Tephritidae Systematics, Diagnostics, Phylogeny, Evolution & Natural History

Organizer(s)

• CK

  Clifford Keil

  Professor & Director Museum of Invertebrates (Retired)
  Museum of Zoology - Invertebrates
  Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
  Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
• ER

  Erick Rodriguez

  University of Florida
  Gainesville, Florida
• 

  Allen Norrbom

  Research Entomologist
  Systematic Entomology Laboratory
  USDA-ARS
  Washington, District of Columbia

View our on-demand presentations, then join us in-person for live presentations and discussion.

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:35 PM MT

  Introductory remarks
• 1:35 PM – 1:50 PM MT

  The evolution of dormancy in Rhagoletis: Divergence in diapause regulation during an adaptive radiation of Tephritid flies
  

  Presenting Author: Thomas H. Powell – Binghamton University
• 1:50 PM – 2:05 PM MT

  Host shifting and host sharing in a genus of specialist flies diversifying alongside their sunflower hosts
  

  Presenting Author: Alaine Hippee – University of Iowa

  Co-Author: Marc Beer – Washington State University

  Co-Author: Robin Bagley – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Marty Condon – Cornell College

  Co-Author: Andrew Kitchen – University of Iowa

  Co-Author: Edward Lisowski – Washington State Department of Agriculture

  Co-Author: Allen Norrbom – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Andrew A. A. Forbes – University of Iowa
• 2:05 PM – 2:20 PM MT

  Diverse drivers of diversification in Blepharoneura (Tephritidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Marty Condon – Cornell College

  Co-Author: Robin Bagley – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Andrew A. A. Forbes – University of Iowa

  Co-Author: Frode Jacobsen – Cornell College

  Co-Author: Matthew Lewis – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Sonja Scheffer – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Brian M. Wiegmann – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Isaac Winkler – Cornell College
• 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM MT

  The natural history of Paramyiolia nigricornis (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
  

  Presenting Author: Gary Steck – Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

  Co-author: Bruce Sutton – USDA-ARS
• 2:35 PM – 2:50 PM MT

  Break
• 2:50 PM – 3:05 PM MT

  A fresh look at the Dacine fruit flies of Oceania
  

  Presenting Author: Luc Leblanc – University of Idaho
• 3:05 PM – 3:20 PM MT

  Exceptional larval morphology of nine Anastrepha species confirm proposed relationships within the mucronota group (Diptera: Tephritidae).
  

  Presenting Author: Erick Rodriguez – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Gary Steck – Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

  Co-Author: Matthew R. Moore – Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

  Co-Author: Allen Norrbom – USDA-ARS

  Co-author: Bruce Sutton – USDA-ARS

  Co-author: Marc Branham – University of Florida
• 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM MT

  Recent insights into the fascinating relationships of Anastrepha ludens (Diptera:Tephritidae) with its hosts all the way from natural history to omics
  

  Presenting Author: Martin Aluja – Instituto de Ecologia, AC
• 3:35 PM – 3:50 PM MT

  COI barcode library for Anastrepha Schiner (Diptera: Tephritidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Matthew R. Moore – Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
• 3:50 PM – 4:05 PM MT

  A new phylogeny for Anastrepha (Diptera: Tephritidae) from AHE and the information content in nuclear loci for species identification
  

  Presenting Author: Brian M. Wiegmann – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Allen Norrbom – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Gary Steck – Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

  Co-Author: Erick Rodriguez – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Raul Ruiz-Arce – USDA-APHIS

  Co-Author: Marc Branham – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Matthew R. Moore – Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

  Co-Author: Bruce Sutton – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Brian Cassel – North Carolina State University
• 4:05 PM – 4:30 PM MT

  Discussion