Advances in Bee Systematics and Evolution On-Demand Presentations

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:

• On Demand

  Embodied bees in diverse artistic representations and the meanings we impute to them
  

  Presenting Author: Kit Prendergast (she/her/hers) – Murdoch University
• 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
• 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
• 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