ICA 2026

PLENARY SESSION

Amphi. Lamour - Bât. 9Plenary 2

• KN-2 - Phoresy: an acarological journey from its purest form to its peculiar fringes
  Owen SEEMAN (Acarology Australia, Brisbane, Australia)

Room change

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Amphi. Lamour - Bât. 9The Ecology of Mite Associations: Symbiosis, Phoresy and Beyond

Chairs: Lise ROY & Alejandra PEROTI

• O1 - Encounter and compatibility filters maintain host segregation between generalist and specialist Dermanyssus mites
  Lise ROY (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France)

• O2 - Unique bumblebee-phoretic mite associations from a pristine environment of North Wales, UK
  M. Alejandra PEROTTI (School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom)

• O3 - Beyond mere carriage: a sporotheca-like structure in a new Trisetacus (Phytoptidae) from endemic Azorean Juniperus, suggesting evolutionary interactions with fungi
  Lurdes BORGES SILVA (CBGP, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, IRD, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, France)

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Hall Lamour - Bât. 9Coffee break

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• O4 - Do commercially-reared predatory mites harbor shared microbial communities?
  Yehuda IZRAELI (Plant Protection Department, Shamir Institute, Agricultural Research Organization, Timrat, Israel)

• O5 - The diversity and transmission of parthenogenesis-inducing Wolbachia in Bryobia spider mites
  Godefroi GIGNOUX (Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium)

• O6 - Disentangling the Roles of Wolbachia and Citrus Host in Shaping Volatile Profiles of Tetranychus urticae
  Monica HURTADO RUIZ (Biologia, Bioquimica y Ciencias Naturales, Universitat Jaume I de Castello, Castello de la Plana, Valencia, Spain)

• O7 - Host and symbiont contributions to Wolbachia frequency variation in Tetranychus mites
  Emma VAN REEMPTS (Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium)

Amphi 206 - Bât. 9Systematics, morphological traits and biodiversity (3)

Chairs: Andreas WALER & Hans KLOMPEN

• O16 - The missing piece of japanese oribatid diversity: taxonomic revision of the family Pediculochelidae with descriptions of three new species
  Masaharu OSHIMA (Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)

• O17 - ‌Oribatid mite research in China: a century of taxonomic and ecological advances
  Dong LIU (Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, China)

• O18 - Rare or overlooked? The importance of microhabitats in biodiversity studies of mites (Acari: Uropodina)
  Marta KULCZAK (Natural History Collections, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

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• O19 - Is there a role for morphology in uropodine systematics?
  Hans KLOMPEN (Acarology Laboratory, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States)

• O20 - When “new species” are not new: Resolving confusion in Phytoseiidae (Parasitiformes: Mesostigmata) taxonomy using Florida’s type specimens
  Ismail DÖKER (Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey)

• O21 - Predatory mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Serbia: review and recent reports
  Irena MEDJO (Laboratory of Applied Entomology, Institute of pesticides and environmental protection, Beograd-Zemun, Beograd, Serbia)

• O22 - The Invisible Minority: challenges and pitfalls in measuring diversity of predatory mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) in apple orchards
  Andreas WALZER (Institute of Plant Protection, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)

Amphi 208 - Bât. 9Symposium 1

Bioacaricides: their effectiveness and compatibility with phytoseiid mites and other biological control agents

Chairs: Haralabos TSOLAKIS & Marcic DEJAN

• O1 - Compatibility of bioacaricides with phytoseiid mites - what we (don’t) know?
  Dejan MARČIĆ (Institute of Pesticides and Environmental Protection, Belgrade, Serbia)

• O2 - From the Pint to the Plant: Can Hop Essential Oils Outsmart the Two-Spotted Spider Mite?
  Sauro SIMONI (DC (Research centre for Plant Protection and Certification), CREA (Council for Agriculture Research and Economics), Firenze, Italy)

• O3 - Bioacaricidal potential of the essential oils and aqueous extracts of Pistacia lentiscus and Mentha piperita against phytophagous mites
  Asma BENLAOUKLI (Department of agricultural and forestry Zoology, Higher national School of Agronomy, El Harrach, Algiers, Algeria)

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Hall Lamour - Bât. 9Coffee break

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• O4 - Host-expressed miRNAs modulate eclosion for sustainable control of Panonychus citri
  Li CHUAN-ZHEN (College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Chongqing, China)

• O5 - Toxic effects of Acmella oleracea and Carlina acaulis extracts on Aculops lycopersici, Tetranychus urticae and their predators
  Ilaria MAROTTA (Department of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy)

• O6 - Plant-mediated effects of insect frass on herbivore performance in tomato
  Anastasia PANTELIDOU (Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece)

Lunch & Coffee

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Poster session 1

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Amphi. Lamour - Bât. 9Climate change, invasions and risk mitigation

Chairs: Edith ESTRADA & Lurdes BORGES SILVA

• O1 - High temperatures intensify the detrimental effects of a sulphur-based fungicide on the survival of the predatory mites Amblyseius andersoni and Typhlodromus pyri
  Manoj Kumar JENA (Plant Protection, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Mazowickie, Poland)

• O2 - Influence of host plant water stress on the life history and behaviour of the spider mite Tetranychus urticae and its predator Typhlodromus recki
  Alice CHARALABIDIS (CBGP, Univ. Montpellier, Institut Agro Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Montpellier, France)

• O3 - Thermal tolerance of the three species of predatory mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) to enhance biological control of climate resilience in response to global warming
  Pattara OPADITH (Department of Agriculture, The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Chatuchak, Bangkok, Thailand)

• O4 - In a warming world: Temperature alters locomotor and predatory behaviour of polyphagous predatory mite Amblyseius andersoni (Acari: Phytoseiidae)
  Chenhao WANG (Laboratory of Ecological Information, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)

• O5 - The effects of climate change in Raoiella indica (Acari: Tenuipalpidae), unexpected distribution at high altitudes in Latinamerican Countries
  Edith Guadalupe ESTRADA-VENEGAS (Entomology and Acarology, Colegio de Postgraduados, Texcoco, Mexico, Mexico)

• O6 - Morphological evolution of a cereal mite pest in response to interacting host-plant and thermal regimes
  Gulsamal ASKAROVA (Population Ecology Lab, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

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• O7 - The current and future status of Acarology in British plant health biosecurity diagnostics
  Rowan HOWE (Fera Science Limited, York, United Kingdom)

• O8 - Maternal effects mediate thermal response: Divergent performance between winter and summer egg-derived offspring in the spider mite Schizotetranychus brevisetosus
  Katsura ITO (Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Faculty of Agriculture and Marine Science, Kochi University, Nankoku, Japan)

• O9 - Spider mites in the Azores islands - Atlantic travelers and endemic diversity
  Lurdes BORGES SILVA (CBGP, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, IRD, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, France)

• O10 - Invasive Mesostigmata and Ixodida of Australia: are detection patterns driven by taxonomic neglect?
  Helen NAHRUNG (Forest Research Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)

Amphi 206 - Bât. 9 Systematics, morphological traits and biodiversity (4)

Chairs: Frédéric BEAULIEU & Juan B. MORALES-MALACARA

• O23 - Phenotypic variability of Podothrombium (Acariformes: Parasitengona: Podothrombiidae) in peat bogs of the Western Sudety Mts
  Michał MARCINIAK (Department of Animal Biology and Ecology, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wrocław, Poland)

• O24 - Discovery of a new pest mite species in Canada (Acari: Tetranychidae)
  Ivana MARIĆ (Laboratory for Applied entomology, Institute for Pesticides and Environmental Protection, Belgrade-Zemun, Serbia)

• O25 - New records of flat and peacock mites (Acari: Tetranychoidea) from the Caucasus and Georgia
  Tea ARABULI (Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia)

• O26 - The whirligig mite (Anystis) and its doppelgangers: deciphering cryptic diversity in cosmopolitan vagrant species
  Frédéric BEAULIEU (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

• O27 - Insect-associated mites of North Kerala, India: Host records and observed associations
  Sachin JAMES (PG and Research Department of Zoology, Malabar Chrisitan College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India)

• O28 - One species or a cryptic complex? An integrative analysis of Polyphagotarsonemus latus
  Gabriel OTERO-COLINA (Posgrado en Fitosanidad-Entomologia y Acarologia, Colegio de Postgraduados, Texcoco, Estado de Mexico, Mexico)

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• O29 - Fur chirodiscid mites (Sarcoptiformes: Chirodiscidae): permanent ectosymbionts associated with bats in Mexico
  Juan B. MORALES-MALACARA (Speleobiology and Acarology, UNAM, Campus Juriquilla, Santiago de Querétaro, QT, Mexico)

• O30 - Towards resolving species boundaries among walnut gall mites (Aceria spp.) in Europe
  Tatjana CVRKOVIC (Department of Plant Pests, Institute for Plant Protection and Environment, Zemun, Serbia)

• O31 - Eriophyoid mites associated with Alnus glutinosa in Turkiye
  Sebahat K. OZMAN-SULLIVAN (Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkiye)

• O32 - Diversity and distribution of Eriophyid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) in the coastal region of Syria
  Angham BOUBOU (Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Latakia University (previously, Tishreen), Latakia, Syria)

Amphi 208 - Bât. 9 Symposium 2

Soil biodiversity and conservation

Chairs: Carlos BARRETO, Diana RUEDA-RAMÍREZ & Pedro CONCEIÇAO

• O1 - From lab to land: Using trait-based approaches at a European scale to translate soil mite data intoland management advice
  Andrés A. SALAZAR-FILLIPPO (Faculty of Science - Soil Biodiversity Group SoilScope, Charles University, Prague, Czechia)

• O2 - Understanding the value of Acari communities as indicators of forest soil quality
  Ainoa PRAVIA (Physical Environment Group, Forest Research, Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland)

• O3 - Soil fauna monitoring for assessing soil quality in Austria – initial results and experiences
  Tobias PFINGSTL (Department of Biology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria)

• O4 - Hidden diversity: The contribution of juveniles to the species and genetic diversity of mesostigmatid mites in peatlands using DNA barcoding
  Pedro CONCEIÇÃO (Western University, London, Ontario, Canada)

• O5 - Trophic interactions of soil Mesostigmata mites: insights into soil food webs and biological control potential
  Diana RUEDA-RAMÍREZ (Institute of Biology, Ecology group, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

• O6 - Agroecological practices shaping soil mite biodiversity in Mediterranean vineyards
  Thais Juliane DO PRADO (CBGP, INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Institut Agro Montpellier, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France)

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• O7 - A synopsis of oribatid mite diversity in Africa
  Emelie OBI (Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Saxony, Germany)

• O8 - Oribatid mites from peatlands in the United States
  Carlos BARRETO (Department of Biology, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada)

• O9 - Canopy habitats as forest islands: study the effect of isolation and forest type on oribatid (Acari: Oribatida) species diversity
  Maka MURVANIDZE (Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia)

• O10 - Soil mites in Brazil: small in size, giants in diversity and importance
  Raphael CASTILHO (Entomology and Acarology, Escola Sup. Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil)

Hall Lamour - Bât. 9Poster session 1