ICA 2026

Hall Lamour - Bât. 9Registration - Welcome coffee

PLENARY SESSIONS

Amphi. Lamour - Bât. 9Introduction

• Welcome note
  Marie-Stéphane TIXIER, Alice CHARALABIDIS & Denise NAVIA

• Mc Murtry Award
  Zhi-Qiang ZHANG (Bioeconomy Science Institute, Auckland City, New Zealand)

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Plenary 1

• KN-1 - Navigating the Future of Acarology: Honoring Tradition, Advancing Knowledge
  Jerry KRANTZ (Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon, USA)

Room change

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Amphi. Lamour - Bât. 9Systematics, morphological traits and biodiversity (1)

Chairs: Sebahat OZMAN-SULLIVAN & Davina SACCAGGI

• O1 - Advancing mite conservation – why, where and how
  Sebahat OZMAN-SULLIVAN (Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkiye)

• O2 - The Enduring Legacy of Antonio Berlese: Bridging Historical Innovation and Modern Science
  Sauro SIMONI (DC (Research centre for Plant Protection and Certification), CREA (Council for Agriculture Research and Economics), Firenze, Italy)

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Hall Lamour - Bât. 9Coffee break

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• O3 - Caught in the act: terrestrial parasitengonan mite larvae parasitising flies in amber
  Sofía I. ARCE (Biocenter, Faculty of Biology, LMU Munich, Planegg, Germany)

• O4 - Brevipalpus and beyond: Lessons for modern acarological taxonomy
  Davina SACCAGGI (Citrus Research International, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa)

• O5 - Water mites of Brazil: History, current state of knowledge and perspectives in the most biodiverse country in the world
  Dante BATISTA-RIBEIRO (UFMG Acarology Laboratory, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Amphi 206 - Bât. 9Ticks and mites: biological control for plants and animals (1)

Chairs: Francisco FERRAGUT & Arnon TABIC

• O1 - Biological control potential of Neoseiulus longispinosus and its chromosomal-level genome assembly
  Zhengpei YE (Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, China)

• O2 - Bio-efficacy of Neoseiulus longispinosus Evans (Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) against Tetranychus truncatus Ehara on marigold
  Haseena BHASKAR (All India Network Project on Agricultural Acarology, College of Agriculture, Vellanikkara, Thrissur, Kerala, India)

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Hall Lamour - Bât. 9Coffee break

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• O3 - Mint as a reservoir plant for Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) recki Wainstein (Acari: Phytoseiidae) to control Aculops lycopersici Tryon (Acari: Eriophyiidae) on tomato
  Marie-Stephane TIXIER (UMR CBGP, Institut Agro Montpellier, Montpellier, France)

• O4 - Preventive releases of predatory mites to control spider mites infestations in protected crops, open fields and orchards in Israel
  Arnon TABIC (BioBee, Sde Eliyahu, Israel)

• O5 - A new mite IPM strategy: predator avoidance behaviour resulting from the synergetic effects of predator release and acaricide-treated nets
  Miriam KUNGU (Plant Health department, Integrated Pest Management, International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya)

Amphi 208 - Bât. 9Mites as indicators of ecosystem sustainability (1)

Chairs: Elena GAGNARLI & Raphael CASTILHO

• O1 - Vertical structuring of Mesofauna communities in european soil ecosystems
  Mia VERMAAK (Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague 2, Czechia)

• O2 - Oribatid mites of subalpine and alpine pastures in the Eastern Greater Caucasus: diversity and bioindication
  Nino TODRIA (Institute of Entomology, Agricultural University of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia)

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Hall Lamour - Bât. 9Coffee break

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• O3 - Oribatid mite community structure (Acari: Oribatida) in sugarcane crops and abandoned agricultural soils in Ayala, Morelos, Mexico
  Fernando VILLAGOMEZ (Lab. Ecología y Sistemática de Microartrópodos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Coyoacán, Mexico)

• O4 - Impact of agricultural practices on soil mite communities in a sugarcane agroecosystem in Morelos, México
  Margarita OJEDA (Laboratorio de Ecología y Sistemática de Microartrópodos, Departamento de Ecolog, Science Faculty, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, CDMX, México)

• O5 - Peatlands as biodiversity hotspots of oribatid mites: a case study from Norway
  Anna SENICZAK (University of Inland Norway, Hamar, Norway)

Lunch & Coffee

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Amphi. Lamour - Bât. 9Systematics, morphological traits and biodiversity (2)

Chairs: Ismail DOKER & Johana MAKOL

• O6 - Structure and diversity of soil mite communities in agroecosystems and a natural habitat of the eastern Mitidja (Algeria)
  Soumeya FEKKOUN (Plant protection laboratory, Department of agricultural and forestry Zoology, National Higher School of Agronomy, Algiers (ENSA), EL Harrache Algiers, Algiers, Algeria)

• O7 - Is it time to redefine generic concepts in Phytoseiidae (Parasitiformes: Mesostigmata)? Evidence from a large-scale molecular phylogeny
  Ismail DÖKER (Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey)

• O8 - Larvae in armor - a peculiarity in Microtrombidiidae with discussion on adaptive value of the trait in parasitengone mites (Acariformes: Parasitengona)
  Joanna MAKOL (Department od Animal Biology and Ecology, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland)

• O9 - Spider mites (Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) diversity of Balkan countries: review, new data and prospective research
  Ivana MARIĆ (Laboratory for Applied entomology, Institute for Pesticides and Environmental Protection, Beelgrade Zemun, Serbia)

• O10 - Phytoseiidae diversity at the AgriCongo experimental site: an integrative approach
  Mireille BELLE MBOU OKASSA (Foundation for Arthropod Biodiversity and Crop Protection, Brazzaville, Congo - Brazzaville)

• O11 - The rediscovery and redescription of Penthaleus dorsalis (Banks, 1902) (Acari: Trombidiformes: Penthaleidae) from the eastern USA
  Cal WELBOURN (Department of Entomology, E-518, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, United States)

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Hall Lamour - Bât. 9Coffee break

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• O12 - When species boundaries blur: species identification in Pergamasus (Mesostigmata: Parasitidae)
  Kamila ONDREJKOVÁ (Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia)

• O13 - The effect of storage time and temperature on the extraction efficiency of Mesostigmata communities
  Peter FENDA (Department of Zoology, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia)

• O14 - Terroir in acarology: are cheese mites indigenous to their producer’s ripening cabinet, and does the 500-year tradition of mite-ripening truly yield a distinctive aroma?
  Satoshi SHIMANO (Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan)

• O15 - First confirmed record of Haemaphysalis concinna (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Khalkh Numrug basin of Eastern Mongolia
  Battsetseg BADGAR (Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)

Amphi 206 - Bât. 9 Evolution, biogeography and functional genomics (1)

Chairs: Pavel KLIMOV & Almir PEPATO

• O1 - Tetranychus truncatus dominates spider mites in China: genomic insights into host range expansion and ecological fitness
  Xiao-Yue HONG (Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China)

• O2 - Mite be important: novel insights into the relationship of Oribatida and Astigmata by phylogenomic analyses
  David FRÖHLICH (Department of Biology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria)

• O3 - Mitogenomics reveals basal Loboquintus subsquamatus in Eriophyoidea (Acariformes) with an atypical AGU anticodon in trnS1
  Vladimir GANKEVICH (Laboratory for The Study of Parasitic Arthropods, Zoological Institute of RAS, Saint Petersburg, Russia)

• O4 - A hidden Holarctic lineage? Biogeographic implications of a disjunct wood-associated laelapid mite (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) between Iran and North America
  Hans KLOMPEN (Acarology Collection, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States)

• O5 - Bulked segregant analysis reveals an lncRNA locus associated with photoperiodic induction of diapause in the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch
  Tomohiro OHSAKO (Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Osaka, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan)

• O6 - Transcriptomic characterization of diapause in a tropical population of Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae)
  Júlia JANTSCH FERLA (Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil)

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Hall Lamour - Bât. 9Coffee break

Amphi 208 - Bât. 9 Ecology and behavior and life history traits (1)

Chairs: Peter SCHAUSBERGER & Rostislav ZEMEK

• O1 - Food, pathogens, and vectors: Fungi in the ecology of Phytoseiid mites
  Rostislav ZEMEK (Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czechia)

• O2 - CYP392 family drive chemical niche expansion and host adaptation in spider mites
  Menghao XIA (Southwest University, Chongqing, China)

• O3 - Male mates influence female personality expression in the predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis
  Peter SCHAUSBERGER (Behavioral & Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)

• O4 - Non-consumptive effects of Pyemotes zhonghuajia volatiles on the potato tuber moth
  Jian-Feng LIU (Guizhou University, Guiyang, China)

• O5 - Trait-environment linkage mediates oribatid mite community assembly in litter and soil following rainforest conversion into monoculture plantations
  Ting-Wen CHEN (J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany)

• O6 - Population dynamics of predatory mites in different nursery ornamental plants from District Kasur and Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
  Bilal Saeed KHAN (Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan)

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Hall Lamour - Bât. 9Coffee break

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• O7 - Do predatory soil mites respond to plant odours induced by their prey? The case of predatory mite Blattisocius mali and the acarid mite, Tyrophagus putrescentiae
  Katarzyna MICHALSKA (Department of Plant Protection, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)

• O8 - Acarofauna on Prunus laurocerasus: more than just a tree in the garden
  Dominiek VANGANSBEKE (Biobest N.V., Westerlo, Belgium)

• O9 - Urbanization modifies infestation intensity but not prevalence of Pterygosomatid mites in the moorish gecko (Tarentola mauritanica)
  Jalal MOUADI (Laboratory “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco)

Hall Lamour - Bât. 9Wine and Cheese