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Title: Chasing snout moths: A woman’s quest for discovery in the neotropics

Author
item Solis, Maria

Submitted to: Meeting Abstract
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/19/2013
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Dr. Solis will be sharing highlights of her thirty years working in the Pyraloidea, the second largest group of moths in the world. Her interest has been higher-level relationships, but she has also been collaborating with Janzen & Hallwachs on the identity and habits of Costa Rican caterpillars. She is known worldwide for her knowledge about aquatic lepidopterans and will be showing a movie featuring an aquatic caterpillar.