2025e
2025e
Vol. 77 - published on 5th October 2025
Arai, S. & T. Matsuta, 2025. A record of Amphipyra okinawensis Sugi, 1982 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae) from a tree cavity, an endemic species of Yanbaru. Fauna Ryukyuana, 76: 1–4. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure captions]
Kojima, H. & K. Hosaka, 2025. Occurrence of Oedophrys sakaguchii (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) from the Yaeyama Islands in the southern Ryukyus, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 77: 5–7. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure captions].
Ito, S., 2025. A new distributional record of Isoscelipteron pectinatum (Navás, 1905) from the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 77: 23–32. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure captions]
Arai, S., K. Eda & T. Matsuta, 2025. Record of Condica dolorosa (Walker, 1865) from Okinawajima Island with the first confirmed observation of the larval stage in Japan, and the removal of the record from Miyakojima Island. Fauna Ryukyuana, 77: 13–15. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure captions]
Hanaoka, T., T. Sanda, I. Tanita & M. Kodama, 2025. First record of Elasmopus nkjaf Nakamura, Nakano, Ota & Tomikawa, 2019 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Maeridae) from Ishigaki Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 77: 17–23.
Nakasone, K., 2025. First record of Gecarcoidea lalandii from Oujima Island, Kumejima Town. Fauna Ryukyuana, 77: 25–26. [in Japanese, with English figure captions]
Nakamura, J., Y. Sakurai & H. Motomura, 2025. First records of the Palemargin Grouper Epinephelus bontoides (Teleostei: Epinephelidae) from Okinawa and Shizuoka prefectures, Japan, with the northernmost record from the Izu Peninsula. Fauna Ryukyuana, 77: 27–31. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure captions]
Koreeda R., & H. Motomura, 2025. First record of Cristatogobius nonatoae from Okinawa Island, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 77: 33–40. [In English abstract and figure captions]
Fuke, Y., K. Uchiwa, N. Inui & T. Maruyama, 2025. Updated distribution of Macrobrachium grandimanus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with new records from the Amami Islands in Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 77: 41–45. [In English abstract and figure captions]
Komatsu, T., H. Umeda, H. Fujikawa, R. Tanahara, K. Hatano & K. Aoi, 2025. Distributional records of Scarabaeoidea (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Edateku-jima Island, Amami Islands, Ryukyu archipelago, southwestern Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 77: 47–61. [In English abstract and figure captions]
Wachi, N., T. Kohama & M. Osada, 2025. A new distributional record of Anthrax aygulus Fabricius, 1805 (Diptera, Bombyliidae) and additional records of Anthrax koshunensis Matsumura, 1916 from the Yaeyama Islands, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 77: 63–66. [In English abstract and figure captions]
Iwano, T., 2025. Record of Danarma eurymerus (Davie & Ng, 2013) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from Okinawa Island, representing the new record from Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 77: 67–69. [In English abstract and figure captions]
Sasaki, T., Y. Tamaki & M. Masashi, 2025. First record of Sandracottus hunteri (Crotch, 1872) from Okinawa-jima Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 77: 71–74. [In English abstract and figure captions]Vol. 76 - published on 14th August 2025
Yamauchi, T. & N. Komatsu, 2025. New record of Rhabdoblatta guttigera (Blattodea: Blaberidae) from Kuchinoerabu-jima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 76: 1–2. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure captions]
Matsushima, Y., S. Shiraki & A. Tsuyuki, 2025. Records of small crustaceans of the suborder Apseudomorpha and superfamily Anthuroidea (Arthropoda: Peracarida: Tanaidacea, Isopoda) and marine flatworms of the order Polycladida (Platyhelminthes) from Kikaijima Island, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 76: 3–21.
