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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, emerging pests/biological control agents, etc.
This meeting has passed
This meeting has passed
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.
SOGA: The Online Weevil Workers Meeting 2025
SOGA: The Online Weevil Workers Meeting 2025
17 October, 2025
Starting at 19:00 UTC/GMT
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Organizers
Organizers
Jennifer C. Girón
Museum at Texas Tech University
Robert S. Anderson
Canadian Museum of Nature
Moderators
Moderators
Robert S. Anderson
Canadian Museum of Nature
Valentina Díaz-Grisales
Colegio de Postgraduados
Technical Lead
Technical Lead
Jennifer C. Girón
Museum at Texas Tech University
Presentations will be prerecorded, in the preferred language of the presenter, with English subtitles
Presentations will be prerecorded, in the preferred language of the presenter, with English subtitles
Program
Program
Friday, 17 October, 2025
Friday, 17 October, 2025
UTC/GMT
UTC/GMT
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
Last updated 28 October, 2025
Past SOGA meetings
Past SOGA meetings
Meetings of the Sacred Order of Geniculate Antennae (SOGA) at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America.
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