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  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Advances in Bee Systematics and Evolution On-Demand Presentations
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre
    Organizer: Michael G. Branstetter – USDA-ARS
    Organizer: Felipe V. Freitas – Washington State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
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    On Demand
    Coverage of the Good and the Bad: The Genomes and Genomics of Pollinators and Pests On-Demand Presentations
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre
    Organizer: Brad S. Coates – USDA-ARS
    Organizer: Katherine A. Parys – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Inspiration from Hidden Diversity: Cryptic Species and the Future of Insect Taxonomy On-Demand Presentations
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre
    Organizer: Robert L. Kresslein – University of California
    Organizer: Louis F. Nastasi – Frost Entomological Museum, The Pennsylvania State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
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    On Demand
    Inspirational Advances in Social Insect Evolution via Integrative Omics Approach On-Demand Presentations
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre
    Organizer: Hongmei Li-Byarlay – Central State University
    Organizer: Sandra M. Rehan – York University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Microbes Rulers of Us All: Microbial Interactions and Their Influence over Host Fitness On-Demand Presentations
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre
    Organizer: Patrick Thomas Stillson – University of Texas
    Organizer: Alison G. Blanton – University of Texas
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Student MUVE and SysEB: Behavior, Genetics, and Biodiversity On-Demand Presentations
    Medical, Urban, and Veterinary EntomologySystematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    SysEB: Ecology On-Demand Presentations
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    SysEB: Evolution On-Demand Presentations
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    SysEB: General On-Demand Presentations
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    SysEB: Pollinators and Pollination On-Demand Presentations
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    SysEB Section Award Winner Presentations
    Organizer: Chris A. Hamilton – University of Idaho
    Organizer: Katja C. Seltmann (she/her/hers) – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    The Cultural Significance of Insects Through Historical and Diverse Lenses On-Demand Presentations
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre
    Organizer: Gene Kritsky – Mount St. Joseph University
    Organizer: Tolulope Morawo – U.S. Navy
    Organizer: John Acorn – University of Alberta
    Organizer: Caydee E. Savinelli – Syngenta
    Organizer: Hongmei Li-Byarlay – Central State University
    Organizer: Carol Anelli – The Ohio State University
    Organizer: Deirdre A. Prischmann – North Dakota State University
    Organizer: Zhou Xuguo – University of Kentucky
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    A phylogenomic analysis of the hyper-diverse avian louse family Heptapsogasteridae (Phthiraptera, Ischnocera): A test of historical taxonomic hypotheses
    Presenting Author: Kamila M.D Kuabara – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Jason Weckstein – The Field Museum
    Co-Author: Kevin P. P. Johnson – Illinois Natural History Survey
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    An invasive population of Roseau cane scale in the Mississippi River Delta, USA originated from northeastern China
    Presenting Author: Scott A. Schneider – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: Hannah J. Broadley – USDA-APHIS
    Co-Author: Jeremy Andersen – University of Massachusetts
    Co-Author: Rodrigo Diaz – Louisiana State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Art-science interphase: Transdisciplinarity of insect science in Java’s shadow puppets, Indonesia
    Presenting Author: Damayanti Buchori – IPB University
    Co-Author: Rizky Nazarreta – IPB University
    Co-Author: Purnama Hidayat – IPB University
    Co-Author: Ihsan Nurkomar – Muhammadiyah University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Bringing wings into the fold: Comparative morphological characteristics of the grasshopper and dragonfly hindwings
    Presenting Author: Siti Fauziyah – University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    Co-Author: Kyun J. Lee – Princeton University
    Co-Author: Aimy Wissa – Princeton University
    Co-Author: Jessica L. Ware – American Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Marianne Alleyne – University of Illinois
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Butterfly and moth conservation: Results from a global synopsis of evidence
    Presenting Author: Andrew J. Bladon – University of Cambridge
    Co-Author: Rebecca K. Smith – University of Cambridge
    Co-Author: William J. Sutherland – University of Cambridge
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Comparative genomics of endosymbionts across endemic Hawaiian leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Nesophrosyne) species
    Presenting Author: Yumary Vasquez (she/her/hers) – University of California
    Co-Author: Gordon Bennett – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Discovery in leaf litter: Exploring the systematics of Porcelloderes Rédei, and Epiroderinae (Hemiptera:Reduviidae)
    Presenting Author: Jamie Ramirez (she/her/hers) – University of California, Riverside
    Co-Author: Christiane Weirauch – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Dragonfly-patterner: A Python pipeline for extracting color patterns from iNaturalist images of dragonflies for broad-scale analysis of pattern evolution
    Presenting Author: Jacob H. Idec (he/him/his) – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Robert Guralnick – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Effect of biotic and abiotic variables on silk production in the Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella)
    Presenting Author: Toshita V. Barve – University of Florida
    Co-Author: R. Keating Godfrey – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Caroline Storer – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – University of Florida
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Effects of climate change on fungal-pathogen-induced mortality of the spongy moth
    Presenting Author: Clare Rodenberg (she/her/hers) – University of Virginia
    Co-Author: Ann Hajek – Cornell University
    Co-Author: Kyle J. Haynes – University of Virginia
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Ethnotaxonomy, taxonomy and ecology of Cameroonian rainforest bees: Insights from Bakola-Bagyeli Indigenous knowledge
    Presenting Author: Andrea P. Drager – Fulbright USA
    Co-Author: Yann Edwin Avoto-Essi – University of Dschang
    Co-Author: Rostand Diki – University of Yaounde II
    Co-Author: Marleine Kengni (she/her/hers) – University of Dschang
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Evolution of deimatism in Automeris moths
    Presenting Author: Chelsea Skojec – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – University of Florida
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Evolution of sulfur and white butterflies reveals correlations of speciation with global temperature
    Presenting Author: Ana P. S. Carvalho (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Hannah L. Owens – University of Copenhagen
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – University of Florida
    Co-Author: David J. Lohman – University of New York
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Evolution of the water scavenger beetle genus Notionotus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Enochrinae) of the Neotropical region
    Presenting Author: Liza M. Gonzalez Rodriguez (she/her/hers) – University of Kansas
    Co-Author: Andrew E. Short – University of Kansas
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Extraordinary high diversity of Geranomyia crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) in a small forested fragment of Zurqui, Costa Rica
    Presenting Author: Madeline S. Worth (she/her/hers) – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Jon Gelhaus – Drexel University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Factors influencing bee movement between habitat patches in a naturally fragmented landscape
    Presenting Author: Nicholas Anderson (he/him/his) – University of Illinois
    Co-Author: Alexandra Harmon-Threatt – University of Illinois
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Functional characterization of dipteran olfactory receptors
    Presenting Author: John O. Boyi (he/him/his) – Baylor University
    Co-Author: Jason Pitts – Baylor University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Guest-ant social parasites drive social host tolerance using venom signaling
    Presenting Author: Matthew R. Boot – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Kyle S. Sozanski – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Mazie Davis – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Stefanie Neupert – University of Otago
    Co-Author: Tappey Jones – Virginia Military Institute
    Co-Author: Ian Hamilton – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Heroic beetles and butterflies: The moral alignment of insect-themed characters in American superhero comic books
    Presenting Author: Emily A. Geest – Oklahoma City Zoo
    Co-Author: Andrine A. Shufran (she/her/hers) – Oklahoma State University
    Co-Author: Ashley Knoch – Oklahoma State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Landscape light pollution interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation to affect insect populations
    Presenting Author: Luis Camacho – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
    Co-Author: Santiago Espinosa – Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosí
    Co-Author: Gabriela Barragan – The University of British Columbia
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Phylogenomics of the Aphididae: Deep relationships between subfamilies clouded by gene tree discordance, introgression and the gene tree anomaly zone
    Presenting Author: Christopher Owen – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: Gary Miller – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Phylogeography, speciation, and cryptic diversity in Pseudosinella cave springtails (Entomobryomorpha: Entomobryidae) of the interior low plateau and Appalachian valley & Ridge karst regions
    Presenting Author: Brendan T. Cramphorn – University of Alabama in Huntsville
    Co-Author: Mathew Niemiller – University of Alabama
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Possible insect effigies from the Western United States
    Presenting Author: Julie Julison – Wayne State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Signatures of selection in convergent feather lice ecomorphs
    Presenting Author: Avery Grant (she/her/hers) – University of Nevada
    Co-Author: Stanislav Kolencik (he/him/his) – University of Nevada, Reno
    Co-Author: Edward L. Stanley – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: David Alvarez-Ponce – University of Nevada
    Co-Author: Kevin P. P. Johnson – Illinois Natural History Survey
    Co-Author: Julie M. M. Allen – University of Nevada
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) nesting in trap nests in Aguazul, Casanare
    Presenting Author: Dario Guevara Plata (he/him/his) – Universidad Militar Nueva Granada
    Co-Author: Angela Maria Garzon Silva – Universidad Militar Nueva Granada
    Co-Author: Marlene Lucia Lucia Aguilar Benavides – Universidad Militar Nueva Granada
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Taxonomy and origins of the genus Errastunus in the Nearctic region (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)
    Presenting Author: Joel H. Kits – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    The evolutionary history of mammoth wasps (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae)
    Presenting Author: Ziad Khouri (he/him/his) – University of California, Davis
    Co-Author: Jessica Gillung – McGill University
    Co-Author: Lynn Kimsey – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    The phylogeny and evolution of Phytophaga—leaf beetles, longhorn beetles, and weevils
    Presenting Author: Duane McKenna – University of Memphis
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    1st Place: Diversity patterns of leaf litter weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) along an elevational gradient in El Cielo Biosphere Reserve of northeastern Mexico
    Presenting Author: Damian Villasenor-Amador – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Co-Author: Juan J. Morrone – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Co-Author: Milan Janda – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
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    On Demand
    2nd Place: Fluctuating temperatures as a predictor of eastern spruce budworm defoliation
    Presenting Author: Emily Black (she/her/hers) – The University of British Columbia
    Co-Author: Katie Marshall – The University of British Columbia
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Caste-specific expression of chemosensory genes in the Formosan subterranean termite
    Presenting Author: Qian Sun – Louisiana State University
    Co-Author: Paula Castillo (she/her/hers) – Louisiana State University
    Co-author: Johnathon Richards – Louisiana State University
    Co-author: Claudia Husseneder – Louisiana State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Co-expression gene networks and machine-learning algorithms unveil a core genetic toolkit for reproductive division of labour in rudimentary insect societies
    Presenting Author: Emeline Favreau (she/her/hers) – University College London
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Convergent selection on hormone signaling shaped social evolution in bees
    Presenting Author: Sarah Kocher – Princeton University
    Co-Author: Beryl Jones – Princeton University
    Co-author: Benjamin E. Rubin – Princeton University
    Co-author: Olga Dudchenko – Baylor University
    Co-author: Erez Lieberman Aiden – Baylor University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Genomic and epigenetic factors influence gene expression variability in insects
    Presenting Author: Soojin Yi (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Co-author: Xin Wu – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Co-author: Neharika Bhatia – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Co-Author: Christina M. Grozinger – Pennsylvania State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Hiding in plain sight: Cryptic species in extension
    Presenting Author: Michael J. Skvarla – Pennsylvania State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Mysteries of the samba wasp: the interface of species limits and biological control
    Presenting Author: Matthew Buffington – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
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    On Demand
    Omics approaches into aging research across a sociality spectrum: Insights from termites
    Presenting Author: Judith Korb (she/her/hers) – University of Freiburg
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Silphium herb gall wasps: Cryptic species or unworked?
    Presenting Author: Louis F. Nastasi – Frost Entomological Museum, The Pennsylvania State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Using natural history to guide supervised machine learning for cryptic species delimitation with genetic data
    Presenting Author: Shahan Derkarabetian – Harvard University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Using omics tools to understand bee physiology
    Presenting Author: Priyadarshini Chakrabarti Basu – Mississippi State University
    Co-author: Ramesh Reddy Sagili (he/him/his) – Oregon State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Value of insects-based food and feed in the old world and prospects for adaption in the western cultures
    Presenting Author: Muhammad Haseeb – Florida A&M University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Embodied bees in diverse artistic representations and the meanings we impute to them
    Presenting Author: Kit Prendergast (she/her/hers) – Murdoch University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Lessons from assembling UCEs: A comparison of common methods and the case of Clavinomia (Halictidae), an Old World Dieunomiini
    Presenting Author: Silas Bossert (he/him/his) – Washington State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Phylogeny and subgeneric reclassification of Lasioglossum (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) based on ultraconserved elements
    Presenting Author: Joel Gardner – University of Manitoba
    Co-Author: Michael G. Branstetter – USDA-ARS
    Co-author: Jason Gibbs – University of Manitoba
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Systematics and biogeography of Xeromelissinae (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)
    Presenting Author: Laurence Packer (he/him/his) – York University
    Co-Author: Michael G. Branstetter – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Snodgrass award winner presentation
    Presenting Author: Silas Bossert (he/him/his) – Washington State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • On-Demand
    On Demand
    Regulation of host phenotypic plasticity by gut symbiont communities in the eastern subterranean termite (Reticulitermes flavipes)
    Presenting Author: Rajani Sapkota (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Michael E. Scharf – University of Florida
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    1:30 PM – 5:30 PM PT
    Inspirational Advances in Social Insect Evolution via Integrative Omics Approach
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Organizer: Hongmei Li-Byarlay – Central State University
    Organizer: Sandra M. Rehan – York University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    1:30 PM – 5:30 PM PT
    Microbes Rulers of Us All: Microbial Interactions and Their Influence over Host Fitness
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Organizer: Patrick Thomas Stillson – University of Texas
    Organizer: Alison G. Blanton – University of Texas
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    1:30 PM – 5:30 PM PT
    SysEB: Behavior and Ecology
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Moderator: Marielle A. Postava-Davignon (she/her/hers) – Virginia Wesleyan University
    Moderator: Jens Roland – University of Alberta
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    1:30 PM – 5:30 PM PT
    SysEB: Genetics
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Moderator: Austin A. Hendricks (she/her/hers) – University of New Mexico
    Moderator: Donald G. Miller, III (he/him/his) – California State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    1:30 PM – 1:32 PM PT
    Introductory remarks
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Patrick Thomas Stillson – University of Texas
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    1:30 PM – 1:42 PM PT
    A ddPCR assay for indirect detection of Vespa mandarina (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from biological trace evidence
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Presenting Author: Luke R. Tembrock – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Frida A. Zink – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Todd M. Gilligan – USDA-APHIS
    Co-Author: Alicia Timm – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Chris Looney – Washington State Department of Agriculture
    Co-Author: Telissa Wilson – Washington State Department of Agriculture
    Co-Author: Sapphitah Dickerson – Washington State Department of Agriculture
    Co-Author: Sven-Erik Spichiger – Washington State Department of Agriculture
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    1:30 PM – 1:42 PM PT
    A link between host finding and speciation: do odorant binding proteins in Trissolcus basalis preferentially bind to host semiochemicals?
