INTERNATIONAL HETEROPTERIST'S SOCIETY

THIRD QUADRENNIAL MEETING

WICC WAGENINGEN 18-21 JULY 2006
 

PROGRAM 

Monday 17 July 2006

16.00-18.00     Registration (WICC) 

20.00-21.00     Ice breaker (WICC) 

Tuesday 18 July 2006

8.00-  9.00     Registration (WICC)

9.00-  9.10     J. van Tol, President of the Netherlands Entomological Society - Opening 

9.10-  9.30     J. Damgaard - Life and Work of Nils Møller Andersen 

9.30-  9.40     J. Grazia - Presentation Nils Møller Andersen Awards 

9.40-10.10     IHS: Society business 

10.10-10.30   R.T. Schuh - Preparing an online catalog of Heteroptera [abstract]

10.30-11.00   COFFEE BREAK 

11.00-11.20   D. Rédei & C. Weirauch - The systematic position of Pseudocethera and related genera (Heteroptera, Reduviidae) [abstract]

11.20-11.40   C. Weirauch & G. Cassis - Ptilocnemus Westwood (Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Holoptilinae): morphology, systematics, and biology of the ant-preying assassin bugs [abstract]

11.40-12.00   W.J. Bu - Female copulatory tubes and the subdivision of the genus Anthocoris (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) [abstract]

12.00-12.20   M. Javahery - Bioecology of  cereal sunn pests and their distribution in Palaearctic region (Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea) [abstract]

12.20-13.30   LUNCH BREAK

13.30-13.50   J. Grazia, R.T. Schuh & W.C. Wheeler - Phylogenetic relationships of family groups in Pentatomoidea based on morphology and DNA sequences (Insecta: Heteroptera) [abstract]

13.50-14.10   C.F. Schwertner - On the monophyly of the genus Chinavia Orian (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatominae) and its phylogenetic position among related genera [abstract]

14.10-14.30   D. Gapon - Relationships of genera within the subfamily Asopinae (Pentatomidae) [abstract]

14.30-14.50   E. Guilbert & J. Damgaard - The first molecular phylogeny of the Tingidae (Cimicomorpha, Miroidea) [abstract]

14.50-15.10   M. Goßner - Vertical and horizontal stratification of Heteroptera in deciduous forests of southern Germany [abstract]

15.10-15.30   TEA BREAK

15.30-15.50   N.N. Vinokurov, V.B. Golub, E.V. Kanyukova & A.D. Stepanov - On the catalogue of Heteroptera of the Asian part of Russia [abstract]

15.50-16.10   D.H. Jacobs - An overview of the Heteroptera and the state of its taxonomy in Southern Africa [abstract]

16.10-16.30   L. Protić - New, rare and little known Heteroptera from Serbia [abstract]

16.30-16.50   D. Wyniger - The Nearctic mirid genus Coquillettia Uhler, 1890 and its myrmecomorphic females (Phylinae) [abstract]

16.50-17.10   W. Cai - Some functional morphological aspects of the loading ability of the wings of chosen bugs [abstract]

17.10-17.30   Chr. Fischer -  On the evolution of Elasmucha spp. (Acanthosomatidae) with special respect to maternal care, genitalia, and zoogeography

17.30-17.50   M.H. Sweet - What is the family Lygaeidae? [abstract]

17.50-20.00   DINNER BREAK

20.00-20.20   T. Yasunaga & R.K. Duwal - Biodiversity of the Orthotylinae and Phylinae in Nepal [abstract]

20.20-20.40   F.V. Konstantinov - Phylinae (Heteroptera: Miridae) of Central Asia: current state of knowledge and a prospective for further research [abstract]

20.40-21.00   C.L. Symonds, G. Cassis & D.F. Hochuli - Phylogenetics, cospeciation and biogeography of plantbugs inhabiting native Cypress Pine [abstract]

21.00-21.20   N. Tatarnic - The discovery of traumatic insemination in the plant bug genus Coridromius (Heteroptera: Miridae) [abstract]

21.20-21.40   P. Štys & J, Kukalova-Peck - Evolution of hemelytra in Heteroptera: story of multiple gains and losses [abstract]

Wednesday 19 July

9.00-              Visit collections Leiden/Amsterdam/Wageningen

Thursday 20 July

9.00-9.20       J. Damgaard - Recent advances in water bug systematics (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha): from families to phylogeography [abstract]

9.20-9.40       G. Cassis - Phylogenetic classification and biogeography of toad bugs (Heteroptera, Gelastocoridae, Nerthrinae) [abstract]

9.40-10.00     D.H. Jacobs - The evolution of a X₁X₂X₃X₄Y sex chromosome system in Halobates sericeus (Gerridae) by autosome fusion alone [abstract]

10.00-10.20   J.T. Polhemus & D.A. Polhemus - Phylogeny of the Hydrometridae [abstract]

10.20-10.50   COFFEE BREAK

10.50-11.10   Q.A. Xie - 18S rRNA Hyper-elongation and the phylogeny of Euhemiptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) [abstract]

11.10-11.30   P. Štys, & J. Kukalova-Peck - All modes of heterochrony involved in the wing development of Heteroptera [abstract]

11.30-11.50   Th. J. Henry & P. S. F. Ferreira -  Phylogeny of the plant bug subfamily Deraeocorinae (Heteroptera: Miridae) [abstract]

11.50-12.10   G. Cassis - A monography and phylogeny of the plant bug tribe Austromirini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) [abstract]

12.10-12.30   D. Forero - Revision and phylogenetic analysis of the “Hadronema” group (Miridae: Orthotylinae: Orthotylini) [abstract]

12.30-13.30   LUNCH BREAK

13.30-13.50   C. Weirauch - Revision and cladistic analysis of the Polyozus-group of Australian Phylini (Heteroptera: Phylinae) [abstract]

13.50-14.10   R.T. Schuh - Taxonomy, biogeography, and host relationships of the Phymatopsallus-group  (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae) [abstract]

14.10-14.20   J.-C. Streito - “Faune de France”: more than 4000 pages already published about West Palearctic true bugs [abstract]

14.20-15.00   Closing session

15.00-17.00   POSTER SESSION

17.30              CONGRESS DINNER, departure from WICC

Friday 21 July

9.30                 Field trip/collecting to National Park "De Hoge Veluwe"

Saturday 22 July

9.30                 Field trip/collecting to Nature Reserve "Laag Wolfheze"
 

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