Yoshihito Hongo

 

Yoshihito Hongo

  

My scarab interests (including Lucanidae) are sexual selection, male-male combat, evolution of animal weaponry traits, evolution of morphological and behavioral polymorphism, and alternative mating tactics.



Yoshihito Hongo

Laboratory of Ethology, Department of Zoology

Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8502 JAPAN

 

E-MAIL: okinokoyoshihito@msd.biglobe.ne.jp

   
 

PUBLICATIONS:

1. Hongo, Y. (2003) Appraising behaviour during male-male interaction in the Japanese horned beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus septentrionalis (Kono). Behaviour 140: 501-517.

2. Hongo, Y. (2005) Diurnal activity of the Japanese stag beetle Prosopocoilus dissimilis okinawanus Nomura (Coleoptera, Lucanidae). Elytra 33: 245-257.

3. Hongo, Y. (2006) Bark carving behavior of the Japanese horned beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus septentrionalis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of Ethology 24: 201-204.

4. Hongo, Y. (2007) Evolution of male dimorphic allometry in a population of the Japanese horned beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus septentrionalis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 245-253.

5. Hongo, Y. & Kaneda, H. (2009) Field observation of predation by the Ural owl Strix uralensis upon the Japanese horned beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus septentrionalis. Journal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology 40: 90-95.

6. Hongo, Y. (2010) Does flight ability differ among male morphs of the Japanese horned beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus septentrionalis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)? Ethology Ecology and Evolution 22: 271-279.
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