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Kendall King – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Norman F. Johnson – The Ohio State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PT
    Intragenomic conflicts and their epigenetic basis in honey bees
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Sean Bresnahan – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-author: Shaun Mahony – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Heather M. Hines – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-author: Amro Zayed – York University
    Co-author: Michael Axtell – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Christina M. Grozinger – Pennsylvania State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    1:32 PM – 1:55 PM PT
    Type VI secretion system-associated effectors from the termite gut as a means of symbiont-meditated pathogen protection
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Brittany Peterson – Southern Illinois University
    Co-author: Emma R. Chilcoat – Southern Illinois University
    Co-author: Kamila Lopez-Duque – Southern Illinois University
    Co-Author: Jordan Robinson – Southern Illinois University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    1:42 PM – 1:54 PM PT
    A real-time PCR assay for the detection of three Chrysodeixis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) species of agricultural importance developed from rDNA long-read sequence data
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Presenting Author: Frida A. Zink – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Todd M. Gilligan – USDA-APHIS
    Co-Author: Luke R. Tembrock – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Alicia Timm – Colorado State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    1:42 PM – 1:54 PM PT
    Behavioural effects of an insect endosymbiont on host flies and potential mite vectors
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Collin J. Horn – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Lien T. Luong – University of Alberta
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PT
    Mean dads mean kids? Epigenetic mechanism underlying paternal inheritance of aggressive behavior in honeybees
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Hongmei Li-Byarlay – Central State University
    Co-author: Ellen Lee – Wright State University
    Co-author: Sean Bresnahan – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-author: Myra Dickey – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Christina M. Grozinger – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Juliana Rangel – Texas A&M University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    1:54 PM – 2:06 PM PT
    Advances in genomic studies of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae): a new reference genome and insights into the evolution and ecological diversity of twig-girdlers
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Presenting Author: Diego Souza – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Rowan French – University of Toronto
    Co-Author: José Osvaldo Silva Júnior – Federal University of Parana
    Co-Author: Eugenio Nearns – USDA-APHIS
    Co-Author: Marcela Monné – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
    Co-Author: Felix Sperling – University of Alberta
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    1:54 PM – 2:06 PM PT
    Chemoreception in a highly visual arthropod: Male jumping spiders (Habronattus brunneus) discriminate between female chemical cues depending on female age, mating status, and species
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Ellen Humbel – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Lisa Taylor – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Rebecca T. Kimball – University of Florida
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    1:55 PM – 2:18 PM PT
    Mosquito-microbe multipartite interactions shape pathogen infection and mosquito survival
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Jose L Ramirez – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PT
    eQTL mapping of hygienic behavior in honey bees
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Olav Rueppell – University of Alberta
    Co-author: Phoebe Snyder – University of North Carolina
    Co-author: Tal Erez – Agricultural Research Organization
    Co-author: Jennifer Hofmeyr – University of Alberta
    Co-author: Victoria Soroker – Agricultural Research Organization
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    2:06 PM – 2:18 PM PT
    Assembling de novo Aedes genomes from single specimens
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Presenting Author: Gen Morinaga – University of Calgary
    Co-Author: Andrea Gloria-Soria – The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
    Co-Author: Jeffrey Powell – Yale University
    Co-Author: John S. Soghigian – University of Calgary
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    2:06 PM – 2:18 PM PT
    Cuticle enhancing symbionts for a durable and waterproof armour: How nutritional symbionts enhance protection against natural enemies and desiccation in grain pest beetles
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Sthandiwe N. Kanyile – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
    Co-Author: Tobias Engl – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
    Co-Author: Martin Kaltenpoth – Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PT
    Innate immune system components reduce infection intensity and prevalence of Nosema in the honeybee Apis mellifera
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Jessica Webb – University of California
    Co-author: Jinhui Zhou – Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
    Co-author: Boris Baer – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    2:18 PM – 2:30 PM PT
    Defense syndromes or individual traits: What protects European lowland willows from various insect herbivores?
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Jing V. Leong – Biology Centre Czech Academy of Sciences
    Co-Author: Priscila Mezzomo – Czech Academy of Sciences
    Co-Author: Paola de lima Ferreira – Aarhus University
    Co-Author: Petr Kozel – Czech Academy of Sciences
    Co-Author: Carlo Seifert – Georg-August-University
    Co-Author: Tereza Volfova – Czech Academy of Sciences
    Co-Author: Alexander Weinhold – German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig
    Co-Author: Brian Sedio – University of Texas
    Co-Author: Juha-Pekka Salminen – University of Turku
    Co-Author: Martin Volf – Czech Academy of Sciences
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    2:18 PM – 2:30 PM PT
    Detecting the genomic basis of Bt cry toxin resistance in Helicoverpa zea
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Presenting Author: Katherine L. Taylor – University of Maryland
    Co-Author: Kelly A. Hamby – University of Maryland
    Co-Author: Fred L. Gould – North Carolina State University
    Co-Author: Megan L. Fritz – University of Maryland
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    2:18 PM – 2:41 PM PT
    Mosquito-microbiota interactions shape the structure and stability of carnivorous pitcher plant communities
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Aldo A. Arellano – University of Wisconsin
    Co-author: Erica B. Young – University of Wisconsin
    Co-Author: Kerri L. Coon – University of Wisconsin
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    2:30 PM – 2:42 PM PT
    Does warm and old trump young and cool for evading predators in periodical cicadas, Magicicada spp.?
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Michael J. Raupp – University of Maryland
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    2:41 PM – 3:04 PM PT
    Lack of specialization in an environmentally-acquired bug-bacteria symbiosis
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Nicole Gerardo – Emory University
    Co-Author: Kayla Stoy – Emory University
    Co-Author: Levi Morran – Emory University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    2:42 PM – 2:54 PM PT
    Development of LAMP-based molecular method to identify two diamondback moth parasitoids, Diadegma fenestrale and Diadegma semiclausum for application in biological control
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    2:45 PM – 3:00 PM PT
    Functional genomics of aggression in Polistes fuscatus paper wasps
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Alexander Walton – University of Alberta
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    2:54 PM – 3:06 PM PT
    Diversity and evolution of caddisfly silk genes
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Presenting Author: Paul B. Frandsen – Brigham Young University
    Co-Author: Jacqueline Heckenhauer – LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics
    Co-Author: Steffen Pauls – Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum
    Co-Author: Russell J. Stewart – University of Utah
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    2:54 PM – 3:06 PM PT
    Exploring extreme size variation and its implications for mating interactions in the mantidfly, Dicromantispa sayi
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Laurel Lietzenmayer (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Lauren M. Goldstein – Michigan State University
    Co-Author: Josephine Pasche – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Lisa Taylor – University of Florida
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    3:00 PM – 3:15 PM PT
    Parasitic manipulation of the neurogenomic state and caste-related traits of social wasps
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Floria Uy – University of Rochester
    Co-author: Rafael Carvalho da Silva – University of Rochester
    Co-author: Hannah Cook – University of Rochester
    Co-author: Christopher Jernigan – Cornell University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    3:06 PM – 3:18 PM PT
    Function and form: Evolutionary patterns in traits and habitat use of montane ground beetles, Nebria spp. (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Jillian Kristine Schat – University of Wisconsin
    Co-Author: Sean Schoville – University of Wisconsin
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    3:06 PM – 3:18 PM PT
    Host gene expression manipulation by the blueberry stem gall wasp, Hemadas nubilipennis
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Presenting Author: Ellen O. Martinson – University of New Mexico
    Co-Author: Michael Sergeant – Wayne State University
    Co-Author: Glen R. Hood – Wayne State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    3:10 PM – 3:33 PM PT
    Complex symbiont acquisition behaviors maintain a horizontally transmitted insect-microbial mutualism
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Scott Villa – Davidson College
    Co-Author: Jason Chen (he/him/his) – Emory University
    Co-author: Zee Kwong – Emory University
    Co-author: Alice Acosta – Emory University
    Co-author: Nic M. Vega – Emory University
    Co-Author: Nicole Gerardo – Emory University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    3:15 PM – 3:30 PM PT
    Single-step origin of a socially parasitic ant
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Waring Trible – Harvard University
    Co-Author: Samuel V. Arsenault – Harvard University
    Co-author: Vikram Chandra – Harvard University
    Co-author: Kip Lacy – Rockefeller University
    Co-author: Gina Limón – New York University School of Medicine
    Co-author: Sean McKenzie – Oxford Nanopore Technologies
    Co-author: Leonora Cisneros – Rockefeller University
    Co-Author: Daniel Kronauer – Rockefeller University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    3:18 PM – 3:30 PM PT
    Insights into the prey of Vespa mandarinia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Washington state, obtained from metabarcoding of larval feces
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Telissa Wilson – Washington State Department of Agriculture
    Co-Author: Chris Looney – Washington State Department of Agriculture
    Co-Author: Luke R. Tembrock – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Sapphitah Dickerson – Washington State Department of Agriculture
    Co-Author: Todd M. Gilligan – USDA-APHIS
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    3:18 PM – 3:30 PM PT
    Microbial diversity in ptinid and bostrichid beetles
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Presenting Author: Austin A. Hendricks (she/her/hers) – University of New Mexico
    Co-Author: Vince Martinson – University of Rochester
    Co-Author: T. Philips – Western Kentucky University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    3:30 PM – 3:50 PM PT
    Discussion
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    3:30 PM – 3:42 PM PT
    Mate choice errors in an invasive longhorn beetle
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Jennifer L. Anderson – University of New Brunswick
    Co-Author: Stephen Heard – University of New Brunswick
    Co-Author: Deepa Pureswaran – Canadian Forest Service
    Co-Author: Jon D. Sweeney – Natural Resources Canada
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    3:30 PM – 3:42 PM PT
    Single-cell whole-genome sequencing and 18S barcoding of gregarines (Apicomplexa) in Orthoptera: Paving the route toward the understanding of gregarine diversity in insects
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Presenting Author: Jorge H. Medina Duran – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Jordan Moore – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Hojun Song – Texas A&M University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    3:33 PM – 3:56 PM PT
    Move over, cellular microbes: Symbiotic viruses as key players in parasitoid wasp success
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Kelsey A. Coffman – USDA-ARS
    Co-author: Gaelen R. Burke – University of Georgia
    Co-author: Scott M. Geib – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    3:42 PM – 3:54 PM PT
    Overwinter egg survival drives dynamics of alpine Parnassius smintheus butterflies
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Jens Roland – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Sherri L. Fownes – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Stephen F. Matter – University of Cincinnati
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    3:54 PM – 4:06 PM PT
    The California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP): Characterizing the diversity of Tamalia aphid galls as part of California’s landscapes
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Presenting Author: Donald G. Miller, III (he/him/his) – California State University
    Co-Author: Paul Nabity – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    3:56 PM – 4:19 PM PT
    Gains and losses of bee-microbe symbioses
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Tobin Hammer – University of California
    Co-author: Alan E. Silva Cerqueira – University of Texas
    Co-Author: Nancy Moran – University of Texas
    Co-author: Nickole A. Villabona – University of California
    Co-author: Alejandro Reyes – Universidad de Los Andes
    Co-author: Quinn McFrederick – University of California
    Co-author: Stephen Buchmann – University of Arizona
    Co-author: Bryan N. Danforth – Cornell University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    4:06 PM – 4:18 PM PT
    Subterranean nesting behavior of Reticulitermes through vertical arenas of field-collected soil horizons
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Marielle A. Postava-Davignon (she/her/hers) – Virginia Wesleyan University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    4:06 PM – 4:18 PM PT
    The spruce budworm genome: Reconstructing the evolutionary history of antifreeze proteins
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Presenting Author: Michel Cusson (he/him/his) – Natural Resources Canada
    Co-Author: Catherine Béliveau – Natural Resources Canada
    Co-Author: Patrick Gagné – Natural Resources Canada
    Co-Author: Sandrine Picq – Natural Resources Canada
    Co-Author: Christopher I. Keeling – Natural Resources Canada
    Co-Author: Oksana Vernygora – University of Kentucky
    Co-Author: Daniel Doucet – Natural Resources Canada
    Co-Author: J. Spencer Johnston – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Halim Maaroufi – Université Laval
    Co-Author: Felix Sperling – University of Alberta
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    4:18 PM – 4:30 PM PT
    The evolution of alarm pheromones in fungus-growing ants
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Alissa R. Geisse – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Alison H. Jennings (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    4:18 PM – 4:30 PM PT
    The truth is in the poo: Non-invasive method to detect endoparasitic infection
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Presenting Author: Jean-François Doherty – The University of British Columbia
    Co-Author: Upendra R. Bhattarai (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Co-Author: Robert Poulin – University of Otago
    Co-Author: Neil J. Gemmell – University of Otago
    Co-Author: Edwina Dowle – University of Otago
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    4:19 PM – 4:42 PM PT
    Evolving beneficial symbioses between leafhoppers and bacteria
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Gordon Bennett – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    4:30 PM – 4:42 PM PT
    The long-term effects of interspecific competition on density dependent emigration
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Aaron Krivchenia – Louisiana State University
    Co-Author: James Cronin – Louisiana State University
    Co-Author: Jerome Goddard – Auburn University
    Co-Author: Ratnasingham Shivaji – University of North Carolina
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    4:30 PM – 4:42 PM PT
    Time-course analysis of sensory and brain tissue transcriptomes during phase transitions in the Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Presenting Author: Maeva A. Techer (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Alyssa Canova – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Vivian A. Peralta Santana – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Hojun Song – Texas A&M University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    4:42 PM – 4:54 PM PT
