Small Orders, Big Ideas: Biodiversity of Polyneoptera

Organizer(s)

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  Brandon Woo

  PhD Candidate
  Texas A&M University
  Bryan, Texas
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  Shelby Grice

  Laboratory Technician
  Agricultural Science and Plant Protection
  Mississippi State University, Mississippi

Polyneopteran orders are often underrepresented at the ESA annual meeting. This symposium seeks to provide a forum for learning about current research projects involving these diverse insects. Join us for engaging presentations on the systematics, evolution, and ecology of a group of fascinating, yet poorly known insects!

Presentations:

• 2:30 PM - 2:35 PM Pacific

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Brandon Woo – Texas A&M University
• 2:35 PM - 2:50 PM Pacific

  Grasshopper gaps and goals, the Acrididae of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History collection
  

  Presenting Author: Alexander Harman – Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
• 2:50 PM - 3:05 PM Pacific

  Cockroaches in a coal mine: How many cockroaches have gone extinct and is it a sign of the end of days?
  

  Presenting Author: Dominic Evangelista – University of Illinois
• 3:05 PM - 3:20 PM Pacific

  Taxonomic revision and population disjunctions of Hesperotettix (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
  

  Presenting Author: Shelby Grice – Mississippi State University

  Co-Author: JoVonn Hill – Mississippi Entomological Museum
• 3:20 PM - 3:35 PM Pacific

  NE USA stonefly (Plecoptera) regional species of greatest conservation need: Importance of taxonomic study, museum specimens, and new collecting in preserving imperiled stoneflies
  

  Presenting Author: R. Edward Dewalt – Illinois Natural History Survey

  Co-Author: Scott Grubbs – Western Kentucky University

  Co-Author: Luke Myers – SUNY Plattsburgh

  Co-Author: Chris Verdone – North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality

  Co-Author: Phillip N. Hogan – Illinois Natural History Survey

  Co-Author: Theodore Cook – Illinois Natural History Survey

  Co-Author: Lily Hart – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Jack Merola-Lapson – Western Kentucky University

  Co-Author: Josie Griffith – Western Kentucky University

  Co-Author: Maria Jankowski – SUNY Plattsburgh
• 3:35 PM - 3:50 PM Pacific

  The evolutionary history of pygmy mole crickets and their relatives (Orthoptera: Tridactyloidea)
  

  Presenting Author: Brandon Woo – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Jackson B. Linde – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Katie Puperi – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Hojun Song – Texas A&M University
• 3:50 PM - 4:00 PM Pacific

  Break
• 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Pacific

  Don't you know your name is Embioptera? Introducing a webspinner species that prefers to not spin silk, not guard her eggs and not associate with others
  

  Presenting Author: Janice Edgerly-Rooks – Santa Clara University
• 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Pacific

  Revision of the Melanoplus tribulus species group with descriptions of five new species from west of the Mississippi river, USA
  

  Presenting Author: Jireh Mwamukonda – Mississippi State University

  Co-Author: JoVonn Hill – Mississippi Entomological Museum
• 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Pacific

  Masters of disguise: New insights and research updates on the leaf insects (Phasmatodea: Phylliidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Royce Cumming – American Museum of Natural History
• 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM Pacific

  Alternate genomic architectures, but convergent function of novel signals in the Pacific field cricket
  

  Presenting Author: Gabrielle Welsh – University of Denver

  Co-Author: Erica Larson – University of Denver

  Co-Author: Nathan W. Bailey – St. Andrews University

  Co-Author: Robin Tinghitella – University of Denver
• 5:15 PM - 5:30 PM Pacific

  Genomics of ice crawlers (Grylloblattodea): Exploring the genetic basis of an enigmatic lineage
  

  Presenting Author: Ellie Gamett – American Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: Jessica L. Ware (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History