Access Map for Location of the Hotel Conference Venue (First Floor) Poster1: Reprints Exchange and Exhibition of Arts of Orthoptera Poster2: Exhibition of Arts of Orthoptera Symposium Orthoptera Conservation (Session Conservation and Ecology) Symposium Orthoptera Sexual Behavior (Session Behavior) Poster3: Symposium Orthopteran Functional Genomics (Session Molecular Biology) Symposium Orthoptera Systematics (Session Systematics) Symposium Taxonomy of Orthoptera (Session Biogeography & Phylogeography) Poster4: Symposium Grasshopper and Locust Control (Session Pest Control) Symposium Orthoptera in Culture & Education Symposium Orthoptera Communication (Session Physiology) n n Room Ma No.9 Woma Woman Man Conference Venue (Second Floor) Program at a glance 11th-15th, Aug 8:00-22:00 Registration 12, Aug. (Day 1) Room No. 1 Room No. 5 Room No. 6 Room No. 9 Opening Ceremony A.M. Plenary Lecture Sexual Behavior Taxonomy Conservation P.M. Behavior Biogeography Ecology 13，Aug. (Day 2) Room No. 1 Room No. 5 Room No. 6 Room No. 9 Grasshopper and A.M. Functional Genomics Systematics Locust Control P.M. Molecular Biology Systematics Pest Management 14，Aug. (Day 3) Room No. 1 Room No. 5 Room No. 6 Room No. 9 Workshop Communication A.M. Culture & Education Physiology Plenary Lecture P.M. Closing Ceremony 15，Aug. (Day 4) Survey in Stone Forest 6 CONTENTS Program .....................................................................................1 Abstracts.................................................................................. 11 Scientific Committee ..............................................................202 Organizing Committee ...........................................................203 1 Program 2 11th-15th, Aug 8:00-22:00 Registration 11th, Aug 15:00-16:00 OS boarding member meeting 19:00-21:00 Organizing Committee Meeting 12, Aug. (Day 1) 9:00-10:00 Opening Ceremony Room No. 1 Chairman: Long Zhang 10:00-10:30 Tea Break and Photography 10:30-11:30 Plenary Lecture Room No. 1 Chairman: Charles Bomar Axel Hochkirch (Trier University, Germany): Orthoptera Conservation in the 21st Century - Where do we go from here? 12:00-13:00 Lunch Yunda Restaurant 14:00-15:30 Orthoptera Conservation Room No. 9 Chairman: Michael Samways, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Co-Chairman: Shuguang Hao, CAS, China 14:00-14:30 Corey Bazelet (Stellenbosch University, South Africa): Grasshopper bioindicators of effective large-scale ecological networks 14:30-15:00 Klaus Riede (Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Germany): Acceleration of Red List assessment and acoustic profiling for Orthoptera conservation 15:00-15:30 Marcio Bolfarini (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil): Conservation of cave crickets in Brazil 15:30-17:00 Session Conservation and Ecology Room No. 9 Chairman: Corey Bazelet, Stellenbosch University, South Africa 15:30-15:45 Carlos Sperber (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil): Environmental drivers of litter cricket diversity in Central Amazon forest 15:45-16:00 Jessica Weyer (Trier University, Germany): The combined effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on the decline of a flightless wetland grasshopper 3 16:00-16:15 Tea Break 16:15-16:30 Daniela Matenaar (Trier University, Germany): Species richness of Orthoptera in the UNESCO World Heritage site “Cape Floral Region Protected Areas”, South Africa 16:30-16:45 Thomas Fartmann (University of Osnabrück, Germany): Conservation of Orthoptera in Central European grasslands and heathlands 16:45-17:00 Katja Rohde (Trier University, Germany): Hybridization- an extinction risk 19:00-21:00 Welcome Reception Yunda Restaurant 14:00-16:45 Orthoptera Sexual Behavior Room No. 5 Chairman: Douglas Whitman, Illinois State University, USA Co-Chairman: Long Zhang, China Agricultural University, China 14:00-14:30 Douglas Whitman (Illinois State University, USA): Sexual behavior and sexualselection in giant, poisonous lubber grasshoppers 14:30-15:00 Kevin A. Judge (MacEwan University, Canada): The evolution of weaponry andaggressive behavior in North American field crickets (Gryllidae, Gryllus) 15:00-15:30 Gerlind Lehmann (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany): Sexual selection andthe evolution of mating systems within the species-rich bushcricket genus Poecilimon (Ensifera: Phaneropterinae) 15:30-16:00 Liwei Zhang (China Agricultural University, China): A locust pheromone sensed by an odorant-binding protein 16:00-16:15 Tea Break 16:15-16:45 Koutaro Ould Maeno (The Mauritanian Desert Locust Centre, Mauritania): Hill-topping and male-male sexual competition in lubber grasshoppers 16:45-17:45 Session Behavior Room No. 5 Chairman: Makio Takeda, Kobe University 16:45-17:00 Katie Gerstner (Illinois State University, USA): Thirsty grasshoppers fight harder during contests over food 