Detailed Programme

10 July 2023 (Monday)

Plenary talk
Congress Hall

David Lohman (USA): A global phylogeny of butterflies illuminates their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts, and biogeographic origins

09:50–10:30

Coffee Break

10:30–12:30

Scientific Symposia

Congress Hall
Systematics and biogeography of Lepidoptera: pattern and process (1)

Chaired by David J. Lohman and Pedro G. Ribeiro

Keynote talk

Pável Matos (Czech Republic): Bridging macro- and microevolutionary studies in Neotropical butterflies

Karina Silva-Brandao (Germany): Where? When? How? Patterns and processes on the biogeographic history of Acraeini butterflies

Jing Leong (USA): Diversification and biogeography of pantropical grass yellow butterflies (Pieridae: Coliadinae)

Tomasz Pyrcz (Poland): Phylogeny of the neotropical subtribe Pronophilina (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae) based on target enrichment and adult morphology

Rayner Nunez (Germany): Wing pattern, host plant use and genome skimming data suggest speciation in the Caribbean Metalmark, Dianesia carteri (Lepidoptera, Riodinidae)

Gael Kergoat (France): Habitat opening fostered diversity at both continental and local scales: impact of dispersal and habitat-shifts in the diversification of a speciose Afrotropical insect group

Andre Victor Lucci Freitas (Brazil): Neotropical montane butterflies: combining phylogeny, ecology and biogeography to understand patterns and processes

Room ZI
Open topic: the diverse traits and processes in Lepidoptera biology

Chaired by Anne Duplouy and Vincent Debat

Keynote talk

Denise Dalbosco Dell'Aglio (UK): Shifting balances in the weighting of sensory modalities are predicted by divergence in brain morphology in incipient species of Heliconius butterflies

Camille Le Roy (the Netherlands): Gliding in the Amazonian canopy: adaptive evolution of flight in Morpho butterflies

Antonia Monteiro (Singapore): Lepidopteran prolegs are not leg homologs

Vincent Debat (France): Testing the role of flight in the evolution of butterfly wing tails: a combined macro-evolutionary and experimental analysis

Carlos Cordero (Mexico): Ejaculates in Lepidoptera: a hidden diversity

Anne Duplouy (Finland): Infection with a male-killing Spiroplasma bacterium drives morphological changes in the African monarch butterfly

Mackenzie Hoogshagen (USA): The contributions of plant chemicals and monarch genetics to resistance against a virulent protozoan parasite

Room ZII
Colorful genetics of life history traits in Lepidoptera

Chaired by Joseph Hanly and Melanie Brien

Keynote talk

Christopher Wheat (Sweden): On the costs and benefits of pteridine co-option into Pieridae wings

Emilie Dion (Singapore): Yellow regulates courtship plasticity in butterflies

Joseph Hanly (USA): Visible and ultraviolet colours in an incipient species pair of Colias butterflies

Melanie Brien (Finland): A complex colour polymorphism is associated with a gene duplication in wood tiger moths

Kiana Kasmaii (USA): The genes behind the scenes of visual mate preference in Bicyclus anynana

Luca Livraghi (USA): A clinal polymorphism at the optix locus drives differences in silver scale iridescence in Mormon Fritillaries

12:30–13:30

Lunch

13:30–16:00

Scientific Symposia

Congress Hall
Systematics and biogeography of Lepidoptera: pattern and process (2)

Chaired by David J. Lohman and Pedro G. Ribeiro

Keynote talk

Nick Grishin (USA): Insights from large-scale butterfly genomics

Valentina Todisco (Finland): So familiar, yet so unknown: Taxonomy and DNA barcoding of the Palearctic Papilio machaon species-group

Vazrick Nazari (Italy): High altitude isolation and speciation of butterflies in the Irano-Turanian mountain plateaus

Leonardo Dapporto (Italy): The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages for West Palearctic butterflies

