著者

酒向 貴子 川田 伸一郎 手塚 牧人 上杉 哲郎 明仁

出版者

国立科学博物館

雑誌

Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology = 国立科学博物館研究報告. A類, 動物学 (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.34, no.2, pp.63-75, 2008-06

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The distribution of latrines of the raccoon dog, Nyctereutes procyonoides, was examined from July 2006 to December 2007 in the Imperial Palace grounds, Tokyo, Japan. The raccoon dog is accustomed to defecate at fixed locations, forming holding latrines; thus the distribution of latrines is a good indicator of their abundance. The results suggest that the latrines are widely scattered in the study site, but are more dense in the Fukiage area, where an old-growth broad-leaved forest is established. The latrine sites are used more frequently from September to December, as the number of fresh feces increased in the autumnal season. To examine the seasonal food changes of the raccoon dogs, 10 pieces of feces from some latrines were collected every month and analyzed the indigestible contents in the sampled feces. The food items identified consisted of animal, plant and man-made materials, suggesting that the raccoon dogs were highly omnivorous. The animal materials found from the feces included mammals (4% of total feces), birds (37%), reptiles (2%), amphibians (3%), insects (95%), chilopods (56%), isopods (2%) and gastropods (12%). Invertebrates were the most abundand food item throughout the year. Three coleopteran families, the Carabidae, Staphylinidae and Scarabaeidae, accounted for a large proportion of the insects and they showed seasonal fluctuations. These suggest that the raccoon dogs fed on them as major animal food resources in the study site, and perhaps the seasonality is related to the temporal changes of availability of the insects. The majority of plant materials found in the feces was a variety of seeds, suggesting that the raccoon dogs fed on berries and fleshy fruits throughout the year. The occurrence of seeds decreased from March to April, which coincided with a low availability of fruits. The seeds found in feces were categorized into three types : (1) the short-term berry type including Prunus (Cerasus) spp., Moms spp., Rubus hirsutus and Machilus thunbergii, which occurred only a short term after their fruiting periods ; (2) the long-term berry type, including Celtis sinensis, Aphananthe aspera and Swida controversa, which occurred continuously for three or more months after the fruiting periods ; (3) the acorn type, including Castanopsis spp., Quercus spp. and Ginkgo biloba, which occurred in early spring (January to April) when the other fruits are scarce. The seasonal change of the three fruit types implies that the raccoon dogs consume the available fruits in relation to the successive fruiting periods. The proportion of artificial materials found in the feces was considerably lower than in previous studies carried out in the suburbs of Tokyo, suggesting that the raccoon dogs in the study site strongly depend on natural foods. Most of the natural food items were native to Japan since the past Edo period. Thus we conclude that the preservation of biodiversity in the Imperial Palace grounds was essential for the re-colonization by the raccoon dogs of the Tokyo metropolitan area after the 1970s.

著者

秋篠宮 悠仁 飯島 健 清 拓哉

出版者

独立行政法人 国立科学博物館

雑誌

国立科学博物館研究報告A類(動物学) (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.49, no.4, pp.129-153, 2023-11-22 (Released:2023-11-22)

参考文献数

13

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Faunal survey of dragonflies and damselflies in the Akasaka Imperial Garden, Tokyo, was conducted during 2012 to 2022, and recorded a total amount of 38 species including some species possibly occasionally came from outside (e.g. Anotogaster sieboldii). Previous study from 2002 to 2004 by Saitô et al., (2005) reported 24 Odonata species from the garden. In comparative with this record, additional 16 species are newly recorded by our survey but two species were not re-observed. Almost all the recorded species are lentic ones. It would be caused by the scarcity of lotic environment in the garden. A total of 12 threatened species ranked in the red list concerned with the biota of Tokyo (Natural Environment Division, Bureau of Environment, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, 2023) is found. This result could be one of rationales for the continued preservation of the Akasaka Imperial Garden, one of precious urban greens in the Tokyo metropolitan area.

