1. Bartsch, Daniel (Stuttgart, Germany)

2. Beljaev , Evgeny A. (Vladivostok, Russia)

3. Beítez, Hugo A. (Arica, Chile)

4. Bernhard, Marla (Stuttgart, Germany)

5. Bigalk, Sonia (Stuttgart, Germany)

6. Bolt, Daniel (Schiers, Switzerland)

7. Brehm, Gunnar (Jena, Germany)

8. Can, Feza (Hatay, Turkey)

9. Cheng, Rui (Beijing, China)

10. Choi, Sei-Woong (Jeonnam, South Korea)

11. De Picciotto, Kira (Stuttgart, Germany)

12. De Prins, Willy (Brussels, Belgium)

13. De Prins, Jurate (Brussels, Belgium)

14. Dey, Pritha (Dehradun, India)

15. Eck, Josefina (Stuttgart, Germany)

16. Eder, Johanna (Stuttgart, Germany)

17. Frisch, Dieter (Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany)

18. Guaragna, Silvia (Munich, Germany)

19. Görn, Sebastian (Stuttgart, Germany)

20. Gospocic, Mirela (Stuttgart, Germany)

21. Haas, Michael (Stuttgart, Germany)

22. Hausmann, Axel (Munich, Germany)

23. Hoeing, Karl (Stuttgart, Germany)

24. Holm, Sille (Tartu, Estonia)

25. Holzhause, Chantal (Stuttgart, Germany)

26. Jiang, Nan (Beijing, China)

27. Kamm, Donata (Hohenheim, Germany)

28. Karisch, Timm (Dessau-Roßlau, Germany)

29. Kazerani, Farzaneh (Tehran, Iran)

30. Klausen, Anne-Grette (Vester Skernige, Denemark)

31. Klawitter, Julia (Stuttgart, Germany)

32. König, Christian (Hohenheim, Germany)

33. Kopp, Andreas (St. Margarethen, Switzerland)

34. Krüger, Martin (Pretoria, South Africa)

35. Kühnertova, Lenka (Stuttgart, Germany)

36. Krogmann, Lars (Stuttgart, Germany)

37. László, Gyula (Kingsland, United Kingdom)

38. Lees, David C. (London, United Kingdom)

39. Leidenroth, Susanne (Stuttgart, Germany)

40. Leipnitz, Michael (Stuttgart, Germany)

41. Löbel, Hans (Sondershausen, Germany)

42. Martin, Geoff (London, Kingdom)

43. Moser, Alfred (Porto Alegre, Brazil)

44. Müller, Bernd (Berlin, Germany)

45. Murillo-Ramos, Leidys (Lund, Sweden)

46. Ochse, Michael (Munich, Germany)

47. Plotkin, David (Gainesville-Florida, USA)

48. Rajaei, Hossein (Stuttgart, Germany)

49. Ratzel, Ulrich (Karlsruhe, Germany)

50. Ringgenburger, Sophie (Stuttgart, Germany)

51. Rougerie, Rodolphe (Paris, France)

52. Schaarschmidt, Michael (Leipzig, Germany)

53. Schintlmeister,‌ Alexander (Dresden, Germany)

54. Schwabe, Noa Leonie (Hohenheim, Germany)

55. Sciarretta, Andrea (Campobasso, Italy)

56. Scoble, Malcolm J. (London, United Kingdom)

57. Sihvonen, Pasi (Helsinki, Finland)

58. Silbermann, Dorothee (Stuttgart, Germany)

59. Sinne, Claude (Linkenheim, Germany)

60. Skou, Peder (Vester Skernige, Denemark)

61. Sommerer, Manfred (Munich, Germany)

62. Stadie, Dirk (Lutherstadt Eisleben, Germany)

63. Staude, Hermann (Magaliesburg, South Africa)

64. Staude, Luisa (Magaliesburg, South Africa)

65. Ströhle, Manfred (Weiden, Germany)

66. Tautel, Claude (Paris, France)

67. Tammaru, Toomas (Tartu, Estonia)

68. Trusch, Robert (Karlsruhe, Germany)

69. Wanke, Dominic (Stuttgart, Germany)

70. Wildfeuer, Julia (Munich, Germany)

The 10th International Congress of Forum Herbulot with 77 participants, entitled “Integrative Taxonomy, a multidisciplinary approach to answer complicated taxonomic questions” took place in State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, from 11.-16.6.2018.

