1. Balke, Michael (Germany)

2. Beck, Klaus-Rüdiger (Germany)

3. Beljaev, Evgeny (Russia)

4. Brehm, Gunnar (Germany)

5. Buchsbaum, Ulf (Germany)

6. Byrne, Catherine (Australia)

7. Can, Feza (Turkey)

8. Chen, Mei-Yu (Germany)

9. Choi, Sei-Woong (South Korea)

10. Dieterle, Clarissa (Germany)

11. Claude Tautel, Paris, (France)

12. Delabye, Sylvain (France)

13. Dietrich, Wolfgang (Germany)

14. Emanuel Toussaint, (France)

15. Erlacher, Sven (Germany)

16. Hausmann, Axel (Germany)

17. Hawlitschek, Oliver (Germany)

18. Hermann Staude, (South Africa)

19. Hujev, Tim (Germany)

20. Jeremy deWaard, (Canada)

21. Karisch, Timm (Germany)

22. Kekkonen, Mari (Finland)

23. King, Gareth (Spain)

24. László, Gyula (Hungary)

25. Löbel, Hans (Germany)

26. Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos (France)

27. Manfred Ströhle, (Germany)

28. Marconato, Gláucia (Brazil)

29. Marrero, Laura (Germany)

30. Messenbrink, Josepha (Germany)

31. Mey, Wolfram (Germany)

32. Michel, Ellinor (England)

33. Mihoci, Iva (Croatia)

34. Miller, Scott (U.S.A.)

35. Moriniere, Jerome (Germany)

36. Moser, Alfred (Brazil)

37. Müller, Bernd (Germany)

38. Nuss, Matthias (Germany)

39. Õunap, Erki (Estonia)

40. Parisi, Francesco (Italy)

41. Penev, Lyubomir (Bulgaria)

42. Petrányi, Gergely (Hungary)

43. Rajaei, Hossein (Germany)

44. Ratnasingham, Sujeevan (Canada)

45. Ronkay, László (Hungary)

46. Rougerie, Rodolphe (France)

47. Scalercio, Stefano (Italy)

48. Schaarschmidt, Michael (Germany)

49. Schintlmeister, Alexander (Germany)

50. Schwalbe, Marcus (Germany)

51. Sciarretta, Andrea (Italy)

52. Segerer, Andreas (Germany)

53. Sihvonen, Pasi (Finland)

54. Sircoulomb, Guy (France)

55. Sommerer, Manfred (Germany)

56. Stadie, Dirk (Germany)

57. Truuverk, Andro (Estonia) 

Monday, June 30, 2014

Arrivals, Transfers

Registration Icebreaker (Bavarian/Thuringian barbecue)

Evening: collecting

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

09:00-12:30: Morning plenary sessions: keynote-lectures on minimum description standards –taxonomical and nomenclatorial implications (chair: S. Miller)

09.00 Short Opening Address Axel Hausmann (Germany): Claude Herbulot – his way of accelerating biodiversity assessment

09:15 Michael Balke (Germany, ZSM): Taxonomy - faster. Better

09:50 Ellinor Michel (U.K., NHM), Richard L. Pyle (Honolulu, USA) & Robert P. Guralnick (Colorado, USA): Global Digital Infrastructure for Biological Nomenclature and Taxonomy

10:30 Plenary discussions (focus: minimum description standards)

10:50-11:15 Coffee break

11:15 Lyubomir Penev & Pavel Stoev (Bulgaria, Pensoft Publishers): Streamlining descriptions of new species identified with barcode data

11:45 Sujeevan Ratnasingham (Canada, CCDB): The BIN system: Standardizing molecular operational taxonomy in animals

12:15 Plenary discussions (focus: technical work flows)

12:30-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-19:00: Afternoon plenary sessions: keynote-lectures on rapid biodiverstity assessment – examples from various aspects of lepidopteran research (chair: A. Hausmann)

14:30 Jeremy deWaard (Canada, BIO Guelph), Claudia Bertrand, Kara Layton, Angela Telfer & Monica Young: From BINs to Biodiversity: Rapid Arthropod Assessments using DNA Barcodes

14:55 Scott Miller (U.S.A., Smithsonian): DNA barcode enabled ecological research on Geometridae in Papua New Guinea

15:20 Hermann S. Staude (South Africa): Accelerating the inventory of Lepidoptera early-stages and host-plant & other associations, by using citizen-science projects

15:45 Plenary discussions

16:00-16:20 Coffee break

16:30 Breakout in 4 topical sub-groups with discussions possible group topics: (1) e-publishing: innovative interfaces and workflows from BOL databases (L. Penev) – (2) acceleration of biodiversity assessment through focused collecting projects in tropical countries (W. Mey) – (3) defining minimum standards for descriptions & nomenclatural availability (E. Michel) – (4) global inventories FH (geometrid) lists of family names / species names (H. Rajaei)

18:00 Plenary group-presentations with discussions, if possible preparing or fixing a consensus declaration

19:00 Dinner

20:00 Meeting of (breakout) group secretaries/representants for preparing and fixing a "Forum Herbulot declaration on the acceleration of biodiversity assessment" Evening: field studies and collecting Evening: field studies and collecting

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

09:00-10:45: Morning plenary sessions: rapid assessment tools (12' talk, 3' discussion) (chair: J.

deWaard)

09:00 Rodolphe Rougerie, Thibaud Decaëns, David C. Lees, Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde, Shadi Shokrala,

Mehrdad Hajibabaei: DNA barcoding and DNA metabarcoding as tools for rapid inventory and

high-throughput identification of Lepidoptera species in Amazonia.

