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Munetoshi Maruyama

Munetoshi Maruyama

Overview

Munetoshi Maruyama is affiliated with Kyushu University in Japan and conducts research primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields, notably Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Insect Science.

The scientist's research topics focus largely on Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution, Lepidoptera Biology and Taxonomy, as well as Fossil Insects in Amber. Additional recurring topics include Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant and Animal Studies, Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography, and Cerambycidae studies within Coleoptera.

Maruyama has published extensively, contributing to a diverse array of journals and publication venues. Frequent venues include:

  • Zootaxa
  • Acta entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ZooKeys

The most recent papers highlight varied aspects of entomology and insect ecology. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Diversification of myrmecophilous Clavigeritae beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) and their radiation in New Caledonia," 2021, Systematic Entomology
  • "A remarkable legion of guests: Diversity and host specificity of army ant symbionts," 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • "A new species of Zoraptera, Zorotypus komatsui sp. nov. from Cameroon and a redescription of Zorotypus vinsoni Paulian, 1951 (Polyneoptera, Zoraptera)," 2023, ZooKeys
  • "Army ant middens - Home and nursery of a diverse beetle fauna," 2023, Ecology and Evolution
  • "Revision of the intertidal rove beetle genus Bryothinusa from Japan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)," 2021, Acta entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae

The profile of coauthors frequently collaborating with Munetoshi Maruyama includes:

  • Showtaro Kakizoe
  • TAKUTO HASHIZUME
  • Shûhei Yamamoto
  • Tsubasa Nozaki
  • Joseph Parker

Best Publications

  • Revision of the Palearctic Species of the Myrmecophilous Genus Pella : Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae

    Munetoshi Maruyama

  • Discovery of the genus Lebioderus (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Paussinae) from China, with description of two new species.

    Xiao Bin Song;Munetoshi Maruyama;Zhong Peng

  • Evidence for social parasitism of early insect societies by Cretaceous rove beetles.

    Shûhei Yamamoto;Munetoshi Maruyama;Joseph Parker

  • Chemical and behavioral integration of army ant-associated rove beetles - a comparison between specialists and generalists.

    Christoph von Beeren;Christoph von Beeren;Adrian Brückner;Munetoshi Maruyama;Griffin Burke;Griffin Burke

  • Differential host defense against multiple parasites in ants

    Christoph von Beeren;Munetoshi Maruyama;Rosli Hashim;Volker Witte

  • A DNA and morphology based phylogenetic framework of the ant genus Lasius with hypotheses for the evolution of social parasitism and fungiculture.

    Munetoshi Maruyama;Florian M Steiner;Florian M Steiner;Christian Stauffer;Toshiharu Akino

  • Cryptic diversity, high host specificity and reproductive synchronization in army ant-associated Vatesus beetles.

    Christoph von Beeren;Munetoshi Maruyama;Daniel J. C. Kronauer

  • Myrmecophilous rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) associated with Aenictus hodgsoni (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Thailand, with description of two new genera and three new species.

    Munetoshi Maruyama;Takashi Komatsu;Yuji Katayama;Xiao Bin Song

  • The Ceratocanthinae of Ulu Gombak: high species richness at a single site, with descriptions of three new species and an annotated checklist of the Ceratocanthinae of Western Malaysia and Singapore (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Hybosoridae)

    Alberto Ballerio;Munetoshi Maruyama

  • Revision of the genus Tmesiphorus LeConte, 1849 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Japan.

    Shota Inoue;Munetoshi Maruyama;Shûhei Nomura

  • Behavioral differences between two ant cricket species in Nansei Islands: host-specialist versus host-generalist

    Takashi Komatsu;M. Maruyama;T. Itino

  • Two new species of Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) found in fungus gardens of Odontotermes termites (Isoptera, Termitidae, Macrotermitinae) in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand

    Taisuke Kanao;Munetoshi Maruyama;Watana Sakchoowong

  • Megasybacodes brevitarsis, a new genus and species of Rhyparini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) from Borneo.

    Showtaro Kakizoe;Munetoshi Maruyama;Kimio Masumoto

  • Community Sampling and Integrative Taxonomy Reveal New Species and Host Specificity in the Army Ant-Associated Beetle Genus Tetradonia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae).

    Christoph von Beeren;Christoph von Beeren;Munetoshi Maruyama;Daniel J. C. Kronauer

  • Food web structure of the fungivorous insect community on bracket fungi in a Bornean tropical rain forest

    Satoshi Yamashita;Kiyoshi Ando;Hideto Hoshina;Noboru Ito

  • Phylogeny of the rove beetle tribe Gymnusini sensu n. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae): implications for the early branching events of the subfamily

    Shûhei Yamamoto;Munetoshi Maruyama

  • Jubogaster towai, a new Neotropical genus and species of Trogastrini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) exhibiting myrmecophily and extreme body enlargement.

    Joseph Parker;Munetoshi Maruyama

  • Revision of the seashore-dwelling subgenera emplenota casey and triochara bernhauer (coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Genus aleochara) from Japan

    Shûhei Yamamoto;Munetoshi Maruyama

  • A remarkable legion of guests: Diversity and host specificity of army ant symbionts.

    Christoph von Beeren;Christoph von Beeren;Nico Blüthgen;Philipp O Hoenle;Sebastian Pohl

  • Canadian species of the Zyras group of genera and review of the types from America north of Mexico (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)

    Jan Klimaszewski;Georges Pelletier;Munetoshi Maruyama;Peter Hlaváč

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