The 52 presentations during nine sessions were chaired by Axel Hausmann (Munich, Germany), Robert Trusch (Karlsruhe, Germany), Pasi Sihvonen (Helsinki, Finland), Hossein Rajaei (Hamburg, Germany), Hunnar Brehm (Jena, Germany), Sei-Woong Choi (Jeonnam, South Korea), Feza Can (Hatay, Turkey), Nan Jiang (Beijing, China).

As an innovative in this congress, a one hour workshop entitled “Large-scale scientific projects: workshop on partner search” was organized and presented by Pasi Sihvonen (Helsinki, Finland).

The conference started with a lecture on the ground-breaking effects of “Willi Hennig and the synthesis of phylogenetics and taxonomy”. Other presentations and break-out discussions followed on integrative taxonomy of geometrid moths.

The following keynote talks included contributions of:

- Malcolm J. Scoble (“Geometrid taxonomy: will past and present approaches meet future needs?”)

- Toomas Tammaru (“Making use of Geometrid phylogenies: Comparative analyses in evolutionary ecology”)

- Rodolphe Rougerie (“Saturniid and sphingid moths as novel models for the study of insect diversity and macroecology”)

- Jeremy Holloway (“The host-plant profile of the Geometridae in comparison with those of other Obtectomera families in the Indo-Australian tropics”)

- Martin Krüger (“Following due process(es): remarks on the occurrence of Lithinini in southern Africa (Geometridae: Ennominae)”)

- Sei-Woong Choi (“Current knowledge of the Geometridae in South Korea: Are we still waiting more species?”).

The participants took part in two guided tours on Thursday (in Black Forest National Park) and Friday (City Tübingen and Burg Hohenzollern).

Some participants of this congress was financially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), which is highly appreciate by us, here. Also we are indebted to the organization team, staff and students in SMNS.

This newsletter contains the program, list of participants and a selection of photos of the congress.

Hossein Rajaei & Axel Hausmann

Monday June 6, 2018

14:00-17:00 Registration (Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany)

17:00-22:00 Ice-breaking

Tuesday June 7, 2018

09:00-09:10 Prof. Dr. Johanna Eder (Director of the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart): Welcome Message and Opening address

09:10-09:20 Hossein Rajaei: State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, an introduction

09:20-09:30 Lars Krogmann: Willi Hennig and the synthesis of phylogenetics and taxonomy

Session: Integrative taxonomy of Geometrid moths (Chair: Robert Trusch)

09:30-10:00 Malcolm J. Scoble: Geometrid taxonomy: will past and present approaches meet future needs?

10:00-10:15 Julia Wildfeuer, Axel Hausmann: Museomics and Micro-CT: Non-destructive micro-CT approach for female Lepidoptera at the example of the genus Prasinocyma (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)

10:15-10:30 Axel Hausmann: Updates on the German campaign for DNA barcoding of Lepidoptera and on the European and global campaigns for geometrid barcoding

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:30 Claude Tautel, Dieter Stüning: A new genus of Hypochrosini (Geometridae, Ennominae) from the Philippines and Sulawesi, with description of three new species and one new subspecies, and the first observation of “reflex bleeding” in the Geometridae family

11:30-11:45 Dominic Wanke, Hossein Rajaei, Axel Hausmann: The enigmatic Triphosa genus: Taxonomic revision and three new species from Middle East and Central Asia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae)

Session: Improving the infrastructure for geometrid research (Chair: Pasi Sihvonen)

11:45-12:00 Hugo A. Benítez: Wing shape can tell us stories: The use of geometric morphometrics in Lepidoptera wings

12:00-12:20 Hans Löbel, Axel Hausmann: “Geometridae mundi”, a new way of summarizing the diversity of global Geometrid species

12:20-12:35 Claude Sinner: Integration of Geometridae Mundi into TaxonBench ®

12:35-13:45 Lunch

13:45-14:00 Daniel Bolt: The Geometrid Moths of Switzerland, announcement publication

14:00-14:15 Gunnar Brehm: A new efficient lamp to collect Lepidoptera and general remarks on light-trapping

14:15-14:30 Geoff Martin, Alberto Zilli, Alessandro Giusti, Louise Allan, Peter Wing, Phaedra Kokkini, Flavia Toloni, David C. Lees: The Digitisation Of Madagascan Type Specimens At The Natural History Museum, London, UK With Special Reference To The Geometridae

14:30-14:45 Christian König: Unlocking genomic treasure chests – high-throughput collection genomics

