Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2025

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2025

Original language description

The Immature Beetles Meeting (IBM) is a traditional biennial event held in Prague, dedicated to the study of beetle larvae. The main topics of the meeting usually cover morphology, ecology, and development of beetle larvae, as well as their taxonomic and systematic implications. The jubilee 10th meeting took place at the Campus Hybernská of the Charles University in Prague on Thursday and Friday October 2–3. On Friday afternoon, several participants visited the insect collections of the National Museum of the Czech Republic in Praha – Horní Počernice. In total, 44 colleagues from 12 countries attended the meeting. As the personal get-together is one of the major reasons to organize the IBM, hybrid participation was not off ered this year. Most attendees came from Europe, particularly from the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, but we were also pleased to welcome colleagues from Canada or Argentina.A total of 13 oral contributions were presented, covering diverse topics related to beetle larvae, including morphology, larval biology, phylogeny, and systematics. The beetle families represented in the talks included Agyrtidae, Cerambycidae, Coccinellidae, Curculionidae, Elateridae, Leiodidae, Scarabaeidae, Staphylinidae, and Tenebrionidae, as well as the related sister order Strepsiptera. Compared with previous years, the 2025 IBM also featured some innovative and unconventional topics. Presentations ranged from a historical overview of IBM meetings, through records of scarabaeoid larval stridulation and observations of parasitic groups such as Strepsiptera and Asilidae, to biological studies of longhorn beetles and the extraordinary super glue discovered in ladybird beetles. Discussions throughout the meeting were lively and fruitful, and we hope to include similarly innovative and interdisciplinary content in future IBMs. Of course, no IBM would be complete without the traditional “beetle pub” gatherings, held on both evenings. These informal meetings over a glass of the famous Czech beer remain one of the most cherished traditions of the conference, allowing participants to exchange ideas in a relaxed and inspiring atmosphere. We were delighted that several Czech colleagues who could not attend the official sessions joined us for these evening gatherings.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40106 - Agronomy, plant breeding and plant protection; (Agricultural biotechnology to be 4.4)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů