The Coleopterists Society

2024 Annual (Virtual) Symposium and Annual General Meeting
2024-12-13 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | online
Friday, December 13th, 2024
1:00 PM – 3:30 PM US Eastern Time
Social hour: 3:30 – 5:00 PM US Eastern Time
Full schedule and registration:
https://coleopsoc.org/society-info/annual-meeting/

In-person Mixer in Phoenix, Arizona
2024-11-12 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Phoenix) | Phoenix Convention Center, Room 224 B, Phoenix, United States
We will have one in-person mixer with a keynote speaker during the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America.
Tuesday November 12th, 2024
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Phoenix Convention Center, Room 224 B
Keynote speaker:
Robert Anderson
“The Weevils”

XIV Reunión Latinoamericana de Scarabaeoidología
2024-10-21 08:00 - 2024-10-25 17:00 (America/Guayaquil) | Universidad Nacional de Loja, Ecuador, Loja, Ecuador

Official launch of the XIV Latin American Meeting of Scarabaeoidology in ECUADOR
2024-05-10 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | online
Official launch of the XIV Latin American Meeting of Scarabaeoidology in ECUADOR
When: Friday, May 10 at 10:00 a.m. (Quito time- UTC -5).
Where: Online via Zoomhttps://cedia.zoom.us/j/87850148251ID Zoom: 878 5014 8251

Last day to submit Awards and Honors
2024-03-01 | online
March 1st is the last day to apply for awards and submit nominations for honors of The Coleopterists Society
More information in the links below.

Undergraduate Travel Award – For an undergraduate student to travel to a scientific conference. By proposal.
Graduate Student Research Enhancement Award (GSREA) – For graduate students to fund their research projects. By proposal.
Ross Taylor Bell and Joyce Rockenbach Bell Research Grant – For any researcher with a project not otherwise funded. By proposal.

J.G. Edwards Prize – For best publication based on a Master’s thesis, published in 2023. By nomination.
Jean Theodore Lacordaire Prize – For best publication based on a doctoral dissertation, published in 2023. By nomination.
The Coleopterists Society Honorary Members – Recognizing devotion to the Society and dedication to the discipline. By nomination.

Monograph Candidates – Publish your monograph with up to 100 color plates at no charge in December 2024. By submission.

2023 Annual Meeting
2023-12-08 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | online
2023 Fourth Annual (Virtual) Symposium and Annual General Meeting
Friday, December 8th, 2023
1:00 PM – 3:30 PM US Eastern Time
Registration (free!):
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtd-msqDMvGNx62KZp0rlZQh_9unV5OHax
Members and non-members are welcome!

Please be aware that The Coleopterists Society Ethics Statement applies to meeting participants and that we adopt the Code of Conduct of the Entomological Society of America for our meeting.
Please be respectful and kind at all times, and if you notice any issues, please email the organizers at secretary@coleopsoc.org

Program
1:00–1:10 PM EST – Welcome and introduction
Max Barclay
Natural History Museum, London; m.barclay@nhm.ac.uk
President of The Coleopterists Society
1:10–1:15 PM EST – Undergraduate Travel Award winner 2022 – attending EntSoc 2023
Shelby Hernandez, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA; shelby.hernandez@ttu.edu
1:15–1:30 PM EST – Examination of Neotropical shining fungus beetles (Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae) on the FMNH collection
Elisa von Groll, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil; elisavgroll@gmail.com
GSREA Enhancement award winner 2023
1:30–1:45 PM EST – Clarifying the Chelonariidae (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea) of the BMNH Using Internal Morphology
John Paul Kole, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA; Kolejohn@msu.edu
GSREA Enhancement award winner 2023
1:45–2:00 PM EST – Curación y Estudio de la Colección Personal del Dr. Pedro Reyes-Castillo: Continuando con el Legado de la Investigación Sobre Biodiversidad de Passalidae
Cristian Beza-Beza, University of Minnesota; cbezabez@umn.edu
Bell Award award winner 2023

BREAK

2:10–3:10 PM EST – The Coleopterists Society 2023 business meeting
Max Barclay
Natural History Museum, London; m.barclay@nhm.ac.uk
President of The Coleopterists Society
3:10 PM EST – Social mixer

2023-11-07 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
In-person annual meeting

II Encontro de Coleoptera (Coleoptera Meeting) 2023
2023-07-24 - 2023-07-28 | online
II Encontro de Coleoptera 2023. Online and free event July 24th to 28th – 1
An opportunity for the exchange of ideas among the coleopterological community, organized by volunteers primarily from Brazil, and sponsored by The Coleopterists Society.

