We meet annually for a keynote and a social during the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. For the past few years, we have also met online, to be able to reach all our members who do not attend the in-person meeting. Starting in 2023 the keynote has been presented in-person with the Annual General Meeting still presented online along with an awards symposium.
In 2025 we will have one in-person mixer with a keynote speaker as well as a virtual Symposium and Annual General Meeting.
In-person Mixer at Portland, Oregon
Tuesday, 11 November
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Oregon Convention Center, Room B110-112
Membership not required to attend the event – everyone welcome!
Keynote Speaker
Dana Price
“Rolling in the Deep: A 25 Year Love Affair with Dung Beetles and Other Scarabs”
2025 Annual (Virtual) Symposium and Annual General Meeting
Friday, December 12th, 2025
1:30 PM – 6:00 PM US Eastern Time
Everyone is welcome to attend regardless of membership status.
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
Registration
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4ibI2sdLQ5OxqG9N5phT_Q
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Program
1:30–1:40 PM EST – Welcome and introduction
Pat Bouchard
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
President of The Coleopterists Society
1:40-1:55 PM EST – On the first captive-rearing attempt of a tiger beetle species from the Philippines
Decier Oliver R. Mapile, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
Youth Incentive Award, 2023
1:55-2:10 PM EST – New data, old groups: Molecular insights into the species-group system of Australian Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae)
Rachel Stone, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
GSREA Program award winner 2024
2:10-2:25 PM EST – Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of Dorcasomini longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) with a focus on adaptive radiation and endemism in Madagascar
Soohyun Jeong, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
GSREA Program award winner 2024
2:25-2:40 PM EST – Tiny treasures of the rainforest deep: unraveling dung beetle diversity and evolution in the Tanzanian Eastern Arc Mountains
Giulio Montanaro, Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy
J.G. Edwards Prize Awardee, 2025 | Taxonomic Research at Beetle Collections Grant Awardee 2025
2:40:2:50 PM EST – BREAK
2:50-3:05 PM EST – Toward a Revised Bolitophagini (Tenebrionidae: Tenebrioninae) – Trips to European Collections
Charla Replogle, Purdue University
GSREA Program award winner 2025 | Taxonomic Research at Beetle Collections Grant Awardee 2025
3:05-3:20 PM EST – A survey of the pleasing fungus beetles Erotylinae (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) of Colombia
Héctor Jaime Gasca Álvarez, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Colombia
Paul Skelley, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida, USA
Ross Taylor Bell and Joyce Rockenbach Bell Research Grant Awardees, 2024
3:20-3:35 PM EST – Cracking the Cassidini (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) Tree: Untangling the phylogeny of the largest tortoise beetle tribe using mitochondrial genomes
Marianna Simões, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Germany
Ross Taylor Bell and Joyce Rockenbach Bell Research Grant Awardee, 2024
3:35-3:50 PM EST – Enhancing Taxonomic Knowledge of Curculionidae from Northeastern Brazil Through Collections-Based Research
Aline Lira, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil
Taxonomic Research at Beetle Collections Grant Awardee 2025 | Newly elected Councilor
3:50-4:00 PM EST – BREAK
4:00–5:00 PM EST – The Coleopterists Society 2025 business meeting
Pat Bouchard
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
President of The Coleopterists Society
5:00 PM EST – Social mixer
Past Meetings