Nok Ting Lam (Finland): Genetic structure, phenotype and evolutionary history of butterflies in the European Polyommatus eros species group

Vlad Dincă (Finland): A new Melitaea butterfly endemic to the Balkans revealed by genomics

Alena Sucháčková (Czech Republic): Butterflies as ghosts of the mammoth steppe

Aleix Palahí i Torres (Sweden): Intra-specific transatlantic dispersal and species displacement explain Holarctic disjunct distributions in Vanessa butterflies

Felix Sperling (Canada): Species boundaries of Phyciodes butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on genomic integrity in a region of contact

Room ZI
Migration in butterflies: movement, physiology, interactions, and genes (1)

Chaired by Gerard Talavera and Daria Shipilina

Keynote talk

Gerard Talavera (Spain): Migratory ecology and population dynamics of the Painted Lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui

Aurora García-Berro (Spain): A migratory divide for the Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui): A single genomic region differentiates populations in the two hemispheres

Arne Weinhold (Germany): Microbiota of adult butterflies – moving from spatial to temporal scales

Emily Jones (Hong Kong): Danaid migration in Asia – revealing the mystery of movement using URL-branded tags

Thomas Gottschalk (Germany): Where does the swallowtail fly? – Results of a citizen science study at the Wurmlinger chapel in Rottenburg, Germany

Sana Ghouri (Canada): Hydrogen and strontium isoscapes for the African Palearctic range to reconstruct insect migration and connectivity

Megan Reich (Canada): Isotope-based geographic assignment provides valuable insights into long-distance butterfly migration

Daria Shipilina (Sweden): Transcriptomic analysis reveals pathways underlying response to environmental stress in a migratory butterfly

Room ZII
Butterfly communities: Evolutionary assembly, ecological dynamics, and multi–trophic interactions (1)

Chaired by Krushnamegh Kunte and Marianne Elias

Keynote talk

Timothy Bonebrake (Hong Kong): Ecological uniqueness of communities: controlling for environmental availability highlights importance of insecticide for urban butterflies

Saskya van Nouhuys (India): The roles of parasitoids in butterfly communities

Tara Christensen (USA): Nectar breadth and associations with population trends in Sierra Nevada butterflies

Violaine Llaurens (France): Evolution of temporal niches in butterfly communities and consequences on sympatric speciation

Gaurab Nandi Das (Czech Republic): Geography of butterflies of the Republic of India: Species richness and faunal composition patterns revealed via check-lists of federal states

Fernando Gaona (Czech Republic): Brown and grey shades of African savannahs: Understanding the direct and indirect effects of the environment on moth communities in Kruger National Park

Robert Tropek (Czech Republic): Seasonal shifts of biodiversity patterns and species’ elevation ranges of butterflies and moths on Mount Cameroon

Jessie Pereira Santos (Brazil): From top to bounds: Forest fragmentation emulates the vertical strata as a habitat filter for butterfly assemblages

16:00–16:45

Coffee Break

16:45–17:45

Scientific Symposia

Congress Hall
Systematics and biogeography of Lepidoptera: pattern and process (3)

Chaired by David J. Lohman and Pedro G. Ribeiro

Niklas Wahlberg (Sweden): The evolutionary history of Lepidoptera: where are we?

Eliette L. Reboud (France): Inferring species-level phylogenies with whole-genome data: a new step in deciphering the taxonomy and history of the recalcitrant tribe Leptocircini (Papilionidae)

Vladislav Ivanov (Finland): Genomics reveals the genetic structure and cryptic diversity in Pyrgus armoricanus

Marianne Espeland (Germany): Opening up a treasure trove of color patterns and life histories: Phylogenetic relationships within the superfamily Zygaenoidea based on museomics

Room ZI
Migration in butterflies: movement, physiology, interactions, and genes (2)

Chaired by Gerard Talavera and Daria Shipilina

Keynote talk

Jacobus de Roode (USA): Monarch butterfly migration: genomes, gene expression and parasites