    Unwelcome house guests hack the communication systems of insect societies
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Eduardo G. Fox – Pós-Graduação em Ambiente e Sociedade
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    4:42 PM – 4:54 PM PT
    Validation of a bulk real-time PCR assay for detection of Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Presenting Author: Kayla A. Mollet – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Luke R. Tembrock – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Frida A. Zink – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Alicia Timm – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Todd M. Gilligan – USDA-APHIS
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    4:42 PM – 5:05 PM PT
    Digestive symbioses in Cephalotes turtle ants
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Benoit Bechade – Drexel University
    Co-author: Yi Hu – Drexel University
    Co-author: Christian S. Cabuslay – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Dharman Anandarajan – Drexel University
    Co-author: Valerie J. Fiers – Drexel University
    Co-author: Richard Lu – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Benjamin E. Rubin – Princeton University
    Co-Author: Corrie S. Moreau – Cornell University
    Co-Author: John T. Wertz – Calvin College
    Co-Author: Jacob Russell – Drexel University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    4:54 PM – 5:06 PM PT
    Florida Museum’s McGuire Center of Lepidoptera digitization: Processes and recent products
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 215/216
    Presenting Author: Taylor Pierson – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Ana P. S. Carvalho (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Nicholas T. Homziak – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Keith Willmott – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – University of Florida
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    4:54 PM – 5:06 PM PT
    Vulture bee microbiomes
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Jessica Maccaro – University of California
    Co-Author: Laura L. Figueroa – University of Massachusetts
    Co-Author: Erin Krichilsky – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: Doug Yanega
    Co-Author: Quinn McFrederick – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    5:05 PM – 5:10 PM PT
    Closing remarks
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Patrick Thomas Stillson – University of Texas
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    5:06 PM – 5:18 PM PT
    Rapid brain development and reduced neuromodulator titres correlate with host shifts in Rhagoletis pomonella
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 208/209
    Presenting Author: Hinal Bhupendra Kharva – National Centre For Biological Scinces
    Co-Author: Jeffrey Feder – University of Notre Dame
    Co-Author: Daniel A. Hahn – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Shannon Olsson – National Centre for Biological Sciences
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Sunday, Nov 13th
    4:45 PM – 5:15 PM PT
    Resin from the dead: Evaluating patterns in extinction through the ant fossil record
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 111/112
    Presenting Author: Christine E. Sosiak – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Co-Author: Phillip Barden – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    Grad PBT and SysEB: Biocontrol
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 122
    Moderator: Patricia Prade – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Moderator: Emilie P. Demard – University of Florida
    Physiology, Biochemistry, and ToxicologySystematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    Grad SysEB: Behavior and Ecology
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Moderator: Maydianne Andrade – University of Toronto
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    Grad SysEB: Biodiversity
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Moderator: Suzanne Carriere – Government of the Northwest Territories
    Moderator: Nicole L. Gunter – Cleveland Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    Grad SysEB: Biodiversity and Ecology
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Moderator: Rebecca B. Simmons – University of North Dakota
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    Grad SysEB: Evolution 1
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Moderator: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
    Moderator: Melissa S. Sisson – University of North Dakota
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    Grad SysEB: Taxonomy and Morphology
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 110
    Moderator: Felipe V. Freitas – Washington State University
    Moderator: Andrew Polaszek – University of Oxford
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    Undergrad SysEB: Evolution and Ecology
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Moderator: Matthew S. Lehnert – Kent State University
    Moderator: Geoffrey E. Morse – University of San Diego
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:00 AM – 8:12 AM PT
    A dose-response transcriptome of honey bee workers: characterizing gene expression across a large range of oxidative stress
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Jacob Herman – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Jennifer Hofmeyr – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Panuwan Chantawannakul – Chiang Mai University
    Co-Author: Olav Rueppell – University of Alberta
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:00 AM – 8:12 AM PT
    A systematic survey of pygmy mole crickets in Florida scrub and sandhill
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Brandon Woo – Texas A&M University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:00 AM – 8:12 AM PT
    A tale of two cycads: Sensory variation between cycad-associated and free living Erotylidae (Coleoptera)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Abigail E. Magland – Drexel University
    Co-Author: Paul E. Skelley – Florida State Coll Arthropods
    Co-Author: Seth Bybee – Brigham Young University
    Co-Author: Gareth S. Powell – Brigham Young University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:00 AM – 8:12 AM PT
    Brief description and life history of an undescribed diapriid (Trichopria sp. nov) found in tropical dry forests in Ecuador
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 122
    Presenting Author: Alyssa Gooding – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: John Luhman – Minnesota Department of Agriculture
    Co-Author: Mariana Bulgarella – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Katherine Albán Morales – Charles Darwin Foundation
    Co-Author: Denis Mosquera Moñoz – Charles Darwin Foundation
    Co-Author: Paolo Piedrahita – Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral
    Co-Author: Charlotte Causton – Charles Darwin Foundation
    Co-Author: George E. Heimpel – University of Minnesota
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:00 AM – 8:12 AM PT
    Burrow sites of the “Texas Brown” tarantula in southeastern Colorado
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Presenting Author: Jackie Billotte – University of Colorado
    Co-Author: Ruth A. Hufbauer – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Lorna McCallister – Butterfly Pavilion
    Co-Author: Richard Reading – Butterfly Pavilion
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:00 AM – 8:12 AM PT
    1st Place: Dynamic distribution modeling of the swamp tigertail dragonfly, Synthemis eustalacta, over a 20-year bushfire regime
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Aaron M. Goodman – American Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Jamie Kass – Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
    Co-Author: Jessica L. Ware – American Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:00 AM – 8:12 AM PT
    2nd Place: In search of lost types: Adventures in European Platygastrinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 110
    Presenting Author: Jessica Awad – State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
    Co-Author: Elijah Talamas – Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
    Co-Author: Lars Krogmann – State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:12 AM – 8:24 AM PT
    Baseline information on bee diversity in Arkansas
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Coleman Z. Little – University of Arkansas
    Co-Author: Roshani Acharya – University of Arkansas
    Co-Author: Leslie Cooper – Pheasants Forever, Inc.; Quail Forever
    Co-Author: Allison Fowler – Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
    Co-Author: Laurie Scott – NorthWest Arkansas Community College
    Co-Author: Theo Witsell – Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission
    Co-Author: Neelendra K. Joshi – University of Arkansas
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:12 AM – 8:24 AM PT
    Comparative analyses of collective movement in two Schistocerca species that vary in expression of behavioral phase plasticity
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Presenting Author: Audélia Mechti – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Gregory Sword – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Kendall C. Walton – Texas A&M University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:12 AM – 8:24 AM PT
    Environmental DNA as a tool for odonate biodiversity assessment in Lagos, Nigeria
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Rhema C. Uche-Dike (he/him/his) – American Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:12 AM – 8:24 AM PT
    Evolution of visual opsin genes in Trichoptera
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Ashlyn Powell – Brigham Young University
    Co-Author: Jacqueline Heckenhauer – LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics
    Co-Author: Steffen Pauls – Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum
    Co-Author: Paul B. Frandsen – Brigham Young University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:12 AM – 8:24 AM PT
    Exploring the genomic evolution of basal Anisoptera
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Ethan R. Tolman – American Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Jessica L. Ware – American Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Manpreet Kaur Kohli – American Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Christopher D. Beatty – Stanford University
    Co-Author: Paul B. Frandsen – Brigham Young University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:12 AM – 8:24 AM PT
    Morphology of isolation: Do island and continental forms vary within a cosmopolitan odonate?
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 110
    Presenting Author: Salka'Tuwa Bondoc Mafla – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:24 AM – 8:36 AM PT
    Co-transmitted Wolbachia engage in niche-partitioning within host insect tissues
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 122
    Presenting Author: Megan W. Jones – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Amelia Lindsey – University of Minnesota
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:24 AM – 8:36 AM PT
    Distribution of ground-dwelling arthropod communities in prairie agroecosystems and grasslands
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Presenting Author: Georgiana Antochi-Crihan – University of Saskatchewan
    Co-Author: Sean Michael Prager – University of Saskatchewan
    Co-Author: Samantha Morrice – University of Saskatchewan
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:24 AM – 8:36 AM PT
    Establishing silphids as an iDNA tool: Diet analysis through genetics
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Katherine Higdon (she/her/hers) – Michigan Technological University
    Co-Author: Tara L. Bal – Michigan Technological University
    Co-Author: Kristin Brzeski – Michigan Technological University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:24 AM – 8:36 AM PT
    Phylogeny of Pseudomasaris (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), the North American pollen wasps
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 110
    Presenting Author: Nathaniel Green – Washington State University
    Co-Author: Elizabeth A. Murray – Washington State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:24 AM – 8:36 AM PT
    1st Place: Developing localized keys for NEON ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) identification
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Evan S. Waite (he/him/his) – Arizona State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:24 AM – 8:36 AM PT
    2nd Place: Exposure of Diamesa mendotae, a cold-adapted chironomid, to short-term high temperature
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Hannah M. Bodmer – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Corrie Nyquist – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Bruce Vondracek – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Leonard Ferrington, Jr. – University of Minnesota
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:24 AM – 8:36 AM PT
    2nd Place: Hymenoptera from a new Canadian amber deposit close to the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Elyssa Loewen (she/her/hers) – University of Regina
    Co-Author: Caelan Libke – University of Regina
    Co-Author: Christopher Somers – University of Regina
    Co-Author: Ryan C. McKellar – Royal Saskatchewan Museum
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:36 AM – 8:48 AM PT
    Diversity and abundance of insects along an elevational gradient on the tropical Andes
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Cesar Cabra-Arias – The University of British Columbia
    Co-Author: Luis Camacho – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
    Co-Author: Karina Torres – The University of British Columbia
    Co-Author: Leticia Aviles – The University of British Columbia
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:36 AM – 8:48 AM PT
    Genetic mixing facilitates adaptation to a novel environmental constraint
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Lily F. Durkee – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Laure M. Olazcuaga – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Rachel Szymanski – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Brett A. Melbourne – University of Colorado
    Co-Author: Ruth A. Hufbauer – Colorado State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:36 AM – 8:48 AM PT
    Horizontal transmission of an obligate symbiont through conspecific frass
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Presenting Author: Liam T. Sullivan – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Martha S. Hunter – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Suzanne E. Kelly – University of Arizona
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:36 AM – 8:48 AM PT
    Hymenopteran warfare - Comparing defensive strategies of honey bee lineages against ant invaders
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Jackson Wingert – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Caleb Rodriguez – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Juliana Rangel – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Alexandria N. Payne – University of Illinois
    Co-Author: Jordan Twombly Ellis – Texas A&M University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:36 AM – 8:48 AM PT
    Investigating the mechanisms of genetic co-option from an endogenous virus through single-cell technologies
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Benjamin Luttinen – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Gaelen R. Burke – University of Georgia
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:36 AM – 8:48 AM PT
    Resurrection of Neocardiochiles Szépligeti, 1908 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cardiochilinae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 110
    Presenting Author: Ilgoo Kang (he/him/his) – Louisiana State University
    Co-Author: James Whitfield – University of Illinois
    Co-Author: Brittany Owens – Louisiana State University
    Co-Author: Junyan Chen (he/him/his) – Louisiana State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:36 AM – 8:48 AM PT
    2nd Place: Parthenogenesis inducing Wolbachia proteins alter eukaryotic cell function
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 122
    Presenting Author: Laura Fricke – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: Amelia Lindsey – University of Minnesota
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:48 AM – 9:00 AM PT
    Environmental niche modeling of an endemic radiation of Hawaiian damselflies
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Robert Kyle Hadfield (he/him/his) – Brigham Young University
    Co-Author: Seth Bybee – Brigham Young University
    Co-Author: Dan Polhemus – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:48 AM – 9:00 AM PT
    Impacts of megafire on aquatic insect communities in Central Utah
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Anna Eichert – American Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: C. Riley Nelson – Brigham Young University
    Co-Author: Paul B. Frandsen – Brigham Young University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:48 AM – 9:00 AM PT
    Little sons and big daughters: Honeybee queen cell size experience effects on egg laying behaviour
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Kayla deJong – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Tianna K. Tanasichuk – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Jacob Herman – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Olav Rueppell – University of Alberta
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:48 AM – 9:00 AM PT
    Mother knows best: Unraveling the chemical identity of the compound responsible for maternal effect in the desert locust
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Presenting Author: Vivian A. Peralta Santana – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Hojun Song – Texas A&M University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:48 AM – 9:00 AM PT
