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Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity

Student Competition Poster

Grad SysEB: Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity

D3074: Pseudomasaris: The pollen wasps of North America

Monday, November 1, 2021
9:00 AM – 6:30 PM MT
Location:: Exhibit Hall F
Student Competition In-Person Poster

    Presenting Author(s)

  • Nathaniel Green

    Research Assistant
    Washington State University
    Pullman, Washington, United States

    • Co-Author(s)

  • Elizabeth A. Murray

    Assistant Professor and Director of the MT James Entomological Museum
    Washington State University
    Moscow, Idaho, United States

  • SB

    Silas Bossert

    Cornell University
    Pullman, Washington, United States

The pollen wasps of North America, Pseudomasaris (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), are an understudied group of pollen provisioning wasps. A diet shift to pollinivory has only evolved three times in all of Insecta: bees, a largely unknown taxon of apoid wasps from Sri Lanka, and the pollen wasps (subfamily Masarinae). Understanding the evolutionary relationships of this group can help us understand the evolution of pollinivory. In my research I'll be completing the first major systematic work on the group since the 1960's. This systematic work will include: producing an updated key, imaging all species, and creating the first species level phylogeny of the group. I will also map host plant associations and interpret host preference within a phylogenetic context.