Canterbury, 10-15 February 2019 Programme

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Pianoa isolata Organising Committee Programme * = student contribution # = symposium

Main Organisers Sunday | 10. February

Cor Vink (Canterbury Museum, New Zealand) Papa Hou | YMCA

Peter Michalik (University of Greifswald, Germany) Gloucester St. 00 10 Spider traits workshop RollestonAv.

Local Organising Committee Botanical Worcester Blvd. Garden Ximena Nelson (University of Canterbury) 1400 Registration Adrian Paterson (Lincoln University) Hereford St. Simon Pollard (University of Canterbury) Phil Sirvid (Museum of NewZealand , Te Papa Tongarewa) 00 Welcome party Cashel St. 17 Victoria Smith (Canterbury Museum)

Montreal St. Scientific Committee

Anita Aisenberg (IICBE, Uruguay) Miquel Arnedo (University of Barcelona, Spain) Monday | 11. February

Mark Harvey (Western Australian Museum, Australia) Papa Hou | YMCA Mariella Herberstein (Macquarie University, Australia) Greg Holwell (University of Auckland, New Zealand) 815 Welcome address Marco Isaia (University of Torino, Italy) 830 Plenary talk | Eileen Hebets Lizzy Lowe (Macquarie University, Australia) Sensory Systems, Learning, and Communication – Insights from Amblypygids to Humans Anne Wignall (Massey University, New Zealand)

Jonas Wolff (Macquarie University, Australia) 30 9 Bus to Lincoln University

00 Symposia and Workshops 10 Coffee Break

Growth, morphogenesis and developmental genetics | Prashant P. Sharma Arachnid venoms | Greta Binford S 1 | Young arachnologists (invited lectures) Arachnological outreach for community engagement, conservation and research | Maria Albo & Lizzy Lowe Chair: M.A. Arnedo Island Arachnids biogeography | Sarah Boyer, Rosemary Gillespie, Julien Pétillon & Kaïna Privet 1030 Chrissie J. Painting et al. The breadth of sexual strategies and reproductive morphology in arachnids – This is just the beginning! | Anita Aisenberg & Michael Kasumovic The evolution of diverse animal weapons Jumping spiders: behaviour, ecology and evolution | Daiqin Li & Elizabeth Jakob 1100 Hannah Wood Outstanding Opiliones: Reproductive and population-level biology in harvestmen | Mercedes Burns Evolution of palpimanoid spiders: bizarre morphologies, unusual behaviors, and extreme speeds Mygalomorph spiders – evolution and conservation | Mark Harvey, Joel Huey, Mike Rix & Jeremy Wilson 1130 Henrik Krehenwinkel The promises of next generation sequencing technology for high throughput assessment of spider diversity Spider trait network: opportunities for a global collaboration to address broad scale ecological and evolutionary questions | Lizzy Lowe & Jonas Wolff 1200 Lunch Break (self-organised)

Layout and Images: Peter Michalik Organising Committee Programme * = student contribution # = symposium

Main Organisers Sunday | 10. February

Cor Vink (Canterbury Museum, New Zealand) Papa Hou | YMCA

Peter Michalik (University of Greifswald, Germany) Gloucester St. 00 10 Spider traits workshop RollestonAv.

Montreal St. Scientific Committee

Anita Aisenberg (IICBE, Uruguay) Miquel Arnedo (University of Barcelona, Spain) Monday | 11. February

Jonas Wolff (Macquarie University, Australia) 30 9 Bus to Lincoln University

00 Symposia and Workshops 10 Coffee Break

Layout and Images: Peter Michalik S 1 | Salticid behaviour, ecology & evolution # S 2 | Island biogeography # List of Posters Chairs: D. Li & B. Jakobs Chair: J. Pétillon 00 R. Gillespie 13 Evolution of spiders on oceanic islands: The venture of few and gain of many 1: Albo et al. 19: Montes de Oca et al.* 37: Schaider et al. R.R. Jackson Deceptive worthless nuptial gifts: the role of Thermal preferences in seven species of Benzoquinones in eupnoan scent glands 15 The cognitive lives of poly-specialist spiders L.A. Esposito & S.C. Crews resource availability, sexual selection and Theraphosidae (Mygalomorphae): ecological (Opiliones): homology vs. homoplasy in an 13 It's complicated: Patterns of Caribbean biogeography in arthropods individual differences implications exocrine system

