Masato ITO

Birth: 14 January 1990

Age: 27

Doctor of Agriculture

 

2017 Oct.~

 

work in the private company

 

E-mail address:

fixsenia[at]hotmail.co.jp

 

INTERESTS

Taxonomy of the Ichneumonid wasps (especially the subfamily Acaenitinae).

Molecular phylogenetics of the Ichneumonid wasps.

Host identify from adult wasp using the genetic analisis.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

13 Masato ITO & Kaoru MAETO (2017) Revision of the genus Spilopteron Townes (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Acaenitinae) from Japan.

European Journal of Taxonomy356: 1-33.

 

12) Masato ITO & Kaoru MAETO (2016) Two species of the genus Yezoceryx (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Acaenitinae) new to Japan.

Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology22: 37–38.

 

11) Masato ITO & Kaoru MAETO (2016) Revision of Ishigakia Uchida (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Acaenitinae) from Japan, with a new species having a close relative in South Africa.

Zootaxa, 4136: 174–180.

 

10) Masato ITO, Takumi OSHIO, Kyohei WATANABE & Hironobu HANDA (2015) Sphecid wasp larvae feeding on large-sized cockroaches in a dead wood cavity.

Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 46: 173-177.

 

 

9) Masato ITO, Kyohei WATANABE & Kaoru MAETO (2015) Molecular evidence resolving the confusion of two ichneumonid species of Spilopteron (Hymenoptera) caused by marked geographical colour variation.

European Journal of Entomology112 (3): 543-556.

 

 

8) Masato ITO & Kaoru MAETO (2015) Two species of the genus Coleocentrus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Acaenitinae) New to Japan.

Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology21(1): 87-89. 

 

7)  Kyohei WATANABE, Daichi FUNAMOTO, Masato ITO & Kaoru MAETO (2015) A horntail parasitoid, Schlettererius cinctipes (Hymenoptera, Stephanidae, Schlettereriinae), new to Japan.

Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology20(2): 91-93. 

 

6) Masato ITO & Kaoru MAETO (2015) Revision of the genus Jezarotes Uchida (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Acaenitinae), with the description of a new species from Laos.

Zootaxa, 3946 (3): 416–426.

 

 

5) Masato ITO & Kaoru MAETO (2014) Phaenolobus koreanus Uchida (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Acaenitinae) new to Japan.

 

Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology20(2): 353-355. 

4) Masato ITO, Kyohei WATANABE & Kaoru MAETO (2014) Revision of the genus Arotes Gravenhorst (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Acaenitinae) from Japan.

Zootaxa. (in press)

 

3) Masato Ito & Kaoru Maeto (2014) Revision of the Genus Yamatarotes Uchida (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Acaenitinae) from Japan. Based on Molphological and Molecular Evidence.

Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology, 20(1): 107-113.  

 

2) Masato Ito, Kyohei Watanabe & Kaoru Maeto (2013) A Review of Metachorischizus unicolor Uchida, 1928, with the First Description of Males (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Acaenitinae).
Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology, 19(1): 181-185.  

 

1) Masato Ito, Kyohei Watanabe & Kaoru Maeto (2012)  

Spilopteron luteum Uchida and S. mucronatus Lee (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Acaenitinae) New to Japan.

Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology, 18(2): 443-446. 

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

1) ○Masato ITO, Kyohei WATANABE & Kaoru MAETO. 

Molecular evidence resolves the confusion involving two ichneumonid species of Spilopteron (Hymenoptera) caused by marked geographical color variation.

8th International Congress of Hymenopterists, Cusco, Peru (20-25 July 2014).