2022 Annual Meeting
2022-12-09 13:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | online
2022 Third Annual (Virtual) Symposium and Annual General Meeting

Friday, December 9, 2022
1:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST
Registration (free!):
https://forms.gle/EgmDNK4vC6wVbN8s8

Program

1:00–1:10 PM EST – Welcome and introduction
Crystal Maier
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; cmaier@fas.harvard.edu
President of The Coleopterists Society

1:10–1:25 PM EST – Revisión sistemática del género Heilipus Germar, 1824 (Curculionidae: Molytinae: Hylobiini)
Valentina Díaz Grisales, Jesús Romero Nápoles, Héctor González Hernández, Néstor Bautista Martínez, Álvaro Castañeda Vildózola
Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo campus, Texcoco de Mora, Mexico valentinadiazgrisales@gmail.com
Winner of the 2022 Graduate Student Research Improvement Award

1:25–1:40 PM EST – Understanding the Biology and phylogenetic relations in Udeus Champion, 1902 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)
Aline Lira, Bruno de Medeiros, Paschoal Grossi
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
alineoliveiralira@gmail.com
Winner of the 2022 Graduate Student Research Program Award

1:40–1:55 PM EST – Beyond the blast: Establishing a phylogenetic framework of brachinine bombardier beetles
Raine Ikagawa, Grey T. Gustafson, Wendy Moore
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
rikagawa@arizona.edu
Winner of the 2022 Graduate Student Research Program Award

1:55–2:10 PM EST – Untapped Potential: Evolution of Substrate Tapping in the African Tok-Tok Beetle (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Sepidiini)
Olivia Gearner, Marcin Kaminski, Kojun Kanda, Kali Swichtenberg, Chris Wirth, Aaron D Smith
ogearner@purdue.edu
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Winner of the 2021 Graduate Student Research Program Award

2:10-2:25 PM EST – The Coleoptera Collections of the Natural History Museum, London
Max Barclay
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
m.barclay@nhm.ac.uk
Incoming President
2:25–2:35 PM EST – Break

2:35–2:50 PM EST – Understanding Leaf Beetles in Texas National Parks: Building a Baseline from Biological Collections in Texas
Shelby Hernandez, Jennifer C. Girón
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States
shelby.hernandez@ttu.edu
Winner of the 2022 Undergraduate Travel Award

2:50–3:05 PM EST – Going together: creating community around beetle research
Jennifer C. Girón
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States
entiminae@gmail.com
Secretary elect / Winner of the 2022 Lacordaire Prize

3:05–3:20 PM EST – The Cheguevaria Enigma: An Amazing Firefly Lineage from the West Indies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)
Oliver Keller, Vinicius S. Ferreira, Michael A. Ivie
Florida State Collection of Arthropods, FDACS-DPI, Gainesville, Florida, United States
okeller1977@gmail.com
Councillor elected

3:20–3:35 PM EST – Welcome to the Vesta Fiesta: Exploring the Origins of Predatory Fireflies
Sara Rivera, Luiz Felipe Lima da Silveira
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States; scrivera1@catamount.wcu.edu
Winners of the 2022 Bell Research Award

3:35–3:50 PM EST – Dung beetles in sky islands: speciation and climate change
Alfonsina Arriaga Jiménez
University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales. Australia
ponchis.arriaga@gmail.com
International Councillor Elected

3:50–4:00 PM EST – Break

4:00–4:45 PM EST – Keynote speaker
The evolution of good and evil weevils
Bruno de Medeiros
Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, United States; bdemedeiros@fieldmuseum.org

4:45–5:00 PM EST – Break

5:00–6:00 PM EST – The Coleopterists Society 2022 business meeting
Crystal Maier
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; cmaier@fas.harvard.edu
President of The Coleopterists Society

6:00 PM EST – Social mixer

2021 Annual Meeting
2021-12-03 12:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | online
This will be a virtual/ online meeting 12 PM North American Eastern Standard Time, 3 December 2021.
Registration is free for members and non-members. In order to participate in the meeting, you must register:
Click here to register for the 2021 Annual Meeting of The Coleopterists Society
Symposium featuring member research (scroll down to see full program)

Keynote: From natural to logical: unlocking the power of morphological data with the Coleoptera Anatomy Ontology by Jennifer C. Girón

Program (all times are in EST = Eastern Standard Time in North America)
12:00–12:15 PM EST – Welcome and introduction
Crystal A. Maier
cmaier@fas.harvard.edu
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
President of The Coleopterists Society

12:15–12:35 PM EST – Which one is it? The creation of a key to the Elateridae of British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska
Scott Gilmore
Lantzville, British Columbia emubio@gmail.com
Winner of the 2021 Bell Research Award

12:35–12:55 PM EST – Defining color for Chrysochroa Jewel Beetle taxonomy
Able Chow and Nathan Lord
Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University; ablechow29@gmail.com
Winner of the 2021 Graduate Student Research Enhancement Award [Chow]

12:55–1:15 PM EST – All the Better to Smell You With: Firefly Antennal Sensilla Diversity
Yalena Pacheco
Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia; yelena.marlese@gmail.com
Winner of the 2021 Graduate Student Research Program Award

1:15–1:35 PM EST – Assessing the old-growth dependency of two saproxylic beetle species in the southern Appalachian Mountains
Clayton Traylor, Mike Caterino, Mike Ulyshen, Mike Ferro, Joe McHugh Department of Entomology, University of Georgia
New Social Media Team Member, 2021

1:35–1:55 PM EST – Beetles at the British Museum
Max Barclay
The Natural History Museum, London, UK
President-elect 2021

1:55–2:15 PM EST – Break

PLENARY SPEAKER
2:15–3:05 PM EST – From Natural to Logical: Unlocking the power of morphology with COLAO
Jennifer Girón
Department of Entomology, Purdue University; entiminae@gmail.com
Student Councilor (2019–2020) for The Coleopterists Society

3:05–3:30 PM EST – Break
3:30–4:30 PM EST – The Coleopterists Society 2021 business meeting
Crystal A. Maier cmaier@fas.harvard.edu
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
President of The Coleopterists Society

4:30–6:00 PM EST – Social mixer

2020 Annual Meeting
2020-12-04 12:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | online
This will be a virtual/ online meeting 12–6 PM North American Eastern Standard Time, 4 December 2020.
Registration is free for members and non-members. In order to participate in the meeting, you must register at this link:
Click here to register for the 2020 Annual Meeting of The Coleopterists Society
Click here for the updated and final program of presentations for the Annual General Meeting

PLENARY SPEAKERS
The Erwin Equation of biodiversity: remembering the “Beetle Man”
Carlos Garcia-Robledo
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut
I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the National Museum of Natural History – Smithsonian Institution, under the advice of the legendary Coleopterist Terry L. Erwin. Together with Terry, we performed research and taught courses on tropical biology in the Peruvian Amazon and Costa Rica. In this talk, we will celebrate some of the milestones in Terry’s career. We will also discuss a project inspired in his classic paper ” Tropical Forests: Their Richness in Coleoptera and Other Arthropod Species” (1982) published in the Coleopterist Bulletin. After many discussions with Terry Erwin, we present his verbal argument as an equation, the Erwin Equation of Biodiversity. In this presentation we illustrate how this original idea ignited an era of biodiversity discovery, and inspired subsequent diversity-ratio models aiming to estimate arthropod diversity.

Global insect richness and its decline
David Wagner
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut
Stork’s (2018) recent estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is significantly more conservative than Terry Erwin’s back-of-the-envelope suggestion that there may be as many as 30 million terrestrial arthropods. I will share new thoughts and data about global insect richness, and where much of that that diversity is hiding. Might Terry have been right, but for the wrong reasons? The earth’s biodiversity is under siege from global anthropogenic stressors: deforestation, agriculture, urbanization, exotic species, and many others. I will provide a synopsis of recent findings relevant to global insect declines, emphasizing where data from studies of Coleoptera have shaped our understanding.

2019 Annual Meeting
2019-11-19 20:00 - 22:30 (America/Chicago) | St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
America’s Center
Meeting room 130
Featured Keynote Speaker
Nicole L. Gunter
“Beetles and biogeography of a great southern land”

2018 Annual Meeting
2018-11-13 20:00 - 22:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vancouver Convention Centre, 1055 Canada Pl, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 0C3, Canada
Vancouver Convention Centre
Meeting Room 217 /218 /219
Featured Keynote Speaker
Ainsley Seago
“Cohabitation with Coleoptera:
The evolution and diversity of extraordinary beetle inquilines”
