Immature Beetles Meeting

An informal meeting on taxonomy, morphology and ecology of immature beetles
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2006 Meeting: Prague, November 3rd 2006
What was going on

The first get-together of workers indebted in morphology and ecology of immature beetle was held at the begging of November in Prague. The main attraction of this meeting was without any doubts Yves Alarie from the Department of Biology, Lauretanian university , Sudbury, Canada, with his lecture “Recognizing discontinuity in the continuum: the core of the scientific activity”. Petr Švácha (Institute of Entomology, Biological Center, Czech Academy of Science) contributed with another highly interesting lecture on the intracranial tentorial structures in beetle larvae. Other lectures were held by Martin Fikáček, Jiří Skuhrovec and Petr Šípek. The complete list of lectures is given bellow. After the formal part of the meeting a non-formal debate not only on beetle larvae continued in a traditional Czech pub with a glass of the beer.

Although low participation of workers, this meeting has shown that such type of get-together can be highly useful and inspirative for further work. We consider the meeting as successful and therefore we would like to continue in the organization of the Immature Beetles Meeting.

Enjoy a few photos:

Yves Alarie during his dytiscid lesson

Yves Alarie during his dytiscid lesson

Petr Švácha explaining the larval tentorium problems

After the meeting in a pub: in the middle the beer giraffe

After the meeting in a pub - from left to right: Petr Šípek, Jan Růžička, Jiří Hájek, Yves Alarie, Martin Fikáček

After the meeting in a pub: Martin Fikáček with a beer giraffe

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List of lectures (in alphabetic order)

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Yves Alarie (Department of Biology, Lauretanian university , Sudbury,Canada)
“Recognizing Discontinuity in the Continuum: the Core of Scientific Activity”
 The systematic of the Hydradephaga based on adult and larval character & Water beetles as bioidicators to characterise lakes recovering from acidification (Invited lecture)

Martin Fikáček (Department of Zoology, Charles University in Prague) c
Head Chaetotaxy of Hydrophiloid beetles: Highly Adaptive or Phyllogeneticaly informative?

Martin Fikáček, Petr Šípek (Department of Zoology, Charles University in Prague) & Svatopluk Bílý (Department of Entomology, National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic)
First Record of Myrmecophyly in Burprestid beetles: Field Observation

Jiří Skuhrovec (Department of Zoology, Charles University in Prague)
 Morphology and Ecology of Immature Stages of Hyperini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Petr Šípek (Department of Zoology, Charles University in Prague)
 Brood Care of the Genus Dicronocephalus (Coleoptera: Cetoniinae) as a Possible Adaptation for Temperate and Mountain Climate

Petr Švácha (Institute of Entomology, Biological Center, Czech Academy of Science)
Intracranial Tentorial Structures in Beetle Larvae
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design: MaFik

last update: January 15, 2007