Venue: AUDITORIUM (Lutherse kerk)

 

MONDAY 21 AUGUST

 

08:00 – 10:30    REGISTRATION AND COFFEE/TEA

 

10:30 – 11:30    OPENING SESSION

 

11:30 – 12:00    PLENARY LECTURE

                        Hans Klompen

                        (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                       Mon 21, Auditorium

MITES AND TICKS AS MODELS FOR POPULATION DYNAMICAL STUDIES

Organizer: Arne Janssen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

 

14:00 – 14:40    Matthew P. Ayres, Nicholas A. Friedenberg, Richard W. Hofstetter, Maria J. Lombardero, Kier D. Klepzig, John C. Moser

                        (Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA)

                        PHORETIC MITES AND THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF BARK BEETLES

 

14:40 – 15:20    Marta Montserrat, Reinier HilleRisLambers, Sara Magalhães, Maurice W. Sabelis, André M. de Roos, Arne Janssen

                        (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                        COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN A SIMPLE FOOD WEB WITH RECIPROCAL INTRAGUILD PREDATION

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:40    Tessa van der Hammen, Marta Montserrat, Arne Janssen

                        (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                        RESOURCE COMPETITION AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF PREDATORY MITES

 

16:40 – 17:20    Gösta Nachman

                        (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

                        THE FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE OF PHYTOSEIULUS PERSIMILIS AT THE PLANT SCALE

 

TUESDAY 22 AUGUST

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                         Tue 22, Auditorium

PHYLOGENY AND EVOLUTION OF THE ACARI

Organizers: Maria Navajas (INRA, Montferrier sur Lez, France), Hans Klompen (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)

 

09:00 – 09:20    Ethan Kane, Ronald Ochoa

                        (USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, USA)

                        PHYLOGENY OF THE TENUIPALPIDAE (TETRANYCHOIDEA) BASED ON SETAL CHARACTERS WITH A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE RECOGNIZED SUBFAMILIES AND TRIBES

 

09:20 – 09:40    Kimiko Okabe, Shun’ichi Makino

                        (Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Norin Kenkyu-danchi, Ibaraki, Japan)

                        COEVOLUTION BETWEEN ALLODYNERUS WASPS AND ENSLINIELLA MITES BASED ON MORPHOLOGY OF ACARINARIA

 

09:40 – 10:00    Hans Klompen

                        (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)

                        TICKS, HOLOTHYRIDS AND THE EVOLUTION OF PARASITISM

 

10:00 – 10:20    Ina Schaefer, Katja Domes, Mark Maraun, Stefan Scheu

                        (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)

                        DATING THE ORIGIN OF ORIBATID MITES USING A MOLECULAR APPROACH (18S rDNA)

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    Tselila Ben-David, Uri Gerson, Shai Morin

                        (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

                        NEW SEQUENCES IN RIBOSOMAL DNA OF THE TWO-SPOTTED SPIDER MITE IN ISRAEL

 

11:20 – 12:00    Lorenza Beati

                        (Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA)

                        TICKS AND PATHOGENS: AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH

 

14:00 – 14:40    Catherine A. Hill, Nick S. Geraci, Janice Pagel VanZee, Jason S. Walling, Jeffrey J. Stuart, Stephen K. Wikel, Vishvanath M. Nene, Felix D. Guerrero

                        (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA)

                        GENOME ORGANIZATION OF PROSTRIATE AND METASTRIATE TICKS

 

14:40 – 15:20    Ashley P.G. Dowling

                        (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA)

                        SYSTEMATICS, GENOMICS, AND THE EVOLUTION OF PARASITISM WITHIN DERMANYSSOIDEA (MESOSTIGMATA)

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:40    Mark Maraun, Katja Domes, Stefan Scheu, Roy A. Norton

                        (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany)

                        THE EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS AND FEEDING HABITS IN MITES FROM A PHYLOGENETIC PERSPECTIVE

 

16:40 – 17:20    Pavel Klimov, Barry M. OConnor

                        (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

                        MONOPHYLY OF PSOROPTIDIA (ASTIGMATA) AND THE ORIGIN OF MAMMALIAN PARASITES: EVIDENCE FROM MULTIPLE GENES

 

17:20 – 19:00  POSTER SESSION I AND DRINKS                                                   Tue 22, Auditorium

 

Abbasipour, Habib, A. Taghavi, K. Kamali

                        BIOLOGY OF TEA SCARLET MITE, BREVIPALPUS OBOVATUS (DONN.) (TENUIPALPIDAE) UNDER LABORATORY AND NATURAL CONDITIONS

 

Acuña-Soto, Jesús A., Edith G. Estrada-Venegas, A. Equihua-Martinez, Joge M. Valdez-Carrasco

                        EXTERNAL MORPHOLOGY OF THE DRY BULB MITE, ACERIA TULIPAE KEIFER, 1938 (ERIOPHYIDAE)

 

Afifi, A.M, A.M. Mabrouk, A.A. Asran

                        EFFECT OF THE ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS, BEAUVERIA BASSIANA ON THREE ACARINE PESTS

 

Agboton, Bonaventura V., R. Hanna, A.T. Odjo, G. Goergen

                        ANTS ASSOCIATED WITH CASSAVA IN SOUTHERN BENIN AND INDIRECT EFFECTS ON BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF CASSAVA GREEN MITE

 

Alberti, Gerd, Jürgen Jonas, Owen Seeman

                        ULTRASTRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF THE GNATHOSOMA FROM ALLOTHYRUS SP. (HOLOTHYRIDA)

 

Al-Jboory, Ibrahim J., Taha M. Al-Suaide

                        EFFECT OF DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES ON THE BIOLOGY OF OLD WORLD DATE MITE, OLIGONYCHUS AFRASIATICUS (McGREGOR) (TETRANYCHIDAE)

 

Badii, M.H., I. Diaz, G. Ponce, J. Landeros

                        functional response of adult male neoseiulus californicus to the avocado brown mite

 

Badii, M.H., E. Hernandez-Ortiz, A.E. Flores, J. Landeros

                        PREY STAGE PREFERENCE AND FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE OF EUSEIUS HIBISCI TO TETRANYCHUS URTICAE (PHYTOSEIIDAE, TETRANYCHIDAE)

 

Badii, M.H., J.A. McMurtry, A.E. Flores

                        POPULATION INTERACTION BETWEEN PHYTOSEIULUS LONGIPES AND TETRANYCHUS PACIFICUS ON BEAN PLANTS

 

Bagheri, Mohammad, Karim Haddad Irani-Nejad, Karim Kamali, Mohammad Khanjani, Alireza Saboori

                        SOME STIGMAEID MITES (PROSTIGMATA: STIGMAEIDAE) FROM NORTH-WEST IRAN

 

Baumann, J.

                        STUDYING THE ULTRASTRUCTURE OF PARTICULARLY SMALL MITES

 

Bhardwaj, S., S. Sharma, S.P. Bhardwaj

                        RESPONSE OF ORIUS INSIDIOSUS (HEMIPTERA: ANTHOCORIDAE) TO EUROPEAN RED MITE PANONYCHUS ULMI (TETRANYCHIDAE) ON APPLE IN INDIA

 

Boubou, Angham, Sandrine Cros-Arteil, Maria J. Navajas

                        GENETIC MARKERS TO TRACE THE DISSEMINATION OF TETRANYCHUS EVANSI, A NEW INVASIVE SPIDER MITE IN EUROPE

 

Broufas, G.D., M.L. Pappas, G. Vassiliou, D.S. Koveos

                        TOXICITY OF SEVERAL PESTICIDES TO THE PREDATORY MITE EUSEIUS FINLANDICUS (PHYTOSEIIDAE)

 

Domes, Katja, Stefan Scheu, Mark Maraun

                        SECONDARY SUCCESSION OF SEXUAL AND PARTHENOGENETIC ORIBATID MITE SPECIES: TWO LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS

 

Fashing, Norman J.

                        TWO NOVEL ADAPTATIONS FOR DISPERSAL IN THE HISTIOSTOMATIDAE (ASTIGMATA)

 

Fathipour, Y., R. Taghizadeh, K. Kamali

                        TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT FECUNDITY OF STETHORUS GILVIFRONS (COLEOPTERA: COCCINELLIDAE) PREYING UPON TETRANYCHUS URTICAE (TETRANYCHIDAE)

 

Ferreira, João A.M., Brechtje Eshuis, Arne Janssen, Maurice W. Sabelis

                        DOMATIA REDUCE CANNIBALISM IN PREDATORY MITES

 

Green, E.D., M.L. Turner, E.A. Ueckermann

                        THE MICROMORPHOLOGY OF THE DEUTONYMPH OF A SENNERTIA SPECIES FROM THE ACARINARIUM OF THE CARPENTER BEE XYLOCOPA FLAVORUFA

 

Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen, Tila M. Pérez

                        TICKS DEPOSITED IN THE MEXICAN COLECCION NACIONAL DE ACAROS

 

Hao, Baofeng, Lichen Yu, Limin He

                        NEW PEST MITES OF BAGGING APPLE: TARSONEMUS CONFUSUS EWING

 

Kafil, Maryam, A. Saboori, H. Allahyari, A. Kharasi Pakdel

                        LIFE-TABLE PARAMETERS OF aMPHITETRANYCHUS VIENNENSIS (TETRANYCHIDAE) ON THREE HOST PLANTS

 

Kane, Ethan C., Eric F. Erbe, Christopher Pooley, William P. Wergin, Ronald Ochoa

                        LOW TEMPERATURE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF SOFT-BODIED ARTHROPODS

 

Kane, Ethan C., Ronald Ochoa, Guy Mathurin, Eric F. Erbe

                        RAOIELLA INDICA HIRST (TENUIPALPIDAE): AN ISLAND-HOPPING MITE PEST IN THE CARIBBEAN

 

Kheradmand, K., K. Kamali, Y. Fathipour, M. Barzegar, E. Mohammadi Goltapeh

                        EFFECTS OF MUSHROOM MITE PEDICULASTER FLETCHMANNI (SITEROPTIDAE), ON MINERAL ELEMENTS OF BUTTON MUSHROOM AGARICUS BISPORUS

 

Kitashima, Yasuki, Tetsuo Gotoh

                        OVERWINTERING TACTICS IN THE NON-DIAPAUSING SPECIES, PANONYCHUS OSMANTHI

 

Klien, Kerstin, Manfred G. Walzl

                        SANCASSANIA BERLESEI (MICHAEL, 1903) (ACARIDAE, ACTINEDIDA): THE RECEPTACULUM, THE OVARY AND THE SPERM

 

Krisper, Günther, Petra Föttinger, Günther Raspotnig

                        A SURVEY OF OPISTHONOTAL GLANDS IN THE CAMISIIDAE (ORIBATIDA)

 

Lombardero, Maria J., Matthew P. Ayres, Richard W. Hofstetter, Kier D. Klepzig, John C. Moser

                        THE ROLE OF SYMBIOTIC ASSOCIATIONS AMONG ARTHROPODS IN PLANT PESTILENCE

 

López-Campos, Mercedes Guadalupe

                        MITES OF FAMILIES ANYSTIDAE AND TENERIFIIDAE FROM BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR, MEXICO

 

Marinova, Mariela, Rumyana Kostova

                        POPULATION DYNAMICS OF TETRANYCHUS TURKESTANI UGAR. ET NIK. (TETRANYCHIDAE) ON PEPPERMINT IN KAZANLAK

 

Matioli, André Luis, Angelo Pallini

                        BIOLOGICal aSPECTS OF AGISTEMUS PALLINI MATIOLI ET AL. (STIGMAEIDAE) FED WITH PANONYCHUS CITRI McGREGOR (TETRANYCHIDAE) AND TYPHA POlLEN

 

Mehrkhou, F., Y. Fathipour, A.A. Talebi, K. Kamali

                        FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE OF STETHORUS GILVIFRONS (COLEOPTERA: COCCINELLIDAE) TO DIFFERENT DENSITIES OF TETRANYCHUS URTICAE (TETRANYCHIDAE)

 

Navajas, Maria J., Alain Migeon, Miodrag Grbic

                        TETRANYCHUS URTICAE IN THE GENOMIC ERA: THE WHOLE-GENOME SEQUENCING PROJECT OPENS NEW HORIZONS FOR SPIDER MITES STUDIES

 

Niogret, J., M. Bertrand, J.P. Lumaret

                        SHARING THE SAME HABITAT AND HOSTS (SCARABAEIDAE: SCARABAEUS SPP.): THE BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSE AND THE ADAPTED LIFE TRAITS OF THE PREY (DIPTERA: SPHAERO-CERIDAE) UNDER PREDATION PRESSURE BY PHORETIC MITES (MACROCHELIDAE)

 

Oliveira, Anibal R., Thiago R. Castro, Italo Delalibera Jr.

                        ORIBATID MITES IN RISK ASSESSMENT STUDIES OF PESTICIDES AND TRANSGENIC PLANTS: METHODOLOGY FOR TOXICOLOGICAL TESTS WITH SCHELORIBATES PRAEINCISUS (ORIBATIDA: SCHELORIBATIDAE)

 

Ostovan, H., K. Kamali

                        REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL AND SEX RATIO OF THE PARASITIC MITE PYEMOTES SCOLYTI (OUD.) (PYEMOTIDAE) ON LARVAE OF SCOLYTUS MULTISTRIATUS (MARSH.) (COL.: SCOLYTIDAE)

 

Pappas, M.L., G.D. Broufas, D.S. Koveos

                        LETHAL AND SUB-LETHAL EFFECTS OF AZINPHOS-METHYL ON THE PREDATORY MITE EUSEIUS FINLANDICUS (PHYTOSEIIDAE)

 

Quintero M.T., M. Itza, G. Juarez, A. Eleno

                        SEASONALITY IN THE DIFFERENT PHASES OF MEGNINIA GINGLYMURA DEVELOPMENT DURING ONE YEAR IN A YUCATAN STATE HEN FARM

 

Raga, Adalton, Jeferson Luiz de Carvalho Mineiro, Joaquim Adelino de Azevedo Filho, Luiz Henrique Chorfi Berton, Mário Eidi Sato

                        COFFEE MITE FAUNA (COFFEA ARABICA L. CV. MUNDO NOVO) UNDER DIFFERENT CHEMICAL TREATMENTS

 

Rahmani, H., K. Kamali, A.R. Saboori, J. Noozari

                        MORPHOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF VARROA SP. (VARROIDAE) COLLECTED FROM APIARIES OF TEHRAN PROVINCE, IRAN

 

Ramos, Mayra, Manuel Hernández, Ileana Miranda, Miriam Fernández

                        INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION OF PHOTOSEIID MITES (PHYTOSEIIDAE) IN A LEMON ORCHARD IN CUBA

 

Rojas, Lérida Almaguel, María F. Sandoval Gutierrez

                        STENEOTARSONEMUS SPINKI SMILEY (TARSONEMIDAE), MORPHOLOGICAL ANOMALY OF THE ADULTS

 

Sánchez, Carlos, Neycy Valera, Carlos Vásquez

                        FAMILY DiversiTY OF ACAROFAUNA ASSOCIATED TO LITTER FROM TWO VEGETATION ZONES AT THE UNIVERSITY PARK U.C.L.A., VENEZUELA

 

Schaefer, Ina, Katja Domes, Mark Maraun, Stefan Scheu

                        DIFFERENT GENES ANSWER DIFFERENT QUESTIONS IN ORIBATID MITES (ORIBATIDA)

 

Schwaha, Thomas, Manfred G. Walzl

                        THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF SANCASSANIA BERLESEI (MICHAEL, 1903) (ACARIDAE, ACTINEDIDA)

 

Seifori, M., A. Saboori, R. Vafai Shooshtari

                        A FAUNISTIC SURVEY OF EVIPHIDOID (MESOSTIGMATA: EVIPHIDOIDEA) MITE IN THE SOIL OF ARAK REGION, MARKAZI PROVINCE

 

Silva, Edmilson S., Gilberto J. de Moraes, Luciana O. da Silva

                        LIFE TABLE OF PROTOGAMASELLOPSIS DIOSCORUS (RHODACARIDAE)

 

Skaloudova, Barbora, Rostislav Zemek, Vlastimil Krivan

                        DENSITY- AND TRAIT-MEDIATED INDIRECT INTERACTIONS IN A TRI-TROPHIC ACARINE SYSTEM

 

Vazquez, Ma. Magdalena, Hans Klompen

                        NEW RECORDS OF UROPODINA FROM MEXICO, GUATEMALA, BELIZE AND COSTA RICA

 

Vazquez, Ma. Magdalena, Hans Klompen

                        FEEDING MODES IN OPILIOACARIDAE: PREDATORS, OPPORTUNISTS OR DETRITIVORES?

