Past Weevil Workers Meetings

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Online Weevil Workers Meeting 2022

October 28-29, 2022

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Organizers

Jennifer C.  Girón
Museum of Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas, USA

Maria Lourdes Chamorro
USDA - ARS - Systematic Entomology Laboratory

Robert S. Anderson
Canadian Museum of Nature

Moderators

Robert S. Anderson
Canadian Museum of Nature

Samuel Brown
New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research

Maria Lourdes Chamorro
USDA - ARS - Systematic Entomology Laboratory

Bruno de Medeiros
Field Museum

Valentina Díaz Grisales
Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo campus

Aline Lira
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco

Alex Van Dam

University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

Social Media Lead

Samanta Orellana
Arizona State University

Technical Lead

Jennifer C.  Girón
Museum of Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas, USA

Presentations were prerecorded, with English subtitles. Some presentations are available via our YouTube channel.

The link to join the meeting via zoom was sent
a few hours before the meeting to the email address provided at registration.


Friday, October 28, 2022

UTC/GMT

Session I  - Moderators: Bruno de Medeiros & Valentina Díaz Grisales

18:00 Introductory Remarks  

18:15 Cesare Bello, Roberto Caldara, Enzo Colonnelli, Marialuisa Dal Cortivo, Leonardo Forbicioni, Carlo Giusto, Giuseppe Osella +, Guido Pedroni, Enrico Ruzzier, Francesco Sacco, Michele Tedesc
Weevils of “Monte Grappa” Biosphere Reserve, Italy (Coleoptera Curculionoidea). Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Basin. II
https://youtu.be/KMkeewpDANs

18:30 Julien Haran, Serban Proches, Laure Benoit, Gaël Kergoat
Phylogenetic relationships, timing of diversification and evolution of host use in Afrotropical flower weevils (Curculionidae; Curculioninae; Derelomini)
https://youtu.be/J5AUae3BDq0

18:45 Hévin, N.M.-C., Hansen, S., Addison, P., Benoit, L., Kergoat, G.J., Haran, J.
Diversification of a weevil genus Phlyctinus, endemic to the Cape Floristic Region
https://youtu.be/VhzkkVEdSwk

19:00 Eugenia Fezza, Joe M. Roberts, Toby J. A. Bruce, Lael E. Walsh, Michael T. Gaffney, Tom W. Pope
Improving monitoring and control of black vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus) in soft fruit and ornamental crops

19:15 Sarah M. Smith, Roger A. Beaver, Anthony I. Cognato
A review of Euwallacea Hopkins (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) and creation of online diagnostic tool


19:30 Break Break out rooms available


Session II - Moderators: Samuel Brown & Lourdes Chamorro

19:45 Valentina Díaz Grisales, Jesús Romero Nápoles, Héctor González Hernández, Néstor Bautista Martínez, Álvaro Castañeda Vildózola
Heilipus Germar, 1824 (Curculionidae: Molytinae: Hylobiini): avances y perspectivas de investigación
https://youtu.be/6Vh9Kfhc67o

20:00 Damián Villaseñor-Amador, Milan Janda, Juan J. Morrone
Leaf litter weevil richness increases with altitude in a tropical-temperate transitional forest in northeastern Mexico
https://youtu.be/T2222yzSroo

20:15 Humberto Lezama
Investigations on weevils at the Insect Collection of the University of Costa Rica

20:30 Dafne Abundez Aguilar, Miguel Menéndez-Acuña, María Ventura Rosas Echeverría
Diversidad de la comunidad de Entiminae (Curculionidae, Coleoptera) de la localidad de Huaxtla, Tlaquiltenango, Morelos

20:45 Xanthe Shirley, Lindsey Perkin, Tyler Raszick, Raul Ruiz-Arce, Charles Suh, Gregory Sword
Un-bollweevil-able! Development of Diagnostic Tools for a Historic Cotton Pest, Anthonomus grandis grandis

21:00 James Bickerstaff, Hermes Escalona
The search for the holy grail of invasion biology: Scolytinae comparative genomics

21:15 Hermes Escalona
Dung rolling weevils in the genus Tentegia

21:20 Social Break out rooms

Saturday October 29, 2022

UTC/GMT

Session III - Moderators: Robert Anderson & Aline Lira

17:55 Introductory Remarks

18:00 Dagmara Żyła
The Curculionoidea Collection of the Zoological Museum Hamburg (Germany)
https://youtu.be/1Ir53z46YJs

18:15 Boris Korotyaev
Comparative weevil diversity in different parts of the Russian steppe zone
https://youtu.be/ijSG1PXldBE

18:30 Samanta Orellana
The O'Brien Collection, a valuable resource for the study of Anthribidae
https://youtu.be/ZdvaG9udVUM

18:45 Judy Andrea Rincón, Guadalupe del Rio, Adriana Marvaldi
Phylogenetic systematics of the Tribe Eudiagogini (Curculionidae: Entiminae)
https://youtu.be/9OfahEgA8Wo

19:00 Dalia Segura-Venegas, Cecilia Leonor Jiménez-Sierra, Armando Burgos-Solorio
Gerstaeckeria bifasciata (Gerstaecker, 1860) in a population of Stenocactus obvallatus (DC.) Hill (Cactaceae) from the Central Region of Mexico

19:15 Alex Van Dam
Weevil Updates from the UPRM Invertebrate Collection 2022
https://youtu.be/d_PekM6aeMQ


19:30 Break Break out rooms available


Session IV - Moderators: Lourdes Chamorro & Alex Van Dam

19:45 Alejandro Lizama-Hernández, María Guadalupe Del Río, María Ventura Rosas-Echeverría
Natural history of Megalostylus Schoenherr, 1840 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

20:00 Kevin A. Cortés Hernández, K. Samanta Orellana,​ Daniela Mera-Rodríguez, Matthew M. Prebus, Nico M. Franz
A museomic approach to the systematics of the New World Tanymecini Lacordaire, 1863 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)
https://youtu.be/m7dWmvkG5uY

20:15 Gregorio Jesús Benítez Robles, Miguel Menéndez-Acuña, Tania Garrido Garduño, María Ventura Rosas-Echeverría
Structure and occurrence of Entiminae (Curculionidae, Coleoptera) in the dry forest of Morelos, Mexico

20:30 Julien Haran, Gaël J. Kergoat, Bruno A. S. de Medeiros
Most diverse, most neglected: weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) are ubiquitous specialized brood-site pollinators of tropical flora

20:45 Samuel Brown
Collection tour: iNaturalist

21:00 Wei-Zhe Tseng, Ren-Chung Cheng
Exploring decomposer biodiversity using an exploratory species delimitation approach: a case study of an enigmatic leaf-litter inhabiting weevil


21:15 Closing Remarks and Announcements

21:25 Social Break out rooms

Optional Weevil Meeting Cocktail Recipes

Patty’s Boll Weevil

In a small, wide footed glass with pour

Stir contents and hand to guest along with a coconut popsicle, to be dunked into the glass.


From https://bootleggers.substack.com/p/cocktail-of-the-week-the-boll-weevil#%C2%A7pattys-boll-weevil

Boozy Whipped Coffee

Ingredients (12 servings)

Directions

Step 1: Mix together sugar and coffee granules in bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment. Add water, and mix on low to combine.

Step 2: Add liqueur, and increase mixer speed to medium-high, mixing until pale brown and whipped to soft peaks, 7 to 10 minutes. Serve as topping on cold milk, hot coffee, or Irish Cream on the rocks.

Last updated October 31, 2022