Tuesday, November 19, 2019
1:30 pm - 5:30 pm
America's Center - Room 230
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1:30 pm
Introductory Remarks
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1:45 pm
Andean Altitudinal Depressions Promote Color Polymorphism in the Spinybacked Spider
Fabian Salgado, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia
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2:00 pm
Sex and Deception: Exploring The Role of Sensory Exploitation in the Courtship Display of the Pantropical Jumping Spider (Plexippus paykulli)
Ellen Humbel, Rebecca T. Kimball and Lisa Taylor, Univ, of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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2:15 pm
Blood-Related Prey-Odor Primes Females to Attend to Red in Both Foraging and Mate Choice Contexts in a Mosquito-Specialist Jumping Spider
Lisa Taylor1, Fiona Cross1 and Robert Jackson2, 1-Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2-Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Caledonia
2:30 pm
From Fulgorids to Football Helmets: Color and Vision in Insects for Science Outreach
Nathan Lord, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA
2:45 pm
Cleaning up With Insect Outreach
Kendra Abbott, Univ. of Alabama Museums, Tuscaloosa, AL
3:00 pm
Vibrant Coloration and Insect Galls
Carol Mapes, Kutztown Univ. of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Exhibit: Bugs in Technicolor
3:45 pm
Color Change and Thermoregulation in the Blue-Fronted Dancer Damselfly (Odonata: Zygoptera)
Amanda Whispell and Michael L. May, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
4:00 pm
Wing Color Evolution in a Highly Neotropical Polymorphic Damselfly
Melissa Sanchez Herrera, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia
4:15 pm
Continuous Variation of Scale Ultrastructure in Two Heliconius Mimics
Juan Enciso, Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
4:30 pm
Evolution on the Wing: The Elaborate Coloration of the Polythore Damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera)
Christopher Beatty1, Esther Appeal2, Paula Dieck2, Alexander Kovalev2, Melissa Sanchez Herrera3 and Stanislav Gorb4, 1Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, 2-Kiel Univ., Kiel, Germany, 3-Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 4-Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany
4:45 pm
Jewels of Iridescence: Mechanisms of Structural Color and Implications for Taxonomy
Able Chow, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA
5:00 pm
Discussion
5:15 pm
Concluding Remarks
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
1:30 pm - 5:30 pm
America's Center - Room 230
​
1:30 pm Introductory Remarks
1:45 pm Andean Altitudinal Depressions Promote Color Polymorphism in the Spinybacked Spider
Fabian Salgado, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia
2:00 pm Sex and Deception: Exploring The Role of Sensory Exploitation in the Courtship Display of the Pantropical Jumping Spider
(Plexippus paykulli)
Ellen Humbel, Rebecca T. Kimball and Lisa Taylor, Univ, of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2:15 pm Blood-Related Prey-Odor Primes Females to Attend to Red in Both Foraging and Mate Choice Contexts in a Mosquito-Specialist
Jumping Spider
Lisa Taylor1, Fiona Cross1 and Robert Jackson2, 1-Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2-Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, New
Caledonia
2:30 pm From Fulgorids to Football Helmets: Color and Vision in Insects for Science Outreach
Nathan Lord, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA
2:45 pm Cleaning up With Insect Outreach
Kendra Abbott, Univ. of Alabama Museums, Tuscaloosa, AL
3:00 pm Vibrant Coloration and Insect Galls
Carol Mapes, Kutztown Univ. of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm Exhibit: Bugs in Technicolor
3:45 pm Color Change and Thermoregulation in the Blue-Fronted Dancer Damselfly (Odonata: Zygoptera)
Amanda Whispell and Michael L. May, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
4:00 pm Wing Color Evolution in a Highly Neotropical Polymorphic Damselfly
Melissa Sanchez Herrera, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia
4:15 pm Cancelled: Continuous Variation of Scale Ultrastructure in Two Heliconius Mimics
Juan Enciso, Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
4:30 pm Evolution on the Wing: The Elaborate Coloration of the Polythore Damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera)
Christopher Beatty1, Esther Appeal2, Paula Dieck2, Alexander Kovalev2, Melissa Sanchez Herrera3 and Stanislav Gorb4, 1Cornell
Univ., Ithaca, NY, 2-Kiel Univ., Kiel, Germany, 3-Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 4-Christian-Albrechts-
Universität, Kiel, Germany
4:45 pm Jewels of Iridescence: Mechanisms of Structural Color and Implications for Taxonomy
Able Chow, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA
5:00 pm Discussion
5:15 pm Concluding Remarks