Mitchell Kendzel (USA): Are Monarch Butterflies True Navigators: using Agent-based and Spatial Modeling to Explore Animal Navigation and Migration

Room ZII
Butterfly communities: Evolutionary assembly, ecological dynamics, and multi–trophic interactions (2)

Chaired by Krushnamegh Kunte and Marianne Elias

Christina Baer (USA): Evolutionary and ecological patterns of shelter-building across North American butterfly caterpillars

Jens Roland (Canada): Snow dominates dynamics of alpine Parnassius smintheus butterflies

Klaus Fischer (Germany): Dispersal barriers in Alpine populations of Copper butterflies

17:45–18:45

Plenary talk
Congress Hall

Ondřej Sedláček (Czech Republic): One wingbeat at a time: Restoring butterfly habitats and populations in the Czech Republic

19:00–22:00

Welcome Drink

11 July 2023 (Tuesday)

08:00–16:00

Excursions

12 July 2023 (Wednesday)

09:00–09:50

Plenary talk
Congress Hall

Hugo Benítez (Chile): Extreme adaptations, phenotype, geometry and other stories based on Lepidoptera

09:50–10:30

Coffee Break

10:30–12:30

Scientific Symposia

Congress Hall
Phenotypic plasticity in butterflies: from traits to their mechanisms and everything in between (1)

Chaired by Erica Westerman, Madeleine Carruthers, and Océane Seudre

Keynote talk

Ullasa Kodandaramaiah (India): Pupal colour plasticity in tropical butterflies

Katharina Schneider (Sweden): Flexible transcriptional response to host plant switches in the comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album)

Guilherme Atencio (Portugal): Developmental plasticity in multifactorial environments: temperature and food quantity effects on Bicyclus anynana wing patterns

Nadja Verspagen (Finland): Variation in developmental plasticity in a temperate butterfly across a latitudinal cline: connecting phenotype and transcriptome

Patricio Salazar-Carrión (UK): Local adaptation vs. phenotypic plasticity in traits associated with altitudinal adaptation in Heliconius butterflies

Yi Ting Ter (USA): Dynamic gene expression during a social learning event in a butterfly

Erica Westerman (USA): The neurogenomics of diversity in butterfly mate preference learning

Room ZI
Butterfly monitoring, trends and indicators: towards a global network (1)

Chaired by Monika Böhm, Chris van Swaay, Holly Mynott, Louise McRae, Sam Ellis, and David Roy

Keynote talk

Krushnamegh Kunte (India): Envisioning the Indian Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: Harnessing the Power of a Billion Citizen Scientists for Tropical Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation

Jorge L. León-Cortés (Mexico): Butterfly monitoring in southern Mexico: challenges and prospects

Leslie Ries (USA): Tracking butterfly distributions over 200 years in American north of Mexico

Chooi-Khim Phon (Malaysia): Butterfly monitoring in Peninsular Malaysia: Experiences, challenges and the way forward

Oskar Brattström (UK): The Nigeria Butterfly Network: Towards the establishment of a nationwide Nigerian butterfly monitoring programme

Guy Pe'er (Germany): The Israeli Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (BMS-IL): what happens to species at the desert’s edge?

Yuet Fung Ling (Hong Kong): Long-term butterfly monitoring reveals climate-driven community restructuring with tropical species gains in a subtropical Hong Kong reserve

Room ZII
Conservation of butterflies and their habitats

Chaired by Piotr Skorka and Federico Riva

Keynote talk

Thomas Schmitt (Germany): Mark-release-recapture of eleven butterfly species unravels different conservation needs

Ádám Kőrösi (Germany): How much “nature” do we need in agricultural landscapes to preserve butterflies?