30 X. Nelson et al. V.W. Framenau et al. 2: Yu et al. 20: Albín et al. 38: Silva de Miranda & Wood 13 Spare a thought for boredom Island biogeography: to be (indigenous), or not to be, that is the question Predator avoidance: bird dropping masquerading Standard metabolic rates in a Neotropical Phylogeography of the Atlantic Forest amblypygids in a crab spider burrowing wolf spider with sex role reversal 39: Fet et al. 45 C. Chang et al. (speaker: D. Li) J. Malumbres-Olarte et al. 3: Yin Yip & Tso* 21: Malumbres-Olarte et al. 13 Genetic basis for jumping spider aggression Multi-scale effects of habitat heterogeneity on spider communities of oceanic islands Revision of the Mesobuthus caucasicus complex Can I borrow a “light”? Does firefly CEBRA – Optimised and standardized sampling from Central Asia (Scorpiones: Buthidae) bioluminescence act as a visual lure on Psechrus protocols for citizen science 00 L.A. Taylor et al. M.A. Arnedo et al. clavis webs? 40: Privet et al.* 14 Blood-related prey-odour primes females to attend to red in both foraging and mate Go West! Colonisation and diversification of Dysdera ground dweller spiders in the 22: Řezáč et al. New insights into the systematics of the “Arctosa choice contexts in a... Macaronesian Archipelagoes 4: McGinley et al. Neonicotinoid insecticides suppress the ability of villica group”, including observations on the Hunger influences behavior but not outcome in spiders to re-colonise disturbed agroecosystems halophilic species A. fulvolineata 15 F.R. Cross & R.R. Jackson K. Privet et al.* male-male contests of Servaea incana jumping 14 A spider-eating predator's capacity to decide when to take a detour Phylogeny of wolf spiders from the island of Hawai'i inferred from multilocus genetic data spiders 23: Laino et al. 41: Ono et al. Is it worth having an adequate energetic state so The spider fauna of Myanmar (Arachnida, 5: Rao et al. as to detoxify a pesticide? Araneae), a prologue 1430 E. Jakob et al. A. Tanikawa et al. Reeling in the prey: Fishing behaviour in an orb Gaze direction in jumping spiders Highly diversified population structure of Lycosa ishikariana inhabiting sandy beach web spider 24: Dippenaar-Schoeman et al. 42: Mitchell et al. habitat Under the trapdoor: Unravelling the phylogenetic 6: Shigemiya Red List of South African spiders: an end-product 45 W. Maddison C.M. Baker & G. Giribet* of the South African National Survey of Arachnida relationships and phylogeography of cork-lid 14 A phylogenetic perspective on salticid spider behaviour Systematics and biogeography of Triaenonychidae (Opiliones: Laniatores) across Female genital mutilation in Cyclosa confusa trapdoor spiders, Stasimopus Simon, 1892 Zealandia 25: Engelbrecht et al. (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae) in the 7: Fischer et al.* The Baboon Spider Atlas: mapping tarantula Karoo Spider women talk – Females of the cob-web diversity in southern Africa with citizen science spider Steatoda grossa adjust their web 43: Richardson et al. architecture and web pheromone titer in response 26: Ridel et al. A key to the genera of Australian jumping spiders 00 15 Coffee Break to mate competition Complementary of trait- vs diversity-based metrics (Araneae: Salticidae) in spider and carabid assemblages 8: Segura-Hernández et al.* 44: Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle This smells... familiar? Learning of chemical cues 27: Urfer et al. First systematic revision of the subfamily S 1 | Salticid biology S 2 | Biogeography & Systematics in two sympatric species of amblypygid Morphology, CO1, and ITS2 provide different Anaminae (Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae) in South specimen clusters in a widespread crab spider Africa Chair: X. Nelson Chair: R. Gillespie 9: Robledo-Ospina & Rao* Colour fidelity in prey selection by an 28: Setton et al.* 45: Machado et al.* 30 P.O.M. Steinhoff et al.* LL. Chamberland et al.* araneophagic wasp Taxonomic revision of the Australian crab spider 15 Complex integration of visual information: The secondary eye pathway of the jumping From Gondwana to GAARlandia: Evolutionary history and biogeography of ogre-faced Embryogenesis in a Colorado population of Aphonopelma hentzi, (Girard, 1852) (Araneae, genus Stephanopis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 spider brain spiders (Deinopis) 10: Deutsch* Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae), an emerging (Araneae: Thomisidae) Deception & Manipulation: Argyrodinae Spiders as system for the study of spider development 45 S. Aguilar-Argüello et al.* K. Čandek et al. a Parasite and Host 46: Machado et al.* 15 Route assessment in jumping spiders Caribbean Cyrtognatha, Tetragnatha and Trichonephila: Biogeographic patterns of spiders 29: Jones & Cushing* Shaking the tree of the bark crab spiders: with different dispersal abilities 11: Gonnet-Cendán et al. Morphology of Male Abdominal Ctenidia in North Phylogeny of the Neotropical Stephanopis species Testing the occurrence of sexual size dimorphism American Camel Spiders reveals a new genus and revalidates Paratobias 00 L.B. Lietzenmayer et al.* A. Holmquist & R. Gillespie* in Allocosinae species from Uruguayan grasslands (Araneae: Thomisidae) 16 It helps to be red: A comparative study of male coloration, sexual size dimorphism, and Ancient processes versus environmental change in shaping diversity of spider 30: Gainett et al.* 12: Beleyur et al. male size in salticids communities across Gunung Galang... From eggs to longlegs: Embryonic development 47: García et al.* The architecture, dynamics, and silk investment in and staging of the harvestman Phalangium opilio Investigating the poly-paraphyly of North American 15 H. Zeng et al.* G. Hormiga et al. social spider webs camel spiders (Solifugae: Eremobatidae: 16 Function of colour pattern in intraspecific interactions: a case study with jumping spiders Phylogenomics resolves the phylogenetic relationships of the main lineages of spiders 31: Steinhoff et al.* Therobatinae) and their unique moveable palpal (Araneae) 13: Baggett & Brown Lifestyle matters: Brain morphology in cursorial spines Movement Patterns and Home Range Size of Two and stationary hunting spiders 30 P. Balasubramanian et al. (speaker: Uma) S. Kulkarni et al.* Species of Riparian-Zone Wolf Spiders from 48: Gavish-Regev et al. 16 Role of visual cues and aggression in jumping spider responses to ants and ant mimics Big data, small spiders: analyses of ultraconserved elements give new perspectives on Arizona, USA 32: Laudier Below or above-ground? Where are the closest spider phylogeny and evolution of miniature orb-weavers Silver, Gold and Copper Staining: Histochemical relatives of troglobite Tegenaria species? 14: Xu et al. Applications for Arachnid Neural Tissue 45 B.H. Wong & D. Li* I.L.F. Magalhaes & M. Ramírez* Formation of rivers and mountains drive 49: Baker et al.* 16 Static allometry and evolutionary allometry of enlarged chelicerae in the Myrmarachnines Phylogeny of the crevice-weaver spiders (Araneae: Filistatidae) diversification of primitively segmented spiders in 33: Tsurusaki et al. A densely-sampled Sanger-based phylogeny of the continental East Asia Chromosomal hybrid zone showing heterzygote temperate Gondwanan family Triaenonychidae 00 (Opiliones: Laniatores), inferred from three M. Kelly et al.* T.L. Audisio & T. Bourguignon* 15: Vink et al. superiority in Gagrellula ferruginea (Opiliones) 17 The evolution of ant mimicry in spiders Goblins underground: Termitophilous oonopids of the Afrotropical Region markers New Zealand Pirates: Evolutionary origins and 34: Setton & Sharma* diversity of Zealandia's mimetid spider revealed Differential gene expression approaches elucidate 15 J. McLean & M.E. Herberstein* R.J. Kallal et al.* through morphology and molecular data 17 Mimicry in motion: can good behaviour compensate for poor morphological mimicry? The shape of weaver: using geometric morphometrics to explore shape disparity in systemic effects of Wnt signaling inhibition during Araneidae (Arachnida: Araneae) 16: Steele et al.* segmentation in the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum Chronoecology of the Cave Dwelling Orb-Weaver spider, Meta ovalis 35: Santibáñez-López et al. 17: Audisio & Mikheyev* Neglected no longer: Phylotranscriptomics and 30 molecular modeling reveals venom homologs in 17 Bus to YMCA Evolution of the venom system in spiders Pseudoscorpiones and Palpigradi 18: Chamberland & Stafstrom* 36: MacDougall et al.* Untangling the evolutionary and biogeographic Species delimitation of New Zealand Neopilionidae history of Old World net-casting spiders (Family: (Opiliones) based on COI sequence data Deinopidae) 1815 Poster primer & fingerfood S 1 | Salticid behaviour, ecology & evolution # S 2 | Island biogeography # List of Posters Chairs: D. Li & B. Jakobs Chair: J. Pétillon 00 R. Gillespie 13 Evolution of spiders on oceanic islands: The venture of few and gain of many 1: Albo et al. 19: Montes de Oca et al.* 37: Schaider et al. R.R. Jackson Deceptive worthless nuptial gifts: the role of Thermal preferences in seven species of Benzoquinones in eupnoan scent glands 15 The cognitive lives of poly-specialist spiders L.A. Esposito & S.C. Crews resource availability, sexual selection and Theraphosidae (Mygalomorphae): ecological (Opiliones): homology vs. homoplasy in an 13 It's complicated: Patterns of Caribbean biogeography in arthropods individual differences implications exocrine system

