SOGA
Weevil Workers Meetings
Header photo by Andreas Kay. Mnemynurus sp. Ecuador, 2017
The Weevil Workers meetings consist of a series of presentations on any aspect of the study of weevils (Curculionoidea). Topics include systematics, faunistics, biogeography, evolution, biology, ecology, methods applied to weevil study systems, field observations, emerging pests/biological control agents, etc.
The meetings are free to attend (and to present) and anyone studying weevils is welcome to submit a title to present.
Presentations are prerecorded, in the preferred language of the presenter, with English subtitles.
Only those talks whose authors authorized public distribution are posted here via YouTube. If you are interested in any specific talk, reach out to us at weevilworkers@gmail.com and we can put you in touch with the speaker.
We had 104 people register from 33 countries: Argentina, Algeria, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, Taiwan, Ukraine, Uruguay, and United States.
For attendance, 68 different users entered the meeting, of which about 60 stayed for at least one of the talks; 56 people stayed for one hour or more!
Even though this meeting was the smaller in number of talks that we have had so far, we had a great turnout. As usual, we had a wide range of topics, methods, and career status of the presenters, with talks in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. The entimines, with four out of seven talks (three of them with Naupactini!) are taking over!!
Presenters participated from 6 countries: Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, and United States.
17 October, 2024
Starting at 19:00 UTC/GMT
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Jennifer C. Girón
Museum at Texas Tech University
Robert S. Anderson
Canadian Museum of Nature
Robert S. Anderson
Canadian Museum of Nature
Valentina Díaz-Grisales
Colegio de Postgraduados
Jennifer C. Girón
Museum at Texas Tech University
19:00 Introductory Remarks
19:15 Alex Van Dam
Description: Utility of AI for Automated Species Descriptions
19:30 Carlos Henrique Diniz de Sousa, Roberta de Melo Valente
Ocorrência dos gêneros Litostylus e Plectrophoroides (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) em ajiru (Chrysobalanus icaco) em restinga na Amazônia
19:45 Iván F. Calixto-Botía, H. Moya-Arévalo, A. Valenzuela-Gomez, A
Preliminary insights from population genomics of the weevil Metamasius hemipterus (Dryophthorinae): assessing genetic background for elytra color
20:00 Andrea Lizeth Herrera González, Ma Ventura Rosas Echeverría, Sandra Milena Ospina Garcés
Expresión del dimorfismo sexual en Phacepholis globicollis
20:15 Dafne Abundez Aguilar, Ma Ventura Rosas-Echeverría, Tania Garrido-Garduño, Guadalupe del Río, Yurén Alejandra Vázquez-Lobo
Exploring the current potential distribution of the genus Phacephollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Naupactini)
20:30 Liberty Hightower
Weevil Holdings at the Virginia Museum of Natural History
20:45 Samuel Brown
Weevils in the weeds, woods and on the web
Meetings of the Sacred Order of Geniculate Antennae (SOGA).
Organizers: Bruno A. S. de Medeiros, Sangil Kim, M. Lourdes Chamorro
August, 2024
Thursday August 29 from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. (local time in Kyoto)