14:45-15:15 Coffee break

15:15-15:30 Dorothee Silbermann, Karl Hoeing, Hossein Rajaei: Introduction to the project: Butterfly alarm - nature in danger; a digital print project

Session: Three Minutes Talks (Chair: Hossein Rajaei)

15:30-16:15

- Josefina Eck: "Night-crawler", Butterfly alarm - nature in danger

- Kira de Picciotto: "Hungry caterpillar", Butterfly alarm - nature in danger

- Marla Bernhard: "Injured", Butterfly alarm - nature in danger

- Mirela Gospocic: "Roundup", Butterfly alarm - nature in danger

- Julia Klawitter: "Loss of beauty", Butterfly alarm - nature in danger

- Sophie Ringgenburger: "Light and illusory world", Butterfly alarm - nature in danger

- Bernd Müller: New Species of the Genus Biston from the Balkan Peninsula (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Ennominae)

- Dominic Wanke, Hossein Rajaei: Confusing syntypes – Appearing issues during investigation and its solution

- Chantal Holzhause, Hossein Rajaei: A case of Gynandromorphy in Geometrid moth

- Sille Holm, Tõnis Tasane, Erki Õunap and Toomas Tammaru: Genus Cleora (Geometridae, Ennominae) in tropical Uganda

- Timm Karisch: Notes on the distribution, biology and habitats of Scopula separata on St Helena Island

- Donata Kamm, Chris Schäuffele, Noa Schwabe, Michael Haas, Christian König, Hossein Rajaei: An integration of DNA-barcoding, morphological traits and geographic distribution data to specie delimitation of Peribatodes perversaria (Boisduval, 1840) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

- Shamsi Feizpour, Lida Fekrat, Axel Hausmann, Hossein Rajaei: Emerald moths of Iran (Geometridae, Geometrinae)

16:15-17:00 Session: Poster Presentations

1. Josefina Eck; 2. Kira de Picciotto; 3. Marla Bernhard; 4. Mirela Gospocic; 5. Julia Klawitter; 6. Sophie Ringgenburger; 7. Bernd Müller; 8. Dominic Wanke; 9. Chantal Holzhause; 10. Sille Holm; 11. Timm Karisch; 12. Donata Kamm, Chris Schäuffele, Noa Schwabe; 13. Hossein Rajaei

Workshop (Chair: Pasi Sihvonen)

17:00-18:00 Large-scale scientific projects: workshop on partner search

Rui Cheng, Nan Jiang, Dayong Xue & Hongxiang Han: Phylogeography and evolutionary history of some geometrid taxa on global scale

Pritha Dey: Morphological and genetic adaptations of high-altitude Geometrid moths and the impacts of climate change: A study from global mountain systems

Axel Hausmann, Malcolm J. Scoble, Pasi Sihvonen, Hossein Rajaei & Gunnar Brehm: Update of the "Catalogue: Geometrid Moths of the World"

Pasi Sihvonen et al.: Pushing the boundaries to the extreme: Global phylogeny of geometrid moths

Hossein Rajaei, Shamsi Feizpour, Axel Hausmann, Vladimir Mironov & Ulrich Ratzel: Geometrid moths of Iran, an integrative approach

Wednesday June 7, 2018

Session: Phylogeny and systematics of the family Geometridae (part I)

Chair: Gunnar Brehm

09:00-09:20 Toomas Tammaru, Robert B. Davis, Erki Õunap, Sille Holm, Juhan Javoiš: Making use of Geometrid phylogenies: Comparative analyses in evolutionary ecology

09:20-09:35 Pasi Sihvonen, Gunnar Brehm, Leidys Murillo-Ramos, Hermann Staude & Niklas Wahlberg: Shaking the tree: revised phylogeny and classification of the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae

09:35-09:50 Chantal Holzhause, Hossein Rajaei: Morphological based phylogeny of the tribe Chesiadini (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae)

09:50-10:05 Evgeny A. Beljaev, Oleg A.Velyaev: The genus Hypomecis (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Ennominae): advances to the phylogenetic structure and relationships in Boarmiini

10:10-11:10 Coffee break & Congress Photo

Session: Phylogeny and systematics of the family Geometridae (part II) Chair: Sei-Woong Choi

11:10-11:25 Leidys Murillo-Ramos, Gunnar Brehm, Pasi Sihvonen, Hamid Ghanavi, Niklas Wahlberg: Molecular systematics provide new insights to the taxonomy and relationships of the major lineages of Geomerid Moth (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