Irma Wynhoff (the Netherlands): Restoring habitats of the myrmecophilous butterfly Phengaris (Maculinea) teleius on former agricultural fields by sod translocation

Piotr Skorka (Poland): The value of novel habitats for conservation of butterflies – a short review

Martin Wiemers (Germany): Conserving Madeira’s threatened endemic butterflies

Heiko Hinneberg (Germany): How to promote the Southern White Admiral? – Scientific evidence for a species conservation plan

Cas Carroll (USA): Status and Conservation of a Rare, Endangered Great Basin Skipper (Nevada and California, USA)

12:30–13:30

Lunch

13:30–16:00

Scientific Symposia

Congress Hall
Phenotypic plasticity in butterflies: from traits to their mechanisms and everything in between (2)

Chaired by Erica Westerman, Madeleine Carruthers, and Océane Seudre

Matthew Nielsen (Germany): Connecting plasticity across life stages

Rachel Steward (Sweden): Genetic constraints in genes exhibiting splicing plasticity in facultative diapause

Shen Tian (Singapore): Hox gene Antennapedia potentially regulates butterfly eyespot size plasticity

Carly Lynsdale (Finland): Is it hot in here? How thermal stress drives life-history variation, and the physiological mechanisms of this, in Cinxia butterflies

Grace E. Hirzel (USA): Covariation in wing color, behavior, and sensory gene expression in a seasonally plastic butterfly

Madeleine Carruthers (UK): Seasonal plasticity in the African butterfly Bicyclus anynana is facilitated by substantial shifts in regulatory molecular mechanisms

Raghavendra Kudinalli Nagaraj (UK): Unravelling the Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptative Seasonal Plasticity in Bicyclus anynana Using Co-Expression Networks WITHDRAWN

Freerk Molleman (Poland): Are plastic responses to temperature, humidity, and host plant mediated by larval growth in the seasonally polyphenic butterfly Melanitis leda?

Keynote talk

Delbert Green II (USA): Long Distance Migration as a Driver of Sensory Plasticity and Evolution in Monarch Butterflies

Room ZI
Butterfly monitoring, trends and indicators: towards a global network (2)

Chaired by Monika Böhm, Chris van Swaay, Holly Mynott, Louise McRae, Sam Ellis, and David Roy

Keynote talk

Chris van Swaay (the Netherlands): From national to Continental to Global Butterfly Monitoring

Cristina G. Sevilleja (the Netherlands): Citizen science approaches for developing Butterfly Monitoring Schemes in Europe

Andrea Büermann (Germany): VielFalterGarten – Citizen Science for monitoring and conserving urban butterfly populations

Shao-Ji Hu (China): Integrating DNA barcodes into Butterfly Monitoring Network

Shawan Chowdhury (Germany): Social media records hold valuable information for conservation planning

Eliza Grames (USA): Butterflies of western North America: trends, stressors, and prioritization for conservation

Federico Riva (the Netherlands): Spatial, temporal, and taxonomic trends from butterfly monitoring programs

Katherine Bell (USA): On the detectability of climate change impacts on insect populations: An individual-based simulation approach to explore monitoring design and variation in weather effects

Room ZII
Genome structure and evolution

Chaired by Petr Nguyen and James R. Walters

Keynote talk

Charlotte Wright (UK): Winging it: Understanding genome instability in Polyommatus

Jesper Boman (Sweden): What can we learn about chromosomal speciation in butterflies from studying Leptidea?