 

Wegener, A., G. Alberti

                        EFFECTS ON THE GAMASID FAUNA (ARACHNIDA) AFTER A WIND THROW EVENT IN THE FOREST OF THE PENINSULA DARß (MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN, GERMANY)

 

WEDNESDAY 23 AUGUST

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                       Wed 23, Auditorium

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Organizers: Rachid Hanna (International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Cotonou, Benin), David G. James (Washington State University, Prosser, USA)

 

09:00 – 09:20    Markus Knapp, Gilberto J. de Moraes, Komi K.M. Fiaboe, Imeuda P. Furtado

                        (International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya)

                        BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF TETRANYCHUS EVANSI IN AFRICA

 

09:20 – 09:40    Karel Bolckmans

                        (Koppert BV, Berkel en Rodenrijs, The Netherlands)

                        BIOCONTROL OF MULTIPLE PESTS IN GLASSHOUSES WITH AMBLYSEIUS SWIRSKII

 

09:40 – 10:00    Tim Grout, Eddie Ueckermann

                        (Citrus Research International, Nelspruit, South Africa)

                        MANAGING MITES ON CITRUS IN AFRICA

 

10:00 – 10:20    Mohammed Badii, L.J. Peña, G. Ponce, J. Landeros

                        (UANL, San Nicolas, N.L. Mexico)

                        BIOLOGICAL CONTROL POTENTIAL OF EUSEIUS MESEMBRINUS ON CITRUS

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    Carlo Duso, Serge Kreiter, Marie-Stephane Garcin, Alberto Pozzebon, Valeria Malagnini

                        (University of Padova, Italy)

                        BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF MITES IN EUROPEAN VINEYARDS WITH EMPHASIS ON THE ROLE OF NATURAL VEGETATION

 

11:20 – 11:40    Noubar Bostanian, Gaettan Racette, Jacques Lasnier

                        (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Quebec, Canada)

                        BIOCONTROL OF PHYTOPHAGOUS MITES IN QUEBEC APPLE ORCHARDS

 

11:40 – 12:00    Paul C.J. van Rijn

                        (Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Heteren, The Netherlands)

                        PLANT-PROVIDED FOOD FOR PREDATORS AND BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF MITE PESTS

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH

 

14:00 – 14:40    James McMurtry

                        (Sunriver, Oregon, USA)

                        CONCEPTS OF CLASSIFICATION OF THE PHYTOSEIIDAE: RELEVANCE TO BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF MITES

 

14:40 – 15:20    Frank Zalom

                        (University of California, Davis, USA)

                        INTEGRATING PESTICIDES AND BIOCONTROL OF MITES

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:40    David James, Sandra Castle del Conte, Tanya S. Price, Tessa R. Grasswitz, Lawrence C. Wright, Victor Reyna, Oscar Garicia, Joe Perez

                        (Washington State University, Prosser, USA)

                        MANIPULATING PLANT-ARTHROPOD CONVERSATIONS TO IMPROVE CONSERVATION BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF MITES

 

16:40 – 17:20    Rachid Hanna, Alexis Onzo, J. Steve Yaninek, Muaka Toko, Gilberto J. de Moraes, Maurice W. Sabelis, Marcel Dicke, Ignace Zannou, Desire Gnanvossou, Fabien Hountondji, Nazer Famah, Christine Zundel

                        (International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Cotonou, Benin)

                        CLASSICAL BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF CASSAVA GREEN MITES IN AFRICA – PRESENT STATUS AND LESSONS LEARNED

 

17:20 – 19:00  POSTER SESSION 2 AND DRINKS                                                                      Wed 23, Auditorium

 

Akrami, Mohammad Ali, Ali Eslami, Alireza Saboori

                        GALUMNA IRANENSIS MAHUNKA & AKRAMI, 2001 (ORIBATIDA: GALUMNIDAE) AS INTERMEDIATE HOST OF TAPEWORMS OF THE FAMILY ANOPLOCEPHALIDAE FROM IRAN

 

Arbabi, Masoud, Janardan Singh

                        BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF PHYTOSEIID MITES IN RELATION TO THEIR PREY MITES IN VARANASI REGION

 

Arjmandi Nejad A.R., H. Ostovan, S. Ramroodi, M.R. Naroui Rad

                        BIODIVERSITY OF EDAPHIC MITES IN SISTAN REGION

 

Asadi, Mahdieh, A. Saboori, V. Pesic, M. Khalili

                        WATER MITE FAUNA (HYDRACHNIDIA) OF KERMAN PROVINCE (SE IRAN)

 

Belgheiszadeh, Hamid, Mohammad Abdigoudarzi, Nakisa Maghsoodi

                        STUDY OF FIFTY CASES WITH ASTHMA AND RESPIRATORY ALLERGY DUE TO HOUSE DUST MITES

 

Bylino, Oleg V., Andrei V. Tolstikov

                        COMMUNITIES OF GAMASID MITES ON SMALL MAMMALS IN VARIOUS CITY LOCATIONS

 

Chmielewski, Wit

                        BIONOMICS OF CALOGLYPHUS BERLESEI (ACARIDAE) ACCOMPANYING MUTE SWANS, CYGNUS OLOR IN THEIR NESTS

 

Coetzee, Louise

                        SPECIES OR MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION?

 

De la Torre Santana, Pedro Enrique

                        Lists of phytophagous mites in Cuba

 

Ebermann, Ernst

                        SPOROPHAGY, A UNIQUE FEEDING BEHAVIOUR IN THE MITE FAMILY SCUTACARIDAE (HETEROSTIGMATA)

 

Fenda, Peter

                        MITES (MESOSTIGMATA) IN THE NESTS OF BIRDS IN SLOVAKIA

 

González-Castillo, María P., Manuel Quintos-Escalante

                        APPLES MITE POPULATION STUDY IN DURANGO STATE, MEXICO

 

Gryziak, Grzegorz, Grzegorz Makulec

                        ENGINEERING EARTHWORMS AND PLANTS VS. ORIBATID MITES: IN SEARCH OF SOIL BIODIVERSITY PATTERNS

 

Hardman, John Michael, Klaus I.N. Jensen, Jeffrey L. Franklin, Debra L. Moreau

                        EFFECTS OF DISPERSAL, TYPHLODROMUS PYRI, WEATHER, AND GROUND COVER TREATMENTS ON POPULATIONS OF TETRANYCHUS URTICAE IN APPLE ORCHARDS

 

Hernández, Manuel, Rocío Larramendy, Basilio Szczypel, Ileana Miranda, Mayra Ramos

                        POPULATION DYNAMICS OF THE PARASITIC mite, MEGNINIA GINGLYMURA (MEGNIN) (ANALGIDAE): MODELLING CRITERIA

 

Kamali, Maryam, Kh. Jafari, J. Rafie Nejad, H.R. Basseri

                        EDAPHIC PROSTIGMATID MITES (PROSTIGMATA) FROM NORTHERN TEHRAN

 

Keijl, Guido O., Erik J. van Nieukerken, Eulàlia Gassó i Miracle

                        NATURALIS: A MITY COLLECTION

 

Khademi, N., A. Saboori, F. Faraji

                        FAUNA OF MESOSTIGMATA IN CITRUS ORCHARDS IN JAHROM REGION (IRAN)

 

Khademi, N., A. Saboori, E.A. Ueckermann

                        FAUNA OF PROSTIGMATA IN CITRUS ORCHARDS IN JAHROM REGION (IRAN)

 

Kheradpir, Neda, Jafar Khalghani, Hadi Ostovan, Mohammad Reza Rezapanah

                        THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THREE CUCUMBER CULTIVAR HYBRIDS AND STETHORUS GILVIFRONS MULSANT TO CONTROL TETRANYCHUS URTICAE KOCH

 

Kianpour, R., Y. Fathipour, K. Kamali, J. Hajizadeh

                        A PARTIAL LIST OF LADY BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: COCCINELLIDAE) PREYING UPON TETRANYCHUS URTICAE (TETRANYCHIDAE) IN TEHRAN AREA, IRAN

 

Kreibich, E., C. Grauf, S. Strauch

                        CHANGES OF THE ORIBATID COMMUNITY AFTER THE OCCURRENCE OF A WIND THROW EVENT

 

Krisper, G., T. Pfingstl, S. Schäffer

                        THE BORDER OF THE CAMEROSTOME - OFTEN NEGLECTED, NEVERTHELESS A SOURCE OF VALUABLE CHARACTERS

 

Mejía Recamier, Blanca Estela, Gabriela Castaño-Meneses

                        DISTRIBUTION OF DEVELOPMENT STAGES IN EDAPHIC CUNAXID MITES IN A DECIDUOUS DRY FOREST IN CHAMELA, JALISCO, MEXICO

 

Mourek, Jan

                        ONTOGENY AND DISTRIBUTION OF CEROTEGUMENT IN SELECTED SPECIES OF DAMAEUS SENSU LATO (ORIBATIDA: DAMAEIDAE)

 

Mourek, Jan, Ladislav Miko

                        QUESTIONS ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FAMULUS ONTOGENY FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF DAMAEIDAE (ORIBATIDA)

 

Nowak, Magdalena

                        LOCALIZATION OF TICKS OF THE GENUS AMBLYOMMA (IXODIDA) ON THE BODIES OF HOSTS: PYTHON REGIUS AND VARANUS EXANTHEMATICUS (REPTILIA)

 

Ogrzewalska, M., F. Ferreira, A. Uezu, M.B. Labruna

                        THE EFFECT OF THE FOREST FRAGMENTATION ON THE INFESTATION OF WILD BIRDS WITH TICKS FROM THE ATLANTIC FOREST, PONTAL DO PARANAPANEMA, STATE OF SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL

 

Onofrio, Valeria Castilho, Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti, Lorenza Beati, João Luiz Horácio Faccini, Marcelo Bahia Labruna

                        REDESCRIPTION OF AMBLYOMMA VARIUM KOCH, 1844 (IXODIDAE) BASED ON LIGHT AND SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

 

Postawa, Tomasz, Agnieszka Szubert, Hanna Ferenc

                        DIVERSITY OF SPINTURNICID MITES (GAMASIDA) POPULATION IN NATURAL AND ANTROPOGENIC SHELTERS OF MYOTIS MYOTIS AND MYOTIS BLYTHII

 

Rahmani, Shima, Alireza Saboori, Eddie Ueckermann, Fariba Ardeshir

                        FAUNA OF PHYTOSEIID MITES (MESOSTIGMATA) IN ORCHARDS OF KARAJ REGION (IRAN)

 

Ramroodi, S., A.R. Shariari, A.R. Arjmandi Nejad

                        INVESTIGATION ON THE FAUNA OF MULBERRY MITES AND NATURAL ENEMIES IN GUILAN PROVINCE

 

Rubio-Hernández, Susana, Griselda Montiel-Parra, Margarita Vargas

                        MITES ASSOCIATED TO SHREWS MEXICANS

 

Sanatgar, E., A. Saboori, R. Vafaei, V. Pesic

                        FAUNA OF WATER MITES (HYDRACARINA) IN MARKAZI PROVINCE, IRAN

 

Sato, Mário Eidi, Marcos Zatti da Silva, Miguel Francisco de Souza Filho, André Luís Matioli, Adalton Raga

                        MANAGEMENT OF TETRANYCHUS URTICAE KOCH (TETRANYCHIDAE) IN STRAWBERRY FIELDS USING NEOSEIULUS CALIFORNICUS (MCGREGOR) (PHYTOSEIIDAE) AND ACARICIDES

 

Serejo, Margarida S.S., Lorenza Beati

                        RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS AND R. TURANICUS (IXODIDAE): CONSIDERING THEIR FUZZY TAXONOMIC STATUS

 

Singh, R.N.

                        DEVELOPMENT OF PACKAGE FOR MANAGEMENT OF PLANT FEEDING MITES, TETRANYCHUS URTICAE KOCH AND TETRANYCHUS LUDENI ZACHER ON OKRA AND COWPEA CROPS

 

Skoracka, Anna

                        RESTRICTED GENE FLOW BETWEEN HOST POPULATIONS OF THE CEREAL RUST MITE, ABACARUS HYSTRIX

 

Soila Maribel, Gaxiola Camacho, María Teresa Quintero Martínez, Nohemí Castro del Campo, Borbolla Ibarra Jaime Eleazar

                        DISTRIBUTION OF THE BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS (IXODIDAE) TICK ON CATTLE IN CULIACAN, SINALOA, MEXICO

 

Taghizadeh, R., Y. Fathipour, K. Kamali

                        THERMAL REQUIREMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF STETHORUS GILVIFRONS (COLEOPTERA: COCCINELLIDAE) ON TETRANYCHUS URTICAE (TETRANYCHIDAE)

 

Tolstikov, A.V., E.S. Babushkin

                        LITTORAL MITE COMMUNITIES IN THE MID-URALS COOLING WATER BODIES

 

Uppstrom, Kaitlin, Matt Corriveau, Hans Klompen

                        SEVEN FIXATIVES AND THEIR EFFECT ON DNA AMPLIFICATION

 

Yu, Lichen, Changxi Xu, Limin He, Guangyu Qiao

                        SUCCESSION OF TETRANYCHUS URTICAE AND INHITING MITES IN APPLY ORCHARD

 

Zemek, Rostislav, Edwin A.P. Bouman, Frantisek Dusbabek

                        SEARCHING FOR MATES IN SHEEP TICK, IXODES RICINUS: ARE FEMALE CUES INVOLVED?

 

THURSDAY 24 AUGUST

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                        Thu 24, Auditorium

PHYSIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF TICKS

Organizers: Lewis B. Coons (University of Memphis, Memphis, USA), Daniel Sonenshine (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA)

 

09:00 – 09:20    Andrew Y. Li

                        (USDA-ARS, Kerrville, Texas, USA)

                        ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGICAL MODULATION OF THE PHARYNGEAL PUMP AND FEEDING IN AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM

 

09:20 – 09:40    L. Grubhoffer, M. Vancova, O. Hajdusek, V. Kovar, N. Rudenko

                        (University of South Bohemia, Česke Budějovice, Czech Republic)

                        GLYCOBIOLOGY OF THE SHEEP TICK, IXODES RICINUS: GLYCANS, LECTINS AND CHITINASES

 

09:40 – 10:00    R. Michael Roe, Sayed M.S. Khalil, Laura A. Jeffers, Robert D. Mitchell, Charles S. Apperson, Daniel E. Sonenshine

                        (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA)

                        HORMONAL REGULATION OF RERODUCTION IN TICKS: A NEW PERSPECTIVE

 

10:00 – 10:20    Jennifer Anderson, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Jesus Valenzuela

                        (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, USA)

                        EXPLORING THE TRANSCRIPTOME OF THE MIDGUT OF THE TICKS DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    Judith Cole, Zachary Nahmias, Derrick Butler, Carolyn Kramer, Lewis B. Coons

                        (University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA)

                        REGULATION OF HOST CELL SIGNALING IN THE TICK FEEDING LESION

 

11:20 – 11:40    Robert Blaudow, Judy Cole, Lewis Coons

                        (University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA)

                        CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE CROSS-REGULATION IN SALIVARY GLAND HOMOGENATES OF PARTIALLY FED FEMALE DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS

 

11:40 – 12:00    S.A. Lees, K. Lees, S.A.M. Martin, D.J. Woods, Alan S. Bowman

                        (University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK)

                        IDENTIFYING DRUG TARGETS IN TICKS: A TALE OF TWO TISSUES

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH

 

14:00 – 14:40    Patricia Nuttall

                        (NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford, UK)

                        DRUGS FROM TICKS

 

14:40 – 15:20    Yoshiro Nakajima, DeMar Taylor, Minoru Yamakawa

                        (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

                        DEFENSIN GENES AND THEIR REGULATION IN ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA (ARGASIDAE)

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:40    Miles Nunn, Pietro Roversi, Guido Paesen, Olga Lissina, Nurfilza Ahmat, Patricia Nuttall, Susan Lea

                        (NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford, UK)

                        MECHANISMS OF COMPLEMENT INHIBITION BY FEEDING TICKS

 

16:40 – 17:20    Guido Paesen

                        (NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford, UK)

                        TICK LIPOCALINS

 

17:20 – 19:00  POSTER SESSION 3 AND DRINKS                                                 Thu 24, Auditorium

 

Abbasipour, Habib, A. Taghavi, K. Kamali

                        A FAUNAL STUDY OF MITES ASSOCIATED WITH TEA GARDENS IN THE NORTH OF IRAN

 

Abdigoudarzi, M., Abolfaz Akbari, Alireza Saboori

                        A REPORT OF LEPTUS SP. (ERYTHRAEIDAE) AS ECTOPARASITES OF FIELD COLLECTED SCORPIONS (BUTHIDAE) OF IRAN

 

Akgünlü, Fatma Zehra, Hilal Aydin, Mehmet Oktay Gürkan

                        SUSCEPTIBILITY OF DIFFERENT TWO-SPOTTED SPIDER MITE field populations (TETRANYCHUS URTICAE) (TETRANYCHIDAE) FROM TURKEY TO THREE INSECTICIDE-ACARICIDE PYRETHROIDS

 

Ali, Shaukat, Muhammad Afzal, Muhammad Hamid Bashir

                        CONTROL OF PYEMOTES TRITICI (PYEMOTIDAE) BY USING DICOFOL 18.5 EC IN BIOLOGICAL CONTROL LABORATORIES

 

Arbabi, Masoud, P. Baradaran, V.A. Ranjbar

                        STUDY AND COMPARING RESISTANCE POMEGRANATE VariETIES TO MITE ABUNDANCE OF TENUIPALPUS PUNICAE P. AND B IN SAVEH REGION IN IRAN

 

Arbabi, M., S.M. Hosseini, M . Taghizadeh, Gh.A. Amin, A.M. Pourgaze

                        DETERMINATION OF DOMINANT WEB SPIDER MITE SPECIES AND THEIR PREDATORY MITES FROM IMPORTANT COTTON GROWING AREA IN IRAN

 

