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Book of Abstracts August 20th-25th, 2017 University of Nottingham – UK with thanks to: Organising Committee Sara Goodacre, University of Nottingham, UK Dmitri Logunov, Manchester Museum, UK Geoff Oxford, University of York, UK Tony Russell-Smith, British Arachnological Society, UK Yuri Marusik, Russian Academy of Science, Russia Helpers Leah Ashley, Tom Coekin, Ella Deutsch, Rowan Earlam, Alastair Gibbons, David Harvey, Antje Hundertmark, LiaQue Latif, Michelle Strickland, Emma Vincent, Sarah Goertz. Congress logo designed by Michelle Strickland. We thank all sponsors and collaborators for their support British Arachnological Society, European Society of Arachnology, Fisher Scientific, The Genetics Society, Macmillan Publishing, PeerJ, Visit Nottinghamshire Events Team Content General Information 1 Programme Schedule 4 Poster Presentations 13 Abstracts 17 List of Participants 140 Notes 154 Foreword We are delighted to welcome you to the University of Nottingham for the 30th European Congress of Arachnology. We hope that whilst you are here, you will enjoy exploring some of the parks and gardens in the University’s landscaped settings, which feature long-established woodland as well as contemporary areas such as the ‘Millennium Garden’. There will be a guided tour in the evening of Tuesday 22nd August to show you different parts of the campus that you might enjoy exploring during the time that you are here. Registration Registration will be from 8.15am in room A13 in the Pope Building (see map below). We will have information here about the congress itself as well as the city of Nottingham in general. Someone should be at this registration point throughout the week to answer your Questions. Please do come and find us if you have any Queries. We want to make your stay in Nottingham as enjoyable as possible. Plenary Talks These will take place in the Pope Building in Lecture Hall C14 at the start of each conference day. Information for Speakers Lectures will take place in the Pope Building, in Lecture Halls C14 and C16. Each speaker will have 20 minutes (15 minutes talk + 5 minutes for Questions). Please prepare talks in Powerpoint or PDF format and load onto the computers in lecture theatres using a USB pen before the session begins. Mac users please check that your presentation is compatible with Windows. Posters Please make posters A0 portrait size. Posters will be exhibited in rooms A13 and A14 in the Pope Building. Please bring them here on the morning of the first day of the congress (Monday 21st). There will be a map in these rooms showing where you should hang your poster. Please take posters down during the morning session of Friday 25th August. 1 Arrival Information and Transport Parking is in the main visitor’s car park (post-code for sat nav is NG7 2QL). There are also tram and bus services to/from the city centre. Please note that the correct tram stop is ‘The University of Nottingham’ and not ‘Nottingham Trent University’, which is another university in the city centre. Tram ticket machines take coins or cards (single journeys ~£2). Bus tickets cost about the same and are bought on board. Some buses do not give change. For those staying at Hugh Stewart Hall, please make your way to the hall’s reception (accessible from the top left-hand corner of the visitors’ carpark.) https://saragoodacre.wixsite.com/eca-2017/getting-from-the-city-to-campus Evening Entertainments The evening BBQ on the night of the 21st August and the conference dinner on the evening of the 24th August will both take place in Hugh Stewart Hall of Residence. There will be an excursion into Nottingham city centre on Tuesday 22nd August to show you some of Nottingham’s finest pubs. The Russian Party, a highlight of the congress, will be held on Wednesday 23rd in the ESCL building next to the lecture theatre venue. Finally, a ‘Ceilidh’ will be held in A13/A14 of the Pope building after the conference dinner on the evening of the 24th. The Venue See map on page 3. Talks, Posters and Lunches Talks will take place in the Pope Building in lecture theatres C14 and C16. Posters displays and lunches will be in the same building in rooms A13 and A14. Excursions Excursion day is Wednesday 23rd August. Further information about the different excursions will be provided at registration. Post-congress Event There will be an excursion to visit the local Attenborough Nature Reserve on the morning of Saturday 26th. Details will be provided at registration. 2 Other services (A-Z) Named buildings (A-Z) To M1 T Academic schools and departments (A-Z) r Jcn. 26 i Architecture and Built Environment 14/17 Admissions 60 Boots Science Building 44 Nottingham Lakeside Arts 49/50 u (4.5 miles) m Chemical and Environmental Engineering Centre for Biomolecular Sciences Nottingham University Academy of Jubilee 29/30/31/36 Careers and Employability Service 15/27 43 80 p Chemistry 28 Childcare Services 1/3 Cherry Tree Lodge 13 Science and Technology (NUAST) h Campus Civil Engineering 31/35/36/39/41 Coates Road Auditorium 51 Coates Building 36 Pope Building 27 R o Cultures, Languages and Area Studies 11 Cripps Health Centre/Chemist/Dentist 19 David Ross Sports Village Portland Building d a 34 15 r d Economics 16 Estates Office 21 Engineering Science Learning Centre 54 Sir Clive Granger Building 16 a v Pedestrian Electrical and Electronic Engineering 37 Faith/Prayer rooms 15 Gatehouse Lodge 60 Sir Peter Mansfield Building 18 e l and cycle English Studies 11 George Green Library 24 Highfield House 10 The Hemsley 8 u o route to Geography 16 Graduate School 10 Lenton Eaves The Orchards 6 B 4 Jubilee Health Sciences 46/48 Greenfield Medical Library 46 Lenton Fields 3 Trent Building 11 n Campus 60 To Jubilee o History 5 Hallward Library 9 Lenton Grove 5 Vaughan Parry Williams Pavilion 47 t Campus e Humanities 55 Keighton Auditorium 56 Lenton Hurst 52 Wolfson Building 41 l d and d oa Law 7 Language Centre 11 Lenton Lodge 2 d R Innovation i y Life Sciences rb Park 23/46 Museum 50 M e D Mathematical Sciences 20 Nottingham New Theatre 12 4 0 Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering 31/36/38/39/41/42 Recital Hall 33 1 20 5 6 Medicine 37/46/48 Security Control 11 6 A To Jubilee N MRC Institute of Hearing Research 40 Sports 34/47 A Campus Music 33 Student Service Centres 13/45/55/57 NORTH (1 mile) Pharmacy 26/44 Students’ Union/Retail/Food court 15 14 ENTRANCE Physics and Astronomy 15/18/22/25/53 University of Nottingham International 70 17 Politics and International Relations 7 College Psychology 29 University of Nottingham Sports and 4 To city Sociology and Social Policy 7 Social Club Lenton & centre Wortley (3.5 miles) Halls of Residence A52 Derby Road 52 Nottingham University C Hospitals NHS Trust (Hugh Stewart) ripp G Russian Party Beeston Lane s Hill Queen’s Medical 4 A 5 Centre (QMC) Lincoln 2 (ESCL building 25 C 48 li Derby ft Cripps o 19 53 n 54) To M1 2 Sherwood B 5 1 o 0 Jcn 25 37 u 0 Medical 6 (5 miles) le 28 v A a School A52 22 r PD 18 d Rutland The 46 Queen’s Medical Swimming 34 Downs 57 45 Priory 54 Centre Island Pool e Coates Road43 v Main visitor ri 51 D car park ll PD 27 36 1 CP Ha 24 42 on nt Le 20 39 To city Towards the 31 44 David Ross 3 Hugh centre Library Road (3.5 miles) Lecture Theatres Sports Village 8 Stewart 16 56 35 41 Orchard Hotel (10 Millennium 6 21 23 26 30 The University of Nottingham Orchard Garden 38 Hotel 40 Pope Building University Park East Midlands Nottingham minutes walk)Conference 9 80 Centre 29 Science Road (27) Postcode for satellite Dunkirk navigation: NG7 2QL i G 7 Abbey Nightingale P East Drive 33 House To King’s 12 15 Meadow Ring Road P ad Campus 55 13 Portland Ro (1 mile) 10 49 n to Academic buildings Woodside Road Building 50 es To M1 PD Be Jcn 24 Other services Cavendish (11 miles) B Access in Ancaster e 11 Residences es left turn only. 5 to n ne L a Exit left turn a L SOUTH Sports pitches n gh e u only ro Trent To Riverside Th ENTRANCE Building under construction ut C Building Sports Complex Footpaths Willoughby The University (2.4 miles) Jubilee Avenue of Nottingham 70 CP Conference parking Highfields P Highfields Park visitor parking Park Nottingham South Entrance Science Park PD Pay & Display visitor parking G Florence Boot Nottingham Blue-badge parking Tennis Centre has a tram stop WEST G Gatehouse ENTRANCE One way rd Broadgate eva Lakeside walk oul Park y B Hopper bus stop Broadgate rsit nive Public bus stop 05 U Nottingham A60 Hockey Centre Public/Hopper bus stop University Park 3 Highfields Tram stop Sports Ground i Public transport information University Campus Boulevard 47 24-hour security contact (0115) 951 3013 To 5 UNITED KINGDOM CHINA MALAYSIA Long 0 0 metres 200 24-hour ambulance/fire/police 0 (0115) 951 8888 To Beeston Eaton 6 A 07/2016 © Crown Copyright Licence no. 100030223 Programme Schedule Monday, August 21 Congress opening Lecture Hall C14 Chair: Sara GOODACRE & Dmitri LOGUNOV 9:00–9:20 Mayor’s welcoming speech 9:20–10:00 Torbjorn Kronestedt and Christian Komposch Slide show: old and modern days of European arachnology 10:00–11:00 Yael LUBIN (Israel) – Plenary lecture The other spider societies 11:00–11:40 Coffee break Session – Behavioural ecology Lecture Hall C14 Chair: Yael LUBIN 11:40–12:00 Marlis DUMKE (Australia) The maintenance of cooperation and equal sex ratios in a socially foraging spider 12:00–12:20 Onno PREIK (Germany) Decrypting female choice: investigation of possible post- copulatory cryptic female choice mechanisms in Argiope bruennichi (Scopoli, 1772) 12:20–12:40 André WALTER (Denmark) Kin-mediated differences
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