    Phylogenetic comparative analysis of stridulatory apparatus and calling songs of field cricket genus Gryllus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Carla M. de Loera – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: David B. Weissman – California Academy of Sciences
    Co-Author: David Gray – California State University
    Co-Author: Hojun Song – Texas A&M University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:48 AM – 9:00 AM PT
    Platygastridae (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea) in blueberry fields and potential IPM applications
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 122
    Presenting Author: Monique Raymond – University of New Hampshire
    Co-Author: Elijah Talamas – Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
    Co-Author: Istv�n Mik� – University of New Hampshire
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    8:48 AM – 9:00 AM PT
    Revision of the New World species of Rhipidandrus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 110
    Presenting Author: Charla R. Replogle (they/them/theirs) – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Aaron D. Smith – Purdue University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:00 AM – 9:12 AM PT
    Mouthpart morphology of moths and its relationship to feeding habits
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Elaine M. Bast – Kent State University
    Co-Author: Rena Fonseca – Kent State University
    Co-Author: Courtney Goebeler – Kent State University
    Co-Author: Kristen E. Reiter – Kent State University
    Co-Author: Peter Van Zandt – Birmingham-Southern College
    Co-Author: Matthew S. Lehnert – Kent State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:00 AM – 9:12 AM PT
    Roles of ecology, climate, and geography in the macroevolution of insect pheromone diversity
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Rowan French – University of Toronto
    Co-Author: Sarah Ravoth – University of Toronto
    Co-Author: Locke Rowe – University of Toronto
    Co-Author: Luke Mahler – University of Toronto
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:00 AM – 9:12 AM PT
    Taxonomic revisions of Sepidiini (Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae) using phylogenomic analyses and morphology
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 110
    Presenting Author: Olivia M. Gearner – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Kojun Kanda – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: Marcin Kaminski – Polish Academy of Sciences
    Co-Author: Kali L. Swichtenberg (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Co-Author: Christopher C. Wirth – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Ryan Lumen – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Aaron D. Smith – Purdue University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:00 AM – 9:12 AM PT
    1st Place: Systematic revision of the obscure ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), reciprocally informed by phylogenomic inference and morphological data
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Zachary H. Griebenow – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:00 AM – 9:12 AM PT
    2nd Place: Taiwan bees: A checklist and status of the fauna
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Rin Krichilsky (they/them/theirs) – Columbia University / American Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Wen-Chi Yeh – Taiwan Forestry Research Institute
    Co-Author: I-Hsin Sung – National Chiayi University
    Co-Author: Sheng-Shan Lu – Taiwan Forestry Research Institute
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:12 AM – 9:24 AM PT
    Specificity within bird-parasite-parasitoid food webs: A novel approach for evaluating potential biological control agents of the avian vampire fly
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Presenting Author: Ismael E. Ramirez – University of Minnesota
    Co-Author: George E. Heimpel – University of Minnesota
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:12 AM – 9:24 AM PT
    The ant abdomen: Skeletomusculature and soft tissue anatomy of the Amblyopone australis worker
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Ziv E. Lieberman – University of California
    Co-Author: Johan Billen – University of Leuven
    Co-Author: Thomas van de Kamp – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    Co-Author: Brendon E. Boudinot – Institut für Zoologie und Evolutionsforschung
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:12 AM – 9:24 AM PT
    Top-down effects of damselfly larvae on the phylogenetic structure of the invertebrate community of bromeliads
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Nadia B. Paez – The University of British Columbia
    Co-Author: Diane Srivastava – The University of British Columbia
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:12 AM – 9:24 AM PT
    Tundra wolf spider abundance and phenology shift with distance from the Dempster Highway
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Stephanie Gagnon (she/her/hers) – McGill University
    Co-Author: Catherine Scott – McGill University
    Co-Author: Christopher Buddle – McGill University, Macdonald Campus
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:12 AM – 9:24 AM PT
    Using species distribution models to address knowledge gaps in Lithosiini (Erebidae: Arctiinae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Makani L. Fisher – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Stephen Cameron – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Jennifer Zaspel – Milwaukee Public Museum
    Co-Author: James Lendemer – New York Botanical Garden
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:12 AM – 9:24 AM PT
    1st Place: The biology and phylogeny of Brachininae: A new hope
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 110
    Presenting Author: Raine M. Ikagawa – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Wendy Moore – University of Arizona
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:24 AM – 9:36 AM PT
    Precise spatiotemporal behavioural analysis of Aedes aegypti and Aedes togoi mosquitoes
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Parsa Seyfourian – The University of British Columbia
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:24 AM – 9:36 AM PT
    Wisconsin statewide community science project
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Kathryn Sullivan (she/her/hers) – Marquette University/Milwaukee Public Museum
    Co-Author: Jennifer Zaspel – Milwaukee Public Museum
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:24 AM – 9:36 AM PT
    2nd Place: The proportion of foraging Coptotermes workers in relation to the number of foraging sites
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Presenting Author: Alina Lorenzo – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Sang-Bin Lee – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Nan-Yao Su – University of Florida
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:24 AM – 9:36 AM PT
    2nd Place: Using frass to estimate lepidopteran biodiversity and biomass across an urban gradient
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Lillian Khristina Hendrick – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Michael W. Belitz – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Asia Sawyer – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Robert Guralnick – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:36 AM – 9:48 AM PT
    1st Place: Uncovering the genetic architecture of locust phase polyphenism using the locust Schistocerca piceifrons and grasshopper Schistocerca serialis cubense
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Presenting Author: Alyssa Canova – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Bert Foquet – Illinois State University
    Co-Author: Drew Little – University of Wisconsin
    Co-Author: Jorge H. Medina Duran – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Hojun Song – Texas A&M University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:36 AM – 9:48 AM PT
    1st Place: Under your nose: How olfactory cues influence recognition and preference of fungal symbionts
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Alison H. Jennings (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Alissa R. Geisse – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Olivia Kuethe – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    9:48 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    As above, not so as below: Above and below ground traps capture different dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) species
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Presenting Author: Greg Middleton, Jr. – Oklahoma State University
    Co-Author: William W. Hoback – Oklahoma State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM PT
    Grad SysEB: Biodiversity and Evolution
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Moderator: Thomas McElrath – Illinois Natural History Survey
    Moderator: Nicole L. Gunter – Cleveland Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM PT
    Grad SysEB: Biogeography
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Moderator: Felipe V. Freitas – Washington State University
    Moderator: Suzanne Carriere – Government of the Northwest Territories
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:30 AM – 12:30 PM PT
    Grad SysEB: Ecology
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Moderator: Deepa Pureswaran – Canadian Forest Service
    Moderator: Patrick Tobin – University of Washington
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:30 AM – 10:42 AM PT
    A new challenger approaches: Investigating the geographic origins of the Wasmannia parasitoid Orasema minutissima (Chalcidoidea: Eucharitidae: Oraseminae) on Hawai’i
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Ashley Y. Bui – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:30 AM – 10:42 AM PT
    All the better to smell you with: Sensilla diversity and sexual signaling in fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Yelena Pacheco – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Joseph McHugh – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Seth Bybee – Brigham Young University
    Co-Author: Marc Branham – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Kathrin Stanger-Hall – University of Georgia
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:30 AM – 10:42 AM PT
    An obligate environmentally-acquired symbiont may provide strain-specific benefits in adulthood that differ from their role in development
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Presenting Author: Edwin F. Umanzor – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Martha S. Hunter – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Suzanne E. Kelly – University of Arizona
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:42 AM – 10:54 AM PT
    Biogeography of the robber fly genus Proctacanthus (Diptera: Asilidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Teagan M. Mulford – Brigham Young University
    Co-Author: Makani L. Fisher – Purdue University
    Co-Author: C. Riley Nelson – Brigham Young University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:42 AM – 10:54 AM PT
    It takes some guts: The coevolution of lower termites and their hindgut endosymbionts
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Kali L. Swichtenberg (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Co-Author: Gillian Gile – Arizona State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:42 AM – 10:54 AM PT
    1st Place: Context dependent benefits of melanism explain phenotypic plasticity
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Presenting Author: Sarah E. Britton (she/her/hers) – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Goggy Davidowitz – University of Arizona
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:54 AM – 11:06 AM PT
    External gall traits influence insect community composition, diversity, and parasitoid intraspecies genetic divergence in two sister Aciurina (Tephritidae) species
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Presenting Author: Quinlyn Baine – University of New Mexico
    Co-Author: Emily Casares – University of New Mexico
    Co-Author: Vince Martinson – University of Rochester
    Co-Author: Ellen O. Martinson – University of New Mexico
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:54 AM – 11:06 AM PT
    Lasioglossum (Hemihalictus) in western North America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae): Exotic species and undocumented diversity
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Thilina Hettiarachchi – University of Manitoba
    Co-Author: Jason Gibbs – University of Manitoba
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:54 AM – 11:06 AM PT
    2nd Place: Determining Minagenia (Hymenoptera:Pompilidae) phylogeny and biogeography using ultra-conserved elements
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Brenna L. Decker – Utah State University
    Co-Author: Emily Sadler – Utah State University
    Co-Author: James P. Pitts – Utah State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:06 AM – 11:18 AM PT
    Intercontinental range expansion in the arid-adapted pyramid ants (Formicidae: Dorymyrmex)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Jill Oberski – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:06 AM – 11:18 AM PT
    1st Place: Phylogeny of Appalachian Trechus (Coleoptera: Carabidae), a speciose high elevation endemic
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Patricia L. Wooden – Clemson University
    Co-Author: Michael S. Caterino – Clemson University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:18 AM – 11:30 AM PT
    Linking body size clines and thermal tolerance in Colorado carrion beetles
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Chloe Garfinkel – University of Colorado
    Co-Author: Christy McCain – University of Colorado
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:18 AM – 11:30 AM PT
    2nd Place: Reevaluating relationships within Australasian endemic dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Natalie A. Saxton – Cleveland Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Nicole L. Gunter – Cleveland Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:18 AM – 11:30 AM PT
    2nd Place: Repeated evolution of morphological characters in ecomorphs of avian feather lice
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Presenting Author: Aswaj Punnath – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Stanislav Kolencik (he/him/his) – University of Nevada, Reno
    Co-Author: Kevin P. P. Johnson – Illinois Natural History Survey
    Co-Author: Avery Grant (she/her/hers) – University of Nevada
    Co-Author: Julie M. M. Allen – University of Nevada
    Co-Author: Edward L. Stanley – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:30 AM – 11:42 AM PT
    Patterns of environmentally associated genomic and epigenomic variation in two common bumble bee species
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Sam D. Heraghty – University of Alabama
    Co-Author: Jeff D. Lozier – University of Alabama
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:30 AM – 11:42 AM PT
    Reevaluation of species boundaries in coastal dune trapdoor spider Aptostichus simus
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Emma E. Jochim – University of California
    Co-Author: Lisa Chamberland – University of California
    Co-Author: James Starrett – University of California
    Co-Author: Jason E. Bond – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:30 AM – 11:42 AM PT
    Understanding the cost of symbiosis in a Beetle–Fungal symbiosis model: the cigarette beetle Lasioderma serricorne and its symbiont Symbiotaphrina kochii
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 301
    Presenting Author: Nolan L. Perryman – University of New Mexico
    Co-Author: Austin A. Hendricks (she/her/hers) – University of New Mexico
    Co-Author: Jeffrey Booker – University of New Mexico
    Co-Author: Vince Martinson – University of Rochester
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:42 AM – 11:54 AM PT
    Phylogeny and biogeography of cave crickets (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Do-yoon Kim – Seoul National University
    Co-Author: Hojun Song – Texas A&M University
    Co-Author: Sangil Kim – Seoul National University
    Co-Author: Seunggwan Shin – Seoul National University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:42 AM – 11:54 AM PT
    Towards the revision of Australian Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): A review of the australis species group
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Rachel L. Stone – Cleveland Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:54 AM – 12:06 PM PT
    What UCE phylogenomics reveals about generic monophyly and the evolutionary history of an obscure ichneumonid tribe (Ichneumoninae, Phaeogenini)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 306
    Presenting Author: Brandon Claridge – Utah State University
    Co-Author: James P. Pitts – Utah State University
    Co-Author: David Wahl – Utah State University
    Co-Author: Emily Sadler – Utah State University
    Co-Author: Bernardo Santos – Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:54 AM – 12:06 PM PT
    1st Place: Phylogeography of the Mojave giant tiger beetle
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Rachel Glynn (she/they) – Northern Arizona University
    Co-Author: Grey T. Gustafson – Northern Arizona University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:30 AM – 12:45 PM PT
    Grad SysEB: Evolution 2
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Moderator: Lilia S. Stemet (she/her/hers) – University of Arkansas
    Moderator: Aaron J. Gassmann – Iowa State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:30 AM – 12:45 PM PT
    Grad SysEB: Pollinators and Conservation
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 220
    Moderator: Nigel E. Raine – University of Guelph
    Moderator: Shannon Summers – San Francisco State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:30 AM – 10:42 AM PT
    A molecular phylogeny of the Ctenuchina
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Sydney Winterton – University of North Dakota
