Makoto Kato

Makoto Kato (born 1957), Japanese entomologist, and botanist.

Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

IPNI standard form: Mak.Kato

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

Kobayashi, C. & 2003. Sex-biased ectosymbiosis of a unique cirripede, Octolamis unguisiformis sp. nov., that resembles the chelipeds of its host crab, Macrophthalmus milloti. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, 83(5): 925–930. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315403008075h article access Reference page.

, Kawakita, A. & Kato, T. 2010. Colonization to aquifers and adaptations to subterranean interstitial life by a water beetle clade (Noteridae) with description of a new Phreatodytes species. Zoological Science 27(9): 717–722. DOI: 10.2108/zsj.27.717 . Reference page.

Nakase, Y. & 2013. A new species of the genus Tridactylophagus (Strepsiptera, Halictophagidae) from Kyoto, Japan. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 19(2): 227–230. Reference page.

Kawakita, A. & 2016. Revision of the Japanese species of Epicephala Meyrick with descriptions of seven new species (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae). ZooKeys 568: 87–118. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.568.6721.Reference page.

, Yamamori, L., Goto, R., Tsubaki, R. & Ohsuga, K. 2017. A new large tellinid species of the genus Pharaonella from the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan (Mollusca, Bivalvia). ZooKeys 705: 1—13. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.705.12888. Reference page.
Igawa, M., 2017. A new species of hermit crab, Diogenes heteropsammicola (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae), replaces a mutualistic sipunculan in a walking coral symbiosis. PLoS ONE. 12(9): e0184311. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184311 Reference page.

Imada, Y. & 2018. Descriptions of new species of Issikiomartyria (Lepidoptera, Micropterigidae) and a new genus Melinopteryx gen. n. with two new species from Japan. Zoosystematics and Evolution 94(2): 211–235. DOI: 10.3897/zse.94.13748. Reference page.

Yamamori, L. & 2020. Shift of feeding mode in an epizoic stalked barnacle inducing gall formation of host sea urchin. iScience, 23(3): 1–5. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.100885 Reference page.

, Yamamori, L. & Imada, Y. 2022. Diversity underfoot of agromyzids (Agromyzidae, Diptera) mining thalli of liverworts and hornworts. Zookeys 1133ː 1–164. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1133.94530 Reference page.
Kolcsár, L-P., Paramonov, N.M., Imada, Y., Kato, D., Gamboa, M., Shinoka, D., & Watanabe, K. 2022. Notes on the taxonomic status and distribution of some Cylindrotomidae (Diptera, Tipuloidea), with emphasis on Japanese species. ZooKeys 1083ː 13–88. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1083.75624 Reference page.

& Kawakita, A. 2023. Diversity and larval leaf-mining habits of Japanese jewel beetles of the tribe Tracheini (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Zookeys 1156ː 133–158. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1156.97768 Reference page.

& Imada, Y. 2025. Diversity and host plant utilization of leaf-mining beetles of Chrysomeloidea (Coleoptera) in Japan. ZooKeys 1238: 209–268. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1238.124514 . Reference page.
& Kawakita, A. 2025. Novel brood-site pollination mutualism between sympetalous Heterosmilax (Smilacaceae, Liliales) and a cecidomyiid gall midge (Cecidomyiidae, Diptera) breeding in fallen male flowers. ZooKeys 1234: 397–416. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1234.146453 Reference page.