30 X. Nelson et al. V.W. Framenau et al. 2: Yu et al. 20: Albín et al. 38: Silva de Miranda & Wood 13 Spare a thought for boredom Island biogeography: to be (indigenous), or not to be, that is the question Predator avoidance: bird dropping masquerading Standard metabolic rates in a Neotropical Phylogeography of the Atlantic Forest amblypygids in a crab spider burrowing wolf spider with sex role reversal 39: Fet et al. 45 C. Chang et al. (speaker: D. Li) J. Malumbres-Olarte et al. 3: Yin Yip & Tso* 21: Malumbres-Olarte et al. 13 Genetic basis for jumping spider aggression Multi-scale effects of habitat heterogeneity on spider communities of oceanic islands Revision of the Mesobuthus caucasicus complex Can I borrow a “light”? Does firefly CEBRA – Optimised and standardized sampling from Central Asia (Scorpiones: Buthidae) bioluminescence act as a visual lure on Psechrus protocols for citizen science 00 L.A. Taylor et al. M.A. Arnedo et al. clavis webs? 40: Privet et al.* 14 Blood-related prey-odour primes females to attend to red in both foraging and mate Go West! Colonisation and diversification of Dysdera ground dweller spiders in the 22: Řezáč et al. New insights into the systematics of the “Arctosa choice contexts in a... Macaronesian Archipelagoes 4: McGinley et al. Neonicotinoid insecticides suppress the ability of villica group”, including observations on the Hunger influences behavior but not outcome in spiders to re-colonise disturbed agroecosystems halophilic species A. fulvolineata 15 F.R. Cross & R.R. Jackson K. Privet et al.* male-male contests of Servaea incana jumping 14 A spider-eating predator's capacity to decide when to take a detour Phylogeny of wolf spiders from the island of Hawai'i inferred from multilocus genetic data spiders 23: Laino et al. 41: Ono et al. Is it worth having an adequate energetic state so The spider fauna of Myanmar (Arachnida, 5: Rao et al. as to detoxify a pesticide? Araneae), a prologue 1430 E. Jakob et al. A. Tanikawa et al. Reeling in the prey: Fishing behaviour in an orb Gaze direction in jumping spiders Highly diversified population structure of Lycosa ishikariana inhabiting sandy beach web spider 24: Dippenaar-Schoeman et al. 42: Mitchell et al. habitat Under the trapdoor: Unravelling the phylogenetic 6: Shigemiya Red List of South African spiders: an end-product 45 W. Maddison C.M. Baker & G. Giribet* of the South African National Survey of Arachnida relationships and phylogeography of cork-lid 14 A phylogenetic perspective on salticid spider behaviour Systematics and biogeography of Triaenonychidae (Opiliones: Laniatores) across Female genital mutilation in Cyclosa confusa trapdoor spiders, Stasimopus Simon, 1892 Zealandia 25: Engelbrecht et al. (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae) in the 7: Fischer et al.* The Baboon Spider Atlas: mapping tarantula Karoo Spider women talk – Females of the cob-web diversity in southern Africa with citizen science spider Steatoda grossa adjust their web 43: Richardson et al. architecture and web pheromone titer in response 26: Ridel et al. A key to the genera of Australian jumping spiders 00 15 Coffee Break to mate competition Complementary of trait- vs diversity-based metrics (Araneae: Salticidae) in spider and carabid assemblages 8: Segura-Hernández et al.* 44: Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle This smells... familiar? Learning of chemical cues 27: Urfer et al. First systematic revision of the subfamily S 1 | Salticid biology S 2 | Biogeography & Systematics in two sympatric species of amblypygid Morphology, CO1, and ITS2 provide different Anaminae (Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae) in South specimen clusters in a widespread crab spider Africa Chair: X. Nelson Chair: R. Gillespie 9: Robledo-Ospina & Rao* Colour fidelity in prey selection by an 28: Setton et al.* 45: Machado et al.* 30 P.O.M. Steinhoff et al.* LL. Chamberland et al.* araneophagic wasp Taxonomic revision of the Australian crab spider 15 Complex integration of visual information: The secondary eye pathway of the jumping From Gondwana to GAARlandia: Evolutionary history and biogeography of ogre-faced Embryogenesis in a Colorado population of Aphonopelma hentzi, (Girard, 1852) (Araneae, genus Stephanopis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 spider brain spiders (Deinopis) 10: Deutsch* Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae), an emerging (Araneae: Thomisidae) Deception & Manipulation: Argyrodinae Spiders as system for the study of spider development 45 S. Aguilar-Argüello et al.* K. Čandek et al. a Parasite and Host 46: Machado et al.* 15 Route assessment in jumping spiders Caribbean Cyrtognatha, Tetragnatha and Trichonephila: Biogeographic patterns of spiders 29: Jones & Cushing* Shaking the tree of the bark crab spiders: with different dispersal abilities 11: Gonnet-Cendán et al. Morphology of Male Abdominal Ctenidia in North Phylogeny of the Neotropical Stephanopis species Testing the occurrence of sexual size dimorphism American Camel Spiders reveals a new genus and revalidates Paratobias 00 L.B. Lietzenmayer et al.* A. Holmquist & R. Gillespie* in Allocosinae species from Uruguayan grasslands (Araneae: Thomisidae) 16 It helps to be red: A comparative study of male coloration, sexual size dimorphism, and Ancient processes versus environmental change in shaping diversity of spider 30: Gainett et al.* 12: Beleyur et al. male size in salticids communities across Gunung Galang... From eggs to longlegs: Embryonic development 47: García et al.* The architecture, dynamics, and silk investment in and staging of the harvestman Phalangium opilio Investigating the poly-paraphyly of North American 15 H. Zeng et al.* G. Hormiga et al. social spider webs camel spiders (Solifugae: Eremobatidae: 16 Function of colour pattern in intraspecific interactions: a case study with jumping spiders Phylogenomics resolves the phylogenetic relationships of the main lineages of spiders 31: Steinhoff et al.* Therobatinae) and their unique moveable palpal (Araneae) 13: Baggett & Brown Lifestyle matters: Brain morphology in cursorial spines Movement Patterns and Home Range Size of Two and stationary hunting spiders 30 P. Balasubramanian et al. (speaker: Uma) S. Kulkarni et al.* Species of Riparian-Zone Wolf Spiders from 48: Gavish-Regev et al. 16 Role of visual cues and aggression in jumping spider responses to ants and ant mimics Big data, small spiders: analyses of ultraconserved elements give new perspectives on Arizona, USA 32: Laudier Below or above-ground? Where are the closest spider phylogeny and evolution of miniature orb-weavers Silver, Gold and Copper Staining: Histochemical relatives of troglobite Tegenaria species? 14: Xu et al. Applications for Arachnid Neural Tissue 45 B.H. Wong & D. Li* I.L.F. Magalhaes & M. Ramírez* Formation of rivers and mountains drive 49: Baker et al.* 16 Static allometry and evolutionary allometry of enlarged chelicerae in the Myrmarachnines Phylogeny of the crevice-weaver spiders (Araneae: Filistatidae) diversification of primitively segmented spiders in 33: Tsurusaki et al. A densely-sampled Sanger-based phylogeny of the continental East Asia Chromosomal hybrid zone showing heterzygote temperate Gondwanan family Triaenonychidae 00 (Opiliones: Laniatores), inferred from three M. Kelly et al.* T.L. Audisio & T. Bourguignon* 15: Vink et al. superiority in Gagrellula ferruginea (Opiliones) 17 The evolution of ant mimicry in spiders Goblins underground: Termitophilous oonopids of the Afrotropical Region markers New Zealand Pirates: Evolutionary origins and 34: Setton & Sharma* diversity of Zealandia's mimetid spider revealed Differential gene expression approaches elucidate 15 J. McLean & M.E. Herberstein* R.J. Kallal et al.* through morphology and molecular data 17 Mimicry in motion: can good behaviour compensate for poor morphological mimicry? The shape of weaver: using geometric morphometrics to explore shape disparity in systemic effects of Wnt signaling inhibition during Araneidae (Arachnida: Araneae) 16: Steele et al.* segmentation in the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum Chronoecology of the Cave Dwelling Orb-Weaver spider, Meta ovalis 35: Santibáñez-López et al. 17: Audisio & Mikheyev* Neglected no longer: Phylotranscriptomics and 30 molecular modeling reveals venom homologs in 17 Bus to YMCA Evolution of the venom system in spiders Pseudoscorpiones and Palpigradi 18: Chamberland & Stafstrom* 36: MacDougall et al.* Untangling the evolutionary and biogeographic Species delimitation of New Zealand Neopilionidae history of Old World net-casting spiders (Family: (Opiliones) based on COI sequence data Deinopidae) 1815 Poster primer & fingerfood S 1 | Opiliones + other Arachnids S 2 | Behaviour & Physiology Tuesday | 12. February Chair: S. Boyer Chair: D. Harms 30 P. Sharma et al. A. Aceves-Aparicio et al.* 15 Phylogenomic disruption of basal Grassatores relationships: A Levantine relict precipitates The Australian ant-slayer: specialised ant hunting behaviour and the use of silk in Papa Hou | YMCA further deconstruction of Phalangodidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores) Euryopis umbilicata (Theridiidae) 45 G. Giribet et al. B.A. Buzatto et al. 30 Plenary talk | Martín J. Ramírez 15 The Opiliones of New Zealand: A revisionary synthesis for testing biogeographic Selection for male weapons boosts female fecundity in bulb mites 8 hypotheses Spider phylogenetics and evolution – beyond the trees 00 D.B. Bastawade B.A. Baggett & C.A. Brown (speaker: Brown) 16 Do scorpions have different peg sensilla on pectine in different types of habitats and Desiccation Tolerance and Humidity Preferences of Two Species of Riparian-Zone Wolf habits they occupy and lead?... Spiders from Arizona, USA

