DOI:10.6662/TESFE.2018013 台灣昆蟲專刊 Formosan Entomol. 38. Special Issue. 1 Preface Formosan Entomologist Journal Homepage: entsocjournal.yabee.com.tw Preface This special issue of Formosan Entomologist years, this special issue of FE will update our (FE) is the result of an international symposium knowledges on gall-inducing arthropods and on gall-inducing arthropods held at the Huisun their associates. We believe that this issue of FE Experimental Forest Station, Nantou, Taiwan, along with other presentations made during the between the 3rd and 8th of March 2018. It was symposium will contribute to the development of organized as the 7th International Symposium on cecidological studies in future. Cecidology: Ecology and Evolution of Gall- We thank the International Union of Inducing Arthropods. The slogan of the Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO) symposium was Let’s Gall Taiwan. Pertinent working group, 7.03.02, Gall-Inducing Insects, information can be found in the weblinks: which has been working closely in holding this http://www.letsgall.tw, https://www.facebook. series of gall symposia, the Taiwan com/lets.gall/. It is close to 25 years since the first Entomological Society for accepting to publish symposium of this series was held in Siberia in this special issue in FE, National Chung Hsing 1993. A concise historical review of the previous University (NCHU) for supporting us variously symposia, including the presently referred in the organization and conduct of the seventh, is provided after this preface. symposium in March 2018, and several Although the previous symposia of this international colleagues for timely reviews of the series were known as ‘gall symposia’ in short, published manuscripts. We also acknowledge specific titles given to each of them varied. The our laboratory members and many Taiwanese word ‘Cecidology’ is introduced into the title of colleagues interested in and working on insect- the symposium for the first time, due to its induced galls for helping us organize the historical popularity of the term cecidology. This symposium and contributing to insect-induced special issue starts with Dr. Raman’s review of gall research of Taiwan. Special thanks to cecidology in the past one hundred years, Sheng-Feng Lin, Yi-Chang Liao, Yi-Ming Chao, followed by Dr. Yukawa’s methodological paper Yu-Chun Lin, and Hsuan Chang who assisted in depicting how good galls are useful to us in translating the English abstracts into Chinese. providing us with ecological information. The Finally we thank all the participants of the other five papers cover ecological, biodiversity, symposium for spirited contributions. invasive themes. A review of the book, Let’s Gall Taiwan—A Guide Book on Insect Galls published Man-Miao Yang in March 2018 during the symposium held at Gene-Sheng Tung Huisun Experimental Forest Station. Taiwan, December 2018 Since these symposia are held every four ~1~ DOI:10.6662/TESFE.2018014 台灣昆蟲專刊 Formosan Entomol. 38. Special Issue. 2-4 History of the Symposium Formosan Entomologist Journal Homepage: entsocjournal.yabee.com.tw History of the Gall Symposium Man-Miao Yang1*, Gene-Sheng Tung2 1 Department of Entomology, National Chung Hsing University, 145 Xinda Rd., Taichung 40227, Taiwan 2 Botanical Garden Division, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, COA. 67 Sanyuan St., Taipei 10079, Taiwan * Corresponding email: [email protected] The concept of an international gall- IUFRO at Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, with Yuri inducing arthropod symposium was developed Baranchikov and Peter Price as organizers, by William Mattson (USDA Forest Service and between the 9th and 13th of August of 1993. The Michigan State University, USA) and Yuri proceedings of the symposium were published as Baranchinkov (Siberian Branch of the Russian The Ecology and Evolution of Gall-Forming Academy of Sciences, Russia) in 1992. The Insects edited by Peter Price, William Mattson, meeting was organized under the guidelines of and Yuri Baranchikov (1994) by the United the International Union of Forestry Research States Department of Agriculture’s Forest Organizations (IUFRO). The first symposium, Service, North Central Forest Experiment entitled as “International Symposium on Gall- Station General Technical Report NC-174. This Forming Insects: Ecology, Physiology and publication includes 22 papers written by 45 Evolution of their Relationships with Host contributors. Treated themes include ecology Plants”, was held at the Sukachev Institute of and population dynamics, effects of the physical Forest and Wood, Siberian Branch of the environment on gall-inducing arthropods, Russian Academy of Sciences, with support from biodiversity and distribution, genetic variation ~2~ 台灣昆蟲專刊 Formosan Entomol. 38. Special Issue. 