Kôji Sasakawa

Kôji Sasakawa, Japanese coleopterist

  • Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Science Education, Faculty of Education, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

  • 22 taxon names authored by Kôji Sasakawa

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2008

2009

  • 2009a. Pterostichus macrogenys Bates (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and Its Allied Species of Northern Japan: Descriptions of Seven Additional Species and Possible Evidence Supporting Species Status. Zoological Studies 48(2): 262-269. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2016

  • 2016. Two new species of the ground beetle subgenus Sadonebria Ledoux & Roux, 2005 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Nebria) from Japan and first description of larvae of the subgenus. ZooKeys 578: 97-113. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.578.7424. Open access. Reference page. 

2017

2018

  • & Itô, H. 2018. Taxonomic notes on the ground beetles in the genus Trephionus Bates, 1883 from central Honshu, Japan (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Sphodrini, Synuchina). ZooKeys 742: 91–104. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.742.23752. Reference page. 

2020

  • 2020. Taxonomic studies of the ground beetle subgenus Falcinebria Ledoux & Roux, 2005 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Nebria) from Honshû, Japan. ZooKeys 902: 37-60. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.902.46531. Open access. Reference page. 
  • , Berlov, O. & Okuzaki, Y. 2020. Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in three species of Pterostichus Bonelli (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from the Far East. Zootaxa 4822(3): 416–424. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4822.3.6 Paywall Reference page. 
  • , Mitsuduka, Y. & Itô, H. 2020. Unexpected Species Identities and Interspecific Relationships in a Subterranean Beetle Lineage, the Pterostichus macrogenys Species Group (Coleoptera, Carabidae), Revealed by Fine-Scale Field Sampling and Detailed Morphological Comparisons. Insects 11: 1-16. DOI: 10.3390/insects11110803. Open access. Reference page. 

2022

2023

  • 2023. A New and Little-Known Species of the Ground Beetle Genus Nebria Subgenus Falcinebria Ledoux and Roux, 2005 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Japan. Taxonomy 3(4): 551–558. DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy3040031 Open access. Reference page.