Life, the Universe, and Staphylinidae

Organizer(s)

• MF

  Michael Ferro

  Collection Manager
  Arthropod Collection
  Clemson University
  Central, South Carolina

Caution! Staphylinidae are highly addictive and amazingly useful. They are the world’s largest family (63,000+ species; systematics), ubiquitous across the terrestrial landscape (land use, landscape ecology, climate change), contain hundreds of myrmecophiles (evolution!), and thousands of undescribed species (taxonomy). Join us as we learn about the most interesting beetles around.

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM – 2:05 PM MST

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Michael L. Ferro – Clemson University
• 2:05 PM – 2:20 PM MST

  Stop and smell the corpse flowers: Staphylinoid beetles and aroid pollination
  

  Presenting Author: Ainsley Seago (she/her/hers) – Carnegie Museum of Natural History
• 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM MST

  Resolving the hardest puzzles in Xanthopygina (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) systematics with new phylogenomic data
  

  Presenting Author: Stylianos Chatzimanolis (he/him/his) – University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

  Co-Author: Adam Brunke – Canadian National Collection of Insects
• 2:35 PM – 2:50 PM MST

  Issues with the generic characters of the Holarctic Batrisodes generic group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
  

  Presenting Author: Donald Chandler – University of New Hampshire
• 2:50 PM – 3:05 PM MST

  Phylogeny of Nearctic Lathrobium
  

  Presenting Author: Adam Haberski – Mississippi State University
• 3:20 PM – 3:25 PM MST

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Michael L. Ferro – Clemson University