Advances in Bee Systematics and Evolution

Organizer(s)

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  Michael Branstetter (he/him/his)

  Research Entomologist
  Pollinating Insects Research Unit- ARS
  USDA-ARS Pollinating Insects Research Unit
  Logan, Utah
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  Felipe Freitas

  Postdoctoral researcher
  Entomology
  Washington State University
  Pullman, Washington

Bees are hyperdiverse, globally distributed, and vitally important as pollinators of flowering plants. Understanding their systematics and evolution is thus critical. This symposium brings together systematists and evolutionary biologists from around the world to present new research on the systematics, evolution, and biogeography of bees.

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:35 PM PT

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Michael G. Branstetter – USDA-ARS
• 1:35 PM – 1:53 PM PT

  Bettering our knowledge of global bee distribution
  

  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
• 1:53 PM – 2:11 PM PT

  Phylogenomics, biogeography, and host-plant evolution in the bee family Melittidae
  

  Presenting Author: Michael G. Branstetter – USDA-ARS
• 2:11 PM – 2:29 PM PT

  Impacts of global climate on Nomada cleptoparasitic bee evolution and dispersal
  

  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
• 2:29 PM – 2:47 PM PT

  Evolution and drivers of diversification in the oil-collecting bee genus Chalepogenus
  

  Presenting Author: Tais Ribeiro – University of Maryland

  Co-author: Anahi Espindola – University of Maryland
• 2:47 PM – 3:05 PM PT

  Phylogenomics, biogeography, and classification of long-horned bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Eucerini)
  

  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
• 3:05 PM – 3:20 PM PT

  Break
• 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
  

  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
• 3:56 PM – 4:14 PM PT

  Phylogenomics reveals within species diversification but incongruence with color phenotypes in widespread orchid bees (Apidae: Euglossini)
  

  Presenting Author: Stephania Sandoval Arango – Pennsylvania State University
• 4:14 PM – 4:32 PM PT

  Phylogeny and evolutionary dynamics of bee phenomes: An integrative approach to semantic-aware morphological phylogenetics
  

  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
• 4:32 PM – 4:50 PM PT

  Advances in the study of apoid fossils from the Cretaceous
  

  Presenting Author: Brunno Rosa – Universidade de São Paulo

  Co-author: Gabriel Melo – Universidade Federal do Parana
• 4:50 PM – 5:08 PM PT

  Genome-wide markers test the status of two putative species of North American bumblebees
  

  Presenting Author: Ashley Rohde – USDA-ARS
• 5:08 PM – 5:15 PM PT

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Michael G. Branstetter – USDA-ARS