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Program

Saturday, 17 October, 2026

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12:00 PM Introductory Remarks

12:15 PM Ahmed Zubair
Identification problems of weevils of Pakistan

12:30 PM Gabriela Piñeyro, Demian F. Gomez, Sofía Simeto, Analía García-Feijó, Thomas H. Atkinson
Expanding the Known Fauna: New Records of Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Native and Commercial Forests in Uruguay

12:45 PM Julien Haran, Remi Allio, Benjamin Zelvelder, Laure Benoit, Anne Loiseau
Weevil Pollinators: Taxonomic Updates and Life History Data

1:00 PM Poliana de Mesquita Vilhena, José Ricardo Miras Mermudes, André Silva Roza
Phylogeny of Dasyrhopala Jordan, 1904 and Eucyclotropis Jordan, 1904 (Coleoptera: Anthribidae): description of a new South American genus and new records for Dasyrhopala

1:15 PM Yasmin Rodrigues Maffra dos Santos Vasconcelos, Gabriel Santos Ferreira, José Ricardo Miras Mermudes
New species of Rhigus Schönherr, 1823 (Curculionidae, Entiminae, Entimini) from Brazil

1:30 PM Nathaniel Levia, Thomas H. Atkinson, Sarah M. Smith, Andrew J. Johnson, Jiri Hulcr
Illustrated keys and diagnoses to the Platypodinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) genera of the world

1:45 PM Andres Valenzuela
Microbial metataxonomics of two pest weevils collected in Colombia: Rhynchophorus palmarum and Metamasius hemipterus

2:00 PM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Duane McKenna, Kevin Moran, and members of the 1K Weevils Consortium
The weevil tree of life in the genomic era: recent advances in Curculionoidea phylogeny and evolution

2:30 PM BREAK

2:45 PM Alejandro Lizama Hernández, Ma Ventura Rosas Echeverría, María Guadalupe del Río
Hidden Diversity: Exploring Naupactini broad-nosed weevils from Mexico

3:00 PM José Antonio Chávez Hernández, Jorge Manuel Valdez-Carrasco, Edith Guadalupe Estrada-Venegas, Thomas H. Atkinson, Armando Equihua-Martínez
Descripción de la genitalia masculina y femenina de Monarthrum exornatum (Schedl) (Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

3:15 PM Valeria Rodriguez, Nico Franz
Towards a phylogeny of the weevil genus Peltophorus Schönherr

3:30 PM José de Jesús Ayala-Ortega, Alejandra Eugenio-Máximo, Margarita Vargas-Sandova, Edith Guadalupe Estrada-Venegas, Armando Equihua-Martínez
Registro, Distribución y Daños de Cylas formicarius (Fabricius) en Camote (Ipomea batatas L.) en Michoacán, México

3:45 PM Abigail Magland, Aline Lira, Diego Souza, Bruno de Medeiros
Host Specificity Without Cophylogeny in Palm Flower Weevils

4:00 PM K. Alexis Cortés Hernández,  Matthew Van Dam, Athena Lam, Jennifer C. Girón, Matthew Prebus, Julien Haran, Nico M. Franz
Museomics of the Weevil Tribe Tanymecini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae): Using Historical Specimens to Resolve Evolutionary Questions

4:15 PM Andy Coblentz, Matthew Van Dam
The Sleeper Curculionoidea Collection at the California Academy of Sciences

4:30 PM Jesús Ernesto Guerra-Sánchez, Jorge M. Valdez-Carrasco, Esteban Rodríguez-Leyva
Morfometría y dimorfismo sexual en Anthonomus eugenii (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

4:45 PM Benjamin Zelvelder, Julien Haran, Rémi Allio, Anne Loiseau, Laure Benoit
Enhancing phylogenetic inferences and museomics with a new set of target capture markers for weevils

5:00 PM Jennifer C. Girón, Nikolai Yunakov, Samuel Brown, Jakob Jilg, Tristan Schirok, Massimo Meregalli, Robert Anderson, Lourdes Chamorro, Ryan Whitehouse
Expanding the weevil collaborative project using TaxonWorks

5:15 PM Social Break out rooms