Arbabi, M., H. Bayat-Asadi, A.M. Pourgaze, A. Heydari

                        POPULATION ABUNDANCE OF TETRANYCHUS TURKESTANI (U. & N.) (TETRANYCHIDAE) OF DIFFERENT COTTON VARIETIES IN GHOLESTAN PROVINCE OF IRAN

 

Baradaran, Parvaneh, Masoud Arbabi

                        PRONEMATUS UBIQUITUS (McGREGOR, 1932) POPULATION ABUNDANCE ON DIFFERENT FIG VARIETIES FROM IRAN

 

Baradaran Anaraki, P., Gh. Akbarzadeh Shokat, M. Arbabi, S.B. Djavadi, N. Jaliani

                        STUDY PLANT MITE FAUNA (INJURIOUS AND PEDACIOUS) ON WEED PLANTS IN POME FRUITS ORCHARDS OF TEHRAN AND WEST AZARBAIJAN PROVINCES

 

Barros-Battesti, Darci M., Marcelo B. Labruna, Valeria C. Onofrio, Ana D. Arruda-Santos, Flávia G. Giacomin, Clarice P.M. Espindola

                        DESCRIPTION OF LARVA AND NYMPH OF IXODES SCHULZEI ARAGÃO & FONSECA, 1951 (IXODIDAE), AN ENDEMIC TICK IN BRAZIL

 

Bhardwaj, S.P., S. Bhardwaj

                        MANAGEMENT OF EUROPEAN RED MITE ON APPLE WITH HORTICULTURE MINERAL OILS IN INDIA - A NEW APPROACH

 

Chaires-Grijalva, M. Patricia, Edith G. Estrada-Venegas, A. Equihua-Martinez

                        MITES OF THE FAMILY PARASITIDAE ASSOCIATES TO GARLIC CROP IN GUANAJUATO, MEXICO

 

Chmielewski, Wit

                        NEW PLACES OF OCCURRENCE OF HEMIPTEROSEIUS ADLERI PARASITIC ON PYRRHOCORIS APTERUS IN EUROPE

 

da Silva Barbieri, Fábio, Luciana Gatto Brito, Kátia Maria Famadas, Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti, Marcelo Bahia Labruna, Luis Marcelo Aranha Camargo

                        REDESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OF AMBLYOMMA DUBITATUM NEUMANN, 1899 (IXODIDAE) BY LIGHT AND SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

 

de Coss, Martha, G. Otero-Colina, J.E. Peña, R. Magallanes

                        DEMOGRAPHIC AND REPRODUCTIVE PARAMETERS OF POLYPHAGOTARSONEMUS LATUS (BANKS) IN CARICA PAPAYA L.

 

Donohue, K.V., S.M.S. Khalil, D.E. Sonenshine, R.M. Roe

                        CLONING AND SEQUENCING OF THE MAJOR HEMELIPOGLYCOPROTEIN IN THE AMERICAN DOG TICK, DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS (SAY)

 

Ford, H.L., C.G.M. Conijn, B.B. Thind

                        DETECTION OF LOW LEVEL MITE INFESTATIONS OF FLOWER BULBS USING BT MITE TRAPS

 

Gotoh, Tetsuo, Jun Sugasawa, Hiroaki Noda, Yasuki Kitashima

                        WOLBACHIA-INDUCED CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY IN JAPANESE POPULATIONS OF TETRANYCHUS URTICAE

 

Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza, Anne M. Camerik, Karim Kamali

                        REVIEW OF THE MITE FAUNA OF GENUS PEDICULASTER VITZTHUM, 1931 (HETEROSTIGMATA, SITEROPTIDAE) IN IRAN

 

Kazemi, S., K. Kamali

                        NEW RECORD OF MITES (ASTIGMATA, MESOSTIGMATA, PROSTIGMATA) ASSOCIATED WITH BOMBUS ARGILLACEUS (SCOPOLI) (HYM.: APOIDEA) FROM IRAN

 

Khalil, S.M.S., D.M. Thompson, D.E. Sonenshine, R.M. Roe

                        FULL-LENGTH SEQUENCE AND TISSUE EXPRESSION OF VITELLOGENIN GENE FROM THE AMERICAN DOG TICK, DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS

 

Kula, Emanuel, Ivan Buchta, Petr Hrdličk, Bořivoj Klejdus, Karel Drápela

                        RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEAF CHEMISTRY AND OCCURRENCE OF GALL MITES (ERIOPHYIDAE)

 

Kundu, Jiban K., Jan Šobotník, Iva Kudlíková, Jan Hubert

                        VIRUSES IN DIGESTIVE TRACT OF STORED PRODUCT MITES ACARUS SIRO AND LEPIDOGLYPHUS DESTRUCTOR (ACARIDIDA)

 

Landeros, J., C. Ail, M.H. Badii, E. Guerrero, E. Cerna

                        SUSCEPTIBILITY AND MECHANISMS OF RESISTANCE OF TETRANYCHUS URTICAE KOCH (TETRANYCHIDAE) OF ROSES OF GREENHOUSE

 

Landeros, J., R. Flores, M.H. Badii, E. Cerna

                        SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND EFFECT OF DIFFERENT DENSITIES OF THE TETRANYCHUS URTICAE ON NUMBER, DIAMETER AND LENGTH OF THE STEM AND FLOWER BUD, IN ROSES UNDER GREENHOUSE CONDITIONS

 

Lebdi-Grissa, Kaouthar, Arwa Khoufi

                        ACARI ON CITRUS IN ORCHARDS IN TUNISIA

 

Matioli, A.L., E.A. Ueckermann, C.A.L. de Oliveira

                        SOME STIGMAEID AND EUPALOPSELLID MITES FROM CITRUS ORCHARDS IN SÃO PAULO STATE, BRAZIL (STIGMAEIDAE: EUPALOPSELLIDAE)

 

Migeon, Alain, Elodie Nouguier, Franck Dorkeld

                        SPIDER MITES WEB: A COMPREHENSIVE DATABASE FOR THE TETRANYCHIDAE

 

Montiel-Parra, Griselda, Carmen Guzmán-Cornejo, José Luis Castelo-Calvillo, Tila M. Pérez

                        PARASITIC MITES ON HARVESTMEN (ARACHNIDA: OPILIONES) FROM MEXICO

 

Moser, John C., Heino Konrad, Thomas Kirisits

                        DO MITES PHORETIC ON ELM BARK BEETLES CONTRIBUTE TO TRANSMISSION OF DUTCH ELM DISEASE?

 

Nachappa, Punya, David C. Margolies, James R. Nechols, Thomas Loughin

                        PHYTOSEIULUS PERSIMILIS RESPONSE TO HERBIVORE-INDUCED PLANT VOLATILES AS A FUNCTION OF MITE-DAYS

 

Navia, Denise, Letícia Calvoso Miranda, Carlos H.W. Flechtmann

                        NEW RECORDS OF ERIOPHYID MITES ASSOCIATED WITH ORNAMENTAL PLANTS IN BRAZIL

 

Navia, Denise, Gilberto J. de Moraes, Ranyse B. Querino

                        GEOGRAPHIC PATTERN OF MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION OF THE COCONUT MITE, ACERIA GUERRERONIS KEIFER (ERIOPHYIDAE): A GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS

 

Nazzi Francesco, Norberto Milani, Igor Saccon

                        A BIOASSAY TO ASSESS THE ACTIVITY OF REPELLENT SUBSTANCES ON IXODES RICINUS NYMPHS

 

Oliveira, Anibal R., Gilberto J. de Moraes, Roy A. Norton, Heinrich Schatz

                        A CATALOG OF THE ORIBATID MITE SPECIES OF BRAZIL (ORIBATIDA)

 

Palevsky, E., S. Gal, A. Walzer, P. Schausberger

                        EVALUATION OF ARID ADAPTED STRAINS OF THE PREDATORY MITE, NEOSEIULUS CALIFORNICUS, FOR SPIDER MITE CONTROL ON CUCUMBER, STRAWBERRY AND PEPPER

 

Pecinar, I., B. Stevanovic, B.G. Rector, R. Petanovic

                        ANALYSIS OF INJURY CAUSED BY LEIPOTHRIX DIPSACIVAGUS, A CANDIDATE FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF TEASELS

 

Penttinen, R., E. Gordeeva

                        THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES OF THE GENUS COSMOCHTHONIUS BERLESE, 1910 ON THE EASTERN PART OF MEDITERRANEAN AREA AND SOME PARTS OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION

 

Pérez-Santiago, G., G. Otero-Colina, V.A. González Hernández, M.E. Ramírez Guzmán, López Jiménez

                        EFFECT OF DIFFERENT POPULATION LEVELS OF EOTETRANYCHUS LEWISI ON THE CONCENTRATION OF CARBOHYDRATES IN PEACH TREES

 

Rebelles Reis, Paulo, Marçal Pedro Neto, Adenir Vieira Teodoro

                        BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF AMBLYSEIUS COMPOSITUS FED ON BREVIPALPUS PHOENICIS

 

Roe, R. Michael, Kevin V. Donohue, Allen Jones, Matthew Vanderherchen, Charles S. Apperson, Matthew Isherwood, Russell Linderman

                        DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL ALL NATURAL TICK AND INSECT REPELLENT, BIOUD, AS A DEET REPLACEMENT AND FOR USE ON COTTON FABRIC

 

Rojas, Lérida Almaguel, E. Pérez Montesbravo, Zuleika Martínez Gutiérrez, L. Raúl Machado, Dawn Suarez

                        MITES ASSOCIATED TO STORED FOOD IN CUBA

 

Rudenko, N., M. Golovchenko, L. Grubhoffer

                        IDENTIFICATION AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL DEFENSIN GENE: THE FIRST ANNOTATION OF TWO ISOFORMS AND THE PRESENCE OF INTRONS IN GENOMIC SEQUENCE OF HARD TICK IXODES RICINUS

 

Rudenko, N., M. Golovchenko, T. Matějovská, L. Grubhoffer

                        TWO IMMUNODOMINANT ANTIGENS, SALP 14 AND SALP 15, IN ENGORGED SALIVARY GLANDS OF HARD TICK IXODES RICINUS AND THEIR ROLE IN TICK IMMUNITY

 

Sarmento, R.A., F. Lemos, A. Janssen, A. Pallini, N.R. Moreira, M.A. Goreti

                        HERBIVORES USING ODOURS TO DETERMINE THE LEVEL OF PLANT DEFENSE

 

Sharma, Sangita, S.P. Bhardwaj, Meena Thakur

                        EFFECT OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF NITROGEN, PHOSPHORUS AND POTASH ON POPULATION FLUCTUATION OF EUROPEAN RED MITE (PANONYCHUS ULMI) ON APPLE

 

Shirdel, D., K. Kamali, H. Ostovan, M. Arbabi

                        INTRODUCTION OF SOME PREDATORY MITE SPECIES OF PHYTOSEIIDAE FROM EAST AZARBAIJAN PROVINCE OF IRAN

 

Simoni, S., A. Walzer, M. Castagnoli, M. Liguori, E. Palevsky, P. Schausberger

                        STRAIN RANKING OF NEOSEIULUS CALIFORNICUS ON THE BASIS OF DEMOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS AT LOW HUMIDITIES

 

Siuda, Krzysztof, Magdalena Nowak

                        FAUNA OF TICKS (IXODIDA) OF POLISH CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS

 

Stejskal, Václav, Gamila Asbaly, Zuzana Műnzbergová, Jan Hubert

                        THE TOXICITY OF BEAN FLOUR (PHASEOLUS VULGARIS) TO STORED PRODUCT MITES (ACARIDIDA)

 

Vargas, Margarita, Guadalupe Gordillo-Pérez, Fortino Solórzano-Santos, Alejandra Rivera, Polaco J. Oscar, Muñóz Onofre, Javier Torres

                        EVIDENCES OF BORRELIA BURGDORFERI SENSU STRICTO INFECTION IN TICKS FROM THE NORTHEAST OF MEXICO

 

Vásquez, Carlos, Jose Morales, Orlando Aponte

                        POPULATION FLUCTUATION OF OLIGONYCHUS PUNICAE (HIRST) (TETRANYCHIDAE) AND ASSOCIATED PREDATORS ON SIX GRAPEVINE CULTIVARS

 

Vásquez, Carlos, Orlando Aponte, María E. Sanabria, Grisaly García

                        BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF OLIGONYCHUS PUNICAE (HIRST) (TETRANYCHIDAE) IN SIX GRAPEVINE CULTIVARS

 

Villegas-Guzman, Gabriel A., Tila M. Pérez, Pedro Reyes-Castillo

                        ASSOCIATED MITES WITH PASSALUS (PERTINAX) COGNATUS (COLEOPTERA: PASSALIDAE)

 

Walzer, A, M. Castagnoli, S. Simoni, M. Liguori, E. Palevsky, P. Schausberger

                        LIFE HISTORY OF NEOSEIULUS CALIFORNICUS AT LOW HUMIDITIES AND IDENTIFICATION OF A DRY-ADAPTED STRAIN

 

Zhang, Yan-Xuan, Ji Jie, Fu-Tang Wang, Xia Chen, Fang Chen

                        STUDIES ON THE FECUNDITY POTENTIAL OF TETRANYCHUS TURKESTANI (TETRANYCHIDAE)

 

FRIDAY 25 AUGUST

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                          Fri 25, Auditorium

CHEMICAL ECOLOGY OF MITES AND TICKS

Organizers: David G. James (Washington State University, Washington, USA), Junji Takabayashi (Kyoto University, Otsu, Shiga, Japan)

 

09:00 – 09:20    Günther Raspotnig

                        (Karl-Franzens-University, Graz, Austria)

                        THE SCENTED MITES – OIL GLAND SECRETIONS IN ORIBATIDA

 

09:20 – 09:40    Daniel E. Sonenshine

                        (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA)

                        MATING BEHAVIOR IN THE BLACK-LEGGED TICK, IXODES SCAPULARIS: EVIDENCE FOR A SEX PHEROMONE AND ITS CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS

 

09:40 – 10:00    Ryo Matsushima, Rika Ozawa, Masayoshi Uefune, Tetsuo Gotoh, Junji Takabayashi

                        (Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Shiga, Japan)

                        INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN THE KANZAWA SPIDER MITE DIFFERENTIALLY AFFECTS THE INDUCED DEFENSE RESPONSE IN LIMA BEAN PLANTS

 

10:00 – 10:20    Merijn R. Kant, Maurice W. Sabelis, Michel A. Haring, Robert C. Schuurink

                        (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                        INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN TETRANYCHUS URTICAE DETERMINES THE MODE AND ACTION OF INDUCED TOMATO DEFENSES

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    Yasuyuki Choh

                        (Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Shiga, Japan)

                        HERBIVORE-INDUCED PLANT VOLATILES PRIME TWO INDIRECT DEFENCES IN LIMA BEAN PLANTS

 

11:20 – 11:40    Mor Grinberg, Jeyasankar Alagarmalai, Eric Palevsky, Rafael Perl-Treves, Victoria Soroker

                        (The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel)

                        ROLE OF JASMONIC ACID SIGNALING IN TOMATO DEFENSE AGAINST BROAD MITE, POLYPHAGOTARSONEMUS LATUS (TARSONEMIDAE)

 

11:40 – 12:00    Michiel van Wijk, Paulien A. de Bruijn, Maurice W. Sabelis

                        (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                        THE ROLE AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF LEARNING IN OLFACTORY INFORMATION PROCESSING

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH

 

14:00 – 14:40    Patrick M. Guerin

                        (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)

                        LESSONS FROM RESEARCH IN TICK CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

 

14:40 – 15:20    Nayanie S. Aratchige, Izabela Lesna, Cor G.M. Conijn, Merijn Kant, Robert Schuurink, Maurice W. Sabelis

                        (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                        ETHYLENE MEDIATES ATTRACTIVENESS AND ACCESSIBILITY OF TULIP BULBS TO PREDATORY MITES

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:40    Iris Kappers, Asaph Aharoni, Maarten Jongsma, Marcel Dicke, Harro Bouwmeester

                        (Plant Research International, Wageningen, The Netherlands)

                        METABOLIC ENGINEERING OF TERPENE BIOSYNTHESIS AND CONSEQUENCES FOR PLANT-MITE INTERACTION

 

16:40 – 17:20    Marcel Dicke, Jetske G. de Boer, Conny Schütte, Paul Grostal

                        (University of Wageningen, The Netherlands)

                        THE ECOLOGY OF B.O. IN PLANT-MITE SYSTEMS

 

VENUE: DOELENZAAL (Lutherse kerk)

 

MONDAY 21 AUGUST

 

WORKSHOP                                                                                        Mon 21, Doelenzaal

TROPHIC INTERACTIONS IN THE SOIL

Organizer: Matty Berg (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

 

14:00 – 14:20    Katja Schneider

                        (TU Darmstadt, Institut für Zoologie, Germany)

                        INTERACTIONS OF ORIBATID MITES WITH FUNGI, EARTHWORMS AND PREDATORY MITES

 

14:20 – 14:40    Andrea Ruf, Christina Witt, Susi Pfeffer

                        (Department of Ecology, University of Bremen, Germany)

                        CHEMICAL SIGNALLING IN A BELOW-GROUND FOOD WEB

 

14:40 – 15:00    Andrei Zaitsev, Matthieu Chauvat and Volkmar Wolters

                        (Institute of Zoology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany)

                        CONVERSION TO ECOLOGICALLY-SOUND FOREST MANAGEMENT AFFECTS ORIBATID COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND DIVERSITY

 

15:00 – 15:20    Melanie Pollierer

                        (TU Darmstadt, Institut für Zoologie, Germany)

                        THE FLUX OF CARBON FROM TREES INTO THE SOIL ANIMAL FOOD WEB OF A TEMPERATE FOREST FED WITH CO2 DEPLETED IN 13C

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:20    Jaroslav Smrz

                        (Charles University Praha, Czech Republic)

                        DIFFERENT MICROHABITATS HARBOUR DIFFERENT ORIBATID COMMUNITIES: OF COURSE, BUT WHAT ABOUT THEIR NUTRITIONAL BIOLOGY?

