1. Benítez, Hugo (Chile)

2. Bocaz, Patricia (Chile)

3. Bolt, Daniel (Switzerland)

4. Byrne, Catherine (Tasmania)

5. Can, Feza (Turkey)

6. Chalup, Adriana (Argentina)

7. deWaard, Jeremy (Canada)

8. Dey, Pritha (India)

9. Galov, Mario (Croacia)

10. Hausmann, Axel (Germany)

11. Jerez, Viviane (Chile)

12. Krüger, Martin (South Africa)

13. Mihoci, Iva (Croacia)

14. Moser, Alfred (Brazil)

15. Õunap, Erki (Estonia)

16. Parra, Luis E. (Chile)

17. Ramos, Mario (Chile)

18. Staude, Hermann (South Africa)

19. Thomaz, Gabriela (Brazil)

20. Truuverk, Andro (Estonia)

21. Vargas, Héctor A. (Chile)

22. Wildfeuer, Julia (Germany)

23. Young, Andy (Australia)

24. Zakharov, Evgeny (Canada)

25. Zamora-Manzur, Carlos (Chile)

Monday, January 9, 2017

Arrivals, Transfers.

17:00 – 18:00 hrs. Registration in Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción 18:00 hrs. Inauguration Ceremony (Auditorium Claudio Gay)- Welcome Cocktail

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 (Auditorium Jaime Baeza-EMPREUDEC)

Morning plenary session 1: "The geometrids of southern South America: State of the Art" 09:00 hrs. Luis E. Parra. BIODIVERSITY OF GEOMETRIDAE FROM CHILE

09:20 hrs. Adriana Chalup. BIODIVERSITY OF THE FAMILY GEOMETRIDAE IN ARGENTINA

09:40 hrs. Héctor A. Vargas. PRELIMINARY REMARKS OF THE GENUS IRIDOPSIS (LEPIDOPTERA: GEOMETRIDAE) ON THE WESTERN SLOPES OF THE ANDES OF NORTHERN CHILE

10:00 hrs. Carlos Zamora-Manzur & Luis E. Parra. MAJOR BIOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF GEOMETRIDAE IN CHILE

10:30 hrs. Coffee break

11:00 hrs. Carolina Rose, Mario Ramos-González & Luis E. Parra. THE LARENTIA OF CHILE AND ARGENTINA: A CONCISE REVISION (GEOMETRIDAE: LARENTIINAE)

Morning plenary session 2: "Geometrids and other Lepidoptera of the World"

11:20 hrs. Pritha Dey, V.P. Uniyal , Kailash Chandra & Axel Hausmann. DIVERSITY PATTERNS AND INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS (MORPHOLOGY, DNA BARCODING) OF GEOMETRID MOTHS OF WESTERN HIMALAYA

11:40 hrs. Feza Can Cengiz, Başak Ulaşlı & Axel Hausmann. AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND THE BIOGEOGRAPHY, TAXONOMY AND ECOLOGY OF THE MACROHETEROCERAN FAUNA OF THE AMANOS MOUNTAINS IN SOUTHERN TURKEY

13:00 hrs. Lunch break

Afternoon plenary session 1: "Geometrids and other Lepidoptera of the World"

15:00 hrs. Martin Krüger. ON THE SCLEROTIZATIONS OF THE INTRAVINCULAR MEMBRANE IN ENNOMINE GENERA ATTRIBUTED TO THE TRIBE NACOPHORINI

15:20 hrs. Andy Young. NEW FINDINGS FROM THE MICRO-MOTH FAUNA OF SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA 15:40 hrs. Silva, Gabriela T.; Parra, Luis E., Vargas, Héctor A., Mundaca, Enrique, San Blas, Germán, Goncalves, Gislene L. & Moreira, Gilson R. P. CECIDOSIDAE OF CHILE: BIOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION

16:00 hrs. Coffee break

Afternoon plenary session 2: "Geometrids and other Lepidoptera of the World"

16:30 hrs. Hugo A. Benítez & Héctor A. Vargas. LEFT-RIGHT ASYMMETRY AND MORPHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF A HOST SHIFT IN THE OLIGOPHAGOUS NEOTROPICAL MOTH MACARIA MIRTHAE (LEPIDOPTERA: GEOMETRIDAE).

20:00 hrs. Social event / Congress dinner

Wednesday, January 11, 2017 (Auditorium Jaime Baeza-EMPREUDEC)

Morning plenary session 3: "Conservation of geometrid moths"

09:30 hrs. Viviane Jerez. INSECTS CONSERVATION IN CHILE. RECEC2 ACTIONS AND CHALLENGES

09:50 hrs. Patricia Bocaz. NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA AS ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS IN A FOREST LANDSCAPE OF CHILE

10:10 hrs. Coffee break

Morning plenary session 4: "Phylogeny and taxonomy of Geometridae"

10:30 hrs. Erki Õunap. DYSPTERIDINI: A WIDESPREAD AND ANCIENT LINEAGE OF GEOMETRID MOTHS (LEPIDOPTERA: GEOMETRIDAE)

10:50 hrs. Catherine Byrne. CURRENT RESEARCH ON AUSTRALIAN GEOMETRIDAE – BLITZING THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK AND THE RELATIONSHIPS OF THE AUSTRALIAN SATIN MOTHS.

11:10 hrs. Andro Truuverk & Erki Õunap. PRELIMINARY INSIGHT INTO THE PHYLOGENY OF SOUTH AMERICAN LERENTIINAE (GEOMETRIDAE)

13:30 hrs. Lunch break

16:00 – 23:00 hrs. Trip to Parque Hualpén, Comuna Hualpén, 11 kms of Concepción (collecting near the sea in sclerophyllous forest)

Thursday, January 12, 2017 (Auditorium Jaime Baeza-EMPREUDEC)

Morning plenary session: "GENOMICS"

09:30 hrs. Axel Hausmann. RECENT PROGRESS IN MUSEOMICS ALLOWS TO GENERATE DNA BARCODES FROM OLD TYPE SPECIMENS AND HELPS TO REALIZE THE ‘MEGA-REVISION’ OF AFRICAN PRASINOCYMA (LEPIDOPTERA, GEOMETRIDAE)

09:50 hrs. Julia Wildfeuer & Axel Hausmann. MICRO-CT: THE USE OF NON-DESTRUCTIVE TOOLS FOR GEOMETRID TAXONOMY

10:10 hrs. Jeremy deWaard. THE CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY GENOMICS: ONGOING PROJECTS AND RECENT ADVANCES

10:30 hrs. Coffee break 11:00 hrs. Evgeny V. Zakharov. HIGH-THROUGHPUT METHODS FOR DNA BARCODING: FROM REFERENCE LIBRARIES TO ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS

11:20 hrs. Hossein Rajaei & Axel Hausmann. WELCOME MESSAGE FOR THE TENTH FORUM HERBULOT IN STUTTGARRT (GERMANY)

11:40 hrs. Final discussions, Date and venue of FH 2019

13:00 hrs. Lunch break 15:30. hrs Transfer to Termas de Chillán (Las Trancas, Cordillera de Los Andes)

19:30 hrs. Dinner 21:00 hrs. Collecting

Friday, January 13, 2017

08:00 hrs. Breakfast

09:00 hrs. Safari Tour “Reserva Ñuble”

19:30 hrs. Dinner 21:00 hrs. Collecting Saturday,

January 14, 2017 09:00 hrs. Transfers to Concepción