SOGA
Weevil Workers Meetings
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.
SOGA: The Online Weevil Workers Meeting 2023
October 20, 2023
Starting at 15:00 UTC/GMT
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Some of the recorded presentations are linked below.
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
Valentina Díaz-Grisales
Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo Campus
Andrew Jansen
United States Department of Agriculture
Samanta Orellana
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Social Media Lead
TBA
Technical Lead
Jennifer C. Girón
Museum of Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas, USA
Presentations will be prerecorded, in the preferred language of the presenter, with English subtitles
Friday, October 20, 2023
UTC/GMT
Session I - Moderators: Samanta Orellana, Valentina Díaz-Grisales
15:00 Introductory Remarks
15:15 Analyn A. Cabras
Philippine broad-nosed weevils: overview, updates, and future direction
https://youtu.be/32gWoV_o3sA
15:30 Laibale Friedman
An outbreak of Menecleonus (Curculionidae: Lixinae) in Israel in the last years
https://youtu.be/YbvdKGPzY3I
15:45 Christoph Germann
Weevils in the collections of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
16:00 Lawrence R. Kirkendall & Thomas H. Atkinson
Revising the American Platypodinae: progress and plans
https://youtu.be/NPj5eMImGAk
16:15 Alex Van Dam
Automating Geometric Morphometrics for Weevils
16:30 Gregorio Jesús Benítez Robles, Ma Ventura Rosas, Tania Garrido Garduño, Guadalupe del Río, Alejandra Vázquez Lobo
Modelado de nicho ecológico de las especies del género Pandeleteius Schoenherr 1834 (Coleoptera: Entiminae) presentes en México
16:45 Cristian Amaya R., Marcela Rodriguero S., Guadalupe del Río
Estudios sistemáticos y evolutivos en el grupo de especies Listroderes costirostris Schoenherr (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)
https://youtu.be/oxRHbt8lzqQ
17:00 Break
Session II - Moderators: Andrew Jansen, Valentina Díaz-Grisales
17:15 Michael A. Charles, Duane McKenna
The biology and history of the greater chestnut weevil (Curculio caryatrypes) in eastern North America; an enigmatic host specialist on American chestnut
https://youtu.be/hdr3E8RmkcU
17:30 Judy Rincón, Guadalupe del Río, Adriana Marvaldi
Systematic revision of the southern South American genus Pororhynchus (Entiminae: Eudiagogini)
https://youtu.be/5cOJU9QA6NM
17:45 Samanta Orellana, Jose R.M. Mermudes, Nico M. Franz
Advances in the study of Central American Anthribidae
https://youtu.be/GVoLYO0NDy4
18:00 Mayelis Barros Barrios, Evelin Villalba, Jennifer C. Girón, Larry Jiménez
Riqueza y composición de Curculiónidos (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) en una montaña costera tropical de Colombia
18:15 Jennifer C. Girón, Nikolai Yunakov, Samuel Brown, Guadalupe del Río, Kevin Cortés Hernández, Judy Rincón
Towards a complete species-level catalog of the Entiminae: an international collaborative project using TaxonWorks
https://youtu.be/ua9j856l0kk
18:30 Duane McKenna, 1K Weevils Consortium
Phylogeny and evolution of Curculionoidea (weevils)
19:45 Social Break out rooms
Past SOGA meetings
Meetings of the Sacred Order of Geniculate Antennae (SOGA) at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America.
