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FISCHER ICA GRANT
Programme
Canterbury, 10-15 February 2019
Pianoa isolata
Organising Committee
Main Organisers
Cor Vink (Canterbury Museum, New Zealand)
Peter Michalik (University of Greifswald, Germany)
Local Organising Committee
Ximena Nelson (University of Canterbury)
Adrian Paterson (Lincoln University)
Simon Pollard (University of Canterbury)
Phil Sirvid (Museum of NewZealand , Te Papa Tongarewa)
Victoria Smith (Canterbury Museum)
Scientific Committee
Anita Aisenberg (IICBE, Uruguay)
Miquel Arnedo (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Mark Harvey (Western Australian Museum, Australia)
Mariella Herberstein (Macquarie University, Australia)
Greg Holwell (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Marco Isaia (University of Torino, Italy)
Lizzy Lowe (Macquarie University, Australia)
Anne Wignall (Massey University, New Zealand)
Jonas Wolff (Macquarie University, Australia)
Symposia and Workshops
Growth, morphogenesis and developmental genetics | Prashant P. Sharma
Arachnid venoms | Greta Binford
Arachnological outreach for community engagement, conservation and research | Maria Albo & Lizzy Lowe
Island Arachnids biogeography | Sarah Boyer, Rosemary Gillespie, Julien Pétillon & Kaïna Privet
The breadth of sexual strategies and reproductive morphology in arachnids – This is just the beginning! | Anita Aisenberg & Michael Kasumovic
Jumping spiders: behaviour, ecology and evolution | Daiqin Li & Elizabeth Jakob
Outstanding Opiliones: Reproductive and population-level biology in harvestmen | Mercedes Burns
Mygalomorph spiders – evolution and conservation | Mark Harvey, Joel Huey, Mike Rix & Jeremy Wilson
Spider trait network: opportunities for a global collaboration to address broad scale ecological and evolutionary questions | Lizzy Lowe & Jonas
Wolff
Layout and Images: Peter Michalik
Programme * = student contribution # = symposium
Sunday | 10. February
Papa Hou | YMCA
Rolleston Av.
Gloucester St.
00
10 Spider traits workshop
Botanical Worcester Blvd.
Garden
1400 Registration
Hereford St.
1700 Welcome party
Cashel St.
Montreal St.
Monday | 11. February
Papa Hou | YMCA
815 Welcome address
Plenary talk | Eileen Hebets
830
Sensory Systems, Learning, and Communication – Insights from Amblypygids to Humans
930 Bus to Lincoln University
1000 Coffee Break
S 1 | Young arachnologists (invited lectures)
Chair: M.A. Arnedo
Chrissie J. Painting et al.
1030 The evolution of diverse animal weapons
1100 Hannah Wood
Evolution of palpimanoid spiders: bizarre morphologies, unusual behaviors, and extreme speeds
1130 Henrik Krehenwinkel
The promises of next generation sequencing technology for high throughput assessment of spider diversity
1200 Lunch Break (self-organised)
S 1 | Salticid behaviour, ecology & evolution # S 2 | Island biogeography #
Chairs: D. Li & B. Jakobs Chair: J. Pétillon
1300 R. Gillespie
Evolution of spiders on oceanic islands: The venture of few and gain of many
R.R. Jackson
The cognitive lives of poly-specialist spiders
1315 L.A. Esposito & S.C. Crews
It's complicated: Patterns of Caribbean biogeography in arthropods
X. Nelson et al. V.W. Framenau et al.
1330 Spare a thought for boredom Island biogeography: to be (indigenous), or not to be, that is the question
1345 C. Chang et al. (speaker: D. Li)
Genetic basis for jumping spider aggression
J. Malumbres-Olarte et al.
Multi-scale effects of habitat heterogeneity on spider communities of oceanic islands
L.A. Taylor et al. M.A. Arnedo et al.
1400 Blood-related prey-odour primes females to attend to red in both foraging and mate Go West! Colonisation and diversification of Dysdera ground dweller spiders in the
choice contexts in a... Macaronesian Archipelagoes
1415 F.R. Cross & R.R. Jackson
A spider-eating predator's capacity to decide when to take a detour
K. Privet et al.*
Phylogeny of wolf spiders from the island of Hawai'i inferred from multilocus genetic data
