Current Advances in Acarology

Organizer(s)

• 

  Patricia Pietrantonio

  Professor
  Department of Entomology
  Texas A&M University
  College Station, Texas
• 

  Amy Murillo

  Assistant Professor
  Department of Entomology
  University of California
  Riverside, California

This symposium is organized by the Acarological Society of America (ASA) and houses the graduate student competition. Additionally, speakers from different career stages will present research on interactions of acari at multiple levels, ecological, organismal and suborganismal, covering parasites of vertebrates and insects, plant and predatory mites, and soil-dwelling mites.

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:05 AM PT

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Patricia V. Pietrantonio – Texas A&M University
• 8:05 AM – 8:17 AM PT

  Delving into the art and the science of the brown dog tick conundrum
  

  Presenting Author: Phillip Kaufman – Texas A&M University
• 8:17 AM – 8:29 AM PT

  Feather mite species richness on birds of the order Charadriiformes: Investigation of a strangely 'skua-d' distribution
  

  Presenting Author: Heather Proctor – University of Alberta

  Co-author: Andrew Cook – University of Alberta
• 8:29 AM – 8:41 AM PT

  Identifying the sex chromosome in the cattle tick, Rhipicephalus microplus, merging bioinformatics and biology
  

  Presenting Author: Jason Tidwell – USDA-ARS

  Co-author: J. Spencer Johnston – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Valerie R. Holmes (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M University

  Co-author: Kylie Bendele – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Kimberly H. Lohmeyer – USDA-ARS

  Co-author: Peter D. Teel – Texas A&M University

  Co-author: Aaron Tarone – Texas A&M University
• 8:41 AM – 8:53 AM PT

  First record of Cenopalpus wainsteini (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) in the Americas and a description of the symptoms it causes on pines in Argentina, Chile, Italy and Peru
  

  Presenting Author: Marcello De Giosa – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Sauro Simoni – Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification (CREA)

  Co-author: Enrico De Lillo – University of Bari

  Co-Author: Ronald Ochoa – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Javier Huanca Maldonado – Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa

  Co-Author: Aline Tassi – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Francisco Espinoza – Ministerio de Agricultura

  Co-Author: Marisa Regonat – National Agrifood Health and Quality Service

  Co-Author: Alexandra Margarita Revynthi – University of Florida
• 8:53 AM – 9:05 AM PT

  Soil microarthropod effects on crop production under different cover cropping strategies
  

  Presenting Author: Ashley Jernigan – Cornell University

  Co-author: Sarah Pethybridge – Cornell University

  Co-author: Jenny Kao-Kniffin – Cornell University

  Co-author: Kyle Wickings – Cornell University
• 9:05 AM – 9:15 AM PT

  Break
• 9:15 AM – 9:27 AM PT

  How do phytochemical and morphological lychee plant traits affect the lychee erinose mite Aceria lichii (Acari: Eriophyidae)?
  

  Presenting Author: Livia M. Ataide – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Maria-Alejandra Canon – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Nurhayat Tabanca – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Paul E. Kendra – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Daniel Carrillo – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Alexandra Margarita Revynthi – University of Florida
• 9:27 AM – 9:39 AM PT

  Interactions among exotic and native phytoseiids (Acari: Phytoseiidae) affect biocontrol of two-spotted spider mite on papaya
  

  Presenting Author: Alexandra Margarita Revynthi – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Ismail Döker – Çukurova University

  Co-author: Cengiz Kazak – Cukurova University

  Co-Author: Daniel Carrillo – University of Florida
• 9:39 AM – 9:51 AM PT

  Do Chaetodactylus krombeini have a host sex preference?
  

  Presenting Author: Jacqueline Holquinn – University of California

  Co-author: Quinn McFrederick – University of California

  Co-author: Amy C. Murillo – University of California
• 9:51 AM – 10:03 AM PT

  Compatibility of Cyclaniliprole insecticides and predatory mites used in biological control in greenhouses
  

  Presenting Author: Carlos E. Bográn – OHP

  Co-Author: Luis A. Cañas – The Ohio State University
• 10:03 AM – 10:15 AM PT

  Transmission of Hibiscus infecting Cilevirus using Brevipalpus mites from Florida
  

  Co-Author: Luis A. Cañas – The Ohio State University
• 10:15 AM – 10:27 AM PT

  Phoretic mites associated with ambrosia beetles in Florida avocados
  

  Presenting Author: Marielle de Moraes Berto – University of Florida
• 10:27 AM – 10:39 AM PT

  Selectivity of acaricides in administration via different routes to the predatory mite Amblyseius largoensis
  

  Presenting Author: Jaqueline Della Vechia – University of Florida
• 10:39 AM – 10:45 AM PT

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Patricia V. Pietrantonio – Texas A&M University