Yoshitake Hiraku

ヨシタケヒラク | Yoshitake Hiraku

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Senior Researcher

Research field (1)： Biodiversity and systematics

Research keywords (3)： Plant protection , Insect inventory , Insect systematics

Research theme for competitive and other funds (7)：

2013 - 2017 Evolutionary and phylogeographic studies of Fagus ecosystems
2013 - 2017 Development of molecular-based identification systems for multi-species predator-prey systems in agro-forest ecosystems
2010 - 2014 Studiy of adaptiogenesis with expansion of distribution of invasive alian species from Japan
2010 - 2012 Evolutionary analysis of insect groups feeding the plant species group with disjunct distribution between East Asia and eastern North America
2010 - 2012 Study on the evolution of obligatory cecidophagy as an example of an indirect host utilization through food sources induced by a third organism

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Papers (203)：

OSADA, Yohei, YOSHITAKE, Hiraku. Moths collected in March 2021 from the Miyako Islands, Okinawa Pref., Japan. (In Japanese, with English title & summary.). Japan Heterocerists’ Journal. 2022. 301. 15-21
OSADA, Yohei, YOSHITAKE, Hiraku. Moths collected in October 2020 from Iheya-jima Is., Okinawa Pref., Japan. (In Japanese, with English title & summary.). Japan Heterocerists’ Journal. 2022. 300. 695-697
WATANABE, Kohei, YOSHITAKE, Hiraku. Distribution records of aquatic Coleoptera from Iheya-jima Island, the Ryukyus, Japan. Elytra, New Series. 2021. 11. 2. 311-314
SHIGETOH, Hiroaki, YOSHITAKE, Hiraku. Additional records of Ivalia variabilis Takemoto et Suenaga (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) from Okinawa-jima Is., the central Ryukyus, southwestern Japan. Elytra, New Series. 2021. 11. 2. 336-336
SHIGETOH, Hiroaki, YOSHITAKE, Hiraku. Diachus auratus (Fabricius) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae) new for Ikei-jima Is., Sesoko-jima Is., and Aguni-jima Is. in the Okinawa Isls., central Ryukyus, southwestern Japan. Elytra, New Series. 2021. 11. 2. 374-374

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MISC (138)：

TSUJI Naomichi, YOSHITAKE Hiraku, ITO Reo. [A record of Metapocyrtus (Trachycyrtus) adspersus (Waterhouse, 1843) from Zamamijima Island, the Kerama Islands.] (In Japanese.). Sayabane, New Series. 2024. 54. 23-24
YOSHITAKE Hiraku, FUJIKAWA Hiroaki. [Metapocyrtus (Trachycyrtus) yonagunianus collected from Sesokojima Island, the Okinawa Islands.] (In Japanese.). Gekkan-Mushi. 2024. 642. 48-48
YOSHITAKE Hiraku, NAKAMURA Ryo. [Records of two beetles collected in winter from Narashino City.] (In Japanese.). Boso-no-konchu. 2024. 74. 86-87
YOSHITAKE Hiraku, NAKAHARA Naoko, KOHAMA Tsuguo. [Distribution record of Delta esuriens on Heianzajima Island in the Okinawa Islands.] (In Japanese.). Gekkan-Mushi. 2024. 641. 51-51
YOSHITAKE Hiraku, SEKI Ryota, KOJIMA Hiroaki, ONUMA Takafumi, KAGIYAMA Tomomi. Occurrence of Metapocyrtus (Trachycyrtus) adspersus (Waterhouse) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) on Ishigakijima Island, the Ryukyus, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana. 2024. 69. 15-18

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Books (4)：

Beetles of Okinawa (MATSUMURA, Masafumi;KUSUI, Yoshihisa;KOHAMA, Tsuguo;SASAKI Takeshi;AOYAGI, Masaru,;YOSHITAKE, Hiraku)
Okinawa Jiji Publishing Co. 2022
An Illustrated Guide to Identify Insects
Bunkyo Publishing Co. 2013
身近な自然の保全生態学生物多様性を知る(根本正之編著)
培風館 2010
[Distribution of Insects of Miyagi Prefecture 9: Stag beetles of Miyagi Prefecture.] (In Japanese.)
1993

Lectures and oral presentations (110)：

General remarks on Pachyrhynchini jewel weevils.
(A monthly meeting of the Okinawa Entomological Society, Nishihara. - November 2019. 2019)
ネナシカズラ属植物とマダラケシツブゾウムシの間の寄主-寄生関係の再検討.
(第21回自然系調査研究機関連絡会議 2018)
Towards the establishment of methods for identifying Japanese populations of the sweetpotato weevil.
(The 96th Meeting of the Association for Plant Protection of Kyushu 2018)
ミソハギ科水田雑草とチビゾウムシ類の寄主-寄生の対応関係.
(自然史しずおか祭 2018)
Notes on some Lytheraceae weeds in paddy rice fields and Nanophyes weevils (Coleoptera, Nanophyidae) associated with them.
(The 57th Annual Meeting of the Weed Science Society of Japan 2018)

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Education (3)：

2002 - 2005 Kyushu University The doctor's course, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences
2000 - 2002 Kyushu University The master's course, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences
1996 - 2000 Tokyo University of Agriculture Faculty of Agriculture Department of Agriculture

Professional career (1)：

Ph.D (Kyushu University)

Work history (11)：

2024/07 - 現在 Institute for Plant Protection, NARO Division of Core Technology for Pest Control, Transboundary and High-risk Pest Control Group (Insect taxonomy) Senior Researcher
2022/07 - 2024/06 National Agriculture and Food Research Organization Senior Researcher
2021/04 - 2022/07 Institute for Plant Protection, NARO Division of Core Technology for Pest Control, Transboundary and High-risk Pest Control Group (Insect taxonomy) Senior Researcher
2018/10 - 2021/03 Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, NARO Division of Agro-Environment Research, Tropical Crop Protection Group (Itoman) Senior Researcher
2018/04 - 2018/09 Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, NARO Division of Agro-Environment Research, Tropical Crop Protection Group (Itoman) Senior Researcher

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Committee career (5)：

2019/01 - 2022/12 The Coleopterological Society of Japan Editor-in-chief of the journal Elytra, New Series
2018/09 - 2022/12 日本甲虫学会将来問題検討委員
2019/10 - 2019/11 G20首席農業研究者会議越境性病害虫ワークショップRPW (Red Palm Weevil)ディスカッショングループファシリテーター
2017/01 - 2018/12 日本甲虫学会欧文誌編集幹事
2002/06 - 2014/03 日本ゾウムシ情報ネットワークニュースレター編集担当

Awards (6)：

2020/12 - The Coleopterological Society of Japan Best Paper Award A taxonomic study of the Gasterocercini genus Orochlesis Pascoe (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Cryptorhynchinae) in Japan. Elytra, New Series, 10(1): 65-103.
2016/10 - The Lepidopterological Society of Japan Best Poster Award at the 63th Annual Meeting of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan. [Publication of "A list of specimens of Geometridae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) of Dr. Hiroshi Inoue preserved in the National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences".] (In Japanese.)
2011/04 - Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Japanese Government The 2011 MEXT Prize for Science and Technology (Learning Enhancement Category) [Promoting understanding of agriculture and nature using insect specimens related to agriculture.]
2010/03 - The Ecological Society of Japan Best Paper Award, The 57th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, Komaba, Tokyo.. [Effects of differences in cultivation management in paddy fields on the habitat of insects and arachnids.]
2008/12 - The Society for the Study of Species Biology Best Poster Award, The 40th Symposium of the Society for the Study of Species Biology [Geographical variation in flower color of Geranium thunbergii and flower color preference of its parasitic weevil.]

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Association Membership(s) (7)：

THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN , JAPANESE SOCIETY OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY , THE COLEOPTERISTS SOCIETY , JAPANESE SOCIETY OF SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY , THE COLEOPTEROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN , Mito Insect Association , Okinawa Entomological Society

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