Information about training programme

• Title of training: Morphology and morphological evolution in the Oribatida (Acari)
• Description of project: Morphology: definition of the Acari; main parts of the body and their components (prodorsum, notogaster, podosoma, lateral characters, ventral part of the opisthosoma, gnathosoma); legs.

Phylogeny: segmentation of the body; definition of the suborders; ontophylogenetic diagrams; pilose origin of the chelicerae; anarthry, stenarthry, diarthry; paraproctal atrichosy; trichobothridic regressions; regression by companion effect.

• Duration of training: 2 weeks

Type of training

1. Practical experiences
• Techniques: preparation in lactic acid
• Identification of some soil oribatid mites
• Morphological study
2. Lectures
• Study of the endosternum in a ptychoid species
• Closing of genital and anal valves in Higher Oribatida

Contact information of mentor / supervisor

• Name of mentor / supervisor: Dr Georges Wauthy
• Institution / Organisation: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
• EDIT partner number: 13
• Unit / Department / Laboratory: Insects and Arachnomorphs Section
• Address: Rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Bruxelles

Target audience: PhD students and early career researchers.