    Co-Author: Rebecca B. Simmons – University of North Dakota
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:30 AM – 10:42 AM PT
    Antibiotics disrupt thermoregulation in honey bees
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 220
    Presenting Author: Justine B. Nguyen – Marquette University
    Co-Author: Chelsea Cook – Marquette University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:42 AM – 10:54 AM PT
    Beyond body size: Using honey bee queen behaviour to predict queen quality and colony success
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 220
    Presenting Author: Tracey Smith – University of Alberta
    Co-Author: Shelley Hoover – University of Lethbridge
    Co-Author: Renata Labuschagne – Alberta Beekeepers Commission
    Co-Author: Stephen F. Pernal – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Co-Author: Olav Rueppell – University of Alberta
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:42 AM – 10:54 AM PT
    Cleaning out the junk drawer: A phylogeny of the Teleonemia Costa generic complex (Hemiptera: Tingidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Alexander H. Knudson – North Dakota State University
    Co-Author: Rebecca B. Simmons – University of North Dakota
    Co-Author: Julia Bowsher – North Dakota State University
    Co-Author: Janet J. Knodel – North Dakota State University
    Co-Author: David Rider – North Dakota State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:54 AM – 11:06 AM PT
    Designing ultra conserved element (UCE) probe sets for the lacewings and its allies (Insecta: Neuropterida)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Alice C. Assmar (she/her/hers) – McGill University
    Co-Author: Heloísa Flores – Universidade de São Paulo
    Co-Author: Jessica Gillung – McGill University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:54 AM – 11:06 AM PT
    Do habitat restorations actually increase bumble bee populations? A population genetics approach to evaluating restoration success
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 220
    Presenting Author: Jade M. Kochanski (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin
    Co-Author: Claudio Gratton – University of Wisconsin
    Co-Author: Stephanie L. McFarlane – University of Wisconsin
    Co-Author: Ellen I. Damschen – University of Wisconsin
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:06 AM – 11:18 AM PT
    DNA metabarcoding improves the specificity and practicality of machine learning classification in bulk invertebrate samples
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Jarrett D. Blair – The University of British Columbia
    Co-Author: Michael Weiser – The University of Oklahoma
    Co-Author: Kirsten de Beurs – The University of Oklahoma
    Co-Author: Michael Kaspari – The University of Oklahoma
    Co-Author: Cameron Siler – The University of Oklahoma
    Co-Author: Katie Marshall – The University of British Columbia
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:06 AM – 11:18 AM PT
    Effects of clearcutting on fitness and survival in ground beetle species Pterostichus pensylvanicus and Pterostichus coracinus
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 220
    Presenting Author: Lauren Egli – Université du Québec
    Co-Author: Timothy Work – Université du Québec
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:18 AM – 11:30 AM PT
    Does the tree of life have meristem? Phylogenomic analysis of Diaspidiotus ancylus (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), a highly polyphagous plant-feeding insect
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Mayrolin Garcia – University of Massachusetts
    Co-Author: Benjamin Normark – University of Massachusetts
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:18 AM – 11:30 AM PT
    Factors impacting occupancy and abundance of beetles in Alabama's black belt prairies
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 220
    Presenting Author: Thomas P. Franzem – University of Alabama
    Co-Author: Paige Ferguson – University of Alabama
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:30 AM – 11:42 AM PT
    Introduced mason bee species have comparable thermal tolerances to a native species
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 220
    Presenting Author: Grace Gutierrez – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Laura Jones – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: T'ai Roulston – University of Virginia
    Co-Author: Margarita M. Lopez-Uribe (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:30 AM – 11:42 AM PT
    1st Place: Long-read sequencing is revolutionizing silk research: Comparing repetitive heavy fibroin silk genes in new moth and caddisfly genomes
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Amanda Markee – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Amanda Markee – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Paul B. Frandsen – Brigham Young University
    Co-Author: Jacqueline Heckenhauer – LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics
    Co-Author: David Plotkin – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – University of Florida
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:42 AM – 11:54 AM PT
    It’s getting hot out here: Thermal traits of bumble bee species in the face of climate change
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 220
    Presenting Author: Erika Ibarra-Garibay – Iowa State University
    Co-Author: Colton Poore – Iowa State University
    Co-Author: Eric Riddell – Iowa State University
    Co-Author: Amy Toth – Iowa State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:42 AM – 11:54 AM PT
    Molecular evolution and epigenetics of Thysanoptera derived from the Frankliniella fusca genome assembly
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Michael A. Catto – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Paul Labadie – North Carolina State University
    Co-Author: Alana Lynn Jacobson – Auburn University
    Co-Author: George Kennedy – North Carolina State University
    Co-Author: Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Brendan G. Hunt – University of Georgia
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:54 AM – 12:06 PM PT
    PhyMMR: Phylogenetics through markov mapped reads - Revolutionizing dataset preparation for phylogenetic analyses
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Kevin Moran – Carleton University
    Co-Author: Ashton Pooley – Flinders University
    Co-Author: Michael Valentine – Hillsborough Community College
    Co-Author: Jeffrey Skevington – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:54 AM – 12:06 PM PT
    2nd Place: Multimodal signaling by queens regulates mating behavior in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 220
    Presenting Author: Sarah K. Spence – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Etya Amsalem – Pennsylvania State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    12:06 PM – 12:18 PM PT
    Not haploid after all: the patterns and processes generating somatic mutations across honey bee (Apis mellifera) males
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 220
    Presenting Author: Riley R. Shultz (she/her/hers) – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Brock Harpur – Purdue University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    12:06 PM – 12:18 PM PT
    Prevalence of an insect-associated genomic region in environmentally acquired bacterial symbionts
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Patrick Thomas Stillson – University of Texas
    Co-Author: David Baltrus – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Alison Ravenscraft (she/her/hers) – University of Texas
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    12:18 PM – 12:30 PM PT
    1st Place: Polyandry in the common eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) and its implications for conservation
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 220
    Presenting Author: Sydney A. Bird – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Nathaniel Pope – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Carley McGrady – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Shelby J. Fleischer – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Margarita M. Lopez-Uribe (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    12:18 PM – 12:30 PM PT
    2nd Place: The evolution of ant-plant specialization in the Neotropical ant genus Myrmelachista: A phylogenomic approach
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 221/222
    Presenting Author: Rodolfo S. Probst – University of Utah
    Co-Author: Michael G. Branstetter – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: John T. Longino – University of Utah
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    12:30 PM – 12:42 PM PT
    The effects of landscape and habitat quality on bumble bee pathogen prevalence and diversity
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 220
    Presenting Author: Elena M. Gratton – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Heather M. Hines – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Christina M. Grozinger – Pennsylvania State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:30 AM – 1:00 PM PT
    Undergrad SysEB: Biodiversity
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Moderator: Rebecca B. Simmons – University of North Dakota
    Moderator: Angela Tucker – Douglas Products
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:30 AM – 10:42 AM PT
    Adaptations for fluid uptake among moths with hyper-elongated proboscises
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Julie M. Wilson – Kent State University
    Co-Author: Kristen E. Reiter – Kent State University
    Co-Author: Matthew S. Lehnert – Kent State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:42 AM – 10:54 AM PT
    Phylogenomics of Baetidae: A comparison in classification
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Avery N. Larsen – Utah Valley University
    Co-Author: T. Heath Ogden – Utah Valley University
    Co-Author: Tabitha Weir – Utah Valley University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    10:54 AM – 11:06 AM PT
    1st Place: Phylosymbiosis in fungus-gardening ants Trachymyrmex
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Elizabeth D. Boshers (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at Tyler
    Co-Author: Jon N. Seal – University of Texas
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:06 AM – 11:18 AM PT
    Piecing together the periodical cicada puzzle
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Robert J. Bush – Brigham Young University
    Co-Author: Paul B. Frandsen – Brigham Young University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:18 AM – 11:30 AM PT
    Review of the assassin-fly genus Anypodetus (Diptera: Asilidae) in Namibia
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Meliah Dubus (they/them/theirs) – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Torsten Dikow – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:30 AM – 11:42 AM PT
    Temporal patterns and distribution of Coleoptera in the Vedauwoo natural history site
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Isabelle Seivley – Laramie County Community College
    Co-Author: Jordyn T. Sorrow – Wyoming Rib and Chop House
    Co-Author: Gavin Martin – Laramie County Community College
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:42 AM – 11:54 AM PT
    Evolution of feeding behavior and gustatory receptors in bombycoid moths
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Christian D. Couch – University of Florida
    Co-Author: R. Keating Godfrey – University of Florida
    Co-Author: David Plotkin – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – University of Florida
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    11:54 AM – 12:06 PM PT
    2nd Place: The phoretic mite (Arachnida: Acari) assemblage of the Douglas-fir beetle, Dendroctonus pseudotsugae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 224
    Presenting Author: Laura-Anne Browning – University of Northern British Columbia
    Co-Author: Dezene P. Huber – University of Northern British Columbia
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityStudent Competition 10-Minute Paper
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    3:00 PM – 3:30 PM PT
    Open reception
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 211
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    3:00 PM – 5:30 PM PT
    SysEB Business Meeting
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 211
    Organizer: Chris A. Hamilton – University of Idaho
    Organizer: Katja C. Seltmann (she/her/hers) – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    3:30 PM – 3:35 PM PT
    Introductory remarks
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 211
    Presenting Author: Chris A. Hamilton – University of Idaho
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    3:35 PM – 3:40 PM PT
    Introductory remarks & introduction of Katharina Dittmar from NSF
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 211
    Presenting Author: Chris A. Hamilton – University of Idaho
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    3:40 PM – 3:55 PM PT
    Updates from NSF
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 211
    Presenting Author: Katharina Dittmar – National Science Foundation
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    4:10 PM – 4:30 PM PT
    ESA Town Hall
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 211
    Presenting Author: Chris J. Stelzig, CAE – Entomological Society of America
    Presenting Author: Jessica L. Ware – American Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    4:30 PM – 4:35 PM PT
    Awards report
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 211
    Presenting Author: Rebecca B. Simmons – University of North Dakota
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    4:35 PM – 4:40 PM PT
    Governing Board report
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 211
    Presenting Author: Andrew E. Short – University of Kansas
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    4:40 PM – 4:45 PM PT
    Treasurer's report
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 211
    Presenting Author: Craig Brabant – University of Wisconsin
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    4:45 PM – 5:05 PM PT
    Discussion
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 211
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Monday, Nov 14th
    5:05 PM – 5:10 PM PT
    Business meeting wrap-up
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 211
    Presenting Author: Chris A. Hamilton – University of Idaho
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT
    Inspiration from Hidden Diversity: Cryptic Species and the Future of Insect Taxonomy
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Organizer: Robert L. Kresslein – University of California
    Organizer: Louis F. Nastasi – Frost Entomological Museum, The Pennsylvania State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT
    SysEB: Social Insects
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Moderator: S Hollis Woodard – University of California
    Moderator: Jennifer H. Fewell – Arizona State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:00 AM – 9:12 AM PT
    Analysis of bacterial and fungal microbiomes in a newly discovered ant-fungal symbiosis
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Jon N. Seal – University of Texas
    Co-Author: Katrin Kellner (she/her/hers) – University of Texas
    Co-Author: Walter Tschinkel – Florida State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:00 AM – 9:15 AM PT
    An abundance of Encarsia: Cryptic diversity in neotropical whitefly parasitoids
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Robert L. Kresslein – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:12 AM – 9:24 AM PT
    Behavioral ontogeny of maternal care in an annually eusocial insect
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: S Hollis Woodard – University of California
    Co-Author: Erica Sarro – University of California
    Co-Author: Kaleigh Fisher – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:15 AM – 9:30 AM PT
    Cryptic species of fire-impacted Australian dung beetles
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Nicole L. Gunter – Cleveland Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:24 AM – 9:36 AM PT
    It’s getting hot in here: Sensory reception of hot temperatures leading to social thermoregulation in honey bees
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Chelsea Cook – Marquette University
    Co-Author: Kyara Vazquez – Marquette University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:30 AM – 9:45 AM PT
    Crazy ants in morphospace: CT scans, geometric morphometrics, and species delimitation of Nylanderia males (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Jason Williams – University of Florida
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:36 AM – 9:48 AM PT
    Metabolic scaling and early colony growth in harvester ants
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Jennifer H. Fewell – Arizona State University
    Co-Author: Xiaohui Guo – University of California
    Co-Author: Colin Lynch – Arizona State University
    Co-Author: Madeleine Ostwald – University of California
    Co-Author: Jon F. Harrison – Arizona State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:45 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    Detection and implications of cryptic species in weed biocontrol systems
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Chandra E. Moffat – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:48 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    Sperm length correlates with the rapid evolution and turnover of male genes in bees
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Garett Slater – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: Amy Dapper – Mississippi State University
    Co-Author: Brock Harpur – Purdue University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    10:00 AM – 10:12 AM PT
    Social behavior and colony trajectory in bumble bees are shaped by the brood
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Etya Amsalem – Pennsylvania State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    10:00 AM – 10:15 AM PT
