Yushiro Miwa

Yushiro (Yūshirō) Miwa (1903-1999), Japanese entomologist. Specialist in Coleoptera, mainly on Lucanidae and Buprestidae, also Hydroscaphidae, Lymexylidae, Rhysodidae, Silphidae, Meloidae, Callirhipidae, Tenebrionidae.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Miwa, Y. 1927. Description of new species of Japanese Elateridae. Insecta Matsumurana 2: 12–22.
Miwa, Y. 1927. New and some rare species of Elateridae from the Japanese Empire. Insecta Matsumurana 2: 105–114.

Miwa, Y. 1928. New and some rare species of Elateridae from the Japanese Empire. Insecta Matsumurana 2: 131–146.
Miwa, Y. 1928. New and some rare species of Elateridae from the Japanese Empire. Insecta Matsumurana 3: 36–51.

Miwa, Y. 1929. On the Erotylidae of Japan, Formosa, Corea and Saghalien. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 19(101): 120–128.
Miwa, Y. 1929. Elateridae of Formosa. (Contribution to the fauna of Formosan Coleoptera). Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 19: 225–246.
Miwa, Y. 1929. The elaterid-fauna of Loo-Choo. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 19: 339–351.
Miwa, Y. 1929. On the elaterid species from Saghalien and Kuriles. Zoological Magazine 41: 441–454. Full text (Japanese)
Miwa, Y. 1929. Elateridae of Formosa (II). Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 19: 485–495.

Miwa, Y. 1931. A systematic catalogue of Formosan Coleoptera. Report of the Department of Agriculture Government Research Institute 55: 1–359. Reference page.
Miwa, Y. 1931. Elateridae of Formosa (V). Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 21: 72–98.
Miwa, Y. 1931. Supplementary notes on the elaterid-fauna of Loo-Choo (Coleoptera). Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 22: 259–261.
Miwa, Y. 1931. H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute (Elateridae II.) Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 47: 205–208. Full text PDF

Miwa, Y. 1933. An enumeration of Coleoptera from the Island Iriomote in Loochoo, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 23: 4–15.
Miwa, Y. 1933. Elateridae in the collection of the Entomological Laboratory, Kyushu Imperial University. Mushi 6: 66–73.

Miwa, Y. 1934. The fauna of Elateridae in the Japanese empire, by Yushiro Miwa. Report of the Department of Agriculture Government Research Institute 65: 1–289.

Miwa, Y. 1935. Coleoptera of Yonaguni Island. (Coleopteran fauna of Loo-Choo). Mushi 8: 37–38.
Miwa, Y. 1935. Descriptions of two new species of Lymexylonidae from Formosa. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 25: 456–458.

Miwa, Y. 1936. Coleoptera from Amami Islands in Loo-Choo archipelago. Transactions of the Kansai Entomological Society 6: 11–30.
Miwa, Y. & Chûjô, M. 1936. Catalogus Coleopterorum Japonicorum. Buprestidae. Taihoku, Formosa. Taiwan-Konshu-Kenkyusho, 26 + 8 pp index.
Miwa, Y. & Chûjô, M. 1936. Description of a new species of Formosan Languriidae (Col.). Transactions of the Kansai Entomological Society 26: 411–412.

Miwa, Y. & Chûjô, M. 1936. Descriptions of two new species of Japanese Languriidae (Coleoptera). Transactions of the Kansai Entomological Society 27: 7–10.

Miwa, Y. 1939. Description of a new species belonginging to the family Elateridae from Formosa. Transactions of the Kansai Entomological Society 29: 65–66.
Miwa, Y. & Chûjô, M. 1936. Description of a new species of Erotylidae from Formosa (Coleoptera). Mushi 12: 76–77.