11:25-11:40 David Plotkin: Phylogeny of the emerald moths (Geometridae: Geometrinae)

11:40-11:55 Gunnar Brehm, Leidys Murillo-Ramos, Pasi Sihvonen, Florian Bodner, Daniel Bolt, Christian B. Schmidt, Alfred Moser, Axel Hausmann, Erki Õunap, Jaan Viidalepp, Aare Lindt, Luis Parra, Toomas Tammaru, Niklas Wahlberg: Molecular phylogeny of New World geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

11:55-12:10 Hermann Staude: A Phylogenetic comparison of Afrotropical Geometridae and their host-plants

12:10-12:25: Rui Cheng, Nan Jiang, Dayong Xue, Hongxiang Han: The research status of phylogeography and biodiversity of

Lepidoptera in China; case studies of Geometridae

12:25-12:40 Nan Jiang, Rui Cheng, Dayong Xue, Hongxiang Han: Recent progress on taxonomy and phylogeny of the family Geometridae from China

12:40-13:30 Lunch

Ecological studies on Geometrid moths and other Lepidoptera Chair: Feza Can

13:30-14:00 Rodolphe Rougerie: Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia and the ACTIAS/SPHINX consortia Saturniid and sphingid moths as novel models for the study of insect diversity and macroecology

14:00-14:30 Jeremy Holloway: The host-plant profile of the Geometridae in comparison with those of other Obtectomera families in the Indo-Australian tropics

14:30-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-15:15 Sei-Woong Choi, Jeong-Seop An, Nang-Hee Kim, Bo-Ra Shin,Jae-Young Lee, Beom-Jun Jang: Population changes of geometrid moths across southern mountains of South Korea

15:15-15:30 Sille Holm, Juhan Javoiš, Freerk Molleman, Robert B. Davis, Erki Õunap, Heikki Roininen and Toomas Tammaru: No indication of high host-plant specificity in tropical geometrid moths

15:30-15:45 Axel Hausmann, Jerôme Morinière, Andreas Floren, Amelie Höcherl & Juliane Diller: Investigating hostplant relationships of Peruvian lepidoptera (Panguana) through DNA barcoding of fogged caterpillars and their gut contents

15:45-16:00 Farzaneh Kazerani, Mohammad Ebrahim Farashiani, Mohammad Alazmani, Seyed Naghi Khaleghi, Samira Farahani: Survey efficiently of sex pheromone and light traps for decreasing damages of invasive box tree moth in Iran

Biodiversity and other research projects on Geometridae (Part I) Chair: Nan Jiang

16:00-16:15 Martin Krüger: Following due process(es): remarks on the occurrence of Lithinini in southern Africa (Geometridae: Ennominae)

16:15-16:30 Michael Ochse: Exploring the taxonomy of Drepanoid-like Geometridae from tropical Africa

16:30-16:45 David C. Lees: A brief overview of Lepidopteran diversity in Madagascar highlighting the massive completion gap

16:45-17:00 Robert Trusch, René Herrmann: Distribution and life history of Boudinotiana touranginii (Berce, 1870) in Germany and its differentiation from B. notha (Hübner, 1803) (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)

19:00-22:00 Gala Dinner in Rosenstein Palace

Tuesday June 8, 2018

Biodiversity and other research projects on Geometridae (Part II) Chair: Axel Hausmann

09:00-09:15 Sei-Woong Choi, Sung-Soo Kim: urrent knowledge of the Geometridae in South Korea: Are we still waiting more species?

09:15-09:30 Andrea Sciarretta, Axel Hausmann: Recent advances in the knowledge of the biodiversity of the tribe Cassymini in Ethiopia (Geometridae, Ennominae)

09:30-09:45 Gyula László: Taxonomic and faunistic research program on African Lepidoptera at the African Natural History Research Trust (ANHRT)

09:45-10:00 Pritha Dey, Virendra Prasad. Uniyal, Kailash Chandra & Axel Hausmann: Patterns along the elevation and DNA Barcoding of Geometridae moths from the Western Himalaya, India

10:00-10:15 Feza Can, Zühal Okyar, Axel Hausmann: Additional data for the genus Lithostege Hübner [1825] 1816 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in Turkey with DNA-Based identifications

10:15-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-11:00 Closing ceremony

11:00-11:10 Next Forum Herbulot

11:30-20:00 Post-Congress tour, Black-Forest

Friday June 9, 2018

08:00-19:00 Post-Congress tour, city Tübingen & Burg Hohenzollern

19:00:21:00

Dinner