Introducing the plenary speaker Sven Weber and Anja Melcher
11.00 AM
Sven Weber and Anja Melcher
Plenary talk: Biodiversity assessments in the 21st century - and what spiders have to do with it
11.57 AM
Runbiao Wu
Introducing the session host Zhisheng Zhang
12.00 PM
Li Fan
1: The complete mitochondrial genome of the intertidal spider (Desis jiaxiangi) provides novel insights into the adaptive evolution of the mitogenome and the evolution of spiders
12.15 PM
Xi Yuan
2: Studying adaptive evolution to cave environment of cuticle in Chinese Leptonetela spiders based on transcriptomics
12.30 PM
Mathura Tharmarajan
3: DNA barcoding, Molecular phylogeny and Taxonomy of selected genera of cobweb spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae) of Sri Lanka
12.45 PM
Session Photo
12.50 PM
Lunch
2.45 PM
Rui Zhong
Introducing the session host Jie Liu
2.50 PM
Li Daiqin
4: From crypsis to masquerade: ontogeny changes the colour defences of a crab spider hiding as bird droppings
3.00 PM
Zheng Fan
5: The chromosome level genome of Trichonephila antipodiana revels its adaptive evolution of polyphagy
3.15 PM
Amrita M. Shirbhate
6: Salticids of Patur region in Maharashtra
3.30 PM
Zhou Wei
7: Sexual selection on jumping spider color pattern: investigation with a new quantitative approach
3.45 PM
Session Photo
3.50 PM
Tea break
3.57 PM
Sheetal Laxman Zend
Introducing the session host Peter Jaeger
4.00 PM
Milind Shirbhate
8: Araneids of Katepurna Sanctuary Akola
4.15 PM
Jithin Johnson
10: Diversity and evolution of the pseudoscorpion family Chthoniidae in the Western Ghats of India
4.30 PM
Reshmi Sekhar
11: Two species of genus Argyrodes Simon, 1864 (Araneae: Therididdae) from Kerala
4.45 PM
Session Photo
Time IST (+5.30 GMT)
Speaker /Participant
Subject
9.30
Nishi Babu
Introducing the plenary speaker Nathan Morehouse
9.35
Nathan Morehouse
Plenary talks: Evolution of Looking and Seeing: New insights from Jumping Spiders
10.30
Aneesh Mathew Vergis
Introducing the session host Milind Shirbhate
10.35
Kun Yu
12: Charippus Thorell, 1895, a poorly studied genus of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae)
10.50
Changhao Hu
13: Global Diversity of Pseudopoda Spiders (Araneae: Sparassidae)
11.05
Tan Min
14: Variation in visual responsiveness of motion in jumping spiders
11.20
Session Photo
11.25
Tea break
11.30
Thanakron Into
Introducing the session host Booppa Petcharad
11.33
Rui Zhong
15: Safety becomes more and more important in cobweb spiders.
11.48
Nishi Babu
16: Species richness and vertical stratification of family Tetragnathidae (Araneae) in paddy fields of selected areas at Kuttanad.
12.05
Aswathy S.
17: Burrow morphology and microhabitat characteristics of an iridescent tarantula Haploclastus devamatha Prasanth & Jose, 2014 from Western Ghats, Kerala (Araneae: Theraphosidae)
12.20
Anitha Abraham
18: Spider silk-an alternative promising antibiotic.
12.35
Session Photo
12.40
Lunch
14.27
Karthika K
Introducing the session host Fr.Jobi Malamel CMI
14.30
Minu M
19: Diversity and Seasonal Variation in Spider Abundance from Salim Ali Bird sanctuary, Thattekkad, Kerala
14.45
Ashirwad Tripathy
20: New distributional record of Coenoptychus pulcher, Simon, 1885 ( Araneae: Corinnidae) with notes on morphology from Eastern India.
15.00
Hemant Vijay Karkhanis
21: Spider Diversity at Godrej Mangroves, Vikhroli, Mumbai, Maharastra
15.15
Sheetal Laxman Zend
22: Faunistic diversity of spiders at Godrej Mangroves, Vikhroli, Mumbai, Maharastra
15.30
Session Photo
15.35
Tea break
15.42
Aswathy S
Introducing the session host Stephanie Loria
15.45
Runbiao Wu
23: Inside the spider: gut microbial diversity and function in two closely related Pardosa spiders
16.00
Amelia Joyce Philip
24: Non-consumptive effects by spider and bird on herbivory rate
16.15
Caroline Fukushima
25: Who wants to buy a tarantula? Some results of a global survey about tarantula pet trade and conservation.
16.30
Peter Jaeger
26: A diverse lineage of ground-dwelling Ctenidae in Asia
16.50
Session Photo
17.00
ASA meeting
18.00
Concluding Meeting
Time IST (+5.30 GMT)
Speaker /Participant
Subject
9.30 AM
Mathura Tharmarajan
Introducing the plenary speaker
9.33 AM
Suresh P. Benjamin
Plenary talks: Serendipity is the taxonomist's strongest ally: the discovery of spiders trapped on mountains trapped in a tropical island
10.27 AM
Anusmitha Domichan
Introducing the session host John Caleb
10.30 AM
ASIMA A
27: Araneid Spiders of Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary- A Short Term Study.
10.45 AM
Anusmitha Domichan
28: First record of Oedothorax rusticus Tanasevitch, 2015 and Neriene birmanica
11.00 AM
Irina Das Sarkar
29: Indian Arachnology in the 21st century
11.17 AM
Session Photo
11.20 AM
Tea break
11.27 AM
Asima A
Introducing the session host Elizabeth V. Mathew
11.30 AM
Karthika K
30: New distributional record of Annandaliella travancorica Hirst 1909 from Western Ghats,Kerala
11.45 AM
Namrata Kanjibhai Hun
31: A review and first geographic distribution record of Chilobrachys fimbriatus Pocock, 1899 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae) from Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary Junagadh Gujarat India
12.00 PM
Devi Priyadarshini
32: Comparative study on spider diversity of paddy fields and protected areas of western Odisha
12.15 PM
Linta Joseph
33: Preliminary Checklist of Spiders from Periyar Tiger Reserve(Vallakadavu Range), Western Ghats of Kerala
12.32 PM
Session Photo
12.35 PM
Lunch
2.30 PM
Session 34: Cultural Programme
2.45 PM
Session 35: Cultural Programme
3.00 PM
Nishi Babu
Introducing the Session Host Priyanka Hadole
3.05 PM
Elizabeth V. Mathew
36: 9: Taxonomy of Cyrtophora sp of Western Ghats
3.15 PM
Seah Wan Xin Rachel
37: Opsins variation and differential expression in jumping spiders
3.32 PM
Session Photo
3.35 PM
Tea break
3.42 PM
Aswathy S.
Introducing the session host Caroline Fukushima
3.45 PM
Poster Li Daiqin
38: Masquerading predators deceive prey by aggressively mimicking bird droppings in a crab spider
4.00 PM
Poster - Abira Satkunanathan
39: Diversity and conservation of Nannenini Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) in rapidly changing cloud forest of Sri Lanka
4.15 PM
Poster
Session 40:
4.30 PM
Aneesh Mathew Vergis
41: An insight to the type localities of Pseudoscorpiones of India