    Cryptic species in Encarsia (Aphelinidae) and Megaphragma (Trichogrammatidae) revealed by “non-destructive” mitochondrial and ribosomal DNA sequencing
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Andrew Polaszek – University of Oxford
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversitySection Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    10:24 AM – 10:36 AM PT
    Spread and social structure of the little fire ant (Wasmannia auropunctata) in Florida
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Maya Saar – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Virginia Rose Seagal (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Addison Anh Huy Nguyen – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Hua Yan – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    10:36 AM – 10:48 AM PT
    Varying reproductive rates in queen Bombus impatiens: A reevaluation of bumble bee queen reproduction and behavior in early-stage nests
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Blanca R. Peto (she/her/hers) – University of California
    Co-Author: S Hollis Woodard – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    10:48 AM – 11:00 AM PT
    Bacterial and fungal microbiomes of Pogonomyrmex ants and their seed deposits
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Katrin Kellner (she/her/hers) – University of Texas
    Co-Author: Christina L. Kwapich – University of Massachusetts
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT
    Coverage of the Good and the Bad: The Genomes and Genomics of Pollinators and Pests
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Organizer: Brad S. Coates – USDA-ARS
    Organizer: Katherine A. Parys – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:00 AM – 9:05 AM PT
    Introductory remarks
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Brad S. Coates – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:05 AM – 9:20 AM PT
    Beenomes to bad bugs, a concerted effort to sequence, assemble and annotate genomes of pollinators and pests
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Anna K. Childers – USDA-ARS
    Co-author: Jay Evans – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:20 AM – 9:40 AM PT
    Unraveling fall armyworm genetic structure in North America using a whole genome sequencing approach
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Ashley Tessnow – Texas A&M University
    Co-author: Rodney Nagoshi – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: Robert L. Meagher, Jr. (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS
    Co-author: Todd M. Gilligan – USDA-APHIS
    Co-author: Benjamin Sadd – Illinois State University
    Co-author: Gregory Sword – Texas A&M University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:40 AM – 9:55 AM PT
    Comparative genomics sheds light on the evolutionary consequences of pollen specialization in the sensory genes of bees
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Avehi Singh (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Nathaniel Pope – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-author: Margarita M. Lopez-Uribe (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:55 AM – 10:10 AM PT
    Chromosome level assembly of a Bacillus thuringiensis resistant strain of the corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Brad S. Coates – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: Amanda Stahlke – USDA-ARS
    Co-author: Jennifer Chang – Iowa state University
    Co-author: Luke R. Tembrock – Colorado State University
    Co-author: Sheina Biason Sim – USDA-ARS
    Co-author: Scott M. Geib – USDA-ARS
    Co-author: Omaththage Perera – USDA-ARS
    Co-author: Todd M. Gilligan – USDA-APHIS
    Co-Author: Kevin Hackett – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: Anna K. Childers – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    10:20 AM – 10:40 AM PT
    Influence of ploidy, sex and metabolic activity on the quality of de novo genome assemblies – a test using eastern carpenter bees
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Miriam Richards – Brock University
    Co-author: Haimeng Tang – Brock University
    Co-author: Ping Liang – Brock University
    Co-author: Adonis Skandalis – Brock University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    10:40 AM – 10:55 AM PT
    Transcriptional landscape of early diapause in field-collected Colorado potato beetles
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Alex S. Torson – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: Kirsten Warcup – North Dakota State University
    Co-author: Dacotah melicher – North Dakota State University
    Co-Author: George D. Yocum – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: Joseph P. Rinehart – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    10:50 AM – 11:20 AM PT
    Cardinium-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in Encarsia parasitoid wasps
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 111/112
    Presenting Author: Matthew R. Doremus – University of Kentucky
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    10:55 AM – 11:10 AM PT
    Chromosome length genome assembly of the redbanded stink bug, Piezodorus guildinii (Westwood)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Omaththage Perera – USDA-ARS
    Co-author: Surya Saha – Boyce Thompson Institute
    Co-author: K. Clint Allen – USDA-ARS
    Co-author: Lukas Mueller – Boyce Thompson Institute
    Co-Author: Gadi V. Reddy – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    11:10 AM – 11:25 AM PT
    Chromosome-level genome of Bombus impatiens facilitates identification and comparative evolution of genes differentially expressed in heavy metal exposure
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Katherine Geist – Iowa State University
    Co-author: Rick Masonbrink – Iowa State University
    Co-author: Emeline Favreau (she/her/hers) – University College London
    Co-author: Ryan Fortune – Iowa State University
    Co-author: Mary Margaret Gardiner – The Ohio State University
    Co-author: Sarah B. Scott – The Ohio State University
    Co-author: Seirian Sumner – University College London
    Co-author: Sandra M. Rehan – York University
    Co-author: Amy Toth – Iowa State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:00 AM – 12:15 PM PT
    SysEB: Taxonomy
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Moderator: James K. Liebherr – Cornell University
    Moderator: Patrice Bouchard (he/him/his) – Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:00 AM – 9:12 AM PT
    Paratachys terryli (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Kauai: Small beetles, big questions
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: James K. Liebherr – Cornell University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:12 AM – 9:24 AM PT
    A new riffle beetle genus from Idaho (Coleoptera: Elmidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Chloe Rice – Montana State University
    Co-Author: Michael Ivie – Montana State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:36 AM – 9:48 AM PT
    Current state of systematics of the Ericaphis fimbriata (Hemiptera: Aphididae) species complex
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Bryan Brunet – Government of Canada
    Co-Author: Jennifer Gleason – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Co-Author: Michelle T. Franklin – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Co-Author: Yonathan Uriel – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    9:48 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    How many species? A comparison of Alaska's to Sweden's entomofauna
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Derek S. Sikes (he/him/his) – University of Alaska Museum
    Co-Author: Thalles Pereira – University of Alaska
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    10:00 AM – 10:12 AM PT
    Illustrated genera keys to Canadian bark beetles (Scolytinae) and sap beetles (Nitidulidae): The process and results
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: David Dutkiewicz – Invasive Species Centre
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    10:12 AM – 10:24 AM PT
    Notes on the scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) of Colombia
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Takumasa Kondo – Corporacion Colombiana de Investigacion Agropecuaria - Agrosavia
    Co-Author: Alejandro Caballero – Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    10:36 AM – 10:48 AM PT
    On the nomenclatural status of type genera in Coleoptera (Insecta)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Patrice Bouchard (he/him/his) – Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
    Co-Author: Yves Bousquet – Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
    Co-Author: Anthony Davies – Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    10:48 AM – 11:00 AM PT
    Patronyms to honour or insult? A revision of New World Oedemopsis (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tryphoninae): A genus with greatly expanded nasute protuberances
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Andrew Bennett – Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    11:00 AM – 11:12 AM PT
    Review of New World Cenchreine Derbidae (Hemiptera) with special reference to palm associations
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Charles R. Bartlett – University of Delaware
    Co-Author: Brian William Bahder – University of Florida
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    11:12 AM – 11:24 AM PT
    Uncovering the diversity of Cyclorhipidion ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Sarah M. Smith – Michigan State University
    Co-Author: Anthony I. Cognato – Michigan State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:30 PM – 3:30 PM PT
    Through the Duff, What Just Hove? 'Tis a Beetle, Known as Rove
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Organizer: Michael L. Ferro – Clemson University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PT
    Introductory remarks
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Michael L. Ferro – Clemson University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PT
    Why are xanthopygine (Staphylinidae) rove beetles shiny?
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Stylianos Chatzimanolis – University of Tennessee
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PT
    Generic revision of Nearctic Quediini - old relicts and new arrivals (Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Adam J. Brunke (he/him/his) – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PT
    Pselaphinae of Arizona (Staphylinidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Donald S. Donald Chandler – University of New Hampshire
    Co-author: William Warner – Retired
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:45 PM – 3:00 PM PT
    Another Arianops presentation: How many more? (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Christopher E. Carlton – Louisiana State University
    Co-author: Curt Harden – Clemson University
    Co-author: Michael S. Caterino – Clemson University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:00 PM – 3:15 PM PT
    Pulling threads: A revision of the West Indian Belonuchus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Jordan Rainey – Montana State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:15 PM – 3:30 PM PT
    Closing remarks
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Michael L. Ferro – Clemson University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:30 PM – 5:30 PM PT
    SysEB: Evolution
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Moderator: Jen A. White – University of Kentucky
    Moderator: Daniel Rubinoff – University of Hawai'i
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:30 PM – 5:30 PM PT
    SysEB: Phylogenetics
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Moderator: Lacie Newton – University of California
    Moderator: Brian M. Wiegmann – North Carolina State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:30 PM – 5:30 PM PT
    SysEB: Pollinators and Pollination
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Moderator: Jennifer Heron – British Colubmia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy
    Moderator: Sydney Cannings – Canadian Wildlife Service
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:30 PM – 1:42 PM PT
    A highly divergent and tiny-genomed obligate Wolbachia symbiont in an insect-parasitic nematode
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Steve J. Perlman – University of Victoria
    Co-Author: Jan Dudzic – University of Victoria
    Co-Author: Caitlin I. Curtis – University of Victoria
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:30 PM – 1:42 PM PT
    A preliminary phylogeny of the Epitragine darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae: Epitragini)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Christopher C. Wirth – Purdue University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:30 PM – 1:42 PM PT
    Analysis of native bee populations in honey bee predicted landscapes
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Robert Ostrom – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Co-Author: Margaret J. Couvillon – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Co-Author: Chad Campbell – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Co-Author: Bradley David Ohlinger – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Co-Author: Sally Taylor – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Co-Author: Sean Malone – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Co-Author: James Wilson – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Co-Author: Megan E. O'Rourke – USDA-NIFA
    Co-Author: Roger Schurch – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:42 PM – 1:54 PM PT
    A revised multi-gene phylogeny of xyleborine (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) ambrosia beetles
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Anthony I. Cognato – Michigan State University
    Co-Author: Patrick S. Gorring – Michigan State University
    Co-Author: Sarah M. Smith – Michigan State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:42 PM – 1:54 PM PT
    A single amino acid polymorphism in natural Metchnikowin alleles of Drosophila results in systemic immunity and life history tradeoffs
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Jessamyn Perlmutter – University of Kansas
    Co-Author: Joanne Chapman – Institute of Environmental and Scientific Research
    Co-Author: Mason Wilkinson – Vanderbilt University
    Co-Author: Isaac Nevarez-Saenz – University of Kansas
    Co-Author: Robert Unckless – University of Kansas
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:42 PM – 1:54 PM PT
    Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of the neotropical dry forests: Diversity and state of knowledge
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Andres Herrera (he/him/his) – University of Kansas
    Co-Author: Victor H. Gonzalez (he/him/his) – University of Kansas
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:54 PM – 2:06 PM PT
    Ancestral state reconstruction illuminates ant venom evolution and need for natural history studies
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Kyle S. Sozanski – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Rachelle M. Adams – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Tappey Jones – Virginia Military Institute
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:54 PM – 2:06 PM PT
    Australian termites and the rafting colony hypothesis
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Rebecca A. Clement (she/her/hers) – USDA - ARS
    Co-Author: Will Cornwell – University of New South Wales
    Co-Author: Nic Bone – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Co-Author: Michaela Fitzgerald – Cornell University
    Co-Author: Baptiste Joseph Wijas – University of Miami
    Co-Author: Stephen Smith – University of Michigan
    Co-Author: Keith Crandall – George Washington University
    Co-Author: Paul Eggleton – Natural History Museum London
    Co-Author: Amy Zanne – University of Miami
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:54 PM – 2:06 PM PT
    Big-Bee: Increasing the impacts of Anthophila collections through image and trait digitization
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Adrian L. Carper – University of Colorado
    Co-Author: Virginia Scott – University of Colorado
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:06 PM – 2:18 PM PT
    Anti-bat ultrasound production in moths is globally and phylogenetically widespread
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: David Plotkin – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Jesse R. Barber – Boise State University
    Co-Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – University of Florida
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:06 PM – 2:18 PM PT
    Bumble bee economics: The cost of occurrence and community data production
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Lincoln Best – Oregon State University
    Co-Author: Samuel Robinson – University of Calgary
    Co-Author: Andony Melathopoulos – Oregon State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:06 PM – 2:18 PM PT
    Combined phylogenomic dataset reveals relationships within true bugs (Heteroptera)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Samantha Standring – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:18 PM – 2:30 PM PT
    Bumble bees and the future of the US Endangered Species Act
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Jess Tyler – Center for Biological Diversity
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:18 PM – 2:30 PM PT
    Combined-evidence phylogeny, habitat evolution, and biogeography of the trapdoor spider genus Aptostichus (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Euctenizidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Lacie Newton – University of California
    Co-Author: James Starrett – University of California
    Co-Author: Jason E. Bond – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:18 PM – 2:30 PM PT
    Diversification of Astragalus-feeding seed beetles (Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) across the western U.S.
