Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists

Keiichi Masuko

 

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

 

ANT TAXONOMY

 

PUBLICATIONS

Masuko, K. 1987. Leptanilla japonica: the first bionomic information on the enigmatic ant subfamily Leptanillae. Proceedings of the 10th. International Congress of IUSSI, Munich (1986): 597-598. [(31.xii).1987.]

Masuko, K. 1990a. Behavior and ecology of the enigmatic ant Leptanilla japonica Baroni Urbani. Insectes Sociaux 37: 31-57. [(31).iii.1990.]

Masuko, K. 1990b. The instars of the ant Amblyopone silvestrii. Sociobiology 17: 221-244. [1990.]

Masuko, K. 1993. Predation of centipedes by the primitive ant Amblyopone silvestrii. Bulletin of the Association of Natural Science, Senshu 24: 35-44. [(31.xii).1993.]

Masuko, K.; Terayama, M. 2002. Behavioral notes and redescription of the socially parasitic ant Myrmica luteola (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 110: 224-233

Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Masuko, K. 1995. The ant genus Leptanilla: discovery of the worker-associated male of L. japonica, and a description of a new species from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae). Syst. Entomol. 20: 27-34

REFERENCE

Bolton B, Alpert G, Ward PS, Naskrecki P. 2007. [CD-ROM] Bolton's Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press.