Yûsuke N. Minoshima

Yûsuke N. Minoshima, Japanese entomologist.

Natural History Division, Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History & Human History, 2-4-1 Higashida, Yahatahigashi-ku, Kitakyushu- shi, Fukuoka, 805-0071 Japan.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Minoshima, Y; Fujiwara, J. 2009. Discovery of the water scavenger beetle genus Megagraphydrus Hansen (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from Japan, with description of a new species. Elytra, 37(1): 53-64.
Minoshima, Y. 2009. First record of the hygropetric genus Oocyclus Sharp (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) from Laos, with description of a new species. Zootaxa (2192): 45-55. doi:10.5281/zenodo.189408. Reference Page.

Minoshima, Y., Hayashi, M., Kobayashi, N. & Yoshitomi, H. 2010. Horelophopsis larvae? The unknown larvae collected with Horelophopsis hanseni Satô et Yoshitomi (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Horelophopsinae). Pp. 328–329. in Fikáček, M., Skuhrovec, J. & Šípek, P. (eds.). Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2009, October 1–2, Prague, Czech Republic. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50(1): 323–342. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Minoshima, Y. & Hayashi, M. 2012. The first instar larva of Hydrobius pauper Sharp (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae). Elytra (n.s.) 2(2): 279–284. PDF Reference page.
Minoshima, Y., Iwata, Y. & Hayashi, M. 2012. Morphology of the immature stages of Hydrochara libera (Sharp) (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae). Elytra (n.s.) 2(2): 285–302. PDF Reference page.

Fikáček, M., Minoshima, Y., Vondráček, D., Gunter, N. & Leschen, R.A.B. 2013. Morphology of adults and larvae and integrative taxonomy of southern hemisphere genera Tormus and Afrotormus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53(1): 75–126. PDF Reference page.
Minoshima, Y., Hayashi, M., Kobayashi, N. & Yoshitomi, H. 2013. Larval morphology and phylogenetic position of Horelophopsis hanseni Satô et Yoshitomi (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Horelophopsinae). Systematic Entomology 38(4): 708–722. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12025 Reference page.

The identity of the Japanese species of the genus Paracymus Thomson (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae). Elytra (n.s.), 4(1): 143-149. 2014.
Fikáček, M; Minoshima, Y; Newton, A. 2014. A review of Andotypus and Austrotypus gen. nov., rygmodine genera with an austral disjunction (Hydrophilidae: Rygmodinae). Annales Zoologici, 64(4): 557-596. doi:10.3161/000345414X685893. Reference Page

Minoshima, Y.N., Komarek, A. & Ôhara, M. 2015. A revision of Megagraphydrus Hansen (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): synonymization with Agraphydrus Régimbart and description of seven new species. Zootaxa 3930(1): 1–63. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3930.1.1. Reference page.

Devi, M.B., Devi, O.S., Fikáček, M., Minoshima, Y.N. & Wanghengbam, L. 2016. Redescription and lectotype designation of Chasmogenus abnormalis (Sharp), with notes on its distribution. Zootaxa 4144(2): 296–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.2.12. Reference page.
Jia, F-L., Tang, Y-D. & Minoshima, Y.N. 2016. Description of three new species of Crenitis Bedel from China, with additional faunistic records for the genus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Chaetarthriinae). Zootaxa 4208(6): 561–576. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.6.4. Reference page.
Minoshima, Y. 2016. Taxonomic review of Agraphydrus from Japan (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Acidocerinae). Entomological Science, 19(4): 36. doi:10.1111/ens.12213.

Minoshima, Y.N., Iwata, Y., Fikáček, M. & Hayashi, M. 2017. Description of immature stages of Laccobius kunashiricus, with a key to genera of the Laccobiini based on larval characters (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57(1): 97-119. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Minoshima, Y.N. 2019. First known larva of omicrine genus Psalitrus d’Orchymont (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 66: 107–118. DOI: 10.3897/dez.66.34300 Reference page.

Mai, Z.Q., Hu, J., Minoshima, Y.N., Jia, F.L. & Fikáček, M. 2022. Review of Dactylosternum Wollaston, 1854 from China and Japan (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae). Zootaxa 5091(2): 269–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5091.2.3. . Reference page.