Usun Shimizu‐kaya

Shimane University — Japan

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

7h-index144citations32works0.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Plant and animal studies(21), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior(14), Insect and Pesticide Research(8), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy(6), Plant Parasitism and Resistance(6)

Publications32 total

Interspecific Difference in Response to Change in Ant-Defense Intensity during Tree Growth among Three Leaf-Chewing Lepidopteran Species on a Myrmecophyte Species, Macaranga bancana
Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society·2024
Decrease in the number of symbiotic ant workers on leaves of a myrmecophyte, <i> </i><i>Macaranga bancana</i>, during its growth
Tropics·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
A checklist of showy mistletoe (Santalales, Loranthaceae) of Lambir Hills National Park in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
Tropics·2024Open Access
Food habits of 3 myrmecophilous bug species on myrmecophytic<i>Macaranga</i>(Malpighiales: Euphorbiaceae) vary from herbivory to predation
Journal of Insect Science·2023Open Access
Evidence in stable isotope ratios for lichen‐feeding by Lithosiini moths from a tropical rainforest but not from a temperate forest
Entomological Science·2022· 2 cited
Effects of host tree size on the species richness and abundance of epiphyte assemblages in a Bornean lowland tropical forest
Tropics·2022· 5 citedOpen Access
Difference in leaf herbivory between two plant-ant taxa associating with amyrmecophytic species, Macaranga lamellata
Asian Myrmecology·2021
A new species of actinodaphne (Lauraceae), A. Lambirensis from Sarawak, Malaysia, and an analysis of its phylogenetic position using mig-seq and its sequences
Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica·2021· 4 cited
Floristic Composition of Vascular Epiphytes in Lambir Hills National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia in Borneo
Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kyoto University)·2020· 2 citedOpen Access
Observation of the eggs of parachute gecko, genus Ptychozoon (Squamata: Gekkonidae), on an epiphytic fern growing in the forest canopy
Herpetology notes·2019Open Access
A new genus and a new species of Schizomyiina (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Asphondyliini) inducing petiole galls on Macaranga bancana (Miq.) in Borneo, Malaysia
Zootaxa·2018· 16 cited
Differences in the fruit maturation stages at which oviposition occurs among insect seed predators feeding on the fruits of five dipterocarp tree species
Entomological Science·2018· 14 cited
High degree of polyphagy in a seed-eating bark beetle, &lt;i&gt;Coccotrypes gedeanus&lt;/i&gt; (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), during a community-wide fruiting event in a Bornean tropical rainforest
Tropics·2018· 1 citedOpen Access
A new genus and a new species of Schizomyiina (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Asphondyliini) inducing petiole galls on Macaranga bancana (Miq.) in Borneo, Malaysia
Global Biodiversity Information Facility·2018Open Access
Increased seed predation in the second fruiting event during an exceptionally long period of community‐level masting in Borneo
Ecological Research·2017· 17 cited
A new genus and species of the picture-winged moth from Borneo, with morphology and biology of the immature stages (Lepidoptera, Thyrididae)
Lepidoptera Science·2017
Reduced ant defenses in <i>Macaranga</i> myrmecophytes (Euphorbiaceae) infested with a winged phasmid <i>Orthomeria cuprinus</i>
Ecological Research·2016· 2 cited
Chemical ecology of ant-plant dwellers and interactions with the ants
Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kyoto University)·2016Open Access
The population dynamics and biodiversity of insect seed predators in tropical rainforests of Sarawak
Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kyoto University)·2016Open Access
Additional species and records of the “horn-backed” Pilophorus plant bugs in Southeast Asia (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae)
Tijdschrift voor Entomologie·2016
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Frequent Co-authors

Takao Itioka(30), Paulus Meleng(13), Yoko Inui(7), Asano Iku(7), Tadahiro Okubo(6), Shouhei Ueda(5), Keiko Kishimoto‐Yamada(4), Takao Itino(4), Natsuki Komada(4), Shuichiro Tagane(4), Mohamad Yazid Hossman(3), Fujio Hyodo(3), Hasumi Kawagoe(3), Melvin Gumal(3), Fatimah Bte Mohammad(2), Azimah Bunyok(2), Mohd Yusuf Abd Rahman(2), Shoko Sakai(2), Ayman Khamis Elsayed(2), Junichi Yukawa(2)