Ogata, Kazuo

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Entomology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812 Japan

Professor: Crop Production Section, Director of the Institute of Tropical Agriculture E-Mail: kogata@arg.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Homepage: http://bbs1.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp/tropic/.

Phone: 092-642-3073 Academic Degree: Doctor of Agriculture Field of Specialization: Entomology

Research: -Taxonomy and biogeography of ants in tropical Asia -Biodiversity of tropical and subtropical areas - Higher agricultural education in Asian countries -Japanese ants color image database

Education: - Supervising graduate students in the field of tropical crops and environment

Social activity: -International Cooperation in the field of agriculture -Member of the Environmental Impact Assessment Committee of Kitakyushu

ANT TAXONOMY
Published primarily on the ants of Japan.

PUBLICATIONS

 * Hosoishi, S. & Ogata, K. 2000b. A taxonomic revision of the Asian endemic subgenus Physocrema of the genus Crematogaster. Zootaxa 2062: 15-36.


 * [[Media:Hosoishi-ogata-2009.pdf|Hosoishi, S. & Ogata, K. 2009a. The ant genus Crematogaster Lund, subgenus Physocrema Forel, in the Indochinese Peninsula. Asian Myrmecology 2 (2008): 1-10. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Hosoishi-ogata-2010.pdf|Hosoishi, S. & Ogata, K. 2010. On the identity of Crematogaster schimmeri Forel, 1912 and the distribution of subgenus Decacrema in Asia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Asian Myrmecology 3:1-3. PDF]]


 * Hosoishi, S. & Ogata, K. 2012. Revision of the Crematogaster brevis complex in Asia. Zootaxa 3349: 18-30.


 * Hosoishi, S., Yamane, S., & Ogata. 2010. An evaluation of infraspecific names in Crematogaster (Paracrema) modiglianii Emery, 1900 based on est series (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 14: 123-128.


 * Hosoishi, S., Yamane, S., & Ogata, K. 2010. Subterranean species of the ant genus Crematogaster in Asia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological Science 13, 345–350.


 * [[Media:Taylor et al 1991.pdf|Imai, H. T.; Taylor, R. W.; Kubota, M.; Ogata, K.; Wada, M. Y. 1991 [1990]. Notes on the remarkable karyology of the primitive ant Nothomyrmecia macrops, and of the related genus Myrmecia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 97: 133-140 PDF]]


 * Morisita, M.; Kubota, M.; Onoyama, K.; Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Yamauchi, K.; Sonobe, R.; Yamane, 1992. A guide for the identification of Japanese ants. III. Myrmicinae and supplement to Leptanillinae. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Tokyo: Myrmecological Society of Japan, 94 pp.


 * Ogata, K. 1982. Taxonomic study of the ant genus Pheidole Westwood of Japan, with a description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Kontyû 50: 189-197


 * Ogata, K. 1983b. The ant genus Cerapachys F. Smith of Japan, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Esakia 20: 131-137


 * Ogata, K. 1987a. A generic synopsis of the poneroid complex of the family Formicidae in Japan (Hymenoptera). Part 1. Subfamilies Ponerinae and Cerapachyinae. Esakia 25: 97-132


 * Ogata, K. 1990. A new species of the ant genus Epitritus Emery from Japan (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Esakia Spec. Issue 1: 197-199


 * Ogata, K. 1991a. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a review of the species groups and their phylogenetic relationships (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Syst. Entomol. 16: 353-381


 * Ogata, K. 1991b. A generic synopsis of the poneroid complex of the family Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Part II. Subfamily Myrmicinae. Bull. Inst. Trop. Agric. Kyushu Univ. 14: 61-149


 * [[Media:Ogata & Bolton 1989.pdf|Ogata, K.; Bolton, B. 1989. A taxonomic note on the ant Monomorium intrudens F. Smith (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Jpn. J. Entomol. 57: 459-460 PDF]]


 * Ogata, K.; Onoyama, K. 1998. A revision of the ant genus Smithistruma Brown of Japan, with descriptions of four new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomol. Sci. 1(2): 277-287


 * Ogata, K.; Taylor, R. W. 1991. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a preliminary review and key to the named species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). J. Nat. Hist. 2 25: 1623-1673


 * Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Masuko, K. 1995. The ant genus Leptanilla: discovery of the worker-associated male of L. japonica, and a description of a new species from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae). Syst. Entomol. 20: 27-34


 * Terayama, M.; Ogata, K. 1988. Two new species of the ant genus Probolomyrmex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Japan. Kontyû 56: 590-594


 * Yoshimura, M., Hosoishi, S., Kuboki, Y., Onoyama, K. & Ogata, K. 2009. New synonym and new Japanese record of the ant genus Ponera. Entomological Science 12: 194-201.


 * Yoshimura, M., Onoyama, K. & Ogata, K. 2007. The ants of the genus Odontomachus in Japan. Species Diversity 12: 89-112.