2024 Annual Meeting Announcement

Due to potential impacts from Hurricane Milton, the combined annual conference of the Southern Lepidopterists’ Society and the Association for Tropical Lepidoptera has been rescheduled for 25-27 April 2015. Check back here for further details.

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The combined in-person/virtual Annual Meeting will be held at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, 11-13 October 2024, with presentations FridaySaturday morning and afternoon and Sunday morning. The banquet will be held Friday evening. 

Linked here are the Registration Form and Call for Abstracts.

Please make your registration check payable to Association for Tropical Lepidoptera (which will handle SLS registration as well) and mail to: Deborah Matthews, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, P.O. Box 112710, Gainesville, FL 32611-2710. Alternatively, you may e-mail a scan of this form to  and pay via PayPal on the ATL website: https://troplep.org/2024_annual_meeting.html

Lodging: Links for hotel reservations at the Hilton UF Conference Center and Sweetwater Branch Inn are also available on the ATL website.

2023 Annual Meeting Announcement

2023 Combined Annual Meeting of the Southern Lepidopterists’ Society and the Association for Tropical Lepidoptera

Please join us for the combined in-person annual meetings in Gainesville, Florida, 13-15 October 2023. A call for papers and registration forms will be distributed by August, or you may contact Deborah Matthews in advance by email (). Events will begin with a Friday evening reception hosted by Bob and Becky Belmont at their new home bordering Gainesville’s Split Rock Conservation Area. Bob will have a moth sheet set up for collecting at his home Friday night and collecting opportunities within the Conservation Area may be arranged in advance by contacting Bob directly (). McGuire Center Collections access will be available before and after the meetings by contacting Andrei Sourakov (). Talks will take place in the McGuire Center Conference Room Saturday morning and afternoon, as well as Sunday morning. The Saturday evening banquet will be held at the Gainesville Women’s Club, 2809 W. University Ave. We look forward to seeing you here again at the McGuire Center!

Meeting Committee:

Keith Willmott – Editor, Tropical Lepidoptera Research, McGuire Center Director

Deborah Matthews – Program Coordinator

Bob Belmont – Reception & Split Rock Collecting Coordinator

John Douglass – Banquet coordinator & Secretary, Association for Tropical Lepidoptera

Andrei Sourakov – McGuire Center Collections Coordinator

David Fine – Chairman, Southern Lepidopterists’ Society

Jeff Slotten – Treasurer, Southern Lepidopterists’ Society

J.D. Turner – Executive Director, Association for Tropical Lepidoptera

Nancy Turner – Webmaster, Association for Tropical Lepidoptera

P.S. Check out the link below to see all of the species Bob has been finding at the Split Rock Conservation Area!

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguire/lepidoptera-of-split-rock-conservation-area-alachua-county-florida/

Abbot Award

The Southern Lepidopterists’ Society’s Annual John Abbot Award

 

The Abbot Award is intended to recognize an individual or group which exemplifies the highest standards in lepidopterology, in academic work and/or service to the Society and advancement of its goals. The Award is conferred at irregular intervals, but typically no more than one time per year. Preference shall be given to candidates whose involvement in lepidopterology has emphasized the U.S. Southeast.

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