著者

川田 伸一郎 小森日 菜子 郡司 芽久

出版者

独立行政法人 国立科学博物館

雑誌

国立科学博物館研究報告A類(動物学) (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.49, no.2, pp.81-95, 2023-05-22 (Released:2023-05-22)

参考文献数

32

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Information on specimens of the giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis, dating from the Meiji era in Japan, is reviewed based on a literature survey. The first giraffe specimen was a mounted skin imported by Yoshio Tanaka, obtained at the Centennial World Exposition in Philadelphia, USA. This specimen was exhibited at the Imperial Museum in Tokyo until 1910. It was subsequently moved to the Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School (presently Ochanomizu University), and then lost. We found several photographs and drawings estimated to be of this specimen in popular magazines and digital archives of the museums. The first live giraffes in Japan were a pair provided by German animal dealer, Carl Hagenbeck, to Ueno Zoo in 1907. This female and male pair of giraffes died the following year, and their skins and skeletons were preserved and mounted. Our survey also found several reports about these two individuals after their deaths in several popular magazines, books, and newspapers. This paper presents a summary of the events clarified to date, including these specimens’ condition, and discusses them in the context of the history of Japanese museums.

著者

小森 日菜子 小林 さやか 川田 伸一郎

出版者

独立行政法人 国立科学博物館

雑誌

国立科学博物館研究報告A類(動物学) (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.50, no.1, pp.33-48, 2024-02-22 (Released:2024-02-22)

参考文献数

65

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A mounted skin of unknown species belonging to genus Canis deposited in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (NSMT) is certificated morphologically and bibliographically. The specimen label is described as ‘a kind of Yamainu’ and M831 of the Tokyo Imperial Household Museum collection, while the specimen catalog says that M831 was derived from an individual kept at Ueno Zoo and that it was disposed of after. This specimen seemed to be confused with another one. So, we examined the morphological characteristics of this specimen and traced the history of Canis sp. specimens of the Tokyo Imperial Household Museum collection and Canis sp. kept at Ueno Zoo. As a result, measurements of this mounted skin were reasonable to be within the range of specimens previously identified as Japanese wolves. We confirmed that this specimen is correctly labeled as M831. This specimen M831 was considered to be one of two wolves that arrived at Ueno Zoo from Iwate Prefecture, Japan, in 1888. Therefore, it is thought that this specimen is a Japanese wolf. This study may have revealed a new Japanese wolf skin specimen that had previously been overlooked.

著者

嶋津 武

出版者

国立科学博物館

雑誌

Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.33, no.1, pp.1-30, 2007-03

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Examination of digeneans (Trematoda) parasitizing freshwater fishes collected in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, revealed that 22 species including two new species occur in this prefecture. Sanguinicola ugui sp. nov. (Sanguinicolidae) is described from the blood vessels of Tribolodon hakonensis (Gunther) (Cyprinidae). Azygia rhinogobii sp. nov. (Azygiidae) is described from the stomach of Rhinogobius sp. (Gobiidae, type host) and Gymnogobius urotaenia (Hilgendorf) (Gobiidae), and the intestine of T. hakonensis. Phyllodistomum anguilae Long and Wai, 1958, P. mogurndae Yamaguti, 1934, P. parasiluri Yamaguti, 1934 (Gorgoderidae), and Pseudexorchis major (Hasegawa, 1935) Yamaguti, 1938 (Heterophyidae) are redescribed. The generic diagnosis of the genus Pseudexorchis Yamaguti, 1938 is amended in part. New host and locality records are provided for 20 known species. An outline of the life cycle of Asymphylodora macrostoma Ozaki, 1925 (Lissorchiidae) is given. A furcocystocerous cercaria, probably the cercarial stage of A. rhinogobii sp. nov., is briefly described from Sinotaia quadrata histrica (Gould) (Gastropoda, Viviparidae).