30 15 A. Goodman & L. Esposito* M. Foellmer & S. Tariq 9 Bus to Lincoln University 16 Systematics and Niche Partitioning of a Unique Clade of Tree-Dwelling Scorpion The effect of metabolic rate on performance in the salt marsh wolf spider Pardosa littoralis (Buthidae: Centruroides) 30 M.S. Harvey & J.A. Huey A.D. Austin 16 A molecular phylogeny of the feaelloid pseudoscorpions (Feaellidae and Evolutionary patterns among hymenopteran predators and parasitoids of spiders 00 10 Coffee Break Pseudogarypidae) reveals ancient Pangean diversification 45 P.E. Cushing et al. A. Gibbons et al.* 16 Camel spider (Solifugae: Eremobatidae) research past and future Does endosymbiont infection alter the behaviour of Philodromus spiders? S 1 | Young arachnologists (invited lectures) 00 G. Silva de Miranda R.H. Willemart 17 Advances on Amblypygi research: past, present and future directions Our past and current knowledge on the sensory biology of harvestmen (Opiliones) Chair: M. Kuntner 30 15 Victor Fet et al. A. Bellvert et al.* 10 Chris A. Hamilton 17 Fauna and zoogeography of scorpions in Greece Does trophic specialisation prevent ecological release? Arthropod systematics in the age of “big data” and machine learning 1100 Danilo Harms 1730 Bus to YMCA Pseudoscorpion research in the 21st century – discovering the great unknown 1130 Jonas Wolff et al. 1900 Russian Party @ YMCA Physical optimum in silk anchors as a global driver of spider web evolution

