Hystory of the Symposium

This meeting is organized by the International Committee of the International Coccidology Symposium (ICS) and cover all aspects of scale insect studies, including systematics and morphology, genetics and evolution, zoogeography and fauna, biology and population dynamics, natural enemies, monitoring and pest management.

The first International Coccidology Symposium, previously known as the International Symposium on Scale Insect Studies (ISSIS) until 2019, first met in 1972 in Canberra, Australia, during the 15th International Congress of Entomology (ICE) as an informal round-table discussion with 20 scientists from nine countries. It originally started at the suggestion of Prof. Michael Kosztarab and has now met fifteen times at about 3 (2‒4) years intervals in different parts of the world as follows:

 

1972 ISSIS I, Canberra, AUSTRALIA

1976 ISSIS II, Washington, D.C., USA

1980 ISSIS III, Kyoto, JAPAN

1983 ISSIS IV, Budapest, HUNGARY

1986 ISSIS V, Portici, ITALY

1990 ISSIS VI, Kraków, POLAND

1994 ISSIS VII, Bet-Dagan, ISRAEL

1996 ISSIS VIII, Wye, UK

2001 ISSIS IX, Padova, ITALY

2004 ISSIS X, Adana, TÜRKİYE

2007 ISSIS XI, Oeiras, PORTUGAL

2010 ISSIS XII, Chania, CRETE, GREECE

2013 ISSIS XIII, Sofia, BULGARIA

2016 ISSIS XIV, Catania, ITALY

2019 ISSIS XV, Zagreb, CROATIA

2023 ICS XVI, Tibilisi, GEORGIA