Karin Näsvall (UK): Recombination rate differences as a consequence of chromosomal rearrangements

Héloise Muller (France): Genome architecture in the holocentric silkworm Bombyx mori and related species

Petr Nguyen (Czech Republic): Strange genome architecture in ghost moths (Hepialidae)

Chay Graham (UK): Insights into early stages of sex chromosome evolution from a novel neoW chromosome in the African Monarch Butterfly, Danaus chrysippus

Thomas Decroly (UK): Neo-W degradation locally rescued by rare recombination events in the Spanish marbled white butterfly

James Walters (USA): Assembly and characterization of the W chromosome in monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)

Arjen Van t Hof (Czech Republic): A novel sex determination mechanism in a satyrid butterfly

16:00–18:00

Poster session (with coffee and refreshments)

19:00–22:00

Conference dinner (City centre)

13 July 2023 (Thursday)

09:00–09:50

Plenary talk
Congress Hall

Marianne Elias (France): The drivers of biodiversity in the Neotropics: insights from mimetic clearwing butterflies

09:50–10:30

Coffee Break

10:30–12:30

Scientific Symposia

Congress Hall
Vision and signalling in butterflies (1)

Chaired by Gregor Belušič and Kentaro Arikawa

Kentaro Arikawa (Japan): Sexually dimorphic pierid eyes

Adriana Briscoe (USA): Sex-linked gene traffic underlies the acquisition of sexually dimorphic UV color vision in Heliconius butterflies

Keynote talk

Gregor Belušič (Slovenia): Design, function and evolutionary patterns of red receptors in nymphalid butterflies

Primož Pirih (Austria): Ecology and phylogeny of butterflies as seen through the eyeshine

Sridhar Halali (Sweden): Strong phylogenetic inertia drives diversification of eye size in butterflies

Anupama Nayak Manel (Germany): Divergence of visual acuity in Heliconius butterflies

Matthew Murphy (USA): Potential evolutionary tradeoffs between the development of visual and central nervous systems among butterflies

Room ZI
Butterfly diversity under climate change

Chaired by Valentina Todisco and Joseph Williamson

Keynote talk

Jan Christian Habel (Austria): Range shifts of butterflies from past to future

Joseph Williamson (UK): Predicting sudden and widespread biodiversity loss on a rapidly warming planet: when and where does biology change things?

Grace Horne (USA): Long-term datasets reveal climatic nuance in moth responses to global change

Clare Dittemore (USA): Three ladies and an admiral: exploring Vanessa response to climate change across multiple decades and a steep elevational gradient

Dubi Benyamini (Israel): Zoogeographical changes in the Israeli butterflies during the last 33 years indicate climate change trends in the Middle East

Victor Brans (Belgium): What drives (meta)population dynamics of the bog fritillary butterfly? The relative importance of habitat quality, parasitism, and climate

Room ZII
Eco–evo–devo of lepidopteran color patterns (1)

Chaired by Patrícia Beldade, Antónia Monteiro, and Jocelyn Wee

Agathe Puissant (France): Convergence in sympatric swallowtail butterflies reveals ecological interactions as a key driver of worldwide trait diversification

Tarunkishwor Yumnam (India): False head: evolution of another head in butterflies

Indukala Prasannakumar (India): Does growth rate influence eyespot size? – A comparative study of three sympatric satyrine butterflies

Rachel Thayer (USA): A meta-analysis of butterfly structural colors: color range and phylogenetic distribution

Victoria Lloyd (UK): The actin cytoskeleton plays multiple roles in structural colour formation in butterfly wing scales

Anupama Prakash (UK): Developmental differences between iridescent and non-iridescent scale nanostructures in Heliconius sara butterflies

Kyle A DeMarr (USA): Cytoskeletal Contributions to Scale Shape and the Evolution of Wing Transparency

Anna-Lee Jessop (Australia): Elucidating the development of structural colour in butterflies using hyperspectral microscopy 

12:30–13:30

Lunch

13:30–15:30

Scientific Symposia

Congress Hall
Vision and signalling in butterflies (2)

Chaired by Gregor Belušič and Kentaro Arikawa

Keynote talk

Nicola Nadeau (UK): The genetic basis of structural colour variation in mimetic Heliconius butterflies

Richard Merrill (Germany): Adaptive exchange of a regucalcin drives the evolution of visual mating preference in Heliconius butterflies

Juliana Sosa (the Netherlands): Visual signal modulation in Morpho butterflies: the role of lamellar angles in the permanence of iridescent displays

Joséphine Ledamoisel (France): Testing the coevolution between the diversity of iridescence and visual discrimination in Morpho butterflies

Sanni Silvasti (Australia): Dynamic visual signals in the Common grass yellow butterflies

Zahra Moradinour (Sweden): How variations in light habitats reflect on visual traits and visual adaptations in three different butterfly species?