09:15 Mari Kekkonen: The flowchart of taxonomy – right pieces in the right order

09:30 Axel Hausmann, Hermann S. Staude, Clarissa Dieterle & Alfred Moser: With or without speedlimit? How to assess 3000 species of Emeralds.

09:45 Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde et al.: DNA barcoding reveals that the reverse latitudinal gradient of

Gracillariidae leaf-miners is an artifact of tropical under-sampling

10:00 Sylvain Delabye, Thibaud Decaëns, Sandrine Bayendi, Stephan Ntie, Philippe Le Gall, Carlos

Lopez Vaamonde, Nicolas Moulin, David Sebag, Rodolphe Rougerie & ECOTROP team: Using

DNA barcoding as a tool to describe moth community patterns in Lopé and Ivindo National

Parks, Gabon

10:15 Discussions

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30: Morning plenary sessions: rapid assessment tools, geometrid phylogeny/taxonomy (12'

talk, 3' discussion) (chair: P. Sihvonen)

11:00 Gyula M. László, Gabor Ronkay & Laszlo Ronkay: The importance of the morphotaxonomy in the

exploration of the real biodiversity of Lepidoptera. A study case: the Nolini (Lepidoptera,

Nolinae, Noctuoidea) fauna of Asia

11:15 Gunnar Brehm: Land in sight? – exploring the global geometrid diversity hotspot

11:30 Sei-Woong Choi, Jeong-Seop An: Spatial and temporal pattern of species richness and

abundance of macromoths including Geometridae in Mt. Jirisan National Park, South Korea

11:45 Catherine Byrne: Current Research on Australian Geometridae

12:00 Andro Truuverk and Erki Õunap: On the Phylogeny and Systematics of the tribe Larentiini

(Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

12:15 Discussions

16:30-17:15: Afternoon poster session: various biodiversity studies (chair: A. Hausmann)

Stefano Scalercio, Marco Infusino & Axel Hausmann: Improvements in the knowledge of the Larentiinae

fauna of southern Italy by DNA barcoding analysis (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)

Glaucia Marconato: Palyadini Systematics, state-of-the-art

Wolfram Mey: Family ranking in Lepidoptera communities in southwestern Africa: are Geometridae

statistically important?

19:00 Dinner

Evening: field studies and collecting

Thursday, July 3, 2014

09:00-10:45: Morning plenary sessions: Palaearctic geometrids (12' talk, 3' discussion) (chair: H.

Rajaei)

9:00 Feza Can Cengiz & Axel Hausmann: The Geometridae of the Amanos Mountains in Southern

Turkey - with a review of the historical exploration

9:15 Gareth E. King: Contribution to an understanding of the early stages (egg, larva) of Lythria

sanguinaria (Duponchel, 1842) with reference to two species in the Rhodometrini Agenjo, 1952

(Geometridae: Sterrhinae) (data from central Spain)

9:30 Evgeny Beljaev: Unexpected feature of the geometrid moths assemblages on the small islands in

the Peter the Great Gulf (Sea of Japan, South of Russian Far East)

9:45 Laura Marrero Palma & Sven Erlacher: Charissa (Pterygnophos) from Central Asia

10:00 Closing presentation:

Erki Õunap: Phylogeny and classification of Timandrini and related groups - preliminary results

10:15 Discussions

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00 Final discussions

11:30 FH Declaration on the Acceleration of Biodiversity Assessment

11:45 Date and venue of FH 2016/2017: Concepción, Chile

12:30-14:30 Lunch break

14:30 Transfer to Chemnitz

15:30-17:30 Visit to the museum in Chemnitz

18:00-21:00 Congress dinner in Chemnitz, Closure of Forum Herbulot 2014

Transfer to Annaberg-Buchholz

Friday, July 4, 2014

8:00: Transfer to Dresden

10:00 Visit to the museum, facultatively sightseeing Dresden centre

13:00 Ship tour on Elbe river, facultatively sightseeing Dresden centre

16:00 Transfer to Annaberg-Buchholz (those not attending the opera)

Evening (facultative for those having tickets): Opera (Il barbiere di Sevilla)

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Final transfers and departures

12:30-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-15:45: Afternoon plenary sessions: phylogeny/taxonomy of African and Asian geometrids (12'

talk, 3' discussion) (chair: C. Byrne)

14:30 Evgeny A. Beljaev: Molecular and morphological phylogenies in geometroid lepidopterans

(Insecta: Lepidoptera: Geometriformes) – discordant or concordant

14:45 Hossein Rajaei et al.: Molecular and morphological investigations suggest family level for the little

known Pseudobiston pinratanai Inoue, 1994

15:00 Pasi Sihvonen, Hermann S. Staude & M. Mutanen: Enigmatic cycad moths of Africa: a holistic

approach to examine their systematic position (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

15:15 Andrea Sciarretta, Axel Hausmann & Francesco Parisi: Recent advances on the knowledge of

Geometrid moths of Ethiopia

15:30 Claude Tautel: a complex diversity of taxa behind one species : Lophophelma luteipes Felder,

1875

15:45 Discussions

16:00-16:30 Coffee break