Immature Beetles Meeting 2015 - Programme

Thurdsay 1st October

9.00-9.10

Opening of the Immature Beetles Meeting

9.10-9.40

Robert Angus (UK)
Egg cocoons and larvae of Hydrochus Leach (Hydrophiloidea)

9.40-10.10

Stephanie Vaz Nogueira Campos (Brazil)
The intertidal larva of a new species of Micronaspis (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) from Northeastern Brazil

10.10-10.40

Martin Novák (Czech Republic)
Morphology and ecology of selected species of Lampyridae

10.40-11.00

Coffee break + poster session

11.00-11.30

Michele Leocádio Gaspar (Brazil)
Description of the larva of Paraselenis (s. str.) normalis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Mesomphaliini): morphological changes related to the maternal care

11.30-12.00

Larissa Oliveira Vilela (Brazil)
Diversity, vertical and horizontal distribution of white grubs (Coletoptera, Melolonthidae) in the soil of canefields of Mato Grosso do Sul State

12.00-12.30

Kateřina Jůzová (Czech Republic)
How to prepare larvae for scanning electron microscope

12.30-14.00

Lunch

14.00-14.30

Alexander Prokin (Russia)
On some Permian and Triassic larvae of Holometabola: Beetles or not?

14.30-15.00

Davide Scaccini (Italy)
Evaluation of head capsule width in Platycerus caprea (De Geer) and P. caraboides (Linnaeus) larvae (Coleoptera, Lucanidae) 

15.00-15.30

Takahiro Yoshida (Japan)
Pupal morphology of the subfamily Brontinae Erichson (Cucujoidea: Silvanidae)

15.30-16.00

Coffee break + poster session

16.00-16.30

Emmanuel Arriaga Varela (Mexico/Czech Republic)
New discoveries on feeding habits and behavior of immature handsome fungus beetles, including potential cannibalism (Coccinelloidea: Endomychidae, Anamorphidae).

16.30-17.00

Frank E. Etzler (USA)
Utilizing larvae to understand holarctic concepts for Limonius sensu Candèze, 1860 (Elateridae)

17.00-17.30

Lech Karpiński & Wojciech T. Szczepański (Poland)
Cerambycid larvae collected during the entomological expedition to Mongolia 2015

18.00-night

Larval pub I. - informal discussions over a glass (or glasses) of Czech beer

Friday 2nd October

9.30-10.00

Alexander Prokin (Russia)
About homology of Haliplus Latreille, 1802 larvae postanal process (Coleoptera, Haliplidae)

10.00-10.30

Larissa Oliveira Vilela (Brazil)
Biological aspects and root consumption of cane by larvae of Anoplosiagum macrophyllum(Coleoptera, Melolonthidae)

10.30-10.50

Coffee break + poster session

10.50-11.20

Pawel Jaloszynski & Aleksandra Kilian (Poland)
Larvae of Mastigini (Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae): morphology and biology

11.20-11.50

Fernando Ávila Quieroz (Brazil)
First immature description of Hylotribus Jekel, 1860 (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from Chile, with comments of genus distribution and phylogeny

11.50-12.20

Filip Trnka (Czech Republic)
Larval development of Eucoeliodes mirabilis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Ceutorhynchinae) with description of its larva

12.20-14.00

Lunch

14.00-

Personal programme, sightseeing of Prague...

18.00-

Larval pub II. - informal discussions over a glass (or glasses) of Czech beer