SOGA 2018
SOGA Weevil Workers 2018
November 13, 2018
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Organizers
Robert S. Anderson
Canadian Museum of Nature
Maria Lourdes Chamorro
USDA - ARS
Presenters at SOGA 2018: Sarah Smith, Anthony Cognato, Natasha Young, Salvatore Anzaldo, Ryan Whitehouse, Bob Anderson, Lourdes Chamorro, Manuel Barrios, Brian Riley, and Jennifer Girón, with Charlie O'Brien in the background.
Presentations
Charlie O’Brien: A life spent with weevils by Robert S. Anderson, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Cretaceous amber fossils and the phylogeny of weevils by Dave Clarke, Rolf Oberprieler, and Duane McKenna, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia
An integrated management approach for South American palm weevil, Rhynchophorus palmarum, an invasive pest of ornamental palms in Southern California by Ivan Milosavljević and Mark Hoddle, University of California, Riverside, CA
Illustrated interactive and synoptic keys to Conotrachelus of North American north of Mexico: Diagnosing the diversity of an agriculturally important genus by Natasha Young and Maria Lourdes Chamorro, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USDA - ARS, Washington, DC
Systematics and biogeography of the Mesoamerican weevil genus Plumolepilius Barrios-Izás and Anderson by Manuel Barrios Izás, Bob Anderson and Juan Morrone Lupi, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, Mexico, Centro Universitario de Zacapa, Zacapa, Guatemala; Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Comparative bending mechanics and morphology of the snout in Curculio Linnaeus, 1756 by Michael Andrew Jansen, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Preliminary investigations on the mimicry complexes of conoderine weevils (Curculionidae: Conoderinae) by Salvatore S. Anzaldo, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
A study of the weevils of Bariditae (Curculionidae: Conoderinae) in Mississippi by Ryan Whitehouse, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
On the diversity of Neotropical broad-nosed weevils (Curculionidae: Entiminae) and the "Age of Empires syndrome" by Jennifer C. Girón, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
A phylogenetic revision of the blue-green citrus weevils (Pachnaeus Schoenherr, 1826) by Brian Reily and Nico Franz, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
A revision of the southeast Asian xyleborini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) fauna by Sarah Smith, Roger A. Beaver and Anthony Cognato, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Chiang Mai University, Chiangmai, Thailand
Molecular taxonomy and identification of southeast Asian xyleborine ambrosia beetles (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) by Anthony Cognato, Gina Sari, Sarah Smith, Jiri Hulcr, Hisashi Kajimura, You Li, Thai Pham, Wisut Sittichaya and Sudhir Singh, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; Vietnam National Museum of Nature, Hanoi, Vietnam; Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Thailand; Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India
How much do we know about Canadian weevils? An assessment based on taxonomic and DNA barcode diversity by Pat Bouchard, Robert S. Anderson, Hume Douglas and MIkko Pentinsaari; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, ON, Canada; University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada