ICA 2026

PLENARY SESSION

Amphi. Lamour - Bât. 9Plenary 5

• KN-6 - Unraveling mite origins amid the controversy over chelicerate evolution
  Samuel BOLTON (Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, United States)

Room change

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Amphi. Lamour - Bât. 9Chemical control and resistance

Chairs: Anastasia TSAGKARAKOU & Joseane MOREIRA DO NASCIMENTO

• O1 - First molecular screening of acaricide resistance in Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae) greenhouse populations of Serbia
  Luka STOJANOVIĆ (Laboratory of Applied Entomology, Institute of Pesticides and Environmental Protection, Belgrade, Serbia)

• O2 - Resistance of the Rhipicephalus microplus tick in Réunion Island
  Marlene DUPRAZ (UMR ASTRE, CIRAD, Sainte Clotilde, Réunion)

• O3 - Field evaluation of a novel cattle tick control strategy aiming a reduced selection for drug resistance: a case for “host-level chemical mosaic”
  Jose RECK (Instituto de Pesquisas Veterinárias Desiderio Finamor (IPVDF), Eldorado do Sul, RS, Brazil)

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Hall Lamour - Bât. 9Coffee break

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• O4 - Resistance dynamics and spider mite diversity in ontario production systems
  Joseane MOREIRA DO NASCIMENTO (Department of Biology, Grbić Lab, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada)

• O5 - Acaricide resistance in the african red mite, Eutetranychus africanus (Tucker), infesting tangerine in Thailand
  Naphacharakorn TA-PHAISACH (Entomology and Zoology Group, Plant Protection Research and Development Office, Department of Agriculture, ฺBangkok, Thailand)

• O6 - Cross-resistance spectra and sequential reselection for multi-class pesticide resistance in the predatory mite Amblyseius swirskii (Acari: Phytoseiidae)
  Ceren DOGAN (Bursa Uludag University, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Science, Bursa, Turkey)

Amphi 206 - Bât. 9Evolution, biogeography and functional genomics (2)

Chairs: Tobias PFINGSTL & Monika GULIA-NUSS

• O7 - Strong conditional female sterility within a herbivorous mite species
  Margarita SPIRINA (Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium)

• O8 - Snapshots of Oribatid Speciation I – Rise, fall, and persistence — Ice age island dynamics and intertidal oribatid diversity in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan
  Satoshi SHIMANO (Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan)

• O9 - Snapshots of Oribatid Speciation II – Resolving a taxonomic nightmare – Plate tectonics and intertidal oribatid diversification in the tropical Caribbean
  Tobias PFINGSTL (Department of Biology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria)

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Hall Lamour - Bât. 9Coffee break

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• O10 - Drivers of mitochondrial introgression across Tetranychus species
  Lennert BEELE (Biology Department, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium)

• O11 - Comparative proteomics reveals a highly ordered glycine-rich protein correlating with dense communal silk webs in the gorse spider mite, Tetranychus lintearius
  Lin WANG (Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering（BASE), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Koganei, Tokyo, Japan)

• O12 - A single PLAT domain protein couples reproductive arrest and carotenoid pigmentation during diapause in the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch
  Rismayani RISMAYANI (Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering (BASE), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Koganei, Tokyo, Japan)

• O13 - Molecular and epigenetic mechanisms underlying cold adaptation in Haemaphysalis longicornis
  Zhijun YU (Hebei Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China)

Amphi 208 - Bât. 9Symposium 4

Bringing Acarology Closer to Society: Open Science, Knowledge Transfer, and Citizen Science

Chairs: Denise NAVIA & Pedro NAVES

• O1 - Mapping brazilian acarological biodiversity: the taxonomic catalogue of the brazilian fauna as a tool for knowledge and outreach
  Fernando JACINAVICIUS (Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil)

• O2 - A transdisciplinary social-ecological approach to evaluate and anticipate ‘Tick Risk’ in Southern France
  Iyonna ZORTMAN (ASTRE/BIOS, CIRAD, Montpellier, France)

• O3 - Engaging Citizen-Scientists to a garden-experiment with a quarantine regulated mite pest
  Pedro NAVES (INIAV, Oeiras, Portugal)

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Hall Lamour - Bât. 9Coffee break

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• O4 - Spider Mites Web: An assessment 20 years later
  Alain MIGEON (CBGP, INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Institut Agro, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France)

• O5 - Knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) regarding tick-borne zoonoses among peri-urban cattle farmers in Burkina Faso and Benin: A One Health perspective
  Tidjani A. DJIMAN (Research Unit of Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Applied to Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege, Liège, Belgium)

• O6 - What can iNaturalist tell us about mites on insects?
  Owen SEEMAN (Acarology Australia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia)

Hall Lamour - Bât. 9Lunch & Coffee

PLENARY SESSIONS

Amphi. Lamour - Bât. 9Reward ceremony

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Closing ceremony

• Organizers