Muguruma, K. & T. Yoshino, 2025. First record of the ornate eagle ray, Aetomylaeus vespertilio (Bleeker), collected from Okinawa Island, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 76: 23–32. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure captions]
Yanagisawa, S. & S. Ohgita, 2025. Additional record of Nocticola uenoi miyakoensis Asahina, 1974 from Miyako-jima Island, Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 76: 33–36. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure captions]
Yanagisawa, S. & M. Iwata, 2025. Additional records of Centrocolumna okinoerabuensis (Asahina, 1974). Fauna Ryukyuana, 76: 33–36. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure captions]
Udaka, T & R. Miyata, 2025. New distributional record of Blattella biligata (Walker, 1868) (Blattodea: Blattellidae) from Ishigaki–jima Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, southwestern Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 76: 41–44. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure captions]
Aoyagi, M., 2025. Observation record of the Ryukyu Flycatcher Ficedula owstoni from Onna Village, Okinawa-jima Island, the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 76: 45–47. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure captions]
Vol. 75 - published on 23rd July 2025
Imahara, Y., F. Iwase & M. Nonaka, 2025. List of scientific and Japanese names of octocorals (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 75: 1–84 [in Japanese, with English abstract]
Vol. 74 - published on 25th April 2025
Kato, M. & K. Watanabe, 2025. Records of eight aquatic insect species collected from Zamami–jima Island, the Ryukyus, Japan, including six new records (Hemiptera and Coleoptera). Fauna Ryukyuana, 74: 1–6 [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure captions]
Vol. 73 - published on 22nd April 2025
Murao, R. & K. Uemori, 2025. Andrena omogensis Hirashima, 1953 (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae) newly recorded from Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 73: 1–3. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure captions]
Sawada, A. & T. Ishikawa, 2025. First Japanese record of Tetrarthria variegata Dallas, 1851 (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae) from Hateruma-jima Island, Yaeyama Islands. Fauna Ryukyuana, 73: 5–7. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure caption]
Maruta, Y. 2025. An additional Blue-and-white Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelana record from Hateruma-jima Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 73: 9–10. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure caption]
Nishimura, Y., 2025. Distributional record of Gecarcoidea lalandii (Gecarcinidae) from Aguni Island for the first time and from Okinawa Islands, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 73: 11–12. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure captions]
Haga, S. & H. Kojima, 2025. A new record of Hypera (Hypera) postica (Gyllenhal) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from Ishigaki-jima Island, the Ryukyu Islands, Japan: Extracted from the stomach contents of two anuran species, Fejervarya sakishimensis Matsui, Toda & Ota and Rhinella marina (Linnaeus) (Amphibia). Fauna Ryukyuana, 73: 13–15. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure captions]
Vol. 72 - published on 5th March 2025
Takagi, R., S. Kanao, K. Tone, H. Sato & Y.A. Yamakawa, 2025. The first record of a domestic invasive species Opsariichthys platypus in the Hija River, Okinawa Island. Fauna Ryukyuana, 72: 1–13.[in Japanese, with English figure caption]
Vol. 71 - published on 20th January 2025
Nakamura, Y., Y. Higa & T. Sasaki, 2025. New records of Pfeffer's Reed Snake Calamaria pfefferi from Kurimajima and Shimojijima, and field surveys of the species in the Miyako Islands. Fauna Ryukyuana, 71: 1–5. [in Japanese, with English figure caption]
Wachi, N. & T. Kohama, 2025. Records of Atractomorpha lata (Motschoulsky, 1866) (Orthoptera, Pyrgomorphidae) from Okinawajima Island for the first time in 12 years and verification of several observational records by the citizen science community. Fauna Ryukyuana, 71: 7–13. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure caption]
Aiso, T., M. Kato & T. Mitamura, 2025. New distributional records of Microvelia morimotoi Miyamoto, 1964 and Microvelia kyushuensis Esaki & Miyamoto, 1955 (Hemiptera; Veliidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 71: 15–19. [in Japanese, with English abstract and figure caption]
Koshikawa, R. & M. Kanda, 2025. The first record of Anisops elstoni Brooks, 1951 (Hemiptera; Notonectidae) from Iriomote Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 71: 21–23. [in Japanese, with English abstract]