Hirotaka Tanaka

Hirotaka Tanaka, Japanese entomologist.

• Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ryukyus, Senbaru, Nishihara, Okinawa, 903-0213 Japan. Email: coccoidea@gmail.com

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• 1 taxon names authored by Hirotaka Tanaka

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• & Amano, H. 2004. Two New Species of Pulvinaria (Homoptera, Coccidae) from Japan. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 10(2): 265–270.

• & Amano, H. 2005. Newsteadia yanbaruensis, a New Species from Okinawa Is., Japan (Hemiptera, Ortheziidae). Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 11(2): 283–286.

• , Amano, H. & Uesato, T. 2006. A New Record of Pulvinaria urbicola Cockerell, 1893 (Hemiptera, Coccidae) from Japan. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 12(2): 177–181.

• & Amano, H. 2007. First records of the subfamily Ortheziolinae (Hemiptera: Ortheziidae) in Japan, with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 1516: 31–37. Reference page. 

• 2008. A New Genus of Pulvinariini (Hemiptera, Coccidae) from Japan. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 14(2): 165–170.

• & Tsuji, K. 2009. A New Record of Lindingaspis ferrisi McKenzie, 1950 (Hemiptera, Diaspididae) from Japan. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 15(1): 291–294.

• & Kikuchi, T. 2010. New Distribution Record of Acropyga kinomurai (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) and Its Mutualist Mealybug, Eumyrmococcus kinomurai (Hemiptera, Pseudococcidae). Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 16(2): 191–193.
• 2010. A New Species of the Genus Parlatoria (Hemiptera, Diaspididae) from Japan. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 16(2): 179–183.

• 2012. A New Record of Saissetia miranda (Hemiptera, Coccoidea, Coccidae) from Japan. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 18(1): 15–16.

• Yamada, S.; Tanaka, H. 2013: Two interstitial species of the genus Semicytherura (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Japan, with notes on their microhabitats. Zootaxa 3745(4): 435–448. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3745.4.2 Reference page. 

• 2015. Redescription of Pulvinaria nishigaharae (Kuwana, 1907) (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae). Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 21(1): 13–16.
• Szita, E., Kaydan, M.B., Benedicty, Z.K., , Fetykó, K. & Kozár, F. 2015. The genus Arctorthezia Cockerell (Hemiptera, Ortheziidae) with the description of a new species. [[ISSN 1313-2989|ZooKeys]] 472: 59–75.
• & Kondo, T. 2015. Description of a new soft scale insect of the genus Pulvinaria Targioni Tozzetti (Hemiptera, Coccoidea, Coccidae) from Bogota, Colombia. ZooKeys 484: 111–120.
• Szita, É., Kaydan, M.B., Benedicty, Z.K., , Fetykó, K. & Kozár, F. 2015. The genus Arctorthezia Cockerell (Hemiptera, Ortheziidae) with the description of a new species. ZooKeys 472: 59–75. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.472.8928 Reference page. 

• Chatzidimitriou, E., Simonato, M., Watson, G.W., Martinez-Sañudo, I., , Zhao, J. & Pellizzari, G. 2016. Are Phenacoccus solani Ferris and P. defectus Ferris (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) distinct species? Zootaxa 4093(4): 539–551. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.4.5.Reference page. 
• 2016. A new genus and species of Rhizoecidae (Hemiptera, Sternorryncha, Coccomorpha) associated with Acropyga yaeyamensis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae). ZooKeys 616: 115-124. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.616.9442. Reference page. 

• Lin, Y-P., , Kondo, T. & Cook, L.G. 2017. A newly recognised species that has been confused with the global polyphagous pest scale insect, Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae). Zootaxa 4320(3): 571–591. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4320.3.10. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• 2018. First records of the genus Pelionella Kaydan, 2015 in East Asia, with description of a new species (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha, Pseudococcidae). ZooKeys 738: 47–58. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.738.13277. Reference page. 

• 2020. Redescriptions of three species of Pulvinaria (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) in Japan. Zootaxa 4779(1): 131–141. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.1.10 Reference page. 
• & Kamitani, S. 2020. Review of the Pulvinaria (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) species of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Zootaxa 4868(3): 408–422. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4868.3.5 Reference page. 

• , Suetsugu, K. & Kamitani, S. 2021. A parasitic insect on a parasitic plant: a new species of the genus Formicoccus Takahashi (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha, Pseudococcidae) from Ishigaki Island, Japan. ZooKeys 1060ː 171–182. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1060.71652 Reference page. 

• , Choi, J. & Kamitani, S. 2025. Taxonomic review of three species of the genus Pseudococcus Westwood, 1840 (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) found in Okinawa Island, Japan, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 5637(3): 579–593. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.6 Reference page.