 

16:20 – 16:40    Georgia Erdmann, Mark Maraun

                        (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Görlitz, Germany)

                        LIVING ON THE EDGE: TROPHIC STRUCTURE OF BARK-INHABITING ORIBATID MITES ANALYSED WITH STABLE ISOTOPES (15N; 13C) INDICATES STRONG NICHE DIFFERENTIATION

 

16:40 – 17:00    Qian-Qian Zhang, Qing-Hai Fan, Zi-Yi Wu

                        (Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China)

                        BIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES OF LASIOSEIUS SUGAWARAI (ASCIDAE) TO TYROPHAGUS PUTRESCENTIAE AND RHIZOGLYPHUS ECHINOPUS (ACARIDAE)

 

17:00 – 17:20    M.A. Haq

                        (Safi Institute of Advanced Study, Vazhayoor East, Malappuram, India)

                        ‘ORICULTURE’ AS A NEW TECHNOLOGY TO ORGANIC FARMING

 

TUESDAY 22 AUGUST

 

WORKSHOP                                                                                        Tue 22, Doelenzaal

IDENTIFYING, EVALUATING AND MASS REARING BIOCONTROL AGENTS FOR ACARINE PESTS OF TOMATO

Organizer: Eric Palevsky (ARO, Newe-Ya'ar Research Center, Ramat Yishay, Israel)

 

This workshop is open to invited participants only, those wishing to participate should contact Eric Palevsky (palevsky@volcani.agri.gov.il)

 

09:00 – 09:10    Eric Palevsky

                        (ARO, Newe-Ya'ar Research Center, Ramat Yishay, Israel)

                        A PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR AN INTEGRATED PROJECT ON: IDENTIFYING, EVALUATING AND MASS REARING BIOCONTROL AGENTS FOR ACARINE PESTS OF TOMATO

 

09:10 – 09:20    Eddie Ueckermann

                        (ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa)

                        SURVEY AND IDENTIFICATION OF PESTS AND PREDATORS ON TOMATO AND OTHER SOLANACEOUS PLANTS FROM SOUTH AMERICA, AFRICA, EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN

 

09:20 – 09:30    Francisco Jose Ferragut Perez

                        (Ecosistemas Agroforestales Universidad Politécnica, Valencia, Spain)

                        DEVELOPING SCREENING METHODS FOR THE EVALUATION OF PREDATION EFFICACY ON TOMATO, LEAF DISCS, STEM SECTIONS AND WHOLE PLANTS

 

09:30 – 09:40    Markus Knapp

                        (International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya)

                        NATURAL ENEMIES FROM BRAZIL AS POTENTIAL CONTROL AGENTS FOR TETRANYCHUS EVANSI

 

09:40 – 09:50    Maria Navajas, Alain Migeon

                        (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France)

                        MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF INVASIVE PESTS OF TOMATO

 

09:50 – 10:00    Peter Schausberger

                        (Institute of Plant Protection, University of Natural Resources & Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)

                        SORTING OUT THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF TOMATO ON A PREDATORY MITE

 

10:00 – 10:10    Sauro Simoni, Marisa Castagnoli

                        (CRA-Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Firenze, Italy)

                        PREDATOR EVALUATIONS ON COMMERCIAL AND TRANSGENIC TOMATOES

 

10:10 – 10:20    Gerben Messelink

                        (Applied Plant Research, Division Glasshouse Horticulture, Naaldwijk, The Netherlands)

                        EVALUATING PHYTOSEIID PREDATORY MITES ON GREENHOUSE CROPS

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:10    Italo Delalibera

                        (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil)

                        BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF TETRANYCHUS EVANSI WITH NEOZYGITES FLORIDANA

 

11:10 – 11:20    Karel Bolckmans

                        (Koppert BV, Berkel en Rodenrijs, The Netherlands)

                        IMPROVING BIOCONTROL AGENTS IN TOMATOES AS A KEY TO BIOCONTROL IN SOUTH EUROPE

 

11:20 – 11:30    Jeffrey Bale

                        (University of Birmingham, UK)

                        USE OF THERMAL DATA TO PREDICT ESTABLISHMENT OF NON-NATIVE BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS

 

11:30 – 12:00    GENERAL DISCUSSION

 

WEDNESDAY 23 AUGUST

 

WORKSHOP                                                                                       Wed 23, Doelenzaal

HOUSE DUST MITES

Chair: Bhushy Thind (Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York, UK)

 

09:00 – 09:20    Anne-Catherine Mailleux, Claire Detrain, Jean-Louis Deneubourg

                        (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

                        RECRUITMENT PROCESS DURING MIGRATION IN DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS

 

09:20 – 09:40    Amanda Skelton, Mary Cameron, Mike Birkett, John Pickett

                        (Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, UK)

                        HOUSE DUST MITE CONTROL: A POTENTIAL NEW SOLUTION!

 

09:40 – 10:00    V. Iraola, E. Fernández-Caldas

                        (Laboratorios LETI, S.L. Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain)

                        DOMESTIC MITES AND ALLERGEN LEVELS IN SPAIN

 

10:00 – 10:20    Tinghuan Wen

                        (Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, China)

                        NON-SPECIFIC MITE INFESTATIONS IN CHINA

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    Hussien A. Rezk

                        (Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt)

                        EVALUATION OF SOME ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AFFECTING THE POPULATION DENSITY OF HOUSE DUST MITES IN THE HOMES OF ASTHMATIC PATIENTS IN EGYPT

 

11:20 – 12:00    GENERAL DISCUSSION

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH BREAK

 

WORKSHOP                                                                                       Wed 23, Doelenzaal

FORENSIC ACAROLOGY

Organizers: Maria Alejandra Perotti (University of Wales, Bangor, UK), Lee Goff (Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii)

 

14:00 – 14:30    Lee Goff

                        (Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii)

                        DR. MAGGOT AND MR. WORM: PATTERNS OF HUMAN DECOMPOSITION

 

14:30 – 14:50    Crystal L. Frost

                        (University of Wales, Bangor, UK)

                        INDOOR MITES AND FORENSIC ACAROLOGY

 

14:50 – 15:10    Alejandra Perotti

                        (University of Wales, Bangor, UK)

                        PHORETIC MITES AND CARCASSES

 

15:10 – 15:30    Clifford E. Desch

                        (University of Connecticut, West Hartford, Connecticut, USA)

                        MITES ON HUMANS (DEMODEX)

 

15:30 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:20    Heather Proctor

                        (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)

                        AQUATIC MITES AS FORENSIC TOOLS?

 

16:20 – 16:40    Henk R. Braig

                        (University of Wales, Bangor, UK)

                        MOLECULAR TOOLS IN FORENSIC ACAROLOGY

 

16:40 – 17:20    Bryan D. Turner

                        (King's College London, UK)

                        ARTHROPODS, CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATIONS AND FORENSIC SCIENCE

 

THURSDAY 24 AUGUST

 

WORKSHOP                                                                                        Thu 24, Doelenzaal

MITES ASSOCIATED WITH COCONUT PALM

Organizers: Peter Schausberger (Institute of Plant Protection, University of Natural Resources & Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria), Rachid Hanna (International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Cotonou, Benin)

 

09:00                Peter Schausberger, Rachid Hanna

                        (Institute of Plant Protection, University of Natural Resources & Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)

                        INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKSHOP

 

09:00 – 09:20    Maria Navajas, Denise Navia, Gilberto José de Moraes

                        (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France)

                        AMERICAN ORIGIN OF THE COCONUT MITE ACERIA GUERRERONIS, SUGGESTED BY GENETIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE: IMPLICATIONS FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AND QUARANTINE MEASURES

 

09:20 – 09:40    L.M. Lawson-Balagbo, M.G.C. Gondim Jr, G.J. de Moraes, R. Hanna, P. Schausberger

                        (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil; Institute of Plant Protection, University of Natural Resources & Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)

                        OCCURRENCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE COCONUT MITE ACERIA GUERRERONIS AND ASSOCIATED NATURAL ENEMIES IN BRAZIL

 

09:40 – 10:00    Koffi Negloh, Rachid Hanna, Peter Schausberger

                        (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cotonou, Benin)

                        POPULATION DYNAMICS OF THE COCONUT MITE ACERIA GUERRERONIS AND ITS ASSOCIATED PREDATORS IN BENIN

 

10:00 – 10:20    L.C. Priyanthie Fernando, Nayanie S. Aratchige

                        (Coconut Research Institute, Luniwila, Sri Lanka)

                        STATUS OF COCONUT MITE ACERIA GUERRERONIS AND BIOLOGICAL CONTROL RESEARCH IN SRI LANKA

 

10:20 – 10:30    G. Mikunthan, M. Manjunatha

                        (University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka)

                        ACAROPATHOGENIC FUNGUS, FUSARIUM SP., A POTENTIAL BIOAGENT FOR CONTROLLING COCONUT MITE, ACERIA GUERRERONIS

 

10:30 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    L.C. Priyanthie Fernando, Steve Edgington, K. Jones

                        (Coconut Research Institute, Lunuwila, Sri Lanka)

                        THE NATURAL INCIDENCE AND BIOLOGICAL PROFILING OF HIRSUTELLA THOMPSONII FROM COCONUT MITE INFESTED AREAS OF SRI LANKA

 

11:20 – 11:30    B. Mallik, C. Chinnamade Gowda, N. Srinivasa, S.Onkarappa

                        (University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India)

                        MANAGEMENT OF THE COCONUT MITE, ACERIA GUERRERONIS: THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE

 

11:30 – 11:40    I.R. Wickramananda, A.F.L.K. Perera, S.R. Sarathchandra, H.J.M. Kusumasena

                        (Coconut Research Institute, Lunuwila, Sri Lanka)

                        MECHANISMS OF TOLERANCE OF COCOS NUCIFERA (L.) TO THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY COCONUT MITE ACERIA GUERRERONIS

 

11:40 – 12:00    Rachid Hanna, Peter Schausberger

                        (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cotonou, Benin)

                        SUMMARY: PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MANAGEMENT OPTIONS

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH BREAK

 

WORKSHOP                                                                                        Thu 24, Doelenzaal

BIOGEOGRAPHY

Chair: Valerie Behan-Pelletier (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

 

14:00 – 14:20    Valerie Behan-Pelletier, Jun Chen

                        (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

                        PATTERNS OF DIVERSITY IN THE CERATOZETOIDEA (ORIBATIDA): A GLOBAL ASSESSMENT

 

14:20 – 14:40    Tom Goldschmidt

                        (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)

                        THE WATER MITE GENUS TORRENTICOLA PIERSIG, 1896 (TORRENTICOLIDAE, HYDRACHNIDIA) IN COSTA RICA – DIVERSITY, DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY

 

14:40 – 15:00    Wojciech Niedbała

                        (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

                        PROTOPLOPHORIDAE (ORIBATIDA) OF THE WORLD

 

15:00 – 15:20    Arguitxu de la Riva-Caballero, Torstein Solhøy

                        (University of Bergen, Norway)

                        ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION AT KVITEVOLL, HALSNØY ISLAND, WESTERN NORWAY, 2004 – RESULTS FROM THE MITE ANALYSIS

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:20    Antonio Di Sabatino, Harry Smit, Reinhard Gerecke, Tom Goldschmidt, Noriko Matsumoto, Bruno Cicolani

                        (University of L’Aquila, Italy)

                        A GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF BIODIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTION OF WATER MITES (HYDRACHNIDIA)

 

16:20 – 16:40    M.-S. Tixier, S. Kreiter, G.J. de Moraes

                        (Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique / Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Montpellier, France)

                        contribution to the phylogeny and biogeography of the tribe kampimodromini in the family phytoseiidae (acari: mesostigmata)

 

16:40 – 16:50    Andrea J. Radwell, Ian M. Smith

                        (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA)

                        DIVERSITY OF WATER MITES (HYDRACHNIDIAE) IN UNGLACIATED REFUGIA OF NORTH AMERICA

 

16:50 – 17:00    Ritva Penttinen, Veikko Huhta

                        (University of Turku, Finland)

                        PTYCTIMA (ORIBATIDA) IN DIFFERENT HABITATS IN FINLAND

 

17:00 – 17:10    M. Abdigoudarzi, R. Hashemi-Fesharki, H. Paykari, Sh. Rivaz

                        (Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, Tehran, Iran)

                        GEOGRAPHICAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF HARD TICKS (IXODIDAE) IN WESTERN- AZARBAIJAN, ISFAHAN, KHOUZESTAN, KORDESTAN, LORESTAN AND MAZANDARAN PROVINCES, IRAN

 

FRIDAY 25 AUGUST

 

WORKSHOP                                                                                         Fri 25, Doelenzaal

DISEASE TRANSMISSION

Organizer: E. Korenberg (Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Russia)

 

09:00 – 09:20    E. Korenberg, V. Nefedova, Yu. Kovalevskii, N. Gorelova

                        (Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Russia)

                        IXODES PERSULCATUS TICK IS A VECTOR OF DIFFERENT AGENTS IN THE CISURAL REGION, RUSSIA

 

09:20 – 09:40    Chien-Ming Shih, Ming-Tse Chang, Li-Lian Chao

                        (National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China)

                        SEASONAL PREVALENCE OF IXODES GRANULATUS (IXODIDAE), AN INCRIMINATED TICK VECTOR FOR LYME DISEASE SPIROCHETES, IN THE OFFSHORE KINMEN ISLAND OF TAIWAN

 

09:40 – 10:00    Jerzy Michalik, Joanna Stańczak, Maciej Skoracki, Bożena Sikora, Maria Racewicz, Agnieszka Szubert

                        (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

                        PCR DETECTION OF BORRELIA BURGDORFERI S.L. IN FEEDING IXODES RICINUS TICKS (IXODIDAE) AND WILD CERVIDS FROM POLAND

 

10:00 – 10:20    F.T. Just, D. Zohni, K. Pfister

                        (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany)

                        PREVALENCES OF HONEYBEE VIRUSES IN VARROA DESTRUCTOR AND APIS MELLIFERA IN BAVARIA, GERMANY: ARE VARROA MITES THE BETTER TOOL FOR THE DETECTION OF KASHMIR BEE VIRUS IN BEE COLONIES?