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Geoffrey E. Morse – University of San Diego
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:30 PM – 2:42 PM PT
    Evolution of Veromessor, a North American genus of seed-harvesting ants
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Marek L. Borowiec – University of Idaho
    Co-Author: Robert A. Johnson – Arizona State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:42 PM – 2:54 PM PT
    Conserved, yet disruption-prone gut microbiota in Neotropical bumblebees
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Nickole A. Villabona – University of California
    Co-Author: Tobin Hammer – University of California
    Co-Author: Alejandro Reyes – Universidad de Los Andes
    Co-Author: Nancy Moran – University of Texas
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:54 PM – 3:06 PM PT
    Counting bees like birds: Roadside surveys for bumble bees
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Sydney Cannings – Canadian Wildlife Service
    Co-Author: Maria Leung
    Co-Author: Cory Sheffield – Royal Saskatchewan Museum
    Co-Author: Shannon Stotyn – Canadian Wildlife Service
    Co-Author: Kirsten Wilcox – Canadian Wildlife Service
    Co-Author: David Iles – Canadian Wildlife Service
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:54 PM – 3:06 PM PT
    Evolution and diversification dynamics of butterflies
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Akito Y. Kawahara – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Ana P. S. Carvalho (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
    Co-Author: David Plotkin – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Ryan A. St Laurent (he/him/his) – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Xuankun Li – University of Memphis
    Co-Author: Chandra Earl – Bernice P. Bishop Museum
    Co-Author: Emmanuel Toussaint – Natural History Museum of Geneva
    Co-Author: Amanda Markee – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Naomi Pierce – Harvard University
    Co-Author: David J. Lohman – University of New York
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:54 PM – 3:06 PM PT
    Exploring the loss of blood-feeding within the Sabethini tribe by analyzing evolutionary relationships
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Abdullah Zubair – University of Calgary
    Co-Author: John S. Soghigian – University of Calgary
    Co-Author: Gen Morinaga – University of Calgary
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:06 PM – 3:18 PM PT
    Forests influence pollinator biodiversity and community composition in agroecosystems in Central British Columbia, Canada
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Aija F. White – University of Northern British Columbia
    Co-Author: Dezene P. Huber – University of Northern British Columbia
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:06 PM – 3:18 PM PT
    Neotropical tiger moths (Erebidae: Arctiinae) have repeatedly evolved anti-bat sonar jamming
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Nicolas J. Dowdy – Milwaukee Public Museum
    Co-Author: Alan R. Lemmon – Florida State University
    Co-Author: Emily M. Lemmon – Florida State University
    Co-Author: William Conner – Wake Forest University
    Co-Author: Jennifer Zaspel – Milwaukee Public Museum
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:18 PM – 3:30 PM PT
    Global bee interaction database
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Katja C. Seltmann (she/her/hers) – University of California
    Co-Author: Jared T. Miller – University of California
    Co-Author: Jorrit H. Poelen
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:18 PM – 3:30 PM PT
    Increasing social insect prevalence in the Cenozoic precipitated convergent dietary specialization among mammals
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Phillip Barden – New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Co-Author: Thomas Vida – University of Bonn
    Co-Author: Zachary Calamari – Baruch College
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:18 PM – 3:30 PM PT
    Opsin evolution is revealed by anchored hybrid enrichment phylogeny in cucujoid beetles
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Gareth S. Powell – Brigham Young University
    Co-Author: Seth Bybee – Brigham Young University
    Co-Author: Paul B. Frandsen – Brigham Young University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:30 PM – 3:42 PM PT
    Kleptoparasite density and ground-nesting bee health in eastern Tennessee
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Erika S. Dalliance – University of Tennessee
    Co-Author: Laura Russo – University of Tennessee
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:30 PM – 3:42 PM PT
    Paternal symbiont infection promotes production of daughters in a linyphiid spider
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Jen A. White – University of Kentucky
    Co-Author: Laura Rosenwald – University of Kentucky
    Co-Author: Emily Shea Durkin – University of Tampa
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:30 PM – 3:42 PM PT
    Phylogeny and global biogeography of puss moths and kittens (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae: Cerurinae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Ryan A. St Laurent (he/him/his) – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Paul Z. Goldstein – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: Robert Robbins – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: James Miller – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:42 PM – 3:54 PM PT
    Phylogeny of the flea beetles (Galerucinae: Alticini) from anchored phylogenomics, a new tribe of Galerucinae, and diagnostic insights
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Hume Douglas – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Co-Author: Alexander Konstantinov – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: Adam J. Brunke (he/him/his) – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Co-Author: Karine Savard – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Co-Author: K.D. Prathapan – Kerala Agricultural University
    Co-Author: Yongying Ruan – Shenzhen Polytechnic
    Co-Author: Jeremy Dettman – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:42 PM – 3:54 PM PT
    Phylogeographic and endosymbiont analyses of Pezothrips kellyanus reveal the Australian source populations of invasions elsewhere
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Alihan Katlav – Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
    Co-Author: Doung T. Nguyen – Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute
    Co-Author: Jodie Cheesman – Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
    Co-Author: Asha Chhagan – Plant and Food Research
    Co-Author: Lisa Jamieson – Plant and Food Research
    Co-Author: Stewart Learmonth – Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
    Co-Author: Alexander Robertson – Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
    Co-Author: Piotr Trebicki – Agriculture Victoria Research
    Co-Author: James M. Cook – Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
    Co-Author: Markus Riegler – Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:54 PM – 4:06 PM PT
    Native bee houses are valuable tools for research, conservation, and education
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Kaitlin U. Campbell (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina
    Co-Author: Rita Hagevik – University of North Carolina
    Co-Author: Crystal Walline – University of North Carolina
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    4:06 PM – 4:18 PM PT
    Building a community to monitor British Columbia's bumble bee population trends
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Jennifer Heron – British Colubmia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy
    Co-Author: Cory Sheffield – Royal Saskatchewan Museum
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    4:06 PM – 4:18 PM PT
    Phylogeographic reconstruction of nomadine bees (Apidae: Nomadinae) through the integration of UCE and barcode sequence data
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Trevor J. Sless – Cornell University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    4:18 PM – 4:30 PM PT
    Giants in America: Population genomics of the invasive hornet Vespa mandarinia
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 213
    Presenting Author: Benjamin A. Taylor (he/him/his) – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Luke R. Tembrock – Colorado State University
    Co-Author: Todd M. Gilligan – USDA-APHIS
    Co-Author: Brock Harpur – Purdue University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    4:18 PM – 4:30 PM PT
    Progress in the phylogeny and systematics of Calliphoridae (Diptera: Oestroidea): Insights into the subfamily level relationships of the group
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Brian M. Wiegmann – North Carolina State University
    Co-Author: Cristian Fernando Beza-Beza – North Carolina State University
    Co-Author: John S. Soghigian – University of Calgary
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    4:18 PM – 4:30 PM PT
    The glassy-winged sharpshooter genome sheds light on the molecular basis of brochosomes
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Zheng Li – University of Texas
    Co-Author: Nancy Moran – University of Texas
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    4:30 PM – 4:42 PM PT
    The evolutionary history of whirligig beetles inferred from UCEs
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Grey T. Gustafson – Northern Arizona University
    Co-Author: Stephen M. Baca – University of Kansas
    Co-Author: Kelly Miller – University of New Mexico
    Co-Author: Andrew E. Short – University of Kansas
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    4:30 PM – 4:42 PM PT
    The intractable evolutionary mystery of Hawaii’s most diverse radiation, the fancy case caterpillars (Hyposmocoma:Cosmopterigidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Daniel Rubinoff – University of Hawai'i
    Co-Author: Michael San Jose – University of Hawai'i
    Co-Author: Camiel Doorenweerd – University of Hawai'i
    Co-Author: Kyhl Austin – University of Hawai'i
    Co-Author: Scott M. Geib – USDA-ARS
    Co-Author: julian dupuis – University of Kentucky
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    4:42 PM – 4:54 PM PT
    The phylogeny of crickets, katydids, and allies (Orthoptera: Ensifera): Design and performance of the first Orthoptera-specific target enrichment probe set
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Austin Baker (he/him/his) – Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
    Co-Author: Hojun Song – Texas A&M University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    4:42 PM – 4:54 PM PT
    The role of nuptial gift proteins in sexual conflict in the decorated cricket
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Bert Foquet – Illinois State University
    Co-Author: Maria Albo – Universidad de la República
    Co-Author: Jack Mckermitt – Illinois State University
    Co-Author: John Hunt – Western Sydney University
    Co-Author: Benjamin Sadd – Illinois State University
    Co-Author: Scott Sakaluk – Illinois State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    4:54 PM – 5:06 PM PT
    The successful use of multigene enrichment museomics to broaden longhorned beetle (Cerambycidae) systematics
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Patrick S. Gorring – Michigan State University
    Co-Author: Anthony I. Cognato – Michigan State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    4:54 PM – 5:06 PM PT
    Variation in lek return rates between the sexes and selection for mate acquisition traits in a female-ornamented fly, Rhamphmyia longicauda (Loew, 1861)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212
    Presenting Author: Rosalind Murray – University of Toronto
    Co-Author: Locke Rowe – University of Toronto
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    5:06 PM – 5:18 PM PT
    Investigating the evolutionary history of the corsairs (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 217/218/219
    Presenting Author: Stephanie E. Castillo – University of California
    Co-Author: Christiane Weirauch – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:30 PM – 6:00 PM PT
    The Cultural Significance of Insects Through Historical and Diverse Lenses
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Organizer: Gene Kritsky – Mount St. Joseph University
    Organizer: Tolulope Morawo – U.S. Navy
    Organizer: John Acorn – University of Alberta
    Organizer: Caydee E. Savinelli – Syngenta
    Organizer: Hongmei Li-Byarlay – Central State University
    Organizer: Carol Anelli – The Ohio State University
    Organizer: Deirdre A. Prischmann – North Dakota State University
    Organizer: Zhou Xuguo – University of Kentucky
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PT
    Insect products from Antiquity and the Middle Ages
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Gene Kritsky – Mount St. Joseph University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PT
    Moral lessons, morphology, and medieval bodies--insect knowledge in the Middle Ages
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: May R. Berenbaum (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PT
    Good and bad, art and science: Insects in the Renaissance
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Sherilyn G.F. Smith – Le Moyne College
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:30 PM – 2:45 PM PT
    Diversity in entomology and why it matters
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Katja Poveda – Cornell University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    2:45 PM – 3:00 PM PT
    Literary evocations of the insect in Greek and Roman antiquity
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Rory Egan – University of Manitoba
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:00 PM – 3:15 PM PT
    The Age of Enlightenment: A period of pioneering entomologists and polymaths
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Matthew S. Lehnert – Kent State University
    Co-Author: Kristen E. Reiter – Kent State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:15 PM – 3:30 PM PT
    Art imitates nature: Lessons from insects
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: I. Billy Annan (he/him/his) – FMC Corporation
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:40 PM – 3:55 PM PT
    A planet in peril and the insect muse
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Barrett Klein – University of Wisconsin
    Co-Author: Tierney R. Brosius (she/her/hers) – Augustana College
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    3:55 PM – 4:10 PM PT
    The history of female natural illustrators in entomology
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Megan M. Wilson – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    4:10 PM – 4:25 PM PT
    Silk, cochineal, lac, and gall ink: Global connections among cultures and commodities in the Industrial Age
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Carol Anelli – The Ohio State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    4:25 PM – 4:40 PM PT
    Insects in art in the Age of Industry
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Carol Anelli – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Deirdre A. Prischmann – North Dakota State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    4:40 PM – 4:55 PM PT
    Determinism, exceptionalism, and insects: What can and have insects taught us about DEI efforts?