1200 Lunch Break (self-organised) Wednesday | 13. February

S 1 | Outstanding Opiliones # S 2 | Behaviour Midweek excursion Chairs: M. Burns & S. Stellwagen Chair: E. Hebets 00 N. Tsurusaki S. Pekár & L.F. García 13 Size matters: Possible cases of character displacement in Japanese harvestmen for Coevolution of stridulation and hard cuticle resulted in the defensive acoustic mimicry preventing... 15 E.C. Powell et al.* D. Rao et al. 13 The physiology of alternative reproductive tactics in New Zealand harvestmen Colour as deterrence: An empirical test of the anti-predator function of wing interference colours 30 P.C. Kahn et al. (speaker: S.L. Boyer) T.B. Corey & E.A. Hebets* 13 Nuptial gift chemistry reveals convergent evolution correlated with antagonism in mating Testing the hypothesised antipredator defence function of stridulation in the spiny orb- systems of leiobunine harvestman weaver, Micrathena gracilis 45 M. Burns & N. Tsurusaki A.L. Rypstra et al. 13 Maintenance of sex via geographic heterogeneity and facultative parthenogenesis in a Interspecific contests cannot explain species replacement in cellar spiders (Pholcidae) Japanese harvestman 00 G. Machado & A.V. Palaoro R.H. McGinley et al. 14 Behavioral and morphological precursors predict the evolution of exclusive parental care Daily activity patterns match the most effective light environments for courtship in in harvestmen Schizocosa wolf spiders

