Illuminating Forms Most Numerous: Systematics and Diversity of the Tenebrionoidea

Organizer(s)

• CR

  Charla Replogle (they/them/theirs)

  Graduate Research Assistant
  Entomology
  Purdue University
  West Lafayette, Indiana
• CW

  Christopher Wirth

  Purdue University
  West Lafayette, Indiana
• OG

  Olivia Gearner

  Graduate Student
  Department of Entomology
  Purdue University
  Lafayette, Indiana

Presentations:

• 9:00 AM – 9:05 AM MST

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Charla Renee Replogle (they/them/theirs) – Purdue University
• 9:05 AM – 9:20 AM MST

  Towards stabilizing Nearctic tenebrionoid taxonomy: A journey from the "ids" to the "oids" (Coleoptera: Scraptiidae, Salpingidae, Melandryidae)
  

  Presenting Author: M. Andrew Johnston – Purdue University
• 9:20 AM – 9:35 AM MST

  Insights into the development and function of tenebrionid defensive glands
  

  Presenting Author: Adam Maxwell Rork – Purdue University

  Co-Author: Aaron D. Smith – Purdue University
• 9:35 AM – 9:50 AM MST

  A (finally) complete phylogeny for the charismatic genus Onymacris using ultraconserved elements
  

  Presenting Author: Iris Quayle – University of California
• 9:50 AM – 9:55 AM MST

  Break
• 9:55 AM – 10:10 AM MST

  Tenebrionidae and conservation
  

  Presenting Author: Rolf Aalbu – California Academy of Sciences

  Co-Author: Kojun Kanda – USDA-APHIS

  Co-Author: M. Andrew Johnson – Purdue University
• 10:10 AM – 10:25 AM MST

  The Tenebrionoidea or darkling beetles and allies of Indiana
  

  Presenting Author: Christopher Wirth – Purdue University

  Co-Author: M. Andrew Johnston – Purdue University
• 10:25 AM – 10:40 AM MST

  Progress in Sepidiini (Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae) phylogeny
  

  Presenting Author: Olivia Gearner – Purdue University

  Co-Author: Aaron D. Smith – Purdue University

  Co-Author: Marcin Jan Kaminski (he/him/his) – Polish Academy of Sciences
• 10:40 AM – 10:55 AM MST

  A new higher taxon of Heteromera from Bolivia
  

  Presenting Author: Michael Ivie – Montana State University

  Co-Author: Dan Young – University of Wisconsin
• 10:55 AM – 11:00 AM MST

  Break
• 11:00 AM – 11:25 AM MST

  High-throughput DNA sequencing on historical collections of beetles: Phylogenetic studies among Platynotini (Tenebrionidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Marcin Jan Kaminski (he/him/his) – Polish Academy of Sciences
• 11:25 AM – 11:40 AM MST

  Generic revision of the relictual subtribe Dysantina (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Toxicini)
  

  Presenting Author: Aaron D. Smith – Purdue University
• 11:40 AM – 11:45 AM MST

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Charla Renee Replogle (they/them/theirs) – Purdue University