1430 E. Jakob et al.
Gaze direction in jumping spiders
A. Tanikawa et al.
Highly diversified population structure of Lycosa ishikariana inhabiting sandy beach
habitat
W. Maddison C.M. Baker & G. Giribet*
1445 A phylogenetic perspective on salticid spider behaviour Systematics and biogeography of Triaenonychidae (Opiliones: Laniatores) across
Zealandia
1500 Coffee Break
S 1 | Salticid biology S 2 | Biogeography & Systematics
Chair: X. Nelson Chair: R. Gillespie
30 P.O.M. Steinhoff et al.* LL. Chamberland et al.*
15 Complex integration of visual information: The secondary eye pathway of the jumping From Gondwana to GAARlandia: Evolutionary history and biogeography of ogre-faced
spider brain spiders (Deinopis)
1545 S. Aguilar-Argüello et al.*
Route assessment in jumping spiders
K. Čandek et al.
Caribbean Cyrtognatha, Tetragnatha and Trichonephila: Biogeographic patterns of spiders
with different dispersal abilities
1600 L.B. Lietzenmayer et al.*
It helps to be red: A comparative study of male coloration, sexual size dimorphism, and
A. Holmquist & R. Gillespie*
Ancient processes versus environmental change in shaping diversity of spider
male size in salticids communities across Gunung Galang...
1615 H. Zeng et al.*
Function of colour pattern in intraspecific interactions: a case study with jumping spiders
G. Hormiga et al.
Phylogenomics resolves the phylogenetic relationships of the main lineages of spiders
(Araneae)
1630 P. Balasubramanian et al. (speaker: Uma)
Role of visual cues and aggression in jumping spider responses to ants and ant mimics
S. Kulkarni et al.*
Big data, small spiders: analyses of ultraconserved elements give new perspectives on
spider phylogeny and evolution of miniature orb-weavers
1645 B.H. Wong & D. Li*
Static allometry and evolutionary allometry of enlarged chelicerae in the Myrmarachnines
I.L.F. Magalhaes & M. Ramírez*
Phylogeny of the crevice-weaver spiders (Araneae: Filistatidae)
1700 M. Kelly et al.*
The evolution of ant mimicry in spiders
T.L. Audisio & T. Bourguignon*
Goblins underground: Termitophilous oonopids of the Afrotropical Region
J. McLean & M.E. Herberstein* R.J. Kallal et al.*
1715 Mimicry in motion: can good behaviour compensate for poor morphological mimicry? The shape of weaver: using geometric morphometrics to explore shape disparity in
Araneidae (Arachnida: Araneae)
1730 Bus to YMCA
1815 Poster primer & fingerfood
List of Posters
1: Albo et al. 19: Montes de Oca et al.* 37: Schaider et al.
Deceptive worthless nuptial gifts: the role of Thermal preferences in seven species of Benzoquinones in eupnoan scent glands
resource availability, sexual selection and Theraphosidae (Mygalomorphae): ecological (Opiliones): homology vs. homoplasy in an
individual differences implications exocrine system
2: Yu et al. 20: Albín et al. 38: Silva de Miranda & Wood
Predator avoidance: bird dropping masquerading Standard metabolic rates in a Neotropical Phylogeography of the Atlantic Forest amblypygids
in a crab spider burrowing wolf spider with sex role reversal
39: Fet et al.
3: Yin Yip & Tso* 21: Malumbres-Olarte et al. Revision of the Mesobuthus caucasicus complex
Can I borrow a “light”? Does firefly CEBRA – Optimised and standardized sampling from Central Asia (Scorpiones: Buthidae)
bioluminescence act as a visual lure on Psechrus protocols for citizen science
clavis webs? 40: Privet et al.*
22: Řezáč et al. New insights into the systematics of the “Arctosa
4: McGinley et al. Neonicotinoid insecticides suppress the ability of villica group”, including observations on the
Hunger influences behavior but not outcome in spiders to re-colonise disturbed agroecosystems halophilic species A. fulvolineata
male-male contests of Servaea incana jumping
spiders 23: Laino et al. 41: Ono et al.
Is it worth having an adequate energetic state so The spider fauna of Myanmar (Arachnida,
5: Rao et al. as to detoxify a pesticide? Araneae), a prologue
Reeling in the prey: Fishing behaviour in an orb
web spider 24: Dippenaar-Schoeman et al. 42: Mitchell et al.
Red List of South African spiders: an end-product Under the trapdoor: Unravelling the phylogenetic
6: Shigemiya relationships and phylogeography of cork-lid
of the South African National Survey of Arachnida
Female genital mutilation in Cyclosa confusa trapdoor spiders, Stasimopus Simon, 1892
25: Engelbrecht et al. (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae) in the
7: Fischer et al.* Karoo
The Baboon Spider Atlas: mapping tarantula
Spider women talk – Females of the cob-web diversity in southern Africa with citizen science
spider Steatoda grossa adjust their web 43: Richardson et al.
architecture and web pheromone titer in response 26: Ridel et al. A key to the genera of Australian jumping spiders
to mate competition Complementary of trait- vs diversity-based metrics (Araneae: Salticidae)
8: Segura-Hernández et al.* in spider and carabid assemblages
44: Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle
This smells... familiar? Learning of chemical cues 27: Urfer et al. First systematic revision of the subfamily
in two sympatric species of amblypygid Morphology, CO1, and ITS2 provide different Anaminae (Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae) in South
specimen clusters in a widespread crab spider Africa
9: Robledo-Ospina & Rao*
Colour fidelity in prey selection by an 28: Setton et al.* 45: Machado et al.*
araneophagic wasp Embryogenesis in a Colorado population of Taxonomic revision of the Australian crab spider
Aphonopelma hentzi, (Girard, 1852) (Araneae, genus Stephanopis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869
10: Deutsch* (Araneae: Thomisidae)
Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae), an emerging
Deception & Manipulation: Argyrodinae Spiders as system for the study of spider development
a Parasite and Host 46: Machado et al.*
29: Jones & Cushing* Shaking the tree of the bark crab spiders:
11: Gonnet-Cendán et al. Phylogeny of the Neotropical Stephanopis species
Morphology of Male Abdominal Ctenidia in North
Testing the occurrence of sexual size dimorphism American Camel Spiders reveals a new genus and revalidates Paratobias
in Allocosinae species from Uruguayan grasslands (Araneae: Thomisidae)
30: Gainett et al.*
12: Beleyur et al. 47: García et al.*
From eggs to longlegs: Embryonic development
The architecture, dynamics, and silk investment in and staging of the harvestman Phalangium opilio Investigating the poly-paraphyly of North American
social spider webs camel spiders (Solifugae: Eremobatidae:
31: Steinhoff et al.* Therobatinae) and their unique moveable palpal
13: Baggett & Brown Lifestyle matters: Brain morphology in cursorial spines
Movement Patterns and Home Range Size of Two and stationary hunting spiders
Species of Riparian-Zone Wolf Spiders from 48: Gavish-Regev et al.
Arizona, USA 32: Laudier Below or above-ground? Where are the closest
Silver, Gold and Copper Staining: Histochemical relatives of troglobite Tegenaria species?
14: Xu et al. Applications for Arachnid Neural Tissue
Formation of rivers and mountains drive 49: Baker et al.*
diversification of primitively segmented spiders in 33: Tsurusaki et al. A densely-sampled Sanger-based phylogeny of the
continental East Asia Chromosomal hybrid zone showing heterzygote temperate Gondwanan family Triaenonychidae
superiority in Gagrellula ferruginea (Opiliones) (Opiliones: Laniatores), inferred from three
15: Vink et al. markers
New Zealand Pirates: Evolutionary origins and 34: Setton & Sharma*
diversity of Zealandia's mimetid spider revealed Differential gene expression approaches elucidate
through morphology and molecular data systemic effects of Wnt signaling inhibition during
16: Steele et al.* segmentation in the spider Parasteatoda
tepidariorum
Chronoecology of the Cave Dwelling Orb-Weaver
spider, Meta ovalis 35: Santibáñez-López et al.
17: Audisio & Mikheyev* Neglected no longer: Phylotranscriptomics and
molecular modeling reveals venom homologs in
Evolution of the venom system in spiders Pseudoscorpiones and Palpigradi
18: Chamberland & Stafstrom* 36: MacDougall et al.*
Untangling the evolutionary and biogeographic Species delimitation of New Zealand Neopilionidae
history of Old World net-casting spiders (Family: (Opiliones) based on COI sequence data
Deinopidae)
Tuesday | 12. February
Papa Hou | YMCA
830 Plenary talk | Martín J. Ramírez
Spider phylogenetics and evolution – beyond the trees
930 Bus to Lincoln University
1000 Coffee Break
S 1 | Young arachnologists (invited lectures)
Chair: M. Kuntner
1030 Chris A. Hamilton
Arthropod systematics in the age of “big data” and machine learning
1100 Danilo Harms
Pseudoscorpion research in the 21st century – discovering the great unknown
1130 Jonas Wolff et al.
Physical optimum in silk anchors as a global driver of spider web evolution
1200 Lunch Break (self-organised)
S 1 | Outstanding Opiliones # S 2 | Behaviour
Chairs: M. Burns & S. Stellwagen Chair: E. Hebets
1300 N. Tsurusaki
Size matters: Possible cases of character displacement in Japanese harvestmen for
S. Pekár & L.F. García
Coevolution of stridulation and hard cuticle resulted in the defensive acoustic mimicry
preventing...
1315 E.C. Powell et al.*
The physiology of alternative reproductive tactics in New Zealand harvestmen
D. Rao et al.
Colour as deterrence: An empirical test of the anti-predator function of wing interference
colours
1330 P.C. Kahn et al. (speaker: S.L. Boyer)
Nuptial gift chemistry reveals convergent evolution correlated with antagonism in mating
T.B. Corey & E.A. Hebets*
Testing the hypothesised antipredator defence function of stridulation in the spiny orb-
systems of leiobunine harvestman weaver, Micrathena gracilis
M. Burns & N. Tsurusaki A.L. Rypstra et al.
1345 Maintenance of sex via geographic heterogeneity and facultative parthenogenesis in a Interspecific contests cannot explain species replacement in cellar spiders (Pholcidae)
Japanese harvestman
1400 G. Machado & A.V. Palaoro
Behavioral and morphological precursors predict the evolution of exclusive parental care
R.H. McGinley et al.
Daily activity patterns match the most effective light environments for courtship in
in harvestmen Schizocosa wolf spiders
1415 L. Classen-Rodriguez & K. Fowler-Finn*
Predation rates on North American Leiobunum harvestmen (Sclerosomatidae: Opiliones)
R. Golobinek et al. (speaker: S. Kralj-Fišer)
The role of personality variation in the mating context
1430 K. Sheridan et al.*
Whole-collection COI barcoding of New Zealand neopilionids (Opiliones: Neopilionidae)
Z. Chen et al.
Prolonged milk provisioning in a jumping spider
S. Derkarabetian et al. B. Dong et al.
1445 Phylogenomics of the Gondwanan Triaenonychidae (Opiliones, Laniatores), with Long-term benefits of extended maternal care in a jumping spider
discussion on UCE sequence sequence capture from old museum specimens
1500 Coffee Break
S 1 | Opiliones + other Arachnids S 2 | Behaviour & Physiology
Chair: S. Boyer Chair: D. Harms
1530 P. Sharma et al. A. Aceves-Aparicio et al.*
Phylogenomic disruption of basal Grassatores relationships: A Levantine relict precipitates The Australian ant-slayer: specialised ant hunting behaviour and the use of silk in
further deconstruction of Phalangodidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores) Euryopis umbilicata (Theridiidae)
1545 G. Giribet et al.
The Opiliones of New Zealand: A revisionary synthesis for testing biogeographic
B.A. Buzatto et al.
Selection for male weapons boosts female fecundity in bulb mites
hypotheses
D.B. Bastawade B.A. Baggett & C.A. Brown (speaker: Brown)
1600 Do scorpions have different peg sensilla on pectine in different types of habitats and Desiccation Tolerance and Humidity Preferences of Two Species of Riparian-Zone Wolf
habits they occupy and lead?... Spiders from Arizona, USA
A. Goodman & L. Esposito* M. Foellmer & S. Tariq
1615 Systematics and Niche Partitioning of a Unique Clade of Tree-Dwelling Scorpion The effect of metabolic rate on performance in the salt marsh wolf spider Pardosa littoralis
(Buthidae: Centruroides)
1630 M.S. Harvey & J.A. Huey
A molecular phylogeny of the feaelloid pseudoscorpions (Feaellidae and
A.D. Austin
Evolutionary patterns among hymenopteran predators and parasitoids of spiders
Pseudogarypidae) reveals ancient Pangean diversification
P.E. Cushing et al. A. Gibbons et al.*
1645 Camel spider (Solifugae: Eremobatidae) research past and future Does endosymbiont infection alter the behaviour of Philodromus spiders?
1700 G. Silva de Miranda
Advances on Amblypygi research: past, present and future directions
R.H. Willemart
Our past and current knowledge on the sensory biology of harvestmen (Opiliones)
Victor Fet et al. A. Bellvert et al.*
1715 Fauna and zoogeography of scorpions in Greece Does trophic specialisation prevent ecological release?
1730 Bus to YMCA
1900 Russian Party @ YMCA
Wednesday | 13. February
Midweek excursion
Thursday | 14. February
Papa Hou | YMCA
830 Plenary talk | Klaus Birkhofer
Spider communities in agricultural landscapes – response patterns and consequences for predation services
930 Bus to Lincoln University
1000 Coffee Break
S 1 | Arachnological outreach # S 2 | Arachnid venoms #
Chair: L. Lowe Chair: G. Binford
1030 M.J. Albo et al.
Kids that tell science: fearless and positive children after hands-on educational
M.S. Brewer
Venom evolution and its role in local adaptation, phenotypic plasticity, and diversification
experience in Tetragnatha spiders
1045 P.E. Cushing
Arachnology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science: Foundations of biodiversity
C.E. Santibáñez-López & P. Sharma.
Using phylogenomics and 3D protein modeling to study the evolution of scorpion venom
studies using volunteers and paraprofessionals
00 E.A. Hebets et al. L. Kuhn-Nentwig et al.
11 Eight-Legged Encounters: arachnids, volunteers, and art help to bridge the gap between The dual prey-inactivation strategy of the spider Cupiennius salei: dozens of possibilities
to subdue a victim, more than just neurotoxins
1115 M. Kasumovic
The easy way to make any student into a scientist: The power of mobile devices
N. Langenegger et al.*
Spider venom enzymes and the function of a specific protease from the venom of the
spider Cupiennius salei
1130 C. Scott et al.*
Twitter as a tool for arachnological outreach: reflections on a year of @RecluseOrNot
M.H.J. Cordes & G.J. Binford
Deep evolutionary history of spider venom phospholipase D toxins
1145 N. Doran
SIXTEEN LEGS: Popular Culture helping the public to embrace spiders
E. Santana-Propper et al. (speaker: G.J. Binford)
Resurrected ancestral activity of sicariid toxins informs evolution of specificity and
consequences for prey immobilisation
1200 Lunch Break (self-organised)
S 1 | Silk biology S 2 | Sexual strategies & Reproductive morphology #
Chair: A.-C. Joel Chairs: A. Aisenberg & M. Kasumovic
M. Kasumovic
1300 M. Gregorič et al.
Spider webs as a source of environmental DNA Is it worth it? Let me work it: The role of physiology in sexual selection
C. Deall & S. Goodacre* C.E. Scott et al.*
1315 Spider silk: What's in those genes? Spider silk and sex: from mating threads to veils and gift-wrap
1330 K. Arakawa et al.
Sequencing 1,000 spiders to elucidate the design mechanisms of spider silk proteins
A. Wignall et al.
Constraints on courtship signalling in web-buidling spiders
1345 P.L. Babb et al.
The draft genome of Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini) reveals an expanded
A. Aisenberg
Exceptions that test rules: avant-garde females and demanding males in two sand-
capture spiral genetic toolkit dwelling spiders from challenging environments
S. Stellwagen & R. Renberg F. Bollatti et al.*
1400 Towards spider glue: long-read scaffolding for extreme length and repetitious silk family Take a chance on me: second mating opportunities in a South American wolf spider
genes AgSp1...
1415 M. Thornber et al.* P. Michalik et al.
From liquid dope to solid fibres: studying factors influencing assembly within native spider The innervation of the male copulatory organ of spiders (Araneae) – a comparative
silk glands analysis
1430 S.P. Kelly et al.
Mechanical properties of spider silk enriched with carbon nanomaterials
L. Segura-Hernández et al.*
Ticklish females: a sensory structure specialised to sense male stimuli fails to support
sexually antagonistic coevolution models in Leucauge mariana (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)
1445 C.F. García et al.
Why are spiders so fast? A small biochemical history
L. Sentenská et al.
Immature mating and male mate choice in the cannibalistic brown widow spider
Latrodectus geometricus
1500 Coffee Break
S 1 | Webs & Silk S 2 | Sexual strategies
Chair: J. Wolff Chair: J. Schneider
1530 A.-C. Joel et al.
The adhesion of cribellate capture threads
J. Schneider
Wolbachia infections in Nephila senegalensis
D. Piorkowski et al.* K. Nakata
1545 Mechanical integration of wet axial fibres enhances adhesion in cribellate silk of Female genital mutilation and the rejection of second males in Cyclosa ginnaga
Hickmania troglodytes
M. Weißbach et al.* A. Fischer et al.*
1600 Influence of the spinneret's morphology onto the complex fibre processing in cribellate Identification of the sex pheromone of the female false black widow spider, Steatoda
spiders grossa (Theridiidae, Araneae)
1615 M. Frutiger & C. Kropf*
Testing for an anti-adhesive surface coating in Uloborus plumipes and the web-invader
A. Danielson-Francois & Y. Drobot
Functional failures: flubbed intromissions act as cryptic sperm removal behaviours
Pholcus phalangioides
1630 A. Gordus et al.
Defining orb-weaving behavior at a high spatiotemporal resolution
F.A. Rivera-Quiroz & J.A. Miller*
Asymmetric genitalia in spiders: an overview of this rare phenomenon with emphasis on
Teutamus politus Thorell 1890 (Araneae; Liocranidae)
A. Walter M. Kuntner et al.
1645 No major progress in web decoration research – Why is that? Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: Phylogenomic and comparative analyses
unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism
I. Chen et al.
1700 There's more than one way to build a leaf retreat: Convergent solutions in orb and
P. Dudová & J. Klečka*
Individual and sex-specific differences in behaviour of the nursery web spider (Pisaura
pseudo-orb web spiders mirabilis)
1715 J.A. Coddington et al.
Spiders did not repeatedly gain, but repeatedly lost, foraging webs
A. Harmer et al.
Biomechanics of sexually selected weapons in New Zealand harvestmen
1730 Bus to YMCA
1815 ISA General assembly
2030 Host: Niall Doran (Bookend Trust)Friday | 15. February
Papa Hou | YMCA
830 Plenary talk | Prashant P. Sharma
The evo-devo spyglass: a promised renaissance for morphology in an era of genomes and functional toolkits
930 Bus to Lincoln University
1000 Coffee Break
S 1 | Systematics S 2 | Growth, morphogenesis & developmental genetics #
Chair: H. Wood Chair: P.P. Sharma
1030 S. Foley et al.*
Tarantula phylogenomics: A first phylogeny of major theraphosid spider lineages inferred
Y. Akiyama-Oda et al.
from transcriptome data sheds light on the evolution of urticating setae
Parasteatoda tepidariorum is a model spider that permits genome-based study of
45 E. Turk et al.* developmental biology
10 Macroevolutionary rate estimations in a nephilid phylogeny
1100 N.A. Hazzi et al.*
Phylogeny and biogeography of the spider genus Spinoctenus (Aranae, Ctenidae) with
I. Jędrzejowska & A. Halajian
Chelicerate type ovaries in spiders, solifuges, pseudoscorpions and scorpions – similar
comments on the systematics of Ctenidae but not identical
1115 Y.-Y. Lo & C.-P. Lin*
Molecular phylogeny of lynx spiders (Oxyopidae) and taxonomic revision of Oxyopes in
C. Santibáñez-López et al.
The evolutionary origin of scorpion pectines
Taiwan
1130 R. Booysen et al.*
Revision, molecular phylogeny and biology of the spider genus Micaria in the Afrotropical
E.V.W. Setton & P.P. Sharma*
The genetic architecture of spider spinnerets: a new spin on an old question
Region
1145 T. da Silva-Moreira & G. Hormiga*
A total evidence phylogenetic analysis of sheet web spiders
A.Z. Ontano et al.*
Testing the placement of Pseudoscorpions through rare genomic changes
00 L. Baert et al.
12 Long term monitoring of spiders in coastal dune and salt marsh habitats along the river
G. Gainett & P.P. Sharma*
How do whip spiders make their whips? Applying differential gene expression approaches
Yzer estuary (Nieuwpoort, Belgium), final approach to identifying genetic mechanisms
1215 Lunch Break (self-organised)
S 1 | Mygalomorph evolution & conservation # S 2 | Ecology & Biodiversity
Chair: M. Harvey Chair: K. Birkhofer
A. Enguídanos et al. (speaker: M.A. Arnedo) S. Ágota Réka et al.*
1300 Good fences make good neighbours: Resolving evolutionary history and species Spider communities in rapeseed plantations versus semi-natural grassland
delimitation of western Mediterranean ctenizid trap-door spiders
1315 L. Montes de Oca et al.*
Phylogenomics of Neotropical Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)
S.R. Daniel et al.*
Spiders in Agroecosystems: community structure and potential for biological pest control
in Nebraska maize
1330 J.A. Huey et al.
Spiders in the desert: the role of climate refugia in maintaining lineage diversity of
K.-P. Yu et al.*
Remote sensing derived habitat indices can predict spider species richness in
mygalomorph spiders in the Australia arid zone urbanisation gradient
1345 J. Wilson et al.*
Enigmatic architects of eastern Australia: integrating morphology, molecules and burrow
M. Domènech et al.*
For all audiences: the impact of incorporating immature stages into biodiversity
architecture to resolve the systematics of the golden trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae... assessment of mega-diverse groups
M. Rix et al. C. Haddad et al.
1400 Conservation systematics of Australia's spiny trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae): revealing a Spider assemblages in South African grasslands and the factors that shape them: a
continental fauna before it's too late review of two decades of recent work
F. Pérez-Miles et al. S. Foord et al.
1415 Back to the future: between Barychelidae and Theraphosidae the ex-Paratropidid Melloina The future of spider diversity on a mountain: habitat complexity and not elevation could
Brignoli 1985 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) explain their response to climate change
E. Briggs et al.* H. Badenhorst et al.*
1430 A molecular perspective of the biodiversity of Australian tarantulas (Theraphosidae) Diversity of springtails and spiders in three biomes in central South Africa
1445 L.D. Mason et al.*
The longest-lived spider: mygalomorphs dig deep, and persevere
C. Muster
Seven years of spider community succession in a Sphagnum farm
1500 Coffee BreakS 1 | Taxonomy & Systematics S 2 | Ecology & Biodiversity
Chair: M.J. Ramírez Chair: A. Wignall
1530 I. Armiach Steinpress et al.*
Lycosa – species delimitation in the midst of diversity
A. Decae
Comparative nest construction in orthognate spiders
1545 C.A. Rheims
Neotropical Sparassidae: who are they? Where are they? Where do they fit in?