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Jared G. Ali – Pennsylvania State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    4:55 PM – 5:10 PM PT
    Insects in fashion
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Tierney R. Brosius (she/her/hers) – Augustana College
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    5:10 PM – 5:25 PM PT
    The Age of Enlightenment: Microscopes and the birth of insect morphology
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Matthew S. Lehnert – Kent State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    5:25 PM – 5:40 PM PT
    Cricket fighting: A game for royals
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Zhou Xuguo – University of Kentucky
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityProgram Symposium
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PT
    North American Dipterists Society Annual Meeting
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 116/117
    Organizer: Jessica Gillung – McGill University
    Organizer: Torsten Dikow – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
    Organizer: Matthew Bertone – North Carolina State University
    Organizer: Stephen Gaimari – California State Collection of Arthropods
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    7:00 PM – 7:30 PM PT
    Introductory remarks
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 116/117
    Presenting Author: Torsten Dikow – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    7:30 PM – 7:45 PM PT
    The career, legacy and life of dipterist William J. Turner (1940-2022)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 116/117
    Presenting Author: Luc Leblanc – University of Idaho
    Co-author: Gregory Turner-Rahman – University of Idaho
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    7:45 PM – 8:00 PM PT
    Evidence for transantarctic dispersal or Gondwanan vicariance in Syrphidae
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 116/117
    Presenting Author: Kevin Moran – Carleton University
    Co-author: Jeff Skevington – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
    Co-author: Ashton Pooley – Flinders University
    Co-author: Michael Valentine – Hillsborough Community College
    Co-author: Ximo Mengual – Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig
    Co-author: Scott Kelso – Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    8:00 PM – 8:40 PM PT
    Discussion
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 116/117
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Tuesday, Nov 15th
    8:40 PM – 8:45 PM PT
    Closing remarks
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 116/117
    Presenting Author: Torsten Dikow – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityOrganized Meeting
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    9:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT
    Many Eyes on Many Eyes: A Diverse Look at Arachnology
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Organizer: Jacob A. Gorneau – California Academy of Sciences
    Organizer: Lauren A. Esposito – California Academy of Sciences
    Organizer: Catherine Scott – McGill University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    9:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT
    SysEB: Morphology and Education
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Moderator: Matthew S. Lehnert – Kent State University
    Moderator: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    9:00 AM – 9:05 AM PT
    Introductory remarks
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Jacob A. Gorneau – California Academy of Sciences
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    9:00 AM – 9:12 AM PT
    I loved the blue spider!: The influence of animal body color on student perceptions of live arthropods
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Faith Weeks – Towson University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    9:05 AM – 9:18 AM PT
    Arachnids in 280 characters! How to get people more sensitive about these amazing animals in one tweet
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Diego Barrales-Alcalá – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    9:12 AM – 9:24 AM PT
    3D high resolution imaging of biological materials enhanced by machine learning
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Fang Zhou – Carl Zeiss Microscopy
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    9:18 AM – 9:31 AM PT
    Eat or be eaten: Arachnids as predators and prey
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Leticia Classen-Rodriguez – Saint Louis University
    Co-author: Anthony I. Dell – Saint Louis University
    Co-author: Rowan H. McGinley – Saint Louis University
    Co-author: Asad Siddiqui – Saint Louis University
    Co-author: Mark Tierney – Saint Louis University
    Co-author: Simone Ymson – Saint Louis University
    Co-author: Nivi Biju – Saint Louis University
    Co-author: Wes Gingrich – Saint Louis University
    Co-author: Kasey D. Fowler-Finn – Saint Louis University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    9:31 AM – 9:44 AM PT
    Effects of the light environment on courtship displays in multimodal signalling wolf spiders
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Rowan H. McGinley – Saint Louis University
    Co-author: James Starrett – University of California
    Co-Author: Jason E. Bond – University of California
    Co-author: Eileen A. Hebets – University of Nebraska
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    9:36 AM – 9:48 AM PT
    Morphological changes in the tracheal system associated with light organs of the firefly Photinus pyralis (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) across life stages
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Kristin N. Dunn – Roanoke College
    Co-Author: Steven Ray Davis – American Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Hollister Herhold – American Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Kathrin Stanger-Hall – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: Seth Bybee – Brigham Young University
    Co-Author: Marc Branham – University of Florida
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    9:48 AM – 10:00 AM PT
    Mouthpart adaptations of antlion larvae facilitate prey handling and fluid feeding in sandy habitats
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Matthew S. Lehnert – Kent State University
    Co-Author: Asheesh Lanba – University of Southern Maine
    Co-Author: Kristen E. Reiter – Kent State University
    Co-Author: Rena Fonseca – Kent State University
    Co-Author: Jordan Minninger – Kent State University
    Co-Author: Benjamin Hall – Lasers for Innovative Solutions
    Co-Author: Wesley Huff – Lasers for Innovative Solutions
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    9:57 AM – 10:10 AM PT
    Phylogenomics and morphometrics illuminate patterns of character evolution of historically delimiting characters in camel spiders (Arachnida: Solifugae: Eremobatidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Erika L. Garcia – Denver Museum of Nature & Science
    Co-Author: Paula E. Cushing – Denver Museum of Nature & Science
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    10:00 AM – 10:12 AM PT
    Taxonomic note and static allometry relationships in three species of genus Asota Hübner (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae) from India
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Dr. Sujata Saini – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
    Co-Author: Sujata Saini
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    10:10 AM – 10:23 AM PT
    Mate choice over time and other overlooked behaviors: A new perspective on spider activities
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Trinity Walls (she/her/hers) – University of California Berkeley
    Co-author: Damian Elias – University of California
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    10:12 AM – 10:24 AM PT
    The EntoEdu entomology literacy survey: Updates on an international entomology education project
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Andrea Lucky – University of Florida
    Co-Author: Vanda Janstova – Charles University
    Co-Author: Petr Novotny – Charles University
    Co-Author: Honza Mourek – Charles University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    10:24 AM – 10:36 AM PT
    The spectacular and peculiar structural color of Chrysochroa jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Able Chow – Louisiana State University
    Co-Author: Bodo Wilts
    Co-Author: Ying Xiao – Louisiana State University
    Co-Author: Nathan Lord – Louisiana State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    10:36 AM – 10:48 AM PT
    Using student book clubs to enhance the formation of science identity in STEM undergraduates
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Rebecca B. Simmons – University of North Dakota
    Co-Author: Alena Kubatova – University of North Dakota
    Co-Author: Daphne Pedersen – University of North Dakota
    Co-Author: Gregory Vandeberg – University of North Dakota
    Co-Author: Kanishka Marasinghe – University of North Dakota
    Co-Author: Shaina Mattingly – University of North Dakota
    Co-Author: Ryan Zerr – University of North Dakota
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    10:36 AM – 10:49 AM PT
    Gene flow in Uroctonus mordax and potential impacts of high-intensity, high-acreage wildfires on population dynamics
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Jacob A. Gorneau – California Academy of Sciences
    Co-author: Eric O. Stiner – California Academy of Sciences
    Co-author: Pooneh Kalhori – California Academy of Sciences
    Co-author: Katherine O. Montana – California Academy of Sciences
    Co-author: Diana Phan – California Academy of Sciences
    Co-author: Rachel Quock – California Academy of Sciences
    Co-Author: Lauren A. Esposito – California Academy of Sciences
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    10:48 AM – 11:00 AM PT
    Evaluation of key morphological characters reveals convergent processes in the treehopper Tribe Darnini (Hemiptera: Membracidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 207
    Presenting Author: Laura C. Gonzalez Mozo – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Co-Author: Jessica L. Ware – American Museum of Natural History
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    11:02 AM – 11:15 AM PT
    Effects of microclimate change on survival across life stages of the pseudoscorpion Dactylochelifer silvestris (Cheliferidae)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Laura Segura Hernández – University of Nebraska
    Co-author: Eileen A. Hebets – University of Nebraska
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    11:15 AM – 11:28 AM PT
    Integrating Western science and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) to understand Aphonopelma diversity across the Madrean sky islands and educate K-12 tribal students
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Chris A. Hamilton – University of Idaho
    Co-author: Karina Silvestre Bringas – University of Idaho
    Co-author: Brent E. Hendrixson – Millsaps College
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    11:28 AM – 11:41 AM PT
    Disguise or surprise: Spider antipredator responses as a function of the architecture of their webs
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Andrea M. Haberkern – The University of British Columbia
    Co-author: Jessica C. Schmidt – The University of British Columbia
    Co-author: Yi Lin Zhou – The University of British Columbia
    Co-author: Luis Camacho – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
    Co-author: Antonio D. Brescovit – Instituto Butantan
    Co-author: Leticia Aviles – The University of British Columbia
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    11:54 AM – 12:00 PM PT
    Closing remarks
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 109
    Presenting Author: Jacob A. Gorneau – California Academy of Sciences
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    1:30 PM – 5:30 PM PT
    Advances in Bee Systematics and Evolution
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Organizer: Michael G. Branstetter – USDA-ARS
    Organizer: Felipe V. Freitas – Washington State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    1:30 PM – 5:30 PM PT
    SysEB: Biodiversity
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Moderator: Michael S. Caterino – Clemson University
    Moderator: M. Alma Solis (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    1:30 PM – 1:35 PM PT
    Introductory remarks
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Michael G. Branstetter – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    1:30 PM – 1:42 PM PT
    An analysis of Corixidae and Dytiscidae communities in urban stormwater management ponds
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Olivia deBourcier (she/her/hers) – University of Alberta
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    1:35 PM – 1:53 PM PT
    Bettering our knowledge of global bee distribution
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Michael C. Orr – Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
    Co-author: Alice C. Hughes – University of Hong Kong
    Co-author: Huijie Qiao – Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Co-author: Douglas Chesters – Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Co-author: John Pickering – University of Georgia
    Co-Author: John S. Ascher – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Chao-Dong Zhu – Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    1:42 PM – 1:54 PM PT
    Beetles on the bay: Further surveys for Omus audouini at Boundary Bay, Delta, BC
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Robert McGregor – Douglas College
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    1:53 PM – 2:11 PM PT
    Phylogenomics, biogeography, and host-plant evolution in the bee family Melittidae
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Michael G. Branstetter – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    1:54 PM – 2:06 PM PT
    Community science data fill biodiversity knowledge gaps for assessing the status of bees globally
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Keng-Lou James Hung – University of Oklahoma
    Co-Author: Paige R. Chesshire – Northern Arizona University
    Co-Author: Michael C. Orr – Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
    Co-Author: Alice C. Hughes – University of Hong Kong
    Co-Author: Jessica L. Mullins – University of California
    Co-Author: Katherine A. Parys – USDA - ARS
    Co-Author: Patricia Simpson – Independent Researcher
    Co-Author: Lindsie M. McCabe (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS Pollinating Insect Research Unit
    Co-Author: Neil S. Cobb – BON-EARTH
    Co-Author: John S. Ascher – National University of Singapore
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    2:06 PM – 2:18 PM PT
    Contrasting effects of bioenergy cropping systems on arthropod biodiversity
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Nathan Haan – Michigan State University
    Co-Author: Cynthia Fiser – Michigan State University
    Co-Author: Douglas A. Landis – Michigan State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    2:11 PM – 2:29 PM PT
    Impacts of global climate on Nomada cleptoparasitic bee evolution and dispersal
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Katherine A. Odanaka – York University
    Co-Author: Michael G. Branstetter – USDA-ARS
    Co-author: Kerrigan Tobin – USDA-ARS
    Co-author: Sandra M. Rehan – York University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    2:18 PM – 2:30 PM PT
    Experiments with host plant associations and taxonomic boundaries of Diplolepis in western North America
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Chris Looney – Washington State Department of Agriculture
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    2:29 PM – 2:47 PM PT
    Evolution and drivers of diversification in the oil-collecting bee genus Chalepogenus
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Tais Ribeiro – University of Maryland
    Co-author: Anahi Espindola – University of Maryland
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    2:42 PM – 2:54 PM PT
    Geography and seasonality of an environmentally-acquired symbiosis: is the bug-Burkholderia relationship spatially or temporally structured?
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Alison Ravenscraft (she/her/hers) – University of Texas
    Co-Author: Suzanne E. Kelly – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Johnathan Adamson – University of Texas
    Co-Author: Martha S. Hunter – University of Arizona
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    2:47 PM – 3:05 PM PT
    Phylogenomics, biogeography, and classification of long-horned bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Eucerini)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Felipe V. Freitas – Washington State University
    Co-Author: Michael G. Branstetter (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS Pollinating Insects Research Unit
    Co-author: Vinicius Franceschini-Santos – Universidade de São Paulo
    Co-author: Achik Dorchin – Universite de Mons
    Co-Author: Karen Wright – Washington State Department of Agriculture
    Co-author: Margarita López-Uribe (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Author: Terry L. Griswold – USDA ARS Pollinating Insects Research Unit
    Co-author: Fernando Silveira – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
    Co-author: Eduardo A. B. Almeida – Universidade de São Paulo
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    2:54 PM – 3:06 PM PT
    Great Smoky Mountains National Park beetle inventory: Not done yet, but we can't blame it on the pandemic
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Victoria M. Bayless – Louisiana State Arthropod Museum
    Co-Author: Christopher E. Carlton – Louisiana State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    3:06 PM – 3:18 PM PT
    How many arthropod species live in Great Smoky Mountains National Park? A comprehensive estimate of biodiversity in America’s most-visited national park
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: William R. Kuhn – Discover Life in America
    Co-Author: Moria Robinson – Discover Life in America
    Co-Author: Todd Witcher – Discover Life in America
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    3:18 PM – 3:30 PM PT
    Metabarcoding Appalachian leaf litter arthropods
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Michael S. Caterino – Clemson University
    Co-Author: Ernesto Recuero Gil – Clemson University
    Co-Author: Frank Etzler – Montana Department of Agriculture
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    3:20 PM – 3:38 PM PT
    Corroboration of Harrison's rule for the body size evolution of cleptoparasitic cuckoo bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Nomadinae) following their host shifts
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Kayun Lim – Utah State University
    Co-author: Seunghyun Lee – Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Co-author: Michael C. Orr – Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
    Co-author: Seunghwan Lee – Seoul National University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    3:30 PM – 3:42 PM PT
    Overwintering strategy drives phenological sensitivity and mismatch with vegetation green-up for temperate butterflies
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Robert Guralnick – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Elise Larsen (she/they) – Georgetown University
    Co-Author: Michael W. Belitz – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Leslie Ries – Georgetown University
    Co-Author: Allen Hurlbert – University of North Carolina
    Co-Author: Grace DiCecco – University of North Carolina
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    3:54 PM – 4:06 PM PT
    Recent studies about Diatraea in the New World
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: M. Alma Solis (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    3:56 PM – 4:14 PM PT
    Phylogenomics reveals within species diversification but incongruence with color phenotypes in widespread orchid bees (Apidae: Euglossini)
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Stephania Sandoval Arango – Pennsylvania State University
    Systematics, Evolution, and BiodiversityMember Symposium
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    4:06 PM – 4:18 PM PT
    Spider responses to peatland fragmentation from oil and gas exploration in Alberta, Canada
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Jaime Pinzon – Natural Resources Canada
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    4:14 PM – 4:32 PM PT
    Phylogeny and evolutionary dynamics of bee phenomes: An integrative approach to semantic-aware morphological phylogenetics
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Diego Sasso Porto (he/him/his) – Finnish Museum of Natural History
    Co-author: Eduardo Almeida – Universidade de São Paulo
    Co-author: Sergei Tarasov – Finnish Museum of Natural History
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  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    4:18 PM – 4:30 PM PT
    The glady bunch: Monitoring selected epigeal predatory arthropods of Ozark Glades while avoiding the pitfalls of pitfall trapping on bedrock
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Austin K. Jones – University of Arkansas
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    4:30 PM – 4:42 PM PT
    The Royal Saskatchewan Museum Canadian bee collection: One of the largest and most diverse in Canada
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Ryan Oram – Royal Saskatchewan Museum
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    4:32 PM – 4:50 PM PT
    Advances in the study of apoid fossils from the Cretaceous
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Brunno Rosa – Universidade de São Paulo
    Co-author: Gabriel Melo – Universidade Federal do Parana
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  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    4:42 PM – 4:54 PM PT
    Twenty years of butterfly transect data from southern California with a focus on the threatened Lycaena hermes
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Daniel Marschalek – University of Central Missouri
    Co-Author: Douglas Deutschman – Wilfrid Laurier University
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    4:50 PM – 5:08 PM PT
    Genome-wide markers test the status of two putative species of North American bumblebees
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Ashley Rohde – USDA-ARS
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  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    4:54 PM – 5:06 PM PT
    Using new tools to reveal secrets of mega diverse chewing lice genus Myrsidea
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Stanislav Kolencik (he/him/his) – University of Nevada, Reno
    Co-Author: Raphael LaFrance – University of Nevada
    Co-Author: Edward L. Stanley – Florida Museum of Natural History
    Co-Author: Isabella Burgos – University of Nevada
    Co-Author: Julie M. Allen – University of Nevada
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    5:06 PM – 5:18 PM PT
    Taxonomic studies of genus Catopsilia (Hubner, 1819 (Papilionoidea: Rhopalocera: Lepidoptera)) including its different polymorphic forms
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 118
    Presenting Author: Manpreet Kaur
    Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity10-Minute Paper
  • Wednesday, Nov 16th
    5:08 PM – 5:15 PM PT
    Closing remarks
    Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 119/120
    Presenting Author: Michael G. Branstetter – USDA-ARS
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