2-4 in host-plant resistance, and evolutionary organizers were Junichi Yukawa, Takayuki perspectives. These themes have prevailed in Ohgushi, and Kenichi Ozaki. The meeting subsequent meetings and a field excursion in included 30 oral presentations and 27 posters. exploring galls was included during the meeting. Following the tradition, a day of collecting Price and a few other participants at this excursion was organized during the meeting symposium took the Trans-Siberian train before period. The proceedings were published as a and after the symposium. Their travel turned book, the Galling Arthropods and their out to be an adventure which has left Associates: Ecology and Evolution edited by unforgettable experiences and indelible stories. Kenichi Ozaki, Junichi Yukawa, Takayuki The success of the first symposium Ohgushi, and Peter Price (2006) and published prompted future symposia in different nations. by Springer-Verlag, Tokyo. This publication The second symposium, entitled as “Biology of includes 26 papers written by 75 authors. Gall Inducing Arthropods”, was held in The 5th symposium, entitled as “Biology of Mátrafüred, Hungary, organized by György Gall-Inducing Arthropods”, was held in Serra do Csóka of the Hungarian Forest Research Cipó in Brazil from the 9th to the 14th of August Institute, from the 14th to the 19th of August of of 2009. The organizers were Wilson Fernandes, 1997. The meeting included 32 oral Peter Price, and Heikki Roininen. There were 66 presentations and 12 posters. Participants were presentations (31 oral presentations and 35 from around the world representing 20 countries: posters) by 52 participants in the event. The Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech studies focused on various themes and were Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, distributed among the sections of (1) Natural Hungary, Israel, Poland, Russia, Scotland, South History and Biology, (2) Host Relationships, (3) Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan and the USA. The Tri-Trophic interactions, (4) Spatial Ecology and proceedings of the symposium were published as Biodiversity, (5) Genetics and Molecular Biology, The Biology of Gall-Inducing Arthropods, edited (6) Phylogeny and Evolution, and (7) Current by György Csóka, William Mattson, Graham and Novel Issues. The country participants were Stone, and Peter Price (1998), as North Central from Brazil, Finland, United States, Australia, Research Station General Technical Report NC- Taiwan, Japan, Costa Rica, Mexico, England, 199 from the United States Department of Israel, Peru, and Canada. An award was created Agriculture Forest Service. The book “Plant galls” for the first time in the symposia series and the written by György Csóka, which was published right award was given to Peter Price in recognition of before the symposium, was given as a gift to the his outstanding work on galling studies and in participants. Like the first one, an excursion trip insect ecology in general. A field trip into the to the field for collecting was organized during cerrado vegetation of Serro do Cipó provided a the symposium which becomes a distinguishing great opportunity to this area with exceptionally feature of all the following symposia. high diversity of gall-inducing arthropods. No The third symposium, entitled as “Biology proceedings were published from this of Gall-Inducing Arthropods”, was held in symposium but all abstracts were distributed in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from the 15th to the a CD to all participants. 18th of January of 2002. The meeting was The next symposium, entitled as “the 6th organized by Schalk Louw, Jeanne Stoltz and International Symposium on the Biology and Jan Giliomee, which attracted 49 participants. A Ecology of Gall Inducing Arthropods and Related field trip to a conservation area of Fynbos Endophytes”, was held in O’Reilly’s Rainforest vegetation near Hermanus on the south coast, Retreat, Queensland, Australia, from the 4th to east of Cape Town occurred. No publication the 8th of August 2013. The organizers were resulted from this meeting. Robin Adair, Gary Taylor, Anneke Veenstra, and The fourth symposium, entitled as Peter Kolesik. There were 10 sessions with about “Biodiversity of Galling Arthropods and Their 50 oral presentations plus 22 posters. The award Associates”, was held in Kyoto, Japan from the for significance in gall study was given to Wilson 5th to the 9th of September of 2005. The Fernandes. Following the tradition, an excursion ~3~ 台灣昆蟲專刊 Formosan Entomol. 38. Special Issue. 2-4 trip was included and the first time for the outstanding research in gall midges and life symposia series, a workshop on the gall midges history strategies of gall-inducing insects. A of mango tree was held during this symposium. workshop on the invasive