15 L. Classen-Rodriguez & K. Fowler-Finn* R. Golobinek et al. (speaker: S. Kralj-Fišer) 14 Predation rates on North American Leiobunum harvestmen (Sclerosomatidae: Opiliones) The role of personality variation in the mating context

30 K. Sheridan et al.* Z. Chen et al. 14 Whole-collection COI barcoding of New Zealand neopilionids (Opiliones: Neopilionidae) Prolonged milk provisioning in a jumping spider

45 S. Derkarabetian et al. B. Dong et al. 14 Phylogenomics of the Gondwanan Triaenonychidae (Opiliones, Laniatores), with Long-term benefits of extended maternal care in a jumping spider discussion on UCE sequence sequence capture from old museum specimens

1500 Coffee Break S 1 | Opiliones + other Arachnids S 2 | Behaviour & Physiology Tuesday | 12. February Chair: S. Boyer Chair: D. Harms 30 P. Sharma et al. A. Aceves-Aparicio et al.* 15 Phylogenomic disruption of basal Grassatores relationships: A Levantine relict precipitates The Australian ant-slayer: specialised ant hunting behaviour and the use of silk in Papa Hou | YMCA further deconstruction of Phalangodidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores) Euryopis umbilicata (Theridiidae) 45 G. Giribet et al. B.A. Buzatto et al. 30 Plenary talk | Martín J. Ramírez 15 The Opiliones of New Zealand: A revisionary synthesis for testing biogeographic Selection for male weapons boosts female fecundity in bulb mites 8 hypotheses Spider phylogenetics and evolution – beyond the trees 00 D.B. Bastawade B.A. Baggett & C.A. Brown (speaker: Brown) 16 Do scorpions have different peg sensilla on pectine in different types of habitats and Desiccation Tolerance and Humidity Preferences of Two Species of Riparian-Zone Wolf habits they occupy and lead?... Spiders from Arizona, USA

1200 Lunch Break (self-organised) Wednesday | 13. February

30 K. Sheridan et al.* Z. Chen et al. 14 Whole-collection COI barcoding of New Zealand neopilionids (Opiliones: Neopilionidae) Prolonged milk provisioning in a jumping spider

1500 Coffee Break S 1 | Webs & Silk S 2 | Sexual strategies Thursday | 14. February Chair: J. Wolff Chair: J. Schneider 30 A.-C. Joel et al. J. Schneider 15 The adhesion of cribellate capture threads Wolbachia infections in Nephila senegalensis Papa Hou | YMCA 45 D. Piorkowski et al.* K. Nakata 15 Mechanical integration of wet axial fibres enhances adhesion in cribellate silk of Female genital mutilation and the rejection of second males in Cyclosa ginnaga 830 Plenary talk | Klaus Birkhofer Hickmania troglodytes Spider communities in agricultural landscapes – response patterns and consequences for predation services 00 M. Weißbach et al.* A. Fischer et al.* 16 Influence of the spinneret's morphology onto the complex fibre processing in cribellate Identification of the sex pheromone of the female false black widow spider, Steatoda spiders grossa (Theridiidae, Araneae) 30 9 Bus to Lincoln University 15 M. Frutiger & C. Kropf* A. Danielson-Francois & Y. Drobot 16 Testing for an anti-adhesive surface coating in Uloborus plumipes and the web-invader Functional failures: flubbed intromissions act as cryptic sperm removal behaviours Pholcus phalangioides 00 10 Coffee Break 30 A. Gordus et al. F.A. Rivera-Quiroz & J.A. Miller* 16 Defining orb-weaving behavior at a high spatiotemporal resolution Asymmetric genitalia in spiders: an overview of this rare phenomenon with emphasis on Teutamus politus Thorell 1890 (Araneae; Liocranidae) S 1 | Arachnological outreach # S 2 | Arachnid venoms # 45 A. Walter M. Kuntner et al. Chair: L. Lowe Chair: G. Binford 16 No major progress in web decoration research – Why is that? Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: Phylogenomic and comparative analyses 30 M.J. Albo et al. M.S. Brewer unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism 10 Venom evolution and its role in local adaptation, phenotypic plasticity, and diversification Kids that tell science: fearless and positive children after hands-on educational 00 I. Chen et al. č experience in Tetragnatha spiders P. Dudová & J. Kle ka* 17 There's more than one way to build a leaf retreat: Convergent solutions in orb and Individual and sex-specific differences in behaviour of the nursery web spider (Pisaura 45 P.E. Cushing C.E. Santibáñez-López & P. Sharma. pseudo-orb web spiders mirabilis) 10 Arachnology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science: Foundations of biodiversity Using phylogenomics and 3D protein modeling to study the evolution of scorpion venom studies using volunteers and paraprofessionals 15 J.A. Coddington et al. A. Harmer et al. 17 Spiders did not repeatedly gain, but repeatedly lost, foraging webs Biomechanics of sexually selected weapons in New Zealand harvestmen 00 E.A. Hebets et al. L. Kuhn-Nentwig et al. 11 Eight-Legged Encounters: arachnids, volunteers, and art help to bridge the gap between The dual prey-inactivation strategy of the spider Cupiennius salei: dozens of possibilities to subdue a victim, more than just neurotoxins 15 M. Kasumovic N. Langenegger et al.* 30 11 The easy way to make any student into a scientist: The power of mobile devices Spider venom enzymes and the function of a specific protease from the venom of the 17 Bus to YMCA spider Cupiennius salei 30 C. Scott et al.* M.H.J. Cordes & G.J. Binford 11 Twitter as a tool for arachnological outreach: reflections on a year of @RecluseOrNot Deep evolutionary history of spider venom phospholipase D toxins

45 N. Doran E. Santana-Propper et al. (speaker: G.J. Binford) 15 11 SIXTEEN LEGS: Popular Culture helping the public to embrace spiders Resurrected ancestral activity of sicariid toxins informs evolution of specificity and 18 ISA General assembly consequences for prey immobilisation

1200 Lunch Break (self-organised) 2030 Host: Niall Doran (Bookend Trust) S 1 | Silk biology S 2 | Sexual strategies & Reproductive morphology # Chair: A.-C. Joel Chairs: A. Aisenberg & M. Kasumovic

00 M. Gregorič et al. M. Kasumovic 13 Spider webs as a source of environmental DNA Is it worth it? Let me work it: The role of physiology in sexual selection

15 C. Deall & S. Goodacre* C.E. Scott et al.* 13 Spider silk: What's in those genes? Spider silk and sex: from mating threads to veils and gift-wrap

30 K. Arakawa et al. A. Wignall et al. 13 Sequencing 1,000 spiders to elucidate the design mechanisms of spider silk proteins Constraints on courtship signalling in web-buidling spiders

45 P.L. Babb et al. A. Aisenberg 13 The draft genome of Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini) reveals an expanded Exceptions that test rules: avant-garde females and demanding males in two sand- capture spiral genetic toolkit dwelling spiders from challenging environments

00 S. Stellwagen & R. Renberg F. Bollatti et al.* 14 Towards spider glue: long-read scaffolding for extreme length and repetitious silk family Take a chance on me: second mating opportunities in a South American wolf spider genes AgSp1...

15 M. Thornber et al.* P. Michalik et al. 14 From liquid dope to solid fibres: studying factors influencing assembly within native spider The innervation of the male copulatory organ of spiders (Araneae) – a comparative silk glands analysis

30 S.P. Kelly et al. L. Segura-Hernández et al.* 14 Mechanical properties of spider silk enriched with carbon nanomaterials Ticklish females: a sensory structure specialised to sense male stimuli fails to support sexually antagonistic coevolution models in Leucauge mariana (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)

45 C.F. García et al. L. Sentenská et al. 14 Why are spiders so fast? A small biochemical history Immature mating and male mate choice in the cannibalistic brown widow spider Latrodectus geometricus

1200 Lunch Break (self-organised) 2030 Host: Niall Doran (Bookend Trust) S 1 | Silk biology S 2 | Sexual strategies & Reproductive morphology # Chair: A.-C. Joel Chairs: A. Aisenberg & M. Kasumovic

00 M. Gregorič et al. M. Kasumovic 13 Spider webs as a source of environmental DNA Is it worth it? Let me work it: The role of physiology in sexual selection

15 C. Deall & S. Goodacre* C.E. Scott et al.* 13 Spider silk: What's in those genes? Spider silk and sex: from mating threads to veils and gift-wrap

30 K. Arakawa et al. A. Wignall et al. 13 Sequencing 1,000 spiders to elucidate the design mechanisms of spider silk proteins Constraints on courtship signalling in web-buidling spiders

1500 Coffee Break Friday | 15. February S 1 | Taxonomy & Systematics S 2 | Ecology & Biodiversity Chair: M.J. Ramírez Chair: A. Wignall 30 I. Armiach Steinpress et al.* A. Decae Papa Hou | YMCA 15 Lycosa – species delimitation in the midst of diversity Comparative nest construction in orthognate spiders 30 Plenary talk | Prashant P. Sharma 45 C.A. Rheims R. Michalko et al. 8 15 Neotropical Sparassidae: who are they? Where are they? Where do they fit in? Biocontrol efficiency of spiders across the globe: a meta-analysis The evo-devo spyglass: a promised renaissance for morphology in an era of genomes and functional toolkits 00 M. Pavlek et al. J.A. Miller et al. 16 Enlightening the dark: A phylogenetic framework for Dinaric cave-dwelling dysderid A multi-taxon cyberdiversity inventory of a small Caribbean island 30 9 Bus to Lincoln University spiders 15 M. Siliwal et al. J. Pétillon et al. 16 Taxonomic validation of the genus Nemesiellus Pocock, 1900 (Araneae: Idiopidae) with a Relative efficiency of pitfall trapping vs. hand-collecting to sample ground-dwelling spiders 1000 Coffee Break description of a new species from Odisha, India along a structural gradient of neotropical habitats 30 L.B. Patrick & M.L. Draney G. Uhl et al. S 1 | Systematics S 2 | Growth, morphogenesis & developmental genetics # 16 A new species of spider from Mexico in the genus Frontinella (Linyphiidae) Latitudinal differences in life history traits of a rapidly range-expanding spider