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    Magally Quirós, Deisy Araujo, Lilia Urdaneta, Nedy Poleo

                        (Universidad del Zulia, Maluz, Maracaibo, Venezuela)

                        BREVIPALPUS PHOENICIS (GEIJSKES) AS DISSEMINATOR OF PHYTOPATHOGENIC FUNGI ON GUAVA, PSIDIUM GUAJAVA L. UNDER LABORATORY CONDITIONS

 

11:20 – 11:40    E. Gamliel-Atinsky, M. Maymon, S. Freeman, E. Belausov, E. Palevsky, A. Sztejnberg

                        (The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel)

                        DISSEMINATION OF FUSARIUM MANGIFERAE, THE CAUSAL AGENT OF MANGO MALFORMATION DISEASE, BY THE MANGO BUD MITE, ACERIA MANGIFERAE

 

11:40 – 12:00    GENERAL DISCUSSION

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH BREAK

 

WORKSHOP                                                                                         Fri 25, Doelenzaal

PESTICIDE RESISTANCE IN MITES

Organizer: Frank Bakker (MITOX Consultants, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

 

14:00 – 14:20    Thomas Van Leeuwen, Ralf Nauen, Luc Tirry

                        (Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium)

                        COMPLETE MATERNAL INHERITANCE OF BIFENAZATE RESISTANCE IN TETRANYCHUS URTICAE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN ‘MODE OF ACTION’ CONSIDERATIONS

 

14:20 – 14:40    Steven Van Pottelberge, Thomas Van Leeuwen, Lotte De Caluwe, Luc Tirry

                        (Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium)

                        CROSS-RESISTANCE, INHERITANCE AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF METI-ACARICIDE RESISTANCE IN A FIELD-COLLECTED BELGIAN STRAIN OF THE TWO-SPOTTED SPIDER MITE (TETRANYCHIDAE)

 

14:40 – 15:00    Jan Hubert, Jan Šobotník, Marie Vancová, Iva Kudlíková

                        (Research Institute of Crop Production, Praha, Czech Republic)

                        CHITIN IN THE PERITROFIC MEMBRANE OF ACARUS SIRO AS A TARGET FOR NOVEL ACARICIDES

 

15:00 – 15:20    Joon-Ho Lee, Sang-Hyun Koh, Chuleui Jung

                        (Seoul National University, Korea)

                        ACARICIDE RESISTANCE OF TETRANYCHUS URTICAE IN APPLE ORCHARDS IN KOREA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ACARICIDE RESISTANCE MANAGEMENT

 

VENUE: ROOM D108 (Oudemanhuispoort)

 

MONDAY 21 AUGUST

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                        Mon 21, room D108

INVASION BIOLOGY – MITES AS INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLERS

Organizers: Ronald Ochoa (USDA-ARS-BARC, Beltsville, USA), Maria Navajas (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France)

 

14:00 – 14:20    Cal Welbourn

                        (Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, Gainesville, USA)

                        INVASIVE MITES: A WORLD-WIDE THREAT TO AGRICULTURE

 

14:20 – 14:40    Denise Navia, Renata S. Mendonça, Ronald Ochoa

                        (USDA-ARS-BARC, Beltsville, USA)

                        THE RICE MITE, STENEOTARSONEMUS SPINKI SMILEY, AN INVASIVE SPECIES IN THE AMERICAS

 

14:40 – 15:00    Jose Carlos V. Rodrigues, Carl C. Childers

                        (University of Puerto Rico, Juana Diaz, Puerto Rica)

                        SPREAD OF CITRUS LEPROSIS VIRUS BY BREVIPALPUS IN THE AMERICAS

 

15:00 – 15:20    Gilberto de Moraes

                        (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil)

                        PREDATORS TO CONTROL INVASIVE MITE PESTS

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:20    Maria Navajas

                        (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France)

                        TRACKING THE COLONIZATION HISTORY OF AN INVASIVE PARASITIC MITE: GENETIC VARIATION OF VARROA DESTRUCTOR IN SOUTH EAST ASIA GIVES NEW INSIGHTS iN THE HONEYBEE INVASION PROCESS

 

16:20 – 16:40    Kouichi Goka, Kimiko Okabe, Hiroshi Kojima

                        (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan)

                        THE HISTORY OF MITES: CO-SPECIATION BETWEEN STAG BEETLES AND A PARASITIC MITE

 

16:40 – 17:00    Gabriele Liebisch, Arndt Liebisch, Stephan Paufler

                        (Laboratorium für klinische Diagnostik ZeckLab, Germany)

                        IMPORTATION OF A NEW WORLD TICK, DERMACENTOR ALBIPICTUS (IXODIDAE) WITH A HORSE FROM THE USA INTO GERMANY

 

TUESDAY 22 AUGUST

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                        Tue 22, room D108

DISEASES OF MITES AND TICKS

Organizers: Leo P.S. van der Geest (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), David Chandler (University of Warwick, Wellesbourne, UK)

 

09:00 – 09:20    David Chandler, Leo P.S. van der Geest

                        (University of Warwick, Wellesbourne, Warwick, UK)

                        DISEASES OF MITES AND TICKS: AN INTRODUCTION

 

09:20 – 09:40    Italo Delalibera

                        (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil)

                        HOST RANGE OF MITE PATHOGENIC SPECIES OF NEOZYGITES (ZYGOMYCETES: ENTOMOPHTHORALES)

 

09:40 – 10:00    Fabien C.C. Hountondji, M.W. Sabelis, R. Hanna

                        (IITA, Cotonou, Benin; University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                        THE ROLE OF INFOCHEMICALS IN INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CASSAVA GREEN MITES AND A FUNGAL PATHOGEN

 

10:00 – 10:20    David Chandler, Ming-Guang Feng

                        (University of Warwick, Wellesbourne, Warwick, UK)

                        FUNGAL CONTROL OF SPIDER MITES

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    Stanisław Bałazy, R. Miętkiewski, C. Tkaczuk, M. Wrzosek

                        (Research Centre for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Poznan, Poland)

                        SELECTED ECOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR ASPECTS CONCERNING ACAROPATHOGENIC FUNGI

 

11:20 – 11:40    Conny Schütte

                        (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)

                        AN OVERVIEW OF DISEASES OF PREDATORY MITES (PHYTOSEIIDAE)

 

11:40 – 12:00    Sreerama Kumar Prakya

                        (Project Directorate of Biological Control, Bangalore, India)

                        HIRSUTELLA THOMPSONII AS A MYCOACARICIDE FOR ACERIA GUERRERONIS ON COCONUT IN INDIA: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND OTHER ASPECTS

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH

 

14:00 – 14:20    Judith Pell, Caroline Birchall, Brenda Ball, David Chandler, Gill Prince, John Carder

                        (Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, UK)

                        FUNGAL BIOCONTROL OF VARROA DESTRUCTOR, A MAJOR PEST OF HONEY BEES

 

14:20 – 14:40    W.G. Meikle, G. Mercadier, N. Holst, C. Nansen, V. Girod

                        (European Biological Control Laboratory, Montferrier sur Lez, France)

                        USING ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS TO TREAT VARROA MITES IN HONEYBEE HIVES

 

14:40 – 15:00    Stephen Abolins, Richard Wall

                        (University of Bristol, UK)

                        DYNAMICS AND DISEASE IN POPULATIONS OF ACARUS SIRO

 

15:00 – 15:20    Richard Wall, Alexandra Brooks, Stephen Abolins

                        (University of Bristol, UK)

                        CONTROL OF THE SCAB MITE PSOROPTES OVIS WITH METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:20    Tove Steenberg, Ole Kilpinen, Dave Moore

                        (Department of Integrated Pest Management, Lyngby, Denmark)

                        ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGI FOR CONTROL OF THE POULTRY RED MITE, DERMANYSSUS GALLINAE

 

16:20 – 16:40    Rosebella O. Maranga, Jomo Kenyatta

                        (Jomo Kenyatta University for Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya)

                        FIELD TRIALS FOR THE CONTROL OF AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM (IXODIDAE) USING FUNGI IN PHEROMONE BAITED TRAPS

 

16:40 – 17:00    M. Samish, G. Gindin, S. Gal-Or, I. Glazer

                        (Kimron Veterinary Institute, Bet Dagan, Israel)

                        THE POTENTIAL USE OF METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE FOR THE CONTROL OF TICKS

 

17:00 – 17:20    D. Ment, G. Gindin, I. Glazer, M. Samish

                        (Kimron Veterinary Institute, Bet Dagan, Israel)

                        THE INTIMATE INTERACTION BETWEEN ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGI AND TICKS

 

WEDNESDAY 23 AUGUST

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                       Wed 23, room D108

DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGY OF ACARI ASSOCIATED WITH VERTEBRATES

Organizers: Heather Proctor (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada), Sergey V. Mironov (Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia)

 

09:00 – 09:20    Sergey Mironov, Georges Wauthy

                        (Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia)

                        PHYLOGENY AND HOST-PARASITE ASSOCIATIONS OF FEATHER MITES OF THE PTEROHERPUS GENERIC GROUP (ASTIGMATA: PTERONYSSIDAE)

 

09:20 – 09:40    Robert Cruickshank, Matthew Shaw, Adrian Paterson

                        (Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand)

                        LOSS OF PARASITISM IN DERMANYSSOID MITES

 

09:40 – 10:00    Barry OConnor, Pavel Klimov

                        (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

                        PHYLOGENY OF THE GLYCYPHAGOIDEA (ASTIGMATA): EVOLUTION OF DEUTONYMPHAL PARASITISM

 

10:00 – 10:20    Jeb P. Owen, Carol J. Cardona, Mary E. Delany, Arthur A. Bickford, Bradley A. Mullens

                        (University of California, Riverside, USA)

                        INTERACTION OF THE HOST IMMUNE RESPONSE AND POPULATION DYNAMICS OF NORTHERN FOWL MITES

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    A. Bochkov, Barry OConnor

                        (Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia)

                        ORIGIN OF PARASITISM IN MITES OF THE INFRA-ORDER ELEUTHERENGONA (PROSTIGMATA)

 

11:20 – 11:40    Natalia V. Lebedeva

                        (Southern Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

                        DIVERSITY OF ORIBATID MITES IN BIRD FEATHERS

 

11:40 – 12:00    Heather Proctor, Wayne Knee, Geoff Williams

                        (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)

                        POLYMORPHISM IN MALE FEATHER MITES: EFFECTS OF POPULATION STRUCTURE AND HABITAT

 

12:00 – 12:20    Wayne Knee, Heather Proctor

                        (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)

                        PARASITIC NASAL MITES (RHINONYSSIDAE, EREYNETIDAE, TURBINOPTIDAE) ASSOCIATED WITH BIRDS OF ALBERTA AND MANITOBA

 

12:20 – 14:00    LUNCH BREAK

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                       Wed 23, room D108

RECOGNITION SYSTEMS IN MITES AND TICKS

Organizers: Peter Schausberger (Institute of Plant Protection, University of Natural Resources & Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria), J. Scott Blackwood (USDA-ARS, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA)

 

14:00 – 14:20    J. Scott Blackwood, Selina S. Heppell, Brian A. Croft, Peter Schausberger

                        (Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA)

                        PREY STAGE RECOGNITION PROVIDES FITNESS BENEFIT TO THE SPECIALIST PREDATOR, PHYTOSEIULUS PERSIMILIS, THROUGH POPULATION DYNAMICAL IMPACTS

 

14:20 – 14:40    Andreas Walzer, Peter Schausberger

                        (Institute of Plant Protection, University of Natural Resources & Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)

                        SPECIES RECOGNITION IN PHYTOSEIID GUILD INTERACTIONS

 

14:40 – 15:00    Jeyasankar Alagarmalai, Mor Grinberg, Eric Palevsky, Rafael Perl-Treves, Denis Nelson, Victoria Soroker

                        (The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel)

                        PHORETIC AND HOST-PLANT RECOGNITION BY THE BROAD MITE, POLYPHAGOTARSONEMUS LATUS

 

15:00 – 15:20    Yasumasa Kuwahara

                        (Kyoto Gakuen University, Kyoto, Japan)

                        HOW ASTIGMATIC MITES CONTROL THE EMISSION OF THREE TYPES OF PHEROMONES FROM THE SAME GLAND, DEPENDING UPON ENVIRONMENTAL CUES AND THE FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ACTIVE COMPOUNDS

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:20    Jeb P. Owen, Ring T. Cardé, Kristine Justus, Jocelyn G. Millar, Bradley A. Mullens

                        (University of California, Riverside, USA)

                        SENSORY MODALITIES OF THE NORTHERN FOWL MITE: CONTROLLING ACTION AND ORIENTATION

 

16:20 – 16:40    Peter Schausberger

                        (Institute of Plant Protection, University of Natural Resources & Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)

                        KIN RECOGNITION IN THE PREDATORY MITE PHYTOSEIULUS PERSIMILIS: A PRECEDENT FOR THE USE OF MULTIPLE MECHANISMS

 

16:40 – 17:00    Patrick M. Guerin

                        (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)

                        HOST RECOGNITION BY TICKS

 

THURSDAY 24 AUGUST

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                        Thu 24, room D108

EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY OF MITES AND TICKS

Organizers: Yutaka Saito (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan), Jacek Radwan (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)

 

09:00 – 09:20    Annemarie Kroon, Jan Bruin, Martijn Egas, Maurice W. Sabelis

                        (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                        SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY: PREDATOR-INDUCED DIAPAUSE IN A MITE

 

09:20 – 09:40    Keiko Oku

                        (Kyoto University, Japan)

                        HOST PLANT USE BY THE KANZAWA SPIDER MITE IN RELATION TO PREDATOR AVOIDANCE

 

09:40 – 10:00    Karen McCoy, Claire Tirard, Thierry Boulinier

                        (UMR CNRS-IRD, IRD, Montpellier, France)

                        Comparative host-parasite population structures: What Ixodes uriae can tell us about the ecology of its seabird hosts

 

10:00 – 10:20    Guillaume Le Goff, Anne-Catherine Mailleux, Thierry Hance, Claire Detrain, Jean-Louis Deneubourg

                        (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

                        AGGREGATION BEHAVIOUR AND GENETIC PROXIMITY IN TETRANYCHUS SP.

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    Arne Janssen, Sara Magalhães, Marta Montserrat, Tessa van der Hammen, Maurice W. Sabelis

                        (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                        PREDATOR OR PREY? ROLE REVERSALS IN ARTHROPODS

 

11:20 – 11:40    Sara Magalhães

                        (Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France)

                        PARENTAL CARE IN THE PREDATORY MITE IPHISEIUS DEGENERANS IS TRIGGERED BY COUNTERATTACK OF ITS THRIPS PREY

 

11:40 – 12:00    W. Reuben Kaufman

                        (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)

                        GLUTTONY AND SEX: HOW DO TICKS COMPARE TO OTHER BLOOD-SUCKING ARTHROPODS?

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH

 

14:00 – 14:40    Heather Proctor, Michael Pedruski, Mirka Dabert, Jacek Dabert, Hans Klompen

                        (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)

                        EVOLUTION OF COLOURATION IN WATER MITES: APOSEMATISM VERSUS PHOTO-PROTECTION

 

14:40 – 15:20    David C. Margolies, J.R. Nechols, P. Nachappa

                        (Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA)

                        AN ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY FRAMEWORK TO ASSESS PREDATOR RESPONSE TO HERBIVORE-INDUCED PLANT VOLATILES

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:40    Yutaka Saito

                        (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)

                        SPIDER MITES AS MODEL ANIMALS IN EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

 

16:40 – 17:20    Jacek Radwan

                        (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

                        SEXUAL SELECTION AND CONFLICT IN THE BULB MITE

 

FRIDAY 25 AUGUST

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                         Fri 25, room D108

HOST RACE FORMATION IN MITES AND TICKS

Organizers: Karen D. McCoy (CNRS IRD, Montpellier, France), Sara Magalhaes (Université Montpellier II, France)

 

09:00 – 09:20    Mark Forbes, Tonia Robb, Marc J. Lajeunesse, Bruce P. Smith

                        (Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

                        GENERALIST MITES IN THE FACE OF SELECTION FOR SPECIFICITY

 

09:20 – 09:40    Christine Chevillon, Brou Basile Koffi, Patrick Duran, Nicolas Barré, Michel de Garine-Witchatitsky, Thierry de Meeûs

                        (CNRS-IRD, Montpellier, France)

                        ASSESSING THE ROLE OF HOST-SPECIES DIFFERENCES IN THE GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION OF THE CATTLE TICK, BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS, IN NEW CALEDONIA ISLAND

 

09:40 – 10:00    Nadia Bruyndonckx, Philippe Christe

                        (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

                        MOLECULAR COPHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EUROPEAN BATS AND THEIR MITES (SPINTURNICIDAE)

 

10:00 – 10:20    Karen McCoy, Elodie Chapuis, Claire Tirard, Thierry Boulinier, Yannis Michalakis, Céline Le Bohec, Yvon Le Maho, Michel Gauthier-Clerc

                        (CNRS-IRD, Montpellier, France)

                        RECURRENT HOST RACE FORMATION IN THE SEABIRD TICK, IXODES URIAE

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    Sara Magalhães, Julien Fayard, Elodie Blanchet, Martijn Egas, Isabelle Olivieri

                        (Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France)

                        EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION OF SPIDER MITES ADAPTING TO TWO NOVEL HOST PLANTS

 

11:20 – 11:40    Masahiro Osakabe, K. Takeyama, H. Atoji, N. Mori

                        (Kyoto University, Japan)

                        HOST PLANT ADAPTATION IN PANONYCHUS SPIDER MITE SPECIES

 

11:40 – 11:50    Gary L. Hein, Benjawan Siriwetwiwat, Roy French

                        (USDA-ARS, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Scottsbluff, USA)

                        BIOLOGICAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HOST (BIOTYPE) DIFFERENCES FOR WHEAT CURL MITE (ACERIA TOSICHELLA)

 

11:50 – 12:00    Shinya Nishimura, Norihide Hinomoto, Akio Takafuji

                        (Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., Takarazuka, Hyogo, Japan)

                        DEVELOPMENT OF MICROSATELLITE MARKERS IN TETRANYCHUS KANZAWAI (TETRANYCHIDAE), AND ANALYSIS OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL GENE FLOW AMONG POPULATIONS ON DIFFERENT HOST PLANTS

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                         Fri 25, room D108

SYMBIONTS OF MITES AND TICKS

Organizers: Hans A.J. Breeuwer (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Mark Maraun (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)

 

14:00 – 14:20    M.A. Perotti, H.R. Braig

                        (University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK)

                        ENDOSYMBIOTIC BACTERIA OF MITES AND TICKS

 

14:20 – 14:40    D. Sassera, T. Beninati, S. Epis, C. Bandi, L. Beati, C. Genchi, L. Sacchi, N. Lo

                        (Università di Milano, Italy)

                        IRICES1, A SYMBIONT OF THE TICK IXODES RICINUS THAT RESIDES IN THE HOST MITOCHONDRIA

 

14:40 – 15:00    Gerald D. Baldridge, Timothy J. Kurtti, Nicole Burkhardt, Abigail S. Baldridge, Curtis M. Nelson, Adela S. Oliva, Ulrike G. Munderloh

                        (University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA)

                        LIGHTING THE WAY: GFP-EXPRESSING RICKETTSIAE ILLUMINATE TICK SYMBIOSIS

 

15:00 – 15:20    Jaroslav Smrz

                        (Charles University Praha, Czech Republic)

                        ENZYME ACTIVITIES OF SAPROPHAGOUS SOIL MITES (ORIBATIDA, ACARIDIDA) AND THE ASSOCIATED INTERNAL BACTERIA IN THEIR BODY

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:20    Testuo Gotoh, Hiroaki Noda

