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We had 130 people register from 31 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Mozambique, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and United States. 

For attendance, 116 different users entered the meeting, of which 107 stayed for at least one of the talks; 99 people stayed for one hour or more!

This was a great turnout, in pair with a wide diversity of weevil groups, topics, methods, career status of the presenters, and languages: we had talks in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. Presenters participated from 12 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, South Africa, United Kingdom, and United States.

Program

Friday, October 25, 2024

UTC/GMT

Session I  - Moderators: TBA, Valentina Díaz-Grisales

15:00 Introductory Remarks  

15:15 Jake Lewis
The era of cybertaxonomy: Investigating the utility of x-ray micro-ct in weevil taxonomy and systematics

15: 25 Massimo Meregalli
Exploring the biodiversity of the genus Ocladius

15:40 Julien Haran
New insights on the phylogeny of flower weevils (subfamily Curculioninae)

15:55 Roberto Casalini and Carlo Giusto
First records of Ixapion variegatum in central Italy and few considerations about its life cycle and distribution (Coleoptera: Apionidae)

16:10 Steffan Hansen
Epibrithus: Little known entimine weevils from the Cape Floristic Region

16:25 Lawrence R Kirkendall
American Platypodinae: Progress and Plans

16:40 Luciano Palmieri
The Role of Genetic Polymorphisms in Diapause of Ips typographus

16:55 Eugenia Fezza
The 'Garlic Gambit’: an alternative strategy for controlling vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus F.; Coleoptera: Curculionidae)?

17:10 Jenny Hein
The Evolution of Coxa-Trochanteral Joints in Beetles

17:25 Maite Soto Quiroga
Diversificación ecológica, evolutiva y biogeográfica de gorgojos de la tribu Naupactini (Entiminae)

17:35 Break

17:50 Poliana de Mesquita Vilhena
Review of Dasyrhopala Jordan, 1904 (Coleoptera: Anthribidae, Anthribinae, Discotenini) with description of three new species from Brazil

18:05 Cristian Amaya R
Evaluación morfométrica del complejo Listroderes costirostris. El dilema de las especies crípticas

18:20 Andrés Valenzuela
Subfamily Dryophthorinae: studying problematic weevils in the Department of Casanare (Colombia)

18:35 Valeria Sofia Rodriguez-Parra
Weevils (Coleptera: Curculionidae) of the Tropical Dry Forest in the Colombian Caribbean: Perspectives on their diversity and methodologies for efficient capture

18:50 Dafne Abundez Aguilar
Fundamental niche and potential distribution of the genus Phacepholis Horn, 1876 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Naupactini)

19:00 Thomas H. Atkinson
Catalog of the Scolytinae of Brazil and adjacent areas

19:15 Frida Shirley Escandon Mendoza
Occurrence of the Subfamily Entiminae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) in the Balsas Basin

19:25 Jaretza Guadalupe Peralta Castañeda
Entiminae diversity (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) in a transition zone between Pinus-Juniperus and dry forest in the state of Guerrero

19:35 Judy Rincón
Ordenando el caos: Estudio de los Naupactini de Colombia

19:50 Samanta Orellana,  Lindsay Walker and  Jennifer Girón
The Weevil Portal: A new Symbiota resource for researchers

20:00 Social Break out rooms