著者

Takao Naitô

出版者

National Museum of Nature and Sciece

雑誌

国立科学博物館研究報告A類(動物学) (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.48, no.3, pp.119-138, 2022-08-22 (Released:2022-08-22)

参考文献数

30

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A group of eyeless trechini ground beetles’ genera distributed in western Japan, the Rakantrechus Complex, is reviewed, and a key to this Complex and a key to its component genera are provided. A new species of the genus Nipponaphaenops S. Uéno, 1971, N. kojii sp. nov. is described under the new subgenus Tanakaphaenops subgen. nov. Additionally, new taxonomic treatment Rakantrechus (Iyotrechus) hisamatsui (S. Uéno et Naitô, 2009) comb. nov. is proposed. Keys to the subgenera of Rakantrechus and Nipponaphaenops are provided. Revised definition of the genus Nipponaphaenops is proposed.

著者

Akihito Sako Takako Teduka Makito Kawada Shin-ichiro

出版者

National Museum of Nature and Science

雑誌

Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.42, no.3, pp.143-161, 2016-08

著者

Hiroshi Namikawa Mariko Kawamura

出版者

National Museum of Nature and Sciece

雑誌

国立科学博物館研究報告A類(動物学) (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.47, no.4, pp.157-161, 2021-11-22 (Released:2021-11-22)

参考文献数

4

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The polyps of Koellikerina bouilloni Kawamura and Kubota, 2005 were discovered growing on the shell of the gastropod Nassarius festivus (Powys, 1835) collected from Isozaki, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan. This hydrozoan species was so far known only from the medusae collected in Tanabe Bay, Wakayama, Japan (type locality) and Papua New Guinea. The discovery of the polyp and the rearing of the medusae permitted us to complement the description of this species.

著者

Kyoji Fujiwara Toshiyuki Suzuki Hiroyuki Motomura

出版者

National Museum of Nature and Sciece

雑誌

国立科学博物館研究報告A類(動物学) (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.48, no.4, pp.229-233, 2022-11-22 (Released:2022-11-22)

参考文献数

8

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A single specimen (14.9 mm in standard length) of Trimma panemorfum Winterbottom and Pyle, 2022, a species recently described on the basis of three specimens from deep coral reefs off Palau, was collected from Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan. A description of the Japanese specimen, the first Japanese record of T. panemorfum, is provided, and the new standard Japanese name “Kosumosu-benihaze” proposed for the species.

著者

川田 伸一郎 下稲葉 さやか 平田 逸俊

出版者

独立行政法人 国立科学博物館

雑誌

国立科学博物館研究報告A類(動物学) (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.48, no.2, pp.97-118, 2022-05-20 (Released:2022-05-20)

参考文献数

62

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Rokuro Nagasawa was a student in University of Tokyo under Professor Isao Ijima. He was involved in editing a zoological magazine named “Dobutsugaku Zasshi”, then the official journal of the Zoological Society of Tokyo, but his subsequent life is not well documented. We conducted bibliographic surveys to evaluate Nagasawa’s achievements. He entered the University of Tokyo in 1907 and was in charge of editing “Dobutsugaku Zasshi” from 1911 to 1917. After that, he suddenly disappeared from the Zoological Society of Tokyo and moved to Vancouver, where he worked as an editor-in-chief of Japanese newspapers. He wrote many newspaper articles under the pen name of “Nanbokusei”. Prior to moving to Canada, he also wrote under the pen name of “N.S. Sei”. He returned to Japan before World War II, and worked as a high school teacher in Kyoto. He then moved to Hyogo prefecture and wrote and edited the local history of the area.

著者

Akihiko Shinohara Yu Kato

出版者

独立行政法人 国立科学博物館

雑誌

国立科学博物館研究報告A類(動物学) (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.49, no.4, pp.155-159, 2023-11-22 (Released:2023-11-22)

参考文献数

11

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Based on the material obtained in Kôshû City, Yamanashi Prefecture, Honshu, observations on the oviposition and results of the rearing experiments of Pamphilius benesi Shinohara, 1985, are presented, the life history of this sawfly is outlined, and the immature stages and the larval leaf-rolls are briefly described and