98 Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44(2012) Diversa suchaspublicationoftheproceedingsandpaymentof membershipfees.Newelectionsofcouncilmembers took place (two new council members: Sara Good- acre and WolfgangNentwig) and two new honorary members(YaelLubin, RudyJocque)wereproposed. Furthermore the 28th European Congress ofArach- nologywas announced. Itwill takeplace in summer 2014 in Torino, Italy, organised by Marco Isaia and his team. Special thanks go to the organizing committee and the scientific and program committee. They did a wonderfuljob and made sure thatwe were able to witness a harmonious, interesting and informative week. Finally we would like to thank the sponsors. Withouttheirsupport, therealisationofthecongress Three opilionologists (left to right: Plamen Mitov, Christoph would nothave beenpossible. Muster,GregorWächter) 1st prize: Urska Pristovsek, 2nd prize: Hsien-Chun Eileen GABEL, JuliaAnnedoreMAEDER Liao, 3rdprize: Klaas Welke. 8c SusanneMEESE ThemeetingwasclosedbytheGeneralAssembly DepartmentofGeneralandSystematicZoology, UniversityofGreifswald,Germany ofthe ESAmembers. Several issues were discussed, E-Mail:[email protected],[email protected], [email protected] 19th International Congress ofArachnology doi:10.5431/aramit4418 The 19th International Congress of Arachnology (ICA2013)willbeheldattheHowardBeachResort, Renting National Park, at the subtropical southern tip ofTaiwan, fromJune 23 to June 28, 2013. It is the first ICA to be held in Asia. The meeting will be organized and hosted by an Asian Organizing Committee ofAffiliates ofthe International Society ofArachnology. Asian and International Keynote speakers and avarietyoftopical sessions (taxonomy, systematics,behaviour,physiology,ecology,biodiver- sity) and additional symposia (genus Nephila, spider silk, urbanization and arachnid diversity, systematic andbiogeographysymposiumofnonaranenoids)have beenorganized.Inaddition,therewillbeopportuni- tiesforcollectingarachnidsandexcursionsorganized forparticipants.Theprogramisnotfinalized,sopar- ticipants maypropose additional symposia, or direct generalinquiries, to the Organizing Committee; see the Symposium website (http://araneae.thu.edu.tw/ ica2013/welcome) ore-mail [email protected]. I-MinTSO