Chair: H. Wood Chair: P.P. Sharma 45 Norman Horner et al. D. Dimitrov et al. 16 A new myrmecophilic spider from the Chihuahuan Desert of West Texas Understanding pholcid relationships and diversification: recent advances and future 30 S. Foley et al.* 10 directions Tarantula phylogenomics: A first phylogeny of major theraphosid spider lineages inferred Y. Akiyama-Oda et al. from transcriptome data sheds light on the evolution of urticating setae Parasteatoda tepidariorum is a model spider that permits genome-based study of 00 V. Ovtcharenko & B. Zakharov S.K. Das & S.R. Choudhury 45 E. Turk et al.* developmental biology 17 Ground spiders of family Gnaphosidae on Zealandia: current distribution and relationship First record of the dwarf spider genus Alioranus from India 10 Macroevolutionary rate estimations in a nephilid phylogeny with adjunct lands 15 00 B. Zakharov & V. Ovtcharenko Y.M. Marusik N.A. Hazzi et al.* I. Jędrzejowska & A. Halajian 17 Comparative morphology of ground spider trichobothria (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) The World Spider Catalog and distribution of spiders 11 Phylogeny and biogeography of the spider genus Spinoctenus (Aranae, Ctenidae) with Chelicerate type ovaries in spiders, solifuges, pseudoscorpions and scorpions – similar comments on the systematics of Ctenidae but not identical 15 Y.-Y. Lo & C.-P. Lin* C. Santibáñez-López et al. 11 Molecular phylogeny of lynx spiders (Oxyopidae) and taxonomic revision of Oxyopes in The evolutionary origin of scorpion pectines 45 Taiwan 17 Closing remarks 30 R. Booysen et al.* E.V.W. Setton & P.P. Sharma* 11 Revision, molecular phylogeny and biology of the spider genus Micaria in the Afrotropical The genetic architecture of spider spinnerets: a new spin on an old question Region 00 Bus to YMCA 45 T. da Silva-Moreira & G. Hormiga* A.Z. Ontano et al.* 18 11 A total evidence phylogenetic analysis of sheet web spiders Testing the placement of Pseudoscorpions through rare genomic changes 00 L. Baert et al. G. Gainett & P.P. Sharma* 12 Long term monitoring of spiders in coastal dune and salt marsh habitats along the river How do whip spiders make their whips? Applying differential gene expression approaches 30 Yzer estuary (Nieuwpoort, Belgium), final approach to identifying genetic mechanisms 19 Congress Dinner & Awards @ YMCA

1215 Lunch Break (self-organised) S 1 | Mygalomorph evolution & conservation # S 2 | Ecology & Biodiversity Chair: M. Harvey Chair: K. Birkhofer

00 A. Enguídanos et al. (speaker: M.A. Arnedo) S. Ágota Réka et al.* 13 Good fences make good neighbours: Resolving evolutionary history and species Spider communities in rapeseed plantations versus semi-natural grassland delimitation of western Mediterranean ctenizid trap-door spiders 15 L. Montes de Oca et al.* S.R. Daniel et al.* 13 Phylogenomics of Neotropical Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) Spiders in Agroecosystems: community structure and potential for biological pest control in Nebraska maize 30 J.A. Huey et al. K.-P. Yu et al.* 13 Spiders in the desert: the role of climate refugia in maintaining lineage diversity of Remote sensing derived habitat indices can predict spider species richness in mygalomorph spiders in the Australia arid zone urbanisation gradient 45 J. Wilson et al.* M. Domènech et al.* 13 Enigmatic architects of eastern Australia: integrating morphology, molecules and burrow For all audiences: the impact of incorporating immature stages into biodiversity architecture to resolve the systematics of the golden trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae... assessment of mega-diverse groups

00 M. Rix et al. C. Haddad et al. 14 Conservation systematics of Australia's spiny trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae): revealing a Spider assemblages in South African grasslands and the factors that shape them: a continental fauna before it's too late review of two decades of recent work

15 F. Pérez-Miles et al. S. Foord et al. 14 Back to the future: between Barychelidae and Theraphosidae the ex-Paratropidid Melloina The future of spider diversity on a mountain: habitat complexity and not elevation could Brignoli 1985 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) explain their response to climate change

30 E. Briggs et al.* H. Badenhorst et al.* 14 A molecular perspective of the biodiversity of Australian tarantulas (Theraphosidae) Diversity of springtails and spiders in three biomes in central South Africa

45 L.D. Mason et al.* C. Muster 14 The longest-lived spider: mygalomorphs dig deep, and persevere Seven years of spider community succession in a Sphagnum farm

1215 Lunch Break (self-organised) S 1 | Mygalomorph evolution & conservation # S 2 | Ecology & Biodiversity Chair: M. Harvey Chair: K. Birkhofer

45 L.D. Mason et al.* C. Muster 14 The longest-lived spider: mygalomorphs dig deep, and persevere Seven years of spider community succession in a Sphagnum farm