17:00-17:15 Klaus-Gerhard Heller (Grillenstieg 18, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany): Acoustic communication in Phaneropteridae – a global review with some new data 17:15-17:30 Alexander Su (Illinois State University, USA): Effects of body temperature on intraspecific competitive ability 17:30-17:45 Varvara Vedenina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia): Courtship songs in a new hybrid zone between Chorthippus albomarginatus and Ch. karelini (Acrididae: Gomphocerinae) in Russia 4 19:00-21:00 Welcome Reception Yunda Restaurant 14:00-16:15 Taxonomy of Orthoptera Room No. 6 Chairman: Battal Ciplak, Akdeniz University, Turkey Co-Chairman: Daochuan Zhang, Hebei University, China 14:00-14:30 Battal Ciplak (Akdeniz University, Turkey)：Species from an integrative perspective and quality of existing taxonomical data: game of the names versus natural entities 14:30-15:00 Viviana Andrea Confalonieri (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina): High altitude grasshoppers of South America: defining biological units when genes, chromosomes and morphology tell different stories 15:00-15:30 Claudia Hemp (University of Wuerzburg, Germany): Ecological adaptations of grassland- inhabiting flightless Orthoptera: the subtribe Karniellina of Conocephalini (Conocephalinae, Tettigoniidae) as model group to understand modes and time of speciation patterns in East Africa 15:30-16:00 Douglas Whitman (Illinois State University, USA)：Populations, not species, are the true unit of evolution 16:00-16:15 Tea Break 16:15-17:45 Session Biogeography & Phylogeography Room No. 6 Chairman: Battal Ciplak, Akdeniz University, Turkey 16:15-16:30 Battal Ciplak (Akdeniz University, Turkey): Speciation under climatic cycles of Pleistocene: a snapshot from Anatolio-Balkan genus Psorodonotus 16:30-16:45 Karla Yotoko (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil): Molecular phylogeny, barcoding and taxonomy of predatory spiny katydids (Tettigoniidae: Listroscelidinae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest 16:45-17:00 Sigfrid Alfred Ingrisch (Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Germany): Are Agraeciini and Copiphorini natural subgroups of Conocephalinae? Considerations based on male cerci 17:00-17:15 Marie-Pierre Chapuis (CIRAD, France): Demographic processes shaping genetic variation of the solitarious phase of the desert locust 17:15-17:30 Mikhail Sergeev (Novosibirsk State University,Russia): Digital mapping of orthopteran assemblages’ distribution in South Siberia 17:30-17:45 Derek Woller (University of Central Florida, USA): An ancient ecosystem speaks volumes: analyzing speciation events in scrub islands of the southeastern U.S. via their endemics: Melanoplus grasshoppers belonging to the Puer Group 19:00-21:00 Welcome Reception Yunda Restaurant 5 13, Aug. (Day 2) 8:30-11:45 Grasshopper and Locust Control Room No. 9 Chairman: Alexandre Latchininsky, University of Wyoming, USA Co-Chairman: Puyun Yang, Chinese National Agricultural Technology Extension Center, China 8:30-9:00 Alexandre Latchininsky (University of Wyoming, USA)：Locust and grasshopper control worldwide: an introduction. Grasshopper control: A North American Perspective 9:00-9:30 Annie Monard (FAO UN, Italy)：Recent experience in large-scale locust campaigns and lessons learnt 9:30-10:00 Gregory Sword (Texas A&M University, USA): Integrating the ecology of phase change and collective movement into preventative locust management 10:00-10:30 Chris Adriaansen (Australian Plague Locust Commission, Australia) ：Locust control: an Australian perspective 10:30-10:45 Tea Break 10:45-11:15 Puyun Yang (Chinese National Agricultural Technology Extension Center, China) ：Sustainable management of locusts and grasshoppers in China 11:15-11:45 David Hunter (Consultant in Locust and Grasshopper Control, Australia): Are constant advances required to overcome increasing restrictions on the use of chemical pesticides? 12:30-13:30 Lunch Meeting Yard 14:00-15:15 Session Pest Control Room No. 9 Chairman: Alex Latchininsky, University of Wyoming, USA Co-Chairman: David Hunter, Consultant in Locust and Grasshopper Control, Australia 14:00-14:15 Lin Li (China Agricultural University, China): Design and implementation of GIS, RS, and GPS based information platform for locust control 14:15-14:30 Batkhuyag Baldangombo (WWF Mongolia Programme Office, Mongolia): Climate change and anthropogenic impacts on grasshopper distribution in Mongolia 14:30-14:45 Carlos Lange (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina): Microsporidia as grasshopper control agents in Argentina 14:45-15:00 Christopher Adriaansen (Australian Plague Locust Commission, Australia)：A question of timing - An examination of Australian locust control strategies 15:00-15:15 Peter Spurgin (Australian Plague Locust Commission, Australia): Management