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Brief summary; only main speaker and title are given
All times are approximate: 20 minutes is estimated for talks plus questions
Full abstracts, institutional affiliations etc. are given in the "full summary"
Contact: Max Barclay 07766331806
THURSDAY July 31st 2014
Neil Chalmers Seminar Room. Assemble from 10.15
Thursday 1.1 (10.30): Max Barclay: Collections and introduction. Welcome, announcements, and an overview of the Scarab Collections of the Natural History Museum, London.
Thursday 1.2
(10.50): Brett C. Ratcliffe: A biodiversity survey of the Dynastinae
(Scarabaeidae) of the
Thursday 1.3 (11.10): Mary L. Jameson: Scarabs associated with termites and first report of a leaf chafer-termite association
Thursday 1.4
(11.30):
11.50 COFFEE
BREAK (
Thursday 1.5 (12.10): Matthew Robert Moore: Exploring phylogeny and host plant shifts in Cyclocephalini (Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)
Thursday 1.6 (12.30): Frank-T. Krell: Making the cryptic visible - resolving the species complex of Aphodius fimetarius (Linnaeus) and Aphodius pedellus (de Geer) (Coleoptera: Aphodiidae) by three complementary methods
Thursday 1.7 (12.50): Thursday 1.6 (12.30): Jason F. Mate: Detrivory to coprophagy: the Aphodiine perspective
Thursday 1.8 (13:10): Robert B. Angus: To chew or not to chew - unexpected mouthpart variation among Psammodiini.
Thursday (13:30) - Lunch
FRIDAY August 1st 2014
Neil Chalmers Seminar Room. Assemble from 10.15
Friday 2.1 (10.30): Max Barclay: Summary, welcome and introductory remarks
Friday 2.2
(10.40): Alberto Ballerio: An enigma of scarabaeidology revealed: the
re-discovery of Belohina inexpectata in
Friday
2.3 (11.00): Jorge Noriega Alvarado: Population
effect of the invasion process of Digitonthophagus
gazella (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae)
on native assemblages in
Friday 2.4 (11.20): Darren J. Mann: "Hope you Like Scarabs": Hope Entomological Collections, a neglected resource?
11.40 COFFEE
BREAK (
Friday 2.5
(12.00): Hitoshi Takano: Through the
Dark Continent:
Friday 2.6
(12.15): David Oram: Flower chafers of the genus Eudicella, subgenus
Cyprolais from the
Friday 2.7 (12.30): Matthias Seidel: Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of the sub-Saharan Cetoniinae genus Eudicella
Friday 2.8 (12.45): Conrad Gillett: Bulk de novo mitogenome assembly uncovers the root of all weevils (and potentially of all scarabs)
Friday 2.9 (13.00):
Malcolm Kerley: Concluding words: Informal reminiscences of 40 years in curation
at the
Friday (13:15) - Lunch
Following a
busy schedule we will repair (i.e. go) to a local hostelry (i.e. Public House)
for a traditional