Scientific programme

13:00 – 18:00	Registration (reception of Academia Congress Centre, Stará Lesná)
18:00 – 19:00	Welcome dinner (dining hall)

9:30 – 10:20	Plennary Session (conference hall)
10:20 – 10:50	Coffee Break (lobby)

Session 1: Phenotypic Variation and Taxonomic Challenges in Thrips
(conference hall) – chair: Bert Vierbergen

10:50 – 11:10	Same Species, Different Size and Shape? Geographic Morphometric Variation in Caucasian Neoheegeria gigantea (Rudolf Masarovič)
11:10 – 11:30	From macroptery to extreme wing reduction: dispersal polymorphism and morphological reduction in Baliothrips dispar (Manfred Ulitzka)
11:30 – 11:50	Updates about the onion thrips cryptic species complex (József Fail)
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch (dining hall)

Session 2: Advances in Biological Control of Thysanoptera
(conference hall) – chair: József Fail

13:00 – 13:20	*Approaches to promoting Aeolothrips intermedius* for controlling Thrips tabaci in summer onions** (Elisabeth H. Koschier)
13:20 – 13:40	Biological Alternatives to Conventional Insecticides for the Control of Onion Thrips in Leek (Maria Pobożniak)
13:40 – 14:00	The efficacy of biopreaparations based on entomopathogenic fungi against thrips on onion under field and laboratory conditions (Marta Olczyk)
14:00 – 14:30	Coffee break (lobby)

Poster session
(lounge) – chair: Martina Zvaríková

14:30 – 16:00 each poster presentation – 5 minutes

1.	*First record of Thrips parvispinus* (Karny, 1922) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Hungary** (Klaudia Kőszegi, Szilvia Orosz, Miklós Bozsó, Attila Takács)
2.	Thrips assemblage of an urban green roof in Bratislava (Slovakia): ecological structure and functional diversity (Jozef Balcerčík, Adrián Purkart, Martina Zvaríková, Rudolf Masarovič)
3.	Alien Thrips in Germany: Recent Records, Outdoor Occurrence and Taxonomic Challenges (Ulitzka, Manfred R.)
4.	*Occurence of Gynaikothrips ficorum* (Marchal, 1908) (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) on Ficus macrocarpa in Hungary** (Szilvia Orosz, Miklós Bozsó, Gyula Both)
5.	*Optimization of DNA Extraction Methods of Frankliniella occidentalis* (Pergande, 1895)** (Margarita Tigranyan, Hasmik Gevorgyan, Valeriya Vavilova)
6.	Observations on Thysanoptera collected by coloured bowl traps in an urban area in Hungary – Preliminary results (Ágnes Kukorellyné Szénási, Magyar Donát, Bert Vierbergen, Szilvia Orosz)
7.	*New host plants of Hercinothrips femoralis* Reuter, 1891 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in a Hungarian greenhouse** (Anna Kovács, Szilvia Orosz, Patrik Plank)
8.	*Essential oils from different plant parts effect on populations of Hercinothrips femoralis* Reuter, 1891 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)** (Viktor Knapec, Dominik Haško, Jakub Jarabica, Jozef Balcerčík, Martina Zvaríková, Rudolf Masarovič)
9.	*First record of Scirtothrips ginkgoe* (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Europe and development of diagnostic tools for its identification** (Saskia Bastin, Pascal Rousse, Philippe Reynaud)
10.	From 61 to 129 species: an updated checklist of the Thysanoptera of Thuringia, Germany (Ulitzka, Manfred R)

18:00 – 19:00

Dinner

One day trip – start – lobby (day trip participants) – more information soon

19:00-21:00 sky observation (Astronomic centre of Slovak Academy of Sciences) – start – lobby (all participants)

17:30

Dinner

Session 3: Exploring and Conserving Thysanoptera Diversity
(conference hall) – chair: Manfred Ulitzka

9:30 – 9:50	From overlooked to redbooked (Peter Fedor)
9:50 – 10:10	Thrips diversity of various peatland types in Slovakia with emphasis on wetland-associated species (Jakub Jarabica)
10:10 – 10:30	The current state of knowledge on Thysanoptera in Poland (Halina Kuchraczyk)
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break (lobby)

Session 4: Environmental Thysanopterology
(conference hall) – chair: Angelos Mouratidis

11:00 – 11:20	Thrips Reading a Peatland: Community Responses to Habitat Type and pH Gradients (Rudolf Masarovič)
11:20 – 11:40	One man´s trash, another thrips paradise (Martina Zvaríková)
11:40 – 12:00	Thrips road ecology: case study of Nitra Selenec, preliminary results (Viktor Knapec)
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch (dining hall)

Session 5: Pest Thrips Dynamics and Management Strategies
(conference hall) – chair: Rudolf Masarovič

13:00 – 13:20	*Alternative host plants of Scirtothrips aurantii* and associated thrips communities in Mediterranean citrus vegetation** (Angelos Mouratidis)
13:20 – 13:40	Exotic thrips pests in The Netherlands: past, now and tomorrow (Gijsbertus Vierbergen)
13:40 – 14:00	Thrips management in modern crop production (Ivana Tlolková)
14:00 – 14:20	Practical Aspects of Thysanopterology in the Czech Republic (Pavel Tóth)
14:30 – 15:00	Coffee break (lobby)

18:00 – 22:00

Gala Dinner (dining hall)

Closing Notes

(conference hall)

9:30 Until we meet again (Martina Zvaríková and Rudolf Masarovič)

GOOD BYE!