Programme
| 12:30 | Registration opens (until 22:00) |
more information about the symposium
| 13:15 | Gathering |
| 13:30 | General Introduction |
| 13:45 | Lyons et al. |
| Eight Legged Models Hit The Runway! : How venomous spiders are useful models for investigating the role of ecological factors in driving predator-prey evolution | |
| 14:00 | Montiglio et al. |
| Effect of resource availability on the web structure of female western black widows: Do physiological trade-offs constrain web structure? | |
| 14:15 | Lubin |
| Disappearing widows: an unsolved mystery | |
| 14:30 | coffee break |
| 14:45 | Johnson |
| Black widows on an urban heat island: the behavior, ecology and evolution of an urban arthropod pest | |
| 15:00 | Mowery et al. |
| Invasive brown widow spiders avoid egg sac parasitism and predation despite high densities | |
| 15:15 | Makover et al. |
| The defense mechanisms of Brown Widow spider eggs against bacterial invasion | |
| 15:30 | Discussion |
| 15:45 | Golobinek et al. |
| Body size, not personality, explains both male mating success and sexual cannibalism in a widow spider | |
| 16:00 | Sentenská et al. |
| Immature mating and re-mating in a cannibalistic spider: Does lower male investment lead to higher female re-mating rates? | |
| 16:15 | Andrade et al. |
| Control, context, and choosiness: Flipping the lens to see female plasticity in Latrodectus species | |
| 16:30 | Uludag et al. |
| Genetic architecture of SSD and male self‐sacrificial traits in asexually cannibalistic widow spider | |
| 16:45 | break |
| 17:00 | Condy et al. |
| ‘Wreck of the hesperus’: Cryptic species discovered within the Western Black Widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus) using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA | |
| 17:15 | Miller et al. |
| A revised phylogeny of the widow spider genus Latrodectus | |
| 17:30 | Final discussion |
| 18:00 | Welcome reception (until 22:00) |
| 08:45 | Welcome address | |
| 09:00 | Plenary talk | |
| Arie van der Meijden | ||
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| 10:30 | Beydizada* & Pekár |
| Personality predicts mode of attack in a generalist ground spider predator | |
| 10:45 | ter Haar* et al. |
| Male vibratory courtship does not affect female predatory behaviour in the cursorial spider, Pisaura mirabilis | |
| 11:00 | Parthasarathy et al. |
| Hunger and not personality determines task participation in a spider society | |
| 11:15 | Joel et al. |
| Analysis of prey handling reveals an unsuspected use of cribellate nanofibers | |
| 11:30 | Bartos |
| Deflective patterns through the eyes of a jumping spider | |
| 11:45 | De Agrò |
| Antero-lateral eyes input reverses the response to biological motion in a jumping spider |
| 10:30 | Zarikian & Dilbaryan |
| Spiders diversity (Arachnida: Araneae) in the Northern forests of Armenia | |
| 10:45 | Řezáč |
| Spiders newly observed in Czechia in recent years – overlooked or invasive species? | |
| 11:00 | Nicolosi* et al. |
| Alien arachnids in caves | |
| 11:15 | Tahir CANCELLED |
| Biodiversity of spiders from the cotton growing areas of Punjab, Pakistan | |
| 11:30 | Vasiliev* |
| Araneofauna in the Republic of Moldova: past and future | |
| 11:45 | Arvidsson* & Birkhofer |
| Assembly processes in spider communities from the Swedish Malaise Trap Project |
| 14:00 | Kralj-Fišer et al. |
| Sex-specific body size architecture explains the evolution of sexual-size dimorphism | |
| 14:15 | Hendrickx et al. |
| A masculinizing supergene underlies the male dimorphism of Oedothorax gibbosus | |
| 14:30 | Jäger |
| „Love bites“ in Sparassidae Bertkau 1872—more usual than thought? | |
| 14:45 | Lee* |
| Evaluating existence of female pre-existing biases for novel visual traits in nocturnal arthropods | |
| 15:00 | Connolly* |
| Monogyny and introgression in New Zealand fishing spiders (Dolomedes) | |
| 15:15 | Sharma et al. |
| Discovering the developmental genetic basis for chelicera fate specification and postembryonic sexual dimorphism |
| 14:00 | Harms et al. |
| BIO-GEEC: The German-Ecuadorian Biodiversity Consortium. A new era of biodiversity (and spider) research? | |
| 14:15 | Framenau & Metzner |
| The Fauna Portal Australia - a web-based diagnostic platform documenting undescribed species | |
| 14:30 | Vanthournout et al. |
| SPIN-CITY*: can spiders adapt to city living? | |
| 14:45 | Gloríková* et al. |
| Atypus karschi Dönitz, 1887 (Araneae: Atypidae): an Asian purse-web spider established in Pennsylvania, USA | |
| 15:00 | Hörweg et al. |
| Dangerous arachnids in war: how to better protect soldiers of the Austrian Armed Forces in Africa from scorpions, spiders and ticks! | |
| 15:15 | Kuriakkattil Baby* & Ambalaparambil Vasu |
| Seasonal dynamics in the diversity of long jawed spiders (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) in Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary of Western Ghats, India |
| 16:00 | Ramírez et al. |
| The diversity and evolution of spider spinning organs | |
| 16:15 | Wolff et al. |
| Repeated evolution of extreme locomotor performance independent of changes in web use in Austral brown spiders (Amaurobioidea/Dictynoidea) | |
| 16:30 | Adrián Serrano* et al. |
| Good things come in small packages: Exploring the potential of Low-coverage genome sequencing for evolutionary research in spiders | |
| 16:45 | Liznarova et al. |
| Evolution of genome size and DNA base composition in entelegyne spiders | |
| 17:00 | Ortiz et al. |
| Museomics and the evolution of color and size in Zodarion ant-eating spiders | |
| 17:15 | Kulkarni & Sharma (online) |
| Nailing the horseshoe: Reconciliation of Xiphosura gene and species trees reveals ancient hybridization as driver of whole genome duplication |
| 16:00 | Johnson, Ji.* et al. |
| Forest refugia of the Western Ghats of India – a ‘museum’ of ancient pseudoscorpion lineages | |
| 16:15 | Hlebec* & Harms |
| Biodiversity patterns of pseudoscorpions in the Dinaric Karst | |
| 16:30 | Ambalaparambil Vasu & Neisseril Anirudhan |
| Community structure of spiders in the Indian Thar desert | |
| 16:45 | Machač et al. |
| Under the hoofs of herds: spiders and harvestmen of two grazing reserves in the Czechia | |
| 17:00 | Mowery et al. |
| Endosymbiont diversity across native and invasive brown widow spider populations | |
| 17:15 | Mathilakath Dasan* et al. |
| Guild structure analysis of spiders in different habitats of Thar desert |
| 19:00 | Poster session |
| 09:00 | Plenary talk |
| Kasey Fowler-Finn | |
| Harvestmen mating dynamics across variable social and ecological contexts |
| 10:30 | Milano* et al. |
| Trends in habitat suitability of water spiders in Europe: a conservation perspective | |
| 10:45 | Samu et al. |
| Patterns of a quarter century decline of spiders in arable ecosystem | |
| 11:00 | Isaia et al. |
| Spiders, cave and global warming: a Descent into the Maelström | |
| 11:15 | Huang* |
| Structural stabilization function of spider web decorations | |
| 11:30 | Hopfe* et al. |
| Fantastic silks and where to find them: A correlation of habitat variables and spider silk properties | |
| 11:45 | Philip* & Sam |
| Top-down control of spiders in temperate and tropical forests |
| 14:00 | Zvik* et al. |
| Ecological aspects of the enigmatic myrmecophile scorpion Birulatus israelensis (Arachnida: Scorpiones) | |
| 14:15 | Kongarampilly Rajendran* & Ambalaparambil Vasu |
| Effect of habitat complexity on web pattern in orb web builders (Araneae: Araneidae) | |
| 14:30 | Kandampully Baji* et al. |
| A preliminary study on the habitat association of lynx spiders from the Western Ghats of India | |
| 14:45 | Schnerch* et al. |
| Spiders and their prey in integrated pest management and organic apple orchards in Eastern Germany | |
| 15:00 | Pekár et al. |
| Ecological specialisation and reproductive isolation among closely related sympatric ant-eating spiders | |
| 15:15 | Wiśniewski |
| Short and long term effects of applying prescribed burn in heathlands on spider and harvestmen assemblages |
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| 16:00 | Krehenwinkel |
| Introduction | |
| 16:15 | Gajski* et al. |
| The winter activity and natural diet of winter-active spiders on pear trees | |
| 16:30 | Anđelić Dmitrović* |
| Ground and above-ground spiders’ predatory choices: their biocontrol potential in Mediterranean vineyards and olive orchards | |
| 16:45 | Gravesen et al. |
| Greenland glacier foreland research: Combining DNA gut content analysis with SEM and GLMM shows bottom-up and top-down mechanisms | |
| 17:00 | Melcher* |
| Spiders as a monitoring tool for arthropod biodiversity – gut content metabarcoding and its uses | |
| 17:15 | Kennedy et al. |
| Maximizing return on investment: HTS and Nanopore sequencing for spider phylogenetics | |
| 17:30 | Domènech et al. |
| For all audiences: Incorporating immature stages into standardised spider inventories has a major impact on the assessment of biodiversity patterns | |
| 17:45 | Šet* et al. |
| Spider web eDNA as a tool for web ecology research | |
| 18:00 | Weber* |
| eDNA – a new application for monitoring spider diversity? | |
| 18:15 | Krehenwinkel & Kennedy |
| Discussion |
Mid week excursions
Excursion A: UNESCO city of Stralsund (contact: Monika Eberhard)
Excursion B: Island of Rügen (contact: Christoph Muster & Gabriele Uhl)
Excursion C: Peene River (contact: Jonas Wolff)
| 09:00 | Plenary talk |
| Elizabeth M. Jakob | |
| Visual attention in jumping spiders |
| 10:30 | Eskov & Marusik |
| Comaroma is not an anapid spider (Arachnida, Araneae, Araneoidea) | |
| 10:45 | Dupérré & Tapia |
| Seeing with new eyes - A peculiar new Araneoid from the Ecuadorian Amazon region- | |
| 11:00 | Gavish-Regev et al. |
| Speciation and eye evolution in two parthenogenetic species of Sarax (Amblypygi) from the Levant | |
| 11:15 | Raveendran Sudha* et al. |
| Revisiting ‘the common wolf spider’ of western ghats Pardosa sumatrana (Thorell, 1890) in light of genitalic polymorphism | |
| 11:30 | Armiach Steinpress* et al. |
| Lycosa piochardi Simon, 1876 - Population structure in a variable species | |
| 11:45 | Ivanov |
| Species delimitation in allopatric Pardosa using ddRAD sequencing |
| 14:00 | Simone* et al. |
| Physiological and ecological consequences of a functional trade off in scorpion chelae | |
| 14:15 | Müller & Uhl |
| Feeling with a fingernail: Extero-proprioreceptive sensilla in the pretarsal claws of the wasp spider Argiope bruennichi (Arachnida: Araneae) | |
| 14:30 | Talukder* et al. |
| Chemosensing in spiders: a behavioral and ultrastructural perspective | |
| 14:45 | Poy* et al. |
| MicroCT analysis of the copulatory mechanism reveals an active female participation in the genital coupling of the entelegyne spider Aysha proseni (Anyphaenidae) | |
| 15:00 | Lin et al. |
| Diversifcation through gustatory courtship: prosomal shapes and glands and their convergent evolution | |
| 15:15 | Rivera-Quiroz & Miller (online) |
| The usability of legacy material: a micro-CT approach |
| 16:00 | Giribet |
| Introduction | |
| 16:15 | Sharma |
| The implications of arachnid paraphyly and the future of chelicerate phylogenomics | |
| 16:45 | Garwood & Dunlop |
| The fossil record of chelicerates and their phylogeny | |
| 17:15 | Wirkner |
| Evolutionary morphology and the phylogeny of chelicerates | |
| 17:45 | Panel discussion |
| 19:00 | Congress dinner |
| Straze (Stralsunder Straße 10) |
| 09:30 | Plenary talk |
| Julien Pétillon | |
| Ecology and conservation of European salt‐marsh spiders |
| 11:00 | Arnedo et al. |
| Of liars and gluttons, explaining asymmetries in species richness across the red devil spiders (Araneae, Dysderidae) | |
| 11:15 | Miller et al. |
| Little brown bugs: machine learning on challenging collections | |
| 11:30 | Bellvert* et al. |
| Different ecomorphs affect the species response to ecological release in red devil spiders (Araneae: Dysderidae) on islands | |
| 11:45 | Kim* et al. |
| Detecting cryptic diversity in Korean endemic harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones, Kaolinonychus) using integrative taxonomy and machine learning methods |
| 14:00 | Piano & Isaia |
| Trait-mediated response to urbanization in spiders: a case study in the city of Torino (NW-Italy) | |
| 14:15 | Cotoras et al. |
| Early detection of an invasive harvestman in an oceanic island? Remarkable findings of Parabalta reedii (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae) in the Juan Fernández archipelago, Chile | |
| 14:30 | Černecká et al. |
| Parasitation rate of web-building spiders by hymenopteran parasitoids depends on elevation, habitat, and spider traits | |
| 14:45 | Birkhofer et al. |
| Scale-dependent drivers of the prey composition in spiders |
| 15:00 | Workshop Wildlife Trade |
| organized by Prost & Henriques; more information about the workshop | |
| 16:30 | coffee break |
| 17:00 | ESA General Assembly, Awards and Closing Ceremony |
| 19:30 | Peace Party @ Mensa-Club |
Poster 01: Amiar et al.
A comparison of two widely-used methods for estimating taxonomic and functional diversities of spiders in some temperate grasslands
Poster 02: Apple et al.
Natural history and genetic variation of an introduced European ant-mimicking spider, Myrmarachne formicaria, in western New York
Poster 03: Bartel* & Dunlop
A forgotten world: Amber harvestmen as a window into past diversity
Poster 04: Baumgart* et al.
Change of mechanical characteristics in spider silk capture threads after contact with prey
Poster 05: Djoudi et al.
Body size and short distance mobility are modulated by field farming system and local habitat characteristics
Poster 06: Dolejš & Kyralová
Historical collection of Greek spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in the National Museum in Prague (Czech Republic)
Poster 07: Gajdoš et al.
Salt marshes - important habitats for epigeic spider communities
Poster 08: Ganem* et al.
Effect of guano type and cave zoning on the metabolic rate of Mediterranean recluse spider (Loxosceles rufescens)
Poster 09: Geci
On the alien-invasive spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from Republic of Kosovo
Poster 10: Gloríková* et al.
Attraction or repelling effects of commercial plant essential oils on the synanthropic Cheiracanthium mildei (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae)
Poster 11: Gravesen et al.
DNA barcoding of Oreoneta frigida (Thorell 1872) individual from Greenland shows close genetic relationship with O. montigena from the Alps but is a different species from other barcoded O. frigida individuals from Canada, Norway and Russia
Poster 12: Isaia et al.
The tell-tale spider - a new species of Troglohyphantes (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from Corsica reveals unexpected biogeographic connections
Poster 13: Kontos* & Martens
The Diversity of Nemastomatidae (Opiliones: Dyspnoi) in Greece
Poster 14: Marusik et al.
“From childhood's hour I have not been as others were” - On the monotypy of Vesubia jugorum (Araneae, Lycosidae)
Poster 15: Matsui* et al.
Mate guarding behavior conditionally changed in Phalangium opilio, a phalangiid species with male dimorphism
Poster 16: Metzner* & Framenau
The Fauna Portal Australia - a web-based diagnostic platform documenting undescribed species
Poster 17: Meyer* et al.
Nanofiber processing by cribellate spiders
Poster 18: Milano* et al.
Conservation status of Troglohyphantes (Araneae: Linyphiidae) across the Alps and the North-western Dinarides
Poster 19: Nicolosi* et al.
Niche segregation in Meta spiders (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) on Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy)
Poster 20: Noske* et al.
SEM analysis of chemoreceptors on the mouth parts of two spider species with different lifestyles (Argiope bruennichi, Pisaura mirabilis)
Poster 21: Oberweiser* & Eberhard
Male vibratory performance during courtship of Pisaura mirabilis
Poster 22: Ortiz-Movliav* & Uhl
When it gets warm in winter: Phenotypic plasticity in a cold adapted population of a range expanding spider
Poster 23: Pavlek et al.
Comparative genetic structure across co-occurring spiders with contrasting levels of cave adaptation and foraging strategies
Poster 24: Piano et al.
Competitive exclusion in cave-dwelling spiders
Poster 25: Purgat* & Gajdoš
Influence of habitat conditions and agriculture management on the epigeic spider communities of the Little Carpathian viticulture landscape of Modra region
Poster 26: Raška
Potential for use of jumping spiders as pest control agents
Poster 27: Řezáč et al.
The sublethal effects of neonicotinoids on spiders are independent of their nutritional status
Poster 28: Samu et al.
Can gap cutting help to preserve forest spider communities?
Poster 29: Santiago-Rivera* et al.
Dissecting the role of the silk protein MaSp2 in the dragline silk mechanical properties in Parasteatoda tepidariorum using CRISPR-Cas9
Poster 30: Schöneberg*
From field to museum: Harnessing the power of third generation sequencing to establish a simple and cost-effective multiplex approach for spider taxonomy
Poster 31: Simon et al. (Samu)
Detection of potential biocontrol agents in cereal fields
Poster 32: Simone* et al.
Metabarcoding analysis of different portions of the digestive tract of scorpions (Scorpiones, Arachnida) following a controlled diet regime shows long prey DNA half-life
Poster 33: Steiger* et al.
Immature mating in Parasteatoda tepidariorum? - Is genital development related to alternative mating tactics?
Poster 34: Šoltysová & Pekár
Evolution of prey specialization in crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae)
Poster 35: Tsiareshyna
Effect of bacteria presence on spider silk mechanical performance
Poster 36: Urfer et al.
To sample where no one sampled before: Species composition of dwarf spiders from a pitfall trap project in the northern Swiss alps
Poster 37: Viel* et al.
Large-scale prevalence of an endosymbiont in the range expanding spider Zodarion rubidum Simon 1914
Poster 38: Weißbach* et al.
Cribellate thread production as model for spider’s spinneret kinematics
Poster 39: Wiśniewski et al.
Harvestmen (Opiliones) in the mires of Poland
Poster 40: Abida Guidara et al.
Body-size variation in Nemesia males and the description of the smallest species thus far recorded (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Nemesiidae)