                        (Ibaraki University, Ami, Ibaraki, Japan)

                        EFFECTS OF WOLBACHIA AND CLO ON REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS OF JAPANESE SPIDER MITE SPECIES

 

16:20 – 16:40    Thomas V.M. Groot, Johannes A.J. Breeuwer

                        (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                        HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION OF CARDINIUM SYMBIONTS WITHIN AND BETWEEN CLOSELY RELATED BREVIPALPUS SPECIES

 

16:40 – 17:00    Vera I.D. Ros, Johannes A.J. Breeuwer

                        (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                        THE MITE GENUS BRYOBIA: A MIXTURE OF SEXUALS AND ASEXUALS, WITH OR WITHOUT WOLBACHIA AND CARDINIUM

 

VENUE: ROOM D109 (Oudemanhuispoort)

 

MONDAY 21 AUGUST

 

REGULAR SESSION                                                                                                                    Mon 21, room D109

MORPHOLOGY AND ANATOMY OF ACARI

Chairs: Giorgio Nuzzaci (University of Bari, Italy), Gerd Alberti (Universität Greifswald, Germany)

 

14:00 – 14:20    Antonella Di Palma, Gerd Alberti

                        (University of Foggia, Italy)

                        ULTRASTRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY OF THE GONOPODS IN PHYTOSEIID AND PARASITID MITES (GAMASIDA)

 

14:20 – 14:40    Antonella Di Palma, Giorgio Nuzzaci, Gerd Alberti

                        (University of Foggia, Italy)

                        MORPHOLOGICAL, ULTRASTRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ADAPTATIONS OF THE MOUTHPARTS IN CHEYLETID MITES

 

14:40 – 15:00    Gerd Alberti, Antonella Di Palma, Gerald W. Krantz, Czeslaw Blaszak

                        (Universität Greifswald, Germany)

                        SPERM ACCESS SYSTEM IN VEIGAIID FEMALES: ULTRASTRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ADAPTATIONS (GAMASIDA: DERMANYSSINA)

 

15:00 – 15:20    Almir R. Pepato, Carlos E. Falavigna da Rocha

                        (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)

                        ON SPERMIOGENESIS AND SPERMATOZOA OF A RHOMBOGNATHUS SPECIES (HALACARIDAE)

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:20    Harry Smit, Gerd Alberti

                        (Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                        THE WATER MITE FAMILY PONTARACHNIDAE KOENIKE, WITH NEW DATA ON ITS PECULIAR MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES (HYDACHNIDIA)

 

16:20 – 16:40    Tinghuan Wen

                        (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)

                        WEN’S GALEAL ORGAN – ITS ORIGIN AND IDENTITY WITH CLAPARÈDE ORGAN IN TROMBICULOIDS (ACARIFORMES)

 

16:40 – 17:00    Katarzyna Jesionowska

                        (University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland)

                        ASPIDOSOMA SEGMENTATION IN ENDEOSTIGMATIC AND EUPODOID MITES (ACTINOTRICHIDA, PROSTIGMATA)

 

TUESDAY 22 AUGUST

 

REGULAR SESSION                                                                              Tue 22, room D109

ECOLOGY OF MITES

Chair: Arne Janssen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Gösta Nachman (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

 

09:00 – 09:20    Gösta Nachman

                        (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

                        DYNAMITE: AN INTERACTIVE PREDATOR-PREY MODEL

 

09:20 – 09:40    Belén Belliure, Arne Janssen, Maurice W. Sabelis

                        (Valencian Institute of Agricultural Research, Moncada (Valencia), Spain)

                        NON-VECTOR ARTHROPOD HERBIVORES BENEFIT FROM DEVELOPING ON PLANTS INFECTED WITH A VECTOR-BORNE PLANT VIRUS

 

09:40 – 10:00    Rostislav Zemek, Radomir Socha

                        (Biological centre of the Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic)

                        HABITAT SELECTION IN THE BUG PYRRHOCORIS APTERUS: DOES IT MINIMIZE THE RISK OF BEING PARASITIZED BY THE ECTOPARASITIC MITE HEMIPTEROSEIUS ADLERI?

 

10:00 – 10:10    Taro Maeda

                        (National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan)

                        DIFFERENT FORAGING STRATEGIES BETWEEN LOCAL POPULATIONS OF THE PREDATORY MITE NEOSEIULUS WOMERSLEYI: CORRELATION BETWEEN OLFACTORY RESPONSES AND DISPERSAL TENDENCIES

 

10:10 – 10:20    B. Mallik, J.C. Indulatha

                        (University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India)

                        INTERACTION BETWEEN NEOSEIULUS LONGISPINOSUS (PHYTOSEIIDAE) AND TETRANYCHUS URTICAE (TETRANYCHIDAE) ON FRENCH BEAN PLANTS WITH VARYING CANOPY STRUCTURE

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:10    Katsura Ito

                        (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)

                        TRADE-OFF BETWEEN DIAPAUSE AND POST-DIAPAUSE FECUNDITY

 

11:10 – 11:20    Ayumi Kikuchi, Michiko Tanaka

                        (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)

                        NEST MICROFLORA IN THE SOCIAL SPIDER MITE, STIGMAEOPSIS LONGUS (TETRANYCHIDAE)

 

11:20 – 11:30    P.D. Theron, Y. Coineau, L.R. Tiedt

                        (North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa)

                        LIFE CYCLE AND MATING BEHAVIOUR OF A RARE ANYSTOID MITE (PROSTIGMATA) FROM AFRICA

 

11:30 – 11:40    Q.-H. Fan, Zhi-Qiang Zhang

                        (Fujian Agricultural and Forestry Univerity, Fuzhou, China)

                        SUPERPARASITISM AND SEX RATIO OF VARROA DESTRUCTOR PARASITIC ON HONEY BEES

 

11:40 – 12:00    Gerben J. Messelink, Roos van Maanen, Arne Janssen

                        (Applied Plant Research, Naaldwijk, The Netherlands)

                        GENERALIST PHYTOSEIID PREDATORS AND APPARENT COMPETITION BETWEEN THRIPS AND WHITEFLIES

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH BREAK

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                         Tue 22, room D109

NON-TARGET EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES

Chairs: Noubar Bostanian (Agri-Food, Nova Scotia, Canada), John Michael Hardman (Agri-Food, Nova Scotia, Canada)

 

14:00 – 14:20    David G. James, Deirdre Prischmann

                        (Washington State University, Prosser, USA)

                        THE IMPACT OF SULFUR ON BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF SPIDER MITES IN WASHINGTON STATE VINEYARDS AND HOP YARDS

 

14:20 – 14:40    Alberto Pozzebon, Carlo Duso

                        (University of Padova, Italy)

                        PESTICIDE SIDE-EFFECTS ON PREDATORY MITES: THE ROLE OF TROPHIC INTERACTIONS

 

14:40 – 15:00    John Michael Hardman, Noubar John Bostanian

                        (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada)

                        USING FIELD DATA TO DETERMINE MITICIDE SELECTIVITY AND TO QUANTIFY CUMULATIVE EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES IN DISRUPTING BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

 

15:00 – 15:20    Serge Kreiter, Philippe Auger, Romain Bonafos

                        (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Montpellier, France)

                        SIDE EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES TO PHYTOSEIID MITES IN FRENCH VINEYARDS AND ORCHARDS AS ASSESSED IN LABORATORY AND FIELD TRIALS

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:20    Haralabos Tsolakis, Salvatore Ragusa

                        (Università di Palermo, Italia)

                        EFFECTS OF FATTY ACID POTASSIUM SALTS ON TETRANYCHUS URTICAE (ACARIFORMES, TETRANYCHIDAE) AND PHYTOSEIULUS PERSIMILIS (PARASITIFORMES, PHYTOSEIIDAE)

 

16:20 – 16:40    Noubar J. Bostanian, Marie-Claude Laurin

                        (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, St. Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada)

                        LABORATORY STUDIES ON RESIDUAL EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES ON ANYSTIS BACCARUM (ANYSTIDAE)

 

16:40 – 16:50    Raul T. Villanueva, James F. Walgenbach

                        (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA)

                        IMPACT OF NEW PESTICIDE CHEMISTRY ON APPLE ORCHARD ACARINE COMMUNITIES

 

16:50 – 17:00    Marcelo Poletti, Celso Omoto

                        (Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil)

                        HOW SAFE ARE THE NEONICOTINOID INSECTICIDES FOR PRESERVING PHYTOSEIID MITES IN IPM PROGRAMS?

 

17:00 – 17:10    Ingeborg Klingen, Karin Westrum, Nina Trandem

                        (Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, Ås, Norway)

                        PESTICIDES USED IN STRAWBERRIES AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE TWO-SPOTTED SPIDER MITE, TETRANYCHUS URTICAE, AND THE MITE PATHOGENIC FUNGUS NEOZYGITES FLORIDANA

 

WEDNESDAY 23 AUGUST

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                       Wed 23, room D109

CANOPY ACARI - DIVERSITY, BIOGEOGRAPHY AND ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES

Organizers: Zoë Lindo (University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), Fred Beaulieu (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

 

09:00 – 09:20    Zoë Lindo

                        (University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)

                        THE SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP OF ORIBATID MITE (ORIBATIDA) COMMUNITIES IN THE CANOPY OF A COASTAL TEMPERATE RAINFOREST, VANCOUVER ISLAND, CANADA

 

09:20 – 09:40    Julio Arroyo, Thomas Bolger

                        (University College Dublin, Ireland)

                        MITES OCCURRING IN THE CANOPY OF SITKA SPRUCE GROWING IN IRELAND

 

09:40 – 10:00    Shigenori Karasawa, Naoki Hijii

                        (Nagoya University, Chikusa, Japan)

                        EFFECT OF BIRD’S NEST FERNS ON ORIBATID COMMUNITIES IN A SUBTROPICAL FOREST

 

10:00 – 10:20    L.R. Tiedt, E.A. Ueckermann, P.D. Theron

                        (North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa)

                        GALL LIVING MITES ON FIVE INDIGENOUS TREES FROM SOUTHERN AFRICA

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    Norman J. Fashing

                        (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA)

                        THE DIVERSITY, BIOGEOGRAPHY AND ECOLOGY OF ASTIGMATIC MITE INHABITANTS OF SAP FLUX AND WATER-FILLED TREEHOLES

 

11:20 – 11:40    Frederic Beaulieu, David E. Walter, Heather C. Proctor, Roger L. Kitching

                        (Agriculture & Agri-Food, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

                        VERTICAL HABITAT PARTITIONING: THE DICHOTOMOUS DISTRIBUTION OF MESOSTIGMATIC MITES IN AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST LITTER

 

11:40 – 12:00    A.R. Chittenden, Y. Saito

                        (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)

                        FACTORS AFFECTING MITE SPECIES RICHNESS ON SASA DWARF BAMBOO

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH BREAK

 

REGULAR SESSION                                                                             Wed 23, room D109

SOIL ACAROLOGY-1

Chair: Graham Osler (The Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, UK)

 

14:00 – 14:20    Graham Osler, Rob Brooker, Colin Campbell, Glenn Iason, Jörn Gollisch

                        (The Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, UK)

                        INDIVIDUAL PINE TREES AS DETERMINANTS OF MITE ASSEMBLAGES

 

14:20 – 14:40    Graham Osler, Anastasia Korycinska, Lisa Cole

                        (The Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, UK)

                        LITTER MASS CHANGES MITE ASSEMBLAGE STRUCTURE

 

14:40 – 15:00    Sonja Migge-Kleian, Christian Platner, Anja Tittel

                        (University of Goettingen, Germany)

                        INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERS AND MICROARTHROPODS IN THE SOIL

 

15:00 – 15:20    Ruslan O. Butovsky

                        (Institute for Sustainable Communities, Moscow, Russian Federation)

                        SOIL MITES IN STRESSED ECOSYSTEMS

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:20    Lucille M.K. Antony

                        (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil)

                        ARCHEGOZETES LONGISETOSUS AOKI, 1965 (ORIBATIDA), AS AN INDICATOR OF FOREST DISTURBANCE AND FOREST PLANTATION PROGRESS IN GAPS RESULTING FROM OIL PROSPECTION IN THE AMAZON REGION.

 

16:20 – 16:40    Aija Baranovska, Voldemārs Spuņģis, Viesturs Melecis

                        (University of Latvia, Salaspils, Latvia)

                        LONG-TERM CHANGES IN SPECIES RICHNESS OF ORIBATID MITES IN PINE FOREST ECOSYSTEMS OF ZIEMEĻVIDZEME BIOSPHERE RESERVE

 

16:40 – 17:00    Marianne Presthus Heggen, Arguitxu de la Riva Caballero, Richard Payne, Jeffrey J. Blackford

                        (University of Bergen, Norway)

                        INFLUENCE OF VOLCANIC ASH ON THE COMMUNITY OF ORIBATID MITES IN A PEATLAND IN ESPENBURG, ALASKA

 

17:00 – 17:20    David J. Russell, Gerd Alberti

                        (State Museum of Natural History, Görlitz, Germany)

                        ACTINEDID MITE COMMUNITIES IN A CONTINENTAL PSAMMIC HABITAT IN SOUTHWEST GERMANY

 

THURSDAY 24 AUGUST

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                        Thu 24, room D109

VIDEOGRAPHIC ACAROLOGY

Organizers: Vikram Prasad (Indira Publishing, West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA), Urs Wyss (Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany)

 

09:00 – 09:40    Urs Wyss, Maria Wagner, Martina Wittke

                        (Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany)

                        PREDATORS OF SPIDER MITES

 

09:40 – 10:00    Gerd Alberti, Antonella Di Palma, Peter Michalik, Urs Wyss

                        (Universität Greifswald, Germany)

                        REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR AND GENITAL SYSTEM IN PHYTOSEIULUS PERSIMILIS (GAMASIDA)

 

10:00 – 10:10    Izabela Lesna, Urs Wyss

                        (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                        BEHAVIOUR OF HYPOASPIS ACULEIFER (CANESTRINI)

 

10:10 – 10:20    Maurice W. Sabelis, Urs Wyss

                        (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                        MATING STRATEGIES OF TWO-SPOTTED SPIDER MITES

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:10    Ann Camerik

                        (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)

                        THE LIFE CYCLE OF PEDICULASTER (SITEROPTIDAE)

 

11:10 – 11:20    Shunichi Makino, Kimiko Okabe

                        (Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Norin Kenkyu-danchi, Ibaraki, Japan)

                        LIFE CYCLE OF MITE ENSLINIELLA PARASITICA AND ITS HOST WASP ALLODYNERUS DELPHINALIS

 

11:20 – 11:30    Anibal R. Oliveira

                        (Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil)

                        COURTSHIP BEHAVIOR IN MOCHLORIBATULA SP.

 

11:30 – 11:40    Anibal R. Oliveira

                        (Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil)

                        PREDATION OF NEMATODES BY PERGALUMNA (ORIBATIDA)

 

11:40 – 12:00    Carlos H.W. Flechtmann

                        (Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil)

                        THE PHYTOSEIID MITE GALENDROMUS OCCIDENTALIS (NESBITT)

 

12:00 – 12:10    Alireza Saboori

                        (University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran)

                        ALLOTHROMBIUM PULVINUM EWING

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH

 

14:00 – 14:20    George W. Schultz, Richard G. Robbins, David W. Hill, Vikram Prasad

                        (Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC, USA)

                        INTERACTIVE PROGRAM FOR TEACHING TICK MORPHOLOGY

 

14:20 – 14:50    Kawther El Kammah, Vikram Prasad

                        (Parasitic Acarines Research Center, University of Cairo, Giza, Egypt)

                        ACAROLOGY IN EGYPT

 

14:50 – 15:00    Gilberto J. de Moraes

                        (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil)

                        ACAROLOGY IN BRAZIL

 

15:00 – 15:10    Vikram Prasad

                        (Indira Publishing, West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA)

                        DONALD CHANT (CANADA) – ACAROLOGIST

 

15:10 – 15:20    G. Wauthy, Vikram Prasad

                        (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Entomology Department, Brussels, Belgium)

                        ALEX FAIN (BELGIUM) – ACAROLOGIST

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:30    Vikram Prasad

                        (Indira Publishing, West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA)

                        NORMAN J. FASHING: DISCOVERER OF MITES FROM PITCHER PLANTS

 

16:30 – 17:00    Vikram Prasad

                        (Indira Publishing, West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA)

                        A GLIMPSE OF IJA’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY MEETING IN COLUMBUS, USA

 

17:00 – 17:20    Vikram Prasad

                        (Indira Publishing, West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA)

                        THE WORLD OF MITES (PART I)

 

FRIDAY 25 AUGUST

 

SYMPOSIUM                                                                                         Fri 25, room D109

MITES ASSOCIATED WITH ARTHROPODS

Organizer: Cheol-Min Kim (University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA), Cal Welbourn (Florida Department Agriculture & Consumer Services, Gainesville, USA)

 

09:00 – 09:20    Cal Welbourn

                        (Florida Department Agriculture & Consumer Services, Gainesville, USA)

                        INTRODUCTION TO MITES ASSOCIATED WITH ARTHROPODS

 

09:20 – 09:40    Kimiko Okabe, Koichi Goka

                        (Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Norin Kenkyu-danchi, Ibaraki, Japan)

                        ECOLOGY AND PHYLOGENY OF CANESTRINIIDS INTRODUCED TO JAPAN WITH LUCANID BEETLES

 

09:40 – 10:00    Beverly S. Gerdeman, Rufino Garcia

                        (Washington State University, Vancouver, USA)

                        HETEROZERCONIDAE: A COMPARISON OF TEMPERATE AND TROPICAL SPECIES

 

10:00 – 10:20    Pavel B. Klimov, Barry M. OConnor

                        (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

                        HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF CHAETODACTYLID MITES AND LONG-TONGUED BEES: NON-LINEAR MULTIVARIATE MODELING OF HOST-SYMBIONT RELATIONSHIPS IN THE PRESENCE OF REVERSE ‘CODIVERGENCE’

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    Anne M. Camerik

                        (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)

                        PHORESY REVISITED

 

11:20 – 11:40    J. Niogret, M. Bertrand, J.P. Lumaret

                        (Université Montpellier III, France)

                        CONSTRAINTS DUE TO THE SELECTED HOST AND BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSE BY COPROPHILOUS MACROCHELIDAE

 

11:40 – 12:00    Peter Martin

                        (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany)

                        REPRODUCTION, DEVELOPMENT AND SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR OF STREAM-INHABITING, PARASITIC WATER MITES (HYDRACHNIDIA)

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH BREAK

 

14:00 – 14:20    Cheol-Min Kim

                        (University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA)

                        A BRIEF REVIEW ON TRIGYNASPID ASSOCIATIONS (MESOSTIGMATA: TRIGYNASPIDA) WITH A PROPOSAL ON VITZTHUMEGISTIDAE, FAM. NOV.

 

14:20 – 14:40    Anne M. Camerik

                        (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)

                        DO THE DUNG PREFERENCE OF PEDICULASTER AND ITS HOSTS MATCH?

 

14:40 – 15:00    Anne M. Camerik

                        (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)

                        PEDICULASTER–HOST RELATIONSHIPS

 

15:00 – 15:10    E.D. Green, M.L. Turner, E.A. Ueckermann

                        (University of Limpopo, Medunsa, Republic of South Africa)

                        THE MICROMORPHOLOGY OF THE DINOGAMASUS BRAUNSI MITE AND THE ACARINARIUM OF THE HOST CARPENTER BEE XYLOCOPA CAFFRA

 

15:10 – 15:20    E.D. Green, M.L. Turner, E.A. Ueckermann

                        (University of Limpopo, Medunsa, Republic of South Africa)

                        THE MICROMORPHOLOGY OF THE DINOGAMASUS VILLOSIOR MITE AND THE ACARINARIUM OF THE HOST CARPENTER BEE XYLOCOPA FLAVORUFA

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:20    Diana Sammataro, Jennifer Finely, John Skinner and Antonio Nanetti

                        (Carl Hayden Honey Bee Research Center, Tucson, Arizona, USA)

                        OXALIC ACID AND SUCROCIDE TREATMENTS FOR VARROA CONTROL

 

16:20 – 16:40    M.A. Haq, K. Sumangala

                        (Safi Institute of Advanced Study, Vazhayoor East, Malappuram, India)

                        MITES ASSOCIATED WITH APIS CERANA INDICA AND ITS HABITAT SWITCHING

 

 

VENUE: ROOM D008 (Oudemanhuispoort)

 

TUESDAY 22 AUGUST

 

REGULAR SESSION                                                                              Tue 22, room D008

VETERINARY ACAROLOGY-1

Chairs: Richard Wall (School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, UK), Bradley A. Mullens (University of California, Riverside, USA)

 

09:00 – 09:20    Ole Kilpinen, Bradley A. Mullens

                        (Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Lyngby, Denmark)

                        BEHAVIOURAL REACTIONS OF CHICKEN MITES TO HOST CUES

 

09:20 – 09:40    C. Valiente Moro, P. Fravalo, M. Amelot, C. Chauve, G. Salvat, L. Zenner

                        (Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon, Marcy l’Etoile, France)

                        EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON THE VECTOR POTENTIAL OF THE RED FOWL MITE, DERMANYSSUS GALLINAE, TO SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS

 

09:40 – 10:00    L. Roy, J. Delaporte, G. Inizan, C. Chauve, T. Buronfosse

                        (Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon, Marcy-l’Etoile, France)

                        BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE IN THE RED FOWL MITE DERMANYSSUS GALLINAE (MESOSTIGMATA): EXPLORATION OF THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF ACHE TO ORGANOPHOSPHATES IN FIELD STRAINS

 

10:00 – 10:20    Monique F. Mul, Rick A. van Emous, Thea G.C.M. Fiks-Niekerk

                        (Animal Sciences Group, Wageningen University, Lelystad, The Netherlands)

                        DERMANYSSUS GALLINAE IN DUTCH POULTRY FARMS - RESULTS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE ON SERIOUSNESS, TREATMENTS, CLEANING AND BIOSECURITY

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    Izabela Lesna, Jan Komdeur, Maurice W. Sabelis

                        (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                        PERSPECTIVES FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF RED CHICKEN MITES: A PROPOSAL

 

11:20 – 11:40    Bradley A. Mullens, Douglas R. Kuney, Jeb P. Owen, Michael J. Brewer

                        (University of California, Riverside, USA)

                        SAMPLING AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF ORNITHONYSSUS SYLVIARUM IN CAGED LAYING HENS

 

11:40 – 12:00    Bradley A. Mullens, Brian L. Chen, Jeb P. Owen

                        (University of California, Riverside, USA)

                        ANIMAL WELFARE, PESTICIDE USE CONCERNS, AND FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR MANAGING NORTHERN FOWL MITES IN POULTRY PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

 

WEDNESDAY 23 AUGUST

 

REGULAR SESSION                                                                             Wed 23, room D008

VETERINARY ACAROLOGY-2

Chair: Richard Wall (School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK)

 

09:00 – 09:20    Manuel Hernández, Rocío Larramendy, Basilio Szczypel, Ileana Miranda, Mayra Ramos

                        (Poultry Research Institute, Santiago de las Vegas, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba)

                        POPULATION DYNAMICS OF THE PARASITIC mite, MEGNINIA GINGLYMURA (MEGNIN) (ANALGIDAE): MODELLING CRITERIA

 

09:20 – 09:40    Darci M. Barros-Battesti

                        (Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil)

                        TICK SPECIES INTRODUCED AND ESTABLISHED IN SOUTH AMERICA

 

09:40 – 10:00    Richard Wall

                        (School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, UK)

                        SHEEP SCAB: CHANGING PATTERNS OF PREVALENCE AND CONTROL IN GREAT BRITAIN

 

10:00 – 10:20    Perry Polar, Marilena Aquino de Muro, Moses T.K. Kairo, Dave Moore, Rupert Pegram, Sally-Ann John, Cheryl Roach-Benn

                        (CAB International, Caribbean and Latin America Regional Centre, Curepe, Trinidad)

                        THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE ISOLATES IMPORTANT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOLOGICAL PESTICIDES FOR THE CONTROL OF CATTLE TICKS

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    Shawgi M. Hassan

                        (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Khartoum, Sudan)

                        DROP-OFF RHYTHMS OF ENGORGED RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS AND AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM (IXODIDAE) UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS

 

11:20 – 11:40    Robert Ampofo

                        (University of Cape-Coast, School of Agriculture, Ghana)

                        OFF-HOST SURVIVAL RATE AND REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS OF RAINY SEASON TICK, AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM OF FOUR DIFFERENT TYPE HABITATS OF CENTRAL CAPE-COAST

 

11:40 – 12:00    Muhammad Nisar Khan, Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Sohail Sajid, Abbas Haider Shah

                        (University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan)

                        EPIDEMIOLOGY AND VECTOR ROLE OF POULTRY TICKS IN CENTRAL PUNJAB (PAKISTAN)

 

THURSDAY 24 AUGUST

 

REGULAR SESSION                                                                              Thu 24, room D008

AGRICULTURAL ACAROLOGY-1

Chair: Angelo Pallini (Federal University of Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil)

 

09:00 – 09:10    E. Palevsky, P. Weintraub, E. Zchori-Fein, A. Argov, M. Castagnoli, M. Liguori, R. Nannelli, S. Simoni, P. Schausberger, A. Walzer, M. Enigl, S. Kreiter, M.-S. Tixier, S. Guichou, K. Bolckmans, Y.M. van Houten, J.E. Belda, S. Steinberg, N. Shapira, D. Charantonis, G. Tsalis, R. Holmqvist, S. Gullans, M. Gross, J. van der Blom, J.C. Perez Mesa, G. Rosenthal, O. Goldfarb

                        (Dept. of Entomology, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Ramat Yishay, Israel)

                        DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMIC REARING AND TRANSPORT SYSTEM FOR AN ARID ADAPTED STRAIN OF THE PREDATORY MITE, NEOSEIULUS CALIFORNICUS, FOR SPIDER MITE CONTROL

 

09:10 – 09:20    Phyllis Weintraub, Sophia Kleitman, Nurit Shapira, Yael Argov, Eric Palevsky

                        (Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Gilat Research Center, DN Negev, Israel)

                        EVALUATION OF NEOSEIULUS CALIFORNICUS FOR CONTROLLING SPIDER MITES ON GREENHOUSE SWEET PEPPER

 

09:20 – 09:30    Masoud Arbabi

                        (Plant Pests and Diseases Research Institute, Tehran, Iran)

                        STUDY ON EFFECTIVENESS OF PHYTOSEIULUS PERSIMILIS IN CONTROL OF CUCUMBER TWO SPOTTED SPIDER MITE (TETRANYCHUS URTICAE COMPLEX) IN WOODY AND IRON GREENHOUSE STRUCTURES IN VARAMINE REGION OF IRAN

 

09:30 – 09:40    Ashok Sharma

                        (College of Agriculture, Jobner, Rajasthan, India)

                        BIOINTENSIVE MANAGEMENT OF PETROBIA LATENS (MULLER) IN SPICES

 

09:40 – 09:50    James D. Dutcher

                        (Coastal Plain Experiment Station, Tifton, Georgia, USA)

                        RELEASE OF PREDATORY MITES REDUCES ABUNDANCE OF PECAN LEAF SCORCH MITE

 

09:50 – 10:00    Sebahat K. Ozman-Sullivan

                        (Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey)

                        PHYTOSEIUS PLUMIFER AS A PREDATOR OF PHYTOPTUS AVELLANAE (PHYTOSEIIDAE, PHYTOPTIDAE)

 

10:00 – 10:10    Angelo Pallini, Cláudia H.C. Matos, Fredson F. Chaves, José H. Schoereder, Arne Janssen

                        (Federal University of Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil)

                        DO DOMATIA MEDIATE MUTUALISTIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN COFFEE PLANTS AND PREDATORY MITES?

 

10:10 – 10:20    Adenir Teodoro, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Teja Tscharntke

                        (University of Göttingen, Germany)

                        LOCAL MANAGEMENT AND SEASONAL EFFECTS ON POPULATION DYNAMICS OF A COFFEE SPIDER MITE AND ITS PREDATOR

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:10    S.L. Bouras, G.Th. Papadoulis

                        (Agricultural University of Athens, Greece)

                        TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT DEVELOPMENT, SURVIVAL AND REPRODUCTION OF EUSEIUS STIPULATUS (ATHIAS-HENRIOT) (PHYTOSEIIDAE)

 

11:10 – 11:20    N. Nusartlert, Gerald T. Baker, A. Chandrapatya

                        (Department of Entomology, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand)

                        LIFE HISTORY OF AMBLYSEIUS LONGISPINOSUS EVANS (PHYTOSEIIDAE) REARED ON EGGS AND LARVAE OF SIX SPIDER MITES SPECIES (TETRANYCHIDAE) AND EFFECT OF SOME PESTICIDES ON ITS MORTALITY

 

11:20 – 11:30    Cengiz Kazak

                        (Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey)

                        DEVELOPMENTAL AND REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE OF HATAY POPULATION OF PHYTOSEIULUS PERSIMILIS ATHIAS-HENRIOT (PHYTOSEIIDAE) USING A DIET OF TETRANYCHUS CINNABARINUS BOISDUVAL EGG (TETRANYCHIDAE) AT FOUR CONSTANT TEMPERATURES

 

11:30 – 11:40    Raquel Abad, Tatiana Pina, Pedro Castañera, Alberto Urbaneja

                        (Instituto Valenciano Investigaciones Agrarias, Moncada, Valencia, Spain)

                        COMPARATIVE LIFE HISTORY TRAITS OF THE FOUR MOST ABUNDANT PHYTOSEIIDS IN THE SPANISH MANDARINES FEEDING ON THE TWO SPOTTED SPIDER MITE, TETRANYCHUS URTICAE

 

11:40 – 11:50    Hidenari Kishimoto

                        (National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Kuchinotsu, Nagasaki, Japan)

                        A NEW ARTIFICIAL ARENA TECHNIQUE FOR EFFICIENT REARING OF A WIDE VARIETY OF PHYTOSEIID SPECIES

 

11:50 – 12:00    G. Mikunthan, M. Manjunatha

                        (University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka)

                        COMPATIBILITY OF PESTICIDES WITH ACAROPATHOGENIC FUNGUS, FUSARIUM SEMITECTUM

 

12:00 – 12:10    G. Mikunthan, M. Manjunatha

                        (University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka)

                        EFFECT OF MONOCROTOPHOS AND ACAROFUNGUS, FUSARIUM SEMITECTUM, AGAINST POLYPHAGOTARSONEMUS LATUS AND AMBLYSEIUS OVALIS UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS

 

12:10 – 12:20    D.S. Koveos, G.D. Broufas

                        (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

                        COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY ON DEMOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS OF TWO POPULATIONS OF THE PREDATORY MITE NEOSEIULUS CALIFORNICUS

 

FRIDAY 25 AUGUST

 

REGULAR SESSION                                                                               Fri 25, room D008

AGRICULTURAL ACAROLOGY-2

Chair: David A. Raworth (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada)

 

09:00 – 09:10    Abd-Allah M. Afifi, Ahamed Y.M. El-Laithy, Saied A. Shehata, El-Sayed M.A. El-Saiedy

                        (Cairo University, Giza, Egypt)

                        RESISTANCE OF STRAWBERRY PLANTS AGAINST THE TWO-SPOTTED SPIDER MITE, TETRANYCHUS URTICAE KOCH (TETRANYCHIDAE)

 

09:10 – 09:20    Anna Tomczyk

                        (Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland)

                        INFLUENCE OF THE APPLICATION OF REYNOUTRIA SACHALINENSIS EXTRACT ON TETRANYCHUS URTICAE FEEDING AND POPULATION DEVELOPMENT ON CUCUMBER

 

09:20 – 09:30    Sergio Ernesto Contreras Contreras, Gabriel Otero-Colina, Héctor González-Hernández, Jorge E. Peña

                        (Colegio de Postgraduados Instituto de Fitosanidad, Montecillo, México)

                        POPULATION FLUCTUATION OF ACERIA MANGIFERAE (ERIOPHYIDAE) AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH MANGO BUNCHY TOP AND FLORAL MALFORMATION

 

09:30 – 09:40    Magally Quirós, Nedy Poleo, Yadira Petit, Idelma Dorado

                        (Universidad del Zulia, Maluz, Maracaibo, Venezuela)

                        EARLY DETECTION OF BREVIPALPUS PHOENICIS (GEIJSKES) ON PREFLORAL STAGES OF GUAVA, PSIDIUM GUAJAVA L.

 

09:40 – 09:50    P. Vichitbandha, A. Chandrapatya

                        (Kasetsart University, Nakhon Pathom Province, Thailand)

                        RELATION OF CHILI SHOOT DAMAGE TO THE ABUNDANCE OF POLYPHAGOTARSONEMUS LATUS (BANKS) (TARSONEMIDAE) AND OTHER CHILI PESTS AND THE EFFECT OF SHOOT DAMAGE ON CHILI YIELDS

 

09:50 – 10:00    M.A. Haq, R. Shobha

                        (Safi Institute of Advanced Study, Vazhayoor East, Malappuram, India)

                        WEIGHT LOSS OF COPRA DUE TO INFESTATION BY ACERIA GUERRERONIS

 

10:00 – 10:10    David A. Raworth

                        (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada)

                        PREDICTING REACTIVATION OF OVER-WINTERING SPIDER MITES, TETRANYCHUS URTICAE

 

10:10 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:10    Mitsuhiro Kawashima, Hiroshi Amano

                        (Chiba University, Matsudo, Japan)

                        A NEW TOOL FOR STUDYING OVERWINTERING PHENOLOGY OF PREDACIOUS PHYTOSEIID MITES ON JAPANESE PEAR TREE

 

11:10 – 11:20    Usha Chauhan, Ram Kumar, Meena Thakur

                        (University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan, India)

                        AMBLYSEIUS LONGISPINOSUS (PHYTOSIIDAE) A POTENTIAL PREDATOR OF MITES ON ROSE: WINTER SURVIVAL AND ITS REPRODUCTION UNDER MID-HILL CONDITIONS OF HIMACHAL PRADESH IN INDIA

 

11:20 – 11:30    Joon-Ho Lee, Dong-Soon Kim

                        (Seoul National University, Korea)

                        LONG-TERM POPULATION DYNAMICS OF PANONYCHUS ULMI AND TETRANYCHUS URTICAE IN APPLE ORCHARDS IN KOREA: IMPLICATIONS FOR MITE CONTROL STRATEGY

 

11:30 – 11:40    Hugo Aguilar, Pamela Murillo, Luis E. Gómez

                        (University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica)

                        ROLE OF MITES IN TISSUE CULTURE LABORATORIES: THE CASE OF SITEROPTES RENIFORIMIS IN COSTA RICA

 

11:40 – 11:50    A. Jesús Telesforo Hernández, A. Joseph O`Brain, C. Santa García

                        (University Autonomy of State of Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico)

                        DICOFOL-KELTHANE*35 EFFECT ON MUSHROOM (AGARICUS BISPORUS) (LANGE) PRODUCTION AND PEDICULASTER MESEMBRINAE (PYGMEPHORIDAE) OVIPOSITION AND LARVAL DEVELOPMENT

 

11:50 – 12:00    Fidel Avila-Ramos, Gabriel Otero-Colina, Hussein Sánchez-Arroyo, Alberto Tecante

                        (Colegio de Postgraduados Instituto de Fitosanidad, Montecillo, México)

                        FORMIC ACID FORMULATED IN GEL FOR CONTROLLING VARROA DESTRUCTOR

 

12:00 – 12:10    Václav Stejskal, Iva Kudlíková, M. Zouhar, P. Ryšánek, Jan Hubert

                        (Research Institute of Crop Production, Praha, Czech Republic)

                        IDENTIFICATION OF ACARUS SIRO CONTAMINATION IN STORED GRAIN: OVERVIEW OF METHODICAL APPROACHES

 

12:10 – 14:00    LUNCH

 

SATURDAY 26 AUGUST                                                                                                                                   

 

CLOSING PROGRAM                                                                             Sat 26, room D008

 

10:00 – 10:30    Vikram Prasad

                        (Indira Publishing, West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA)

                        A GLIMPSE OF LAST ICA-XI IN MERIDA, MEXICO (VIDEO)

 

10:30 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 12:00    CLOSING SESSION

 

VENUE: ROOM F001 (Oudemanhuispoort)

 

TUESDAY 22 AUGUST

 

REGULAR SESSION                                                                              Tue 22, room F001

PHYSIOLOGY

Chair: Valentin N. Belozerov (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)

 

09:00 – 09:40    Valentin N. Belozerov

                        (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)

                        SEASONAL ADAPTATIONS IN THE LIFE CYCLES OF THE ACARI (MITES AND TICKS): EVOLUTIONARY AND COMPARATIVE ASPECTS

 

09:40 – 10:00    Takeshi Suzuki, Hiroshi Amano, Eiji Goto, Toyoki Kozai

                        (Chiba University, Matsudo, Japan)

                        EFFECTS OF LIGHT PERIOD ON DIAPAUSE INDUCTION IN A JAPANESE STRAIN OF THE TWO-SPOTTED SPIDER MITE TETRANYCHUS URTICAE

 

10:00 – 10:20    H. Dautel, W. Knülle

                        (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

                        INVESTIGATION INTO THE DIAPAUSE AND COLD HARDINESS OF IXODES RICINUS EGGS

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    Jinlin Zhou, Kozo Fujisaki

                        (Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Inada-cho, Hokkaido, Japan)

                        A CYSTATIN FROM THE TICK HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS AND ITS DISTINCT EXPRESSION PATTERNS IN RELATION TO INNATE IMMUNITY

 

11:20 – 11:40    Takeshi Hatta, Kouji Kazama, Takeharu Miyoshi, Rika Umemiya, Min Liao, Noboru Inoue, Xuenan Xuan, Naotoshi Tsuji, Kozo Fujisaki

                        (Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Inada-cho, Hokkaido, Japan)

                        IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A LEUCINE AMINOPEPTIDASEFROM THE HARD TICK HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS

 

11:40 – 12:00    Mari Horigane, DeMar Taylor

                        (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

                        ANALYSIS OF NUCLEAR RECEPTOR GENE EXPRESSION IN THE SOFT TICK, ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA, DURING VITELLOGENESIS

 

WEDNESDAY 23 AUGUST

 

REGULAR SESSION                                                                             Wed 23, room F001

PHYLOGENY AND TAXONOMY

Chairs: Gerd Weigmann (Free University, Berlin, Germany), Roy A. Norton (S.U.N.Y. College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, New York, USA)

 

09:00 – 09:20    L. Roy, C. Chauve

                        (Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon, Marcy l'Etoile, France)

                        HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE GENUS DERMANYSSUS DUGÈS, 1834 (MESOSTIGMATA: DERMANYSSIDAE)

 

09:20 – 09:40    Gerd Weigmann

                        (Free University, Berlin, Germany)

                        ANOMALIES OF NOTOGASTRAL STRUCTURES IN PORONOTIC ORIBATID MITES (ORIBATIDA: PORONOTA): HOW TO BE INTERPRETED PHYLOGENETICALLY?

 

09:40 – 10:00    Roy A. Norton

                        (S.U.N.Y. College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, New York, USA)

                        SYSTEMATIC RELATIONSHIPS OF LOHMANNIIDAE (ORIBATIDA)

 

10:00 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    Stefan Wirth

                        (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

                        FOOD COMPETITION, FEEDING BEHAVIOR AND WAY TO EMERGE FROM THE EGG IN THE PHYLOGENY OF THE HISTIOSTOMATIDAE (ASTIGMATA)

 

11:20 – 11:40    Andrew B. Shatrov

                        (Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Science, St.-Petersburg, Russia)

                        COMPARATIVE INTEGUMENT ULTRASTRUCTURE IN ADULT MITES OF THE PARASITENGONA AND ITS PHYLOGENETIC IMPLICATION

 

11:40 – 12:00    Charnie Craemer

                        (Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa)

                        MORPHOLOGY OF ERIOPHYOID MITES AS ELUCIDATED BY SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY: TRIVIAL PURSUIT OR VALUABLE SYSTEMATIC CONTRIBUTION?

 

THURSDAY 24 AUGUST

 

REGULAR SESSION                                                                              Thu 24, room F001

SOIL ACAROLOGY-2

Chairs: David Green (University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania), María Lourdes Moraza (Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain)

 

09:00 – 09:10    Maka Murvanidze, Eristo Kvavadze

                        (Institute of Zoology, Tbilisi, Georgia)

                        ORIBATID MITES (ORIBATIDA) AS THE MAIN DECOMPOSERS OF THE VEGETABLE REMNANTS OF BOGS IN COLCHIC LOWLAND

 

09:10 – 09:20    Mosadoluwa Adetola Badejo, Philips Olugbemiga Akinwole

                        (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria)

                        MICROENVIRONMENTAL PREFERENCES OF ORIBATID MITE SPECIES ON THE FLOOR OF A TROPICAL RAINFOREST

 

09:20 – 09:30    Chuleui Jung, Jiwon Kim

                        (Andong National University, Andong, Korea)

                        SOIL MICROARTHROPOD COMMUNITIES AFTER HEAVY MOUNTAIN-FIRE DISTURBANCE

 

09:30 – 09:40    David Green

                        (University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania)

                        THE SOIL MITES OF THE TWWHA BUTTONGRASS MOORLAND (TASMANIA) AND THEIR RESPONSE TO FIRE AS A MANAGEMENT TOOL

 

09:40 – 09:50    María Lourdes Moraza

                        (Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain)

                        EFFECTS OF REFORESTATION WITH CONIFERS IN NORTHERN SPAIN ON THE MESOSTIGMATID MITE COMMUNITIES (MESOSTIGMATA)

 

09:50 – 10:00    Jens Illig

                        (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)

                        THE ORIBATID MITES OF A TROPICAL MONTANE RAIN FOREST IN SOUTHERN ECUADOR

 

10:00 – 10:10    Ineta Salmane

                        (University of Latvia, Salaspils, Latvia)

                        MESOSTIGMATA MITE COMMUNITY (PARASITIFORMES) IN THE GREY DUNES OF THE BALTIC SEA COAST IN AKMENSRAGS, LATVIA

 

10:10 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:10    Piotr Skubała, Magdalena Sokołowska

                        (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)

                        SUCCESSION OF ORIBATID FAUNA (ORIBATIDA) IN FALLEN SPRUCE TREES - DEADWOOD AS A GUARANTEE OF SPECIES AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY

 

11:10 – 11:20    N.A. Ryabinin

                        (Institute of Water and Ecology Problems FEB RAS, Khabarovsk, Russia)

                        PECULIARITIES OF ORIBATID MITES DISTRIBUTION IN SOILS OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST

 

11:20 – 11:30    Hashem Kamali, Mahdi Jalaiyan

                        (Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Khorasan, Mashad, Iran)

                        ACARINE COMMUNITY OF A FOREST ECOSYSTEM OF BOJNORD, IRAN

 

11:30 – 11:40    Maciej Skorupski, Anna Wierzbicka

                        (August Cieszkowski Agricultural University, Poznan, Poland)

                        SOIL MITES (MESOSTIGMATA, ORIBATIDA) IN 14 TREE SPECIES IN A COMMON-GARDEN EXPERIMENT

 

FRIDAY 25 AUGUST

 

REGULAR SESSION                                                                               Fri 25, room F001

TAXONOMY AND MOLECULAR METHODS

Chairs: Eddie Ueckermann (ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa), Farid Faraji (MITOX Consultants, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

 

09:00 – 09:10    Pieter A.S. Olivier

                        (University of Limpopo, Sovenga, South Africa)

                        THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW FAMILY OF MITES BELONGING TO THE SUPERFAMILY EUPODOIDEA (PROSTIGMATA) WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES FROM SOUTH AFRICAN SOILS

 

09:10 – 09:20    H. Kamali, R. Soleymani, K. Izadpanah

                        (Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Khorasan, Mashad, Iran)

                        A NEW SPECIES OF ACARALOX (ERIOPHYIDAE) FROM BERMUDAGRASS IN IRAN

 

09:20 – 09:30    R.U. Petanovic, B.G. Rector

                        (University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro)

                        A NEW SPECIES OF LEIPOTHRIX KEIFER, 1966 (PROSTIGMATA: ERIOPHYIDAE) ON DIPSACUS SPP. IN EUROPE AND REASSIGNMENT OF TWO EPITRIMERUS SPP. (PROSTIGMATA: ERIOPHYIDAE) TO THE GENUS LEIPOTHRIX

 

09:30 – 09:40    M.-S. Tixier, S. Guichou, S. Kreiter

                        (Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique / Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Montpellier, France)

                        ASSESSMENT OF DNA DIVERSITY IN THE FAMILY PHYTOSEIIDAE: CONSEQUENCES FOR THE USE OF MOLECULAR MARKERS IN TAXONOMY

 

09:40 – 09:50    M. Abdigoudarzi

                        (Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, Tehran, Iran)

                        REDESCRIPTION OF DERMACENTOR SPP. (IXODIDAE) AND INTRODUCTION OF IMPORTANT MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS FOR IRANIAN SPECIMENS

 

09:50 – 10:00    Jicheng Han, Lichen Yu, Limin He, Baofeng Hao, Changxin Xu

                        (ChangLi Insititute of Pomology, ChangLi, HeBei, China)

                        RAPD ANALYSIS OF PYEMOTES ON DIFFERENT HOSTS

 

10:00 – 10:10    Limin He, Jicheng Han, Lichen Yu, Baofeng Hao, Changxin Xu

                        (ChangLi Insititute of Pomology, ChangLi, HeBei, China)

                        IDENTIFICATION OF PYEMOTES USING MITOCHONDRIAL DNA CYTOCHROME OXIDASE SUBUNIT I IN CHINA

 

10:10 – 10:20    Li-Lian Chao, Wen-Jer Wu, Chien-Ming Shih

                        (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

                        PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF IXODES GRANULATUS (IXODIDAE) IN TAIWAN BASED ON MITOCHONDRIAL 16S RDNA SEQUENCES

 

10:20 – 11:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

11:00 – 11:20    S. Guichou, M.-S. Tixier, S. Kreiter

                        (Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique / Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Montpellier, France)

                        ASSESSMENT OF MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR VARIATION AMONG STRAINS OF THE SPECIES NEOSEIULUS CALIFORNICUS (McGREGOR) (PHYTOSEIIDAE)

 

11:20 – 11:40    Mónica Hurtado Ruíz, Tommaso Ansaloni, Sandrine Cros-Arteil, Josep-Anton Jacas Miret, María Navajas

                        (Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain)

                        MOLECULAR DISCRIMINATION OF TETRANYCHIDAE MITES ON CITRUS ORCHARDS IN EASTERN SPAIN ALLOWS QUICK SCREENING OF SPECIES IDENTIFICATION IN FIELD SAMPLES

 

11:40 – 12:00    Tommaso Ansaloni, Josep-Anton Jacas Miret, Mónica Hurtado Ruíz

                        (Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain)

                        A NEW TOOL FOR TETRANYCHIDAE SPECIES MOLECULAR DISCRIMINATION FOR QUARANTINE PURPOSES: A NESTED-PCR-BASED TECHNIQUE

 

12:00 – 14:00    LUNCH BREAK

 

REGULAR SESSION                                                                               Fri 25, room F001

TAXONOMY AND FAUNISTIC SURVEYS

Chairs: Eddie Ueckermann (ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa), Farid Faraji (MITOX Consultants, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

 

14:00 – 14:10    Farid Faraji, Josep Roig, André Grove, Frank Bakker

                        (MITOX Consultants, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                        PREDATORY MITE FAUNA OF APPLE TREES AND GROUND WEEDS IN FRANCE

 

14:10 – 14:20    Şerife Bayram, Sultan Çobanoglu

                        (Ankara University, Dıskapı/Ankara, Turkey)

                        CONIFEROUS PLANTS MITE FAUNA OF TURKEY (PROSTIGMATA, MESOSTIGMATA, ASTIGMATA)

 

14:20 – 14:30    H. Kamali, B. Mallik

                        (Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Khorasan, Mashad, Iran)

                        A FAUNISTIC STUDY OF ERIOPHYOID MITES (ERIOPHYOIDEA) ON SOME ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT TREES IN KARNATAKA, INDIA

 

14:30 – 14:40    Meena Thakur, Sangita Sharma, P.K. Mehta

                        (Dr. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan, India)

                        PHYTOPHAGOUS MITES OF FAMILY TETRANYCHIDAE IN HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA

 

14:40 – 14:50    Meena Thakur, C.L. Dinabandhoo, Usha Chauhan

                        (Dr. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan, India)

                        HOST RANGE AND DISTRIBUTION OF PREDATORY MITES ASSOCIATED WITH PHYTOPHAGOUS MITES OF FRUIT CROPS IN HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA

 

14:50 – 15:00    J. Witters, G. De Bondt, J. Desamblanx, H. Casteels

                        (Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Merelbeke, Belgium)

                        A PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF PREDATORY MITES OF TETRANYCHIDAE IN TREE NURSERIES IN BELGIUM

 

15:00 – 15:10    V. Iraola, M.L. Moraza

                        (University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain)

                        PHYTOSEIID MITES IN AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS OF NAVARRA (NORTHERN SPAIN)

 

15:10 – 15:20    Shingo Toyoshima, Hiroshi Amano

                        (National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Japan)

                        DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE OF PHYTOSEIID MITES IN NATURAL VEGETATION AROUND JAPANESE APPLE ORCHARDS

 

15:20 – 16:00    COFFEE/TEA

 

16:00 – 16:10    H. Pakyari, H. Ostovan, K. Kamali

                        (Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)

                        EDAPHIC MITES OF ORDER MESOSTIGMATA COLLECTED FROM SORKHEH HESAR PARK OF TEHRAN AND NEW RECORDS OF FIVE SPECIES AND ONE GENUS FROM IRAN

 

16:10 – 16:20    H. Sakenin, K. Kamali, H. Ostovan, A. Saboori

            (Islamic Azad University, Mazandaran, Iran)

                        SOME ASCIDAE FROM IRAN (MESOSTIGMATA)

 

16:20 – 16:30    A.K. Sanyal

                        (Zoological Survey Of India, New Alipore, Kolkata India)

                        THE PRESENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE OF ORIBATID TAXONOMY IN INDIA

 

16:30 – 16:40    Ignacio Vázquez, Edith G. Estrada-Venegas

                        (UNAM, México)

                        EREYNETID MITES (TYDEOIDEA: EREYNETIDAE) ASSOCIATED TO GARLIC IN GUANAJUATO, MEXICO

 

16:40 – 16:50    Piotr Szafranek, Stanisław Ignatowicz, Mariusz Lewandowski

                        (Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland)

                        PREDATORY MITES IN MUSHROOM HOUSES IN POLAND

 

16:50 – 17:00    Matti Uusitalo

                        (Zoological Museum, University of Turku, Finland)

                        TERRESTRIAL SPECIES OF THE GENUS NANORCHESTES TOPSENT & Trouessart (NANORCHESTIDAE: ENDOSTIGMATA: ACARI) IN EUROPE

 

17:00 – 17:10    Ziad Barbar, Marie-Stéphane Tixier, Brigitte Cheval, Serge Kreiter

                   (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Montpellier, France)

                        DOES AGROFORESTRY INFLUENCE PHYTOSEIID MITE COMMUNITIES IN VINEYARDS IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE?