International Congress of Entomology 2024

Organizers: Bruno A. S. de Medeiros, Sangil Kim, M. Lourdes Chamorro

August, 2024

Thursday August 29 from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. (local time in Kyoto)

When phytophages encounter flowers: trends in extant flower beetle diversity

Bruno A. S. de Medeiros, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA

Cycad weevils as a model for multi-modal plant insect signaling

Shayla Salzman, University of Georgia, USA

Weevils as specialized brood-site pollinators of tropical flora: overview, common traits and evolutionary trends

Julien Haran, Gaël Kergoat, Laure Benoit, Rémi Allio, Bruno A.S. de Medeiros, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, CIRAD, INRAE, IRD, Institut, Agro, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, France

The role of beetles as early angiosperm pollinators

David Peris, Botanical Institute of Barcelona, Spain

Genomic architecture and evolutionary rates in beetles and some other tiny consumers

Brian D. Farrell, Harvard University, USA

Adaptations to life in the North: A comparative genomic study of Monochamus longhorned beetles reveals a genetic basis of conifer-feeding evolution

Sangil Kim, Harvard University, USA; Seoul National University, Korea

Host-plant specificity and co-phylogeny of Chrysomelidae leaf beetles in tropical rainforests of the world

Alfried Vogler, Huaxi Liu, Binbin Xia, Kaya Jumbe, James Evans, Beulah H. Garner, Imperial College London, and Natural History Museum, UK

Analysis of factors promoting diversification of Eumolpinae in the South Pacific

Jesus Gomez-Zurita, Anabela Cardoso, Leonardo Platania, Botanical Institute of Barcelona (CSIC), Spain

Phylogenomics of Agrilus wood-boring beetles

M. Lourdes Chamorro, Kojun Kanda, Grey Gustafon, USDA-ARS, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; USDA APHIS; Northern Arizona University USA

Phylogenomics illuminates the evolution of Dryophthorinae weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Diego de Santana Souza, Lourdes Chamorro, Duane D. McKenna, Bruno A.S. de Medeiros, 1K Weevils Project Consortium, Field Museum of Natural History, USA
Neelu, United Arab Emirates

Parasitic plants mediate extreme and independent host plant shifts in a weevil lineage

Benjamin Zelvelder, Gaël Kergoat, Lure Benoit, Julien Haran, Rémi Allio, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Diversification process of the genus Asiopodabrus (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) in Japan

Ryo Nakamura, Hiroshi Ikeda, Kôhei Kubota, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Evolution across the adaptive landscape in a hyperdiverse beetle radiation

Yun Living Li, Craig Moritz, Adam Slipinski, Andreas Zwick, Ian Brennan, James Nicholls, Alicia Grealy, Australian National Insect Collection, Australia