Ten-Minute Papers, SysEB Section: Arthropod Systematics

Wednesday, November 13, 2013: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Meeting Room 4 ABC (Austin Convention Center)
Moderators:
Olivia Evangelista
Christopher Beatty


8:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks
8:02 AM
Roles of insects in the mesozoic ecosystems of Northeastern China
Mei Wang, Capital Normal University, China ; Chungkun Shih, Capital Normal University ; Chen Wang, Capital Normal University ; Dong Ren, Capital Normal University
8:14 AM
Exceptionally preserved fossil deposits record insect response to environmental change in Colorado
Dena Smith, University of Colorado ; Cesar Nufio, University of Colorado
8:26 AM
Brevipalpus phoenicis: Unraveling the complex
Jenny Beard, Queensland Museum ; Ronald Ochoa, USDA-ARS-PSI, Systematic Entomology Laboratory ; W Braswell, USDA ; Gary R. Bauchan, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
8:38 AM
Life in the torrent: Reviving North American water mite taxonomy
Ray Fisher, University of Arkansas ; Ashley P. G. Dowling, University of Kentucky
8:50 AM
New characters for defining North American genera of Microcreagrinae (Pseudoscorpiones: Neobisiidae)
Garrett Hughes, University of Arizona ; Wendy Moore, University of Arizona
9:02 AM
Gomphidae: A phylogeny of the clubtails
Erik M. Pilgrim, US Environmental Protection Agency ; Jessica L. Ware, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
9:26 AM
The 'petaltail' dragonflies (Odonata: Petaluridae): Mesozoic habitat specialists that survive to the modern day
Christopher Beatty, Santa Clara University ; Jessica L. Ware, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
9:38 AM
Molecular systematics and phylogeography of neotropical grasshoppers in the genus Sphenarium (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae)
Salomón Sanabria-Urban, FES Iztacala UNAM ; Ken Oyama, CIECO, UNAM ; Antonio González-Rodriguez, CIECO, UNAM ; Raul Cueva del Castillo, FES Iztacala UNAM
9:50 AM
The systematics of Melanoplinos
Oskar Sanabria, unam
10:02 AM
Break
10:12 AM
Geographic genetic structure of human lice provides insights into human migrations around the globe and past ecological interactions among hominids
Marina Ascunce, University of Florida ; Ariel Toloza, Centro de Investigaciones de Plagas e Insecticidas ; Maria Picollo, Centro de Investigaciones de Plagas e Insecticidas ; Angélica González-Oliver, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico ; David Reed, University of Florida
10:24 AM
Bayesian species delimitation in the morphologically diverse Heteronotus delineatus complex (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Membracidae)
Olivia Evangelista, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo ; Marcio R. Pie, Universidade Federal do Paraná ; Jason Cryan, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences ; Julie Urban, Nature Research Center, NC Museum of Natural Sciences ; Carlos Lamas, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo
10:36 AM
Five species of Reuteria (Hemiptera: Miridae) new for Arkansas, USA
Stephen Chordas III, Ohio State University ; Renn Tumlison, Henderson State University
10:48 AM
11:00 AM
Genome size variation in Insecta
Shawn Hanrahan, Texas A&M University ; J. Spencer Johnston, Texas A&M University
11:12 AM
Progress in insect phylogenetics from the 1KITE initiative
Karl M. Kjer, Rutgers University ; Bernhard Misof, Museum Alexander Koenig ; Xin Zhou, Beijing Genomics Institute
11:24 AM
Concluding Remarks