Program

March 15–19, 2021

The Encontro de Coleoptera was planned, organized, and executed independently by volunteers from Brazil and was sponsored by The Coleopterists Society.

This international event had 643 registered attendees and 68 speakers addressing 20 families of beetles with a geographic focus primarily in the New World.

In addition to a diverse program of compact (up to 5 minutes) and traditional (up to 15 minutes) presentations, this meeting featured longer talks and presentations that addressed topics of general interest to the coleopterological community, such as a discussion about the challenges of studying the New World beetle fauna, the perspectives of studies of immature stages of Coleoptera in Brazil and the practice of zoological nomenclature. A tribute was paid to the memory of Professor Sergio Antonio Vanin (Universidade de São Paulo) and to several prominent Brazilian Coleopterists. There was also a virtual appearance of Professor Miguel A. Monné (Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro).

Amongst many other topics, presentations included morphological studies, biogeography, comparative phylogenetics methods, the importance and use of scientific collections, taxonomic revisions, faunal surveys and ecological studies, use of scanning electron microscopy and macrophotography methods and evolutionary and phylogenetic studies.

Links below will open YouTube videos in a new browser tab. Most presentations have English subtitles, to enable them, click on the CC icon in the lower right corner of the video box in YouTube.

 

Coleoptera Meeting – Opening remarks

Vinicius S. Ferreira
Montana State University
Co-organizer of the Coleoptera Meeting

 

Coleoptera Meeting organizer’s introductions and bios

Mario Cupello
Universidade Federal do Paraná
Co-organizer of the Coleoptera Meeting

 

Luzes à frente: o caso único e surpreendente do vaga-lume cágado, Aspisoma sticticum Gemminger, 1870 (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) [Lights ahead: the unique and surprising case of the tortoise firefly, Aspisoma sticticum Gemminger, 1870 (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)]

Viviane Nunes
Universidade de Lisboa

 

Homenagem ao Professor Sergio Antonio Vanin [Tribute to Professor Sergio Antonio Vanin]

Sonia A. Casari
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo

 

Contextualização e avanços dos estudos dos Curculionideos Amazônicos [Contextualization and advances in the studies of Amazonian curculionides]

Roberta Valente
Universidade Federal do Pará

 

Biodiversidade de Histeridae nos Biomas Brasileiros [Biodiversity of Histeridae in the Brazilian Biomes]

Fernando Leivas
Universidade Federal do Paraná

 

Individual condition and age determine food preference of Neotropical dung beetles

Renato Salomão
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)

 

A primer on Neotropical Broad-nosed weevils (Curculionidae Entiminae)

Jennifer C. Girón
Purdue University

 

Grupo de Coleopterólogos de Colombia [Group of Coleopterists of Colombia]

Jennifer C. Girón
Purdue University

 

Simpósio de Coleoptera – Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia 2022 [Coleoptera Symposium – Brazilian Congress of Zoology 2022]

Luciana Lanuzzi
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Caio Antunes Carvalho
Universidade Federal Fluminense

 

Revisão da distribuição geográfica do consumo de Pachymerus (Coleoptera) [Review of the geographic distribution of consumption of Pachymerus (Coleoptera)]

Gabriel Vannozzi Brito
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

 

A família Disteniidae na Região Neotropical [The family Disteniidae in the Neotropical Region]

Juan Pablo Botero
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo

 

 

Colombian Curculionoidea: a complete list of the recorded species

Juliana Cardona-Duque
Universidad CES

 

Morphology and natural history of Eulechriops sp. (Curculionidae: Conoderinae)

Priscila A. S. Veiga
Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu

 

Towards a natural classification of Megalopodidae (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea)

Geovanni M. Rodriguez Miron
Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

 

Gorgulhos de palmeira como um modelo para entender o papel de interações inseto-planta na diversificação [Palm weevils as a model for understanding the role of insect-plant interactions in diversification]

Bruno de Medeiros
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution

 

Molecular taxonomy of palm weevils Rhynchophorus and Dynamis (Curculionidae)

Aymer Andrés Vásquez-Ordóñez
Universidad del Valle/Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical

 

Nemonychidae (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea): biologia comparada e perspectivas [Nemonychidae (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea): comparative biology and perspectives]

Isaac Reis Jorge
Universidade Federal do Paraná

 

Diversidade de Leiodidae Fleming, 1821 da Estação Biológica de Boracéia [Diversity of Leiodidae Fleming, 1821 (Coleoptera, Staphylinoidea) from the Biological Station of Boracéia]

Eduardo Gomyde
Universidade de São Paulo

 

Revisão taxonômica das espécies brasileiras do gênero Omorgus (Trogidae) [Taxonomic review of the Brazilian species of the genus Omorgus (Trogidae)]

Vinícius da Costa-Silva
Universidade Estadual de Campinas/Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

 

Perching behavior by dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): A spatial segregation mechanism to dilute interspecific competition in highly rich assemblages

Jorge Ari Noriega
University of los Andes

 

Um pouco sobre o estudo dos coccinelídeos (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) [A little about the study of coccinellids (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)]

Julissa Melissa Churata Salcedo
Universidade Federal do Paraná

 

Testando o conservadorismo de nicho em crisomelídeos invasivos [Testing niche conservatism in invasive chrysomelids]

Marianna Simões
Senckenberg Research Institute

 

Um novo gênero de Elminae (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea: Elmidae) com duas novas espécies amazônicas [A new genus of Elminae (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea: Elmidae) with two new Amazonian species]

André Fernandes
Universidade Federal do Tocantins

 

Panel discussion: Challenges of studying beetles in the New World

Fernando Vaz-de-Mello – Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Maxwell V. L. Barclay – Natural History Museum, and Michael A. Ivie – Montana State University

Moderated by: Mario Cupello, Universidade Federal do Paraná and Vinicius S. Ferreira, Montana State University

 

Mesa redonda: Perspectivas dos estudos de estágios imaturos de Coleoptera no Brasil [Panel discussion: Perspectives of studies of Coleoptera immature stages in Brazil] [In Portuguese only]

Gabriel Biffi, Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Margarete Macedo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Simone Policena Rosa, Universidade Federal de Itajubá.

Moderated by: Stéphanie Vaz and André Silva Roza, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

 

Importância do estudo da ecologia de imaturos [On the importance of studying immature ecology]

Margarete Macedo
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

 

Perspectivas dos estudos de estágios imaturos de Coleoptera no Brasil [Perspectives of studies of Coleoptera immature stages in Brazil]

Gabriel Biffi
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo

 

Perspectivas dos estudos de estágios imaturos de Coleoptera no Brasil [Perspectives of studies of Coleoptera immature stages in Brazil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dHqj3_VEys

Simone Policena Rosa
Universidade Federal de Itajubá.

 

The deans of the Coleopterology of Brazil and Closing remarks

Mario Cupello
Universidade Federal do Paraná

Co-organizer of the Coleoptera Meeting