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)

• 3 taxon names authored by Yushiro Miwa

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1927

• 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.

1928

• 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.

1929

• 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.

1930

• Miwa, Y. 1930. Elateridae of Formosa (III). Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 20: 1–12.
• Miwa, Y. 1930. Elateridae of Formosa (IV). Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 20: 57–68.

1931

• 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

1933

• 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.

1934

• 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.

1935

• 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.

1936

• 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.

1937

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

1939

• 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.

1943

• Miwa Y. & Mitono T. 1943. [Scaphidiidae of Japan and Formosa]. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 33: 512–555.