Naomi Pierce (USA): Visualizing butterflies and moths: using data from a novel, high throughput, multi-spectral imaging system

Room ZI
Population, landscape, and conservation genetics of butterflies (1)

Chaired by Alena Sucháčková and Caroline Kebaïli

Keynote talk

Jérémy Gauthier (Switzerland): Museomics to retrace the decline of butterfly populations throughout the 20th century

Marjo Saastamoinen (Finland): Role of genetics in impacting population persistence under variable environments

Caroline Kebaili (France): Human and climatic impact on four emblematic species of butterflies in Franche-Comté and implications for conservation management

Zachary Nolen (Sweden): Does the human altered landscape isolate butterfly populations?

Emily Heffernan (USA): Population genetics and rangewide dynamics of the threatened prairie butterfly, Hesperia dacotae

Valéria Marques (Spain): Allopatric and ecological diversification in Cyaniris semiargus (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)

Loukia Spilani (Spain): Phylogeography and conservation of Melitaea diamina (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae): southern relict populations trapped by climate change

Room ZII
Eco–evo–devo of lepidopteran color patterns (2)

Chaired by Patrícia Beldade, Antónia Monteiro, and Jocelyn Wee

Limin Wang (Austria): Speculations on specularity: gold and bronze to moths, silver to butterflies

Martik Chatterjee (USA): Transcription factor bric-a-brac regulates known pigmentation, patterning and scale structure genes across Lepidoptera

Kalle Tunström (Sweden): Deciphering the Evolution of Sex-Limited Butterfly Wing Color Polymorphisms

Eva van der Heijden (UK): Genetics of a mimicry ring switch in ithomiine butterflies

Anna Orteu (UK): Transposable element insertions are associated with Batesian mimicry in the pantropical butterfly Hypolimnas misippus

Tirtha Banerjee (Singapore): Spatial and temporal regulation of Wnt signaling pathway members in the development of butterfly eyespots

Anyi Mazo Vargas (USA): 'Fluttering' with Wnt signals: Insights on the Papilionidae wing color ground plan

Suriya Narayanan Murugesan (Singapore): Novel traits that emerge from the co-option of pre-existing gene regulatory networks make widespread use of pleiotropic enhancers

15:30–16:00

Coffee Break

16:00–17:00

Scientific Symposia

Congress Hall
Vision and signalling in butterflies (3)

Chaired by Gregor Belušič and Kentaro Arikawa

Marilia Fernandes Erickson (Australia): Why are aposematic signals so effective but so rare?

Erika Páez V. (France): Ecology and evolution of evasive mimicry in butterflies: insights from the diverse Neotropical genus Adelpha

Tsuyoshi Takeuchi (Japan): Uncertain mate recognition forms social behaviours and conspicuous traits of butterflies

Daniel Linke (Czech Republic): Anti-predator defences of neotropical Skippers (Hesperiidae), more complex than previously thought

Room ZI
Population, landscape, and conservation genetics of butterflies (2)

Chaired by Alena Sucháčková and Caroline Kebaïli

Joana Meier (UK): Hybridisation and chromosomal rearrangements speed up adaptation and speciation

Pedro Ribeiro (Czech Republic): Genomic data reveals strong differentiation of populations in co-occurring sister Spicauda species (Hesperiidae)

Mukta Joshi (Finland): Species delimitation under allopatry – Patterns of intraspecific genomic divergences within and across the continents in Lepidoptera

17:00–17:30

Closing ceremony, Student awards