42 PM
"Backbone" phylogeny of Lepidoptera estimated from 19 genes/14.8 kb in 483 exemplars
Jerome C. Regier, University of Maryland ; Charles Mitter, University of Maryland ; Michael C. Cummings, University of Maryland ; Don Davis, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian ; Susan J. Weller, University of Minnesota ; Jae-Cheon Sohn, University of Maryland ; Cynthia Parr, National Museum of Natural History ; John W. Brown, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEL) ; Akito Yuji Kawahara, University of Florida ; Andreas Zwick, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart ; Joaquin Baixeras, Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva
3:54 PM
Matinal and crepuscular bees of the genus Ptiloglossa Smith (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)
Rita Isabel Vélez-Ruiz, Severin-McDaniel Insect Research Collection
4:06 PM
Species discovery, host associations and genetic characterization of North American Coptera (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae)
James J. Smith, Michigan State University ; Serdar Satar, Cukurova University ; Gabriela Hamerlinck, University of Iowa ; Matthew J. Yoder, University of Illinois, llinois Natural History Survey ; Andrew A. Forbes, University of Iowa
4:18 PM
Pattern of host shifts among parasitoid wasps as indicated by a combined morphology and molecular phylogenetic analysis of the superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera)
Norman F. Johnson, Ohio State University ; Alejandro A. Valerio, Ohio State University ; Luciana Musetti, Ohio State University ; Charuwat Taekul, Ohio State University ; Elijah Talamas, Ohio State University ; Andrew Polaszek, Natural History Museum ; Andrew D. Austin, University of Adelaide ; Joseph Cora, Ohio State University
4:42 PM
A molecular phylogeny of deer flies and their closest relatives
Mauren Turcatel, North Carolina State University ; Brian M. Wiegmann, North Carolina State University
4:54 PM
Resolving rapid radiations within Diptera: Transcriptomics to expand the evidence for higher-level fly phylogeny
Michelle D. Trautwein, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences ; Keith M. Bayless, North Carolina State University ; Brian M. Wiegmann, North Carolina State University
5:06 PM
Reconciling succeeding taxonomic classifications
Nico M. Franz, School of Life Sciences ; Bertram Ludaescher, University of California, Davis ; Mingmin Chen, University of California, Davis
5:30 PM
Concluding Remarks