R. Michalko et al.
Biocontrol efficiency of spiders across the globe: a meta-analysis
1600 M. Pavlek et al.
Enlightening the dark: A phylogenetic framework for Dinaric cave-dwelling dysderid
J.A. Miller et al.
A multi-taxon cyberdiversity inventory of a small Caribbean island
spiders
1615 M. Siliwal et al.
Taxonomic validation of the genus Nemesiellus Pocock, 1900 (Araneae: Idiopidae) with a
J. Pétillon et al.
Relative efficiency of pitfall trapping vs. hand-collecting to sample ground-dwelling spiders
description of a new species from Odisha, India along a structural gradient of neotropical habitats
1630 L.B. Patrick & M.L. Draney
A new species of spider from Mexico in the genus Frontinella (Linyphiidae)
G. Uhl et al.
Latitudinal differences in life history traits of a rapidly range-expanding spider
Norman Horner et al. D. Dimitrov et al.
1645 A new myrmecophilic spider from the Chihuahuan Desert of West Texas Understanding pholcid relationships and diversification: recent advances and future
directions
1700 V. Ovtcharenko & B. Zakharov
Ground spiders of family Gnaphosidae on Zealandia: current distribution and relationship
S.K. Das & S.R. Choudhury
First record of the dwarf spider genus Alioranus from India
with adjunct lands
1715 B. Zakharov & V. Ovtcharenko
Comparative morphology of ground spider trichobothria (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)
Y.M. Marusik
The World Spider Catalog and distribution of spiders
1745 Closing remarks
1800 Bus to YMCA
1930 Congress Dinner & Awards @ YMCAPérez-Miles, Fernando | Uruguay
Peterson, Rebecca | New Zealand
Pétillon, Julien | France
Piorkowski, Dakota | Taiwan
Powell, Erin | New Zealand
Privet, Kaïna | France
International R Ramirez, Martin | Argentina
Congress of
Participants Rao, Dinesh | Mexico
Rezac, Milan | Czech Republic
Rheims, Cristina | Brazil
A Aceves Aparicio, Alfonso | Australia Deall, Charlotte | United Kingdom Kallal, Bob | United States
K Karikó, Sarah | United States Richardson, Barry | Australia
Agnarsson, Ingi | United States Decae, Arthur | Netherlands Rivera Quiroz, Francisco Andres | Netherlands
Ágota Réka, Szabó | Romania Deng, Chan | China Kasumovic, Michael | Australia Rix, Michael | Australia
Aguilar Arguello, Samuel | New Zealand Derkarabetian, Shahan | United States Kelly, Sean | Taiwan Robledo Ospina, Luis Eduardo | Mexico
Aisenberg, Anita | Uruguay Deutsch, Ella | United Kingdom Kelly, Michael | Australia Rypstra, Ann | United States
Akiyama-Oda, Yasuko | Japan Dimitrov, Dimitar | Norway Koh, Joseph K H | Singapore S Santibanez Lopez, Carlos | United States
Albin, Andrea | Uruguay Domènech, Marc | Spain Koponen, Seppo | Finland Savrova, Anastasia | Australia
Albo, Maria | Uruguay Dong, Bing | China Kralj Fišer, Simona | Slovenia Schaider, Miriam | Austria
Anderson, Greg | Australia Dudova, Pavla | Czech Republic Krehenwinkel, Henrik | Germany Schneider, Jutta | Germany
Arakawa, Kazuharu | Japan E Echeverri, Sebastian| United States Kropf, Christian | Switzerland Scott, Catherine | Canada
Armiach Steinpress, Igor | Israel Erickson, Linda | United States Kuhn-Nentwig, Lucia | Switzerland Segura Hernandez, Laura | United States
Arnedo, Miquel | Spain Esposito, Lauren | United States Kulkarni, Siddharth | United States Selden, Paul | United States
Audisio, Tracy | Japan F Fet, Victor | United States Kuntner, Matjaž | Slovenia Sentenská, Lenka | Czech Republic
Austin, Andy | Australia Fischer, Andreas | Canada L Langenegger, Nicolas | Switzerland Setton, Emily | United States
B Badenhorst, Hannelene | South Africa Foellmer, Matthias | United States Laudier, Damien | United States Sharma, Prashant | United States
Baert, Léon | Belgium Foley, Stephen | Singapore Li, Daiqin | Singapore Sheridan, Kaitlin | United States
Baker, Caitlin | United States Foord, Stefan | South Africa Lietzenmayer, Laurel | United States Shigemiya, Yusuke | Japan
Bastawade, Deshabhushan | India Foster, Woodbridge | United States Lo, Ying-Yuan | Taiwan Siliwal, Manju | India
Bellvert, Adrià | Spain Framenau, Volker | Australia Long, Yu | China Sirvid, Phil | New Zealand
Binford, Greta | United States Frutiger, Miriam | Switzerland Lowe, Lizzy | Australia Smith, Deborah | United States
Birkhofer, Klaus | Germany G Gainett, Guilherme | United States Lyle, Robin | South Africa Smith, Helen | Australia
Bollatti, Fedra | Argentina Garcia, Fernando | Argentina M MacDougall, Jonathan (Nico) | United States Steele, Rebecca | United States
Booysen, Ruan | South Africa Garcia, Erika | United States Machado, Glauco | Brazil Steinhoff, Philip O.M. | Germany
Bosmans, Robert | Belgium Gavish-Regev, Efrat | Israel Machado, Miguel | Australia Stellwagen, Sarah | United States
Boyer, Sarah | United States Gibbons, Alastair | United Kingdom Maddison, Wayne | Canada
T Tanikawa, Akio | Japan
Bradley, Richard | United States Gillespie, Rosemary | United States Magalhaes, Ivan | Argentina Taylor, Lisa | United States
Brewer , Michael | United States Giribet, Gonzalo | United States Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba | Portugal Taylor, Robin | United States
Briggs, Ethan | Australia Goodman, Aaron | United States Marusik, Yuri | Russian Federation Thornber, Morgan | United Kingdom
Brown, Chris | United States Gordus, Andrew | United States Mason, Leanda | Australia Tsurusaki, Nobuo | Japan
Burns, Mercedes | United States Gregorič, Matjaz | Slovenia Masumoto, Toshiya | Japan Turk, Eva | Slovenia
Buzatto, Bruno | Australia H Haddad, Charles | South Africa McGinley, Rowan | United States U Uhl, Gabriele | Germany
C Čandek, Klemen | Slovenia Hall, Grace | New Zealand Mclean, Jim | Australia Uma, Divya | India
Cangialosi, Karen | United States Hamilton, Chris | United States Michalik, Peter | Germany
V Van Keer, Johan | Belgium
Chamberland, Lisa | United States Harmer, Aaron | New Zealand Michalko, Radek | Czech Republic Vink, Cor | New Zealand
Chen, Ing | Singapore Harms, Danilo | Germany Milledge, Graham | Australia
W Waldock, Julianne | Australia
Chen, Zhanqi | China Harvey, Mark | Australia Miller, Jeremy | Netherlands Walter, André | Denmark
Classen-Rodriguez, Leticia | United States Hazzi, Nicolas A. | United States Montes De Oca, Laura | Uruguay Warfel, Joseph | United States
Coddington, Jonathan | United States Hebets , Eileen | United States Muster, Christoph | Germany Weißbach, Margret | Germany
Cordes, Matthew | United States Herberstein, Mariella | Australia N Nakata , Kensuke | Japan Wignall, Anne | New Zealand
Corey, Tyler | United States Holmquist, Anna | United States Nelson, Ximena | New Zealand Wild, Zoe | Australia
Court, David | Singapore Holwell, Greg | New Zealand Nentwig, Wolfgang | Switzerland Willemart, Rodrigo | Brazil
Craig, Hamish | Australia Hormiga, Gustavo | United States Nguyen, Tom | United States Wilson, Jeremy | Australia
Cross, Fiona | New Zealand Horner, Norman | United States O Ono, Hirotsugu | Japan Wolff, Jonas | Australia
Cushing, Paula | United States Huey, Joel | Australia Ontano, Andrew | United States Wong, Boon Hui | Singapore
D da Silva Moreira, Thiago | United States J Jackson, Robert R. | New Zealand Ovtcharenko, Vladimir | United States Wood, Hannah | United States
Daniel, Samantha | United States Jakob, Beth | United States P Painting, Chrissie | New Zealand
Y Yip, Ho Yin | Taiwan
Danielson-Francois, Anne | United States Jędrzejowska, Izabela | Poland Patrick, L. Brian | United States Yu, Kuang-Ping | Taiwan
Das, Sanjay Keshari | India Joel, Anna-Christin | Germany Pavlek, Martina | Spain
Z Zakharov, Boris | United States
De Miranda, Gustavo | United States Jones, Richard | United States Pekar, Stano | Czech Republic Zeng, Hua | Singapore“A playful, stunning documentary... as epically gorgeous
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A real-world ‘Charlotte’s Web’ featuring
NEIL GAIMAN, KATE MILLER-HEIDKE, STEPHEN FRY & TARA MOSS
in a feature-length adventure based on the
critically acclaimed short lm ‘16 Legs: Spider Love’.
“A beautiful nature documentary, expertly presented...
a masterful feat captured with resonance!”
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“Perfect natural history lm... Great storytelling...
Extremely impressive.” CINE Golden Eagle Awards
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