Grad SysEB: Biodiversity and Evolution

Moderator(s)

• TM

  Thomas McElrath

  Illinois Natural History Survey
  Urbana, Illinois
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  Nicole Gunter

  Curator
  Invertebrate Zoology
  Cleveland Museum of Natural History
  Cleveland, Ohio

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 10:42 AM PT

  All the better to smell you with: Sensilla diversity and sexual signaling in fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)
  

  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
• 10:42 AM – 10:54 AM PT

  It takes some guts: The coevolution of lower termites and their hindgut endosymbionts
  

  Presenting Author: Kali L. Swichtenberg (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University

  Co-Author: Gillian Gile – Arizona State University
• 10:54 AM – 11:06 AM PT

  Lasioglossum (Hemihalictus) in western North America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae): Exotic species and undocumented diversity
  

  Presenting Author: Thilina Hettiarachchi – University of Manitoba

  Co-Author: Jason Gibbs – University of Manitoba
• 11:06 AM – 11:18 AM PT

  Phylogeny of Appalachian Trechus (Coleoptera: Carabidae), a speciose high elevation endemic
  

  Presenting Author: Patricia L. Wooden – Clemson University

  Co-Author: Michael S. Caterino – Clemson University
• 11:18 AM – 11:30 AM PT

  Reevaluating relationships within Australasian endemic dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Natalie A. Saxton – Cleveland Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: Nicole L. Gunter – Cleveland Museum of Natural History
• 11:30 AM – 11:42 AM PT

  Reevaluation of species boundaries in coastal dune trapdoor spider Aptostichus simus
  

  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
• 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
  

  Presenting Author: Rachel L. Stone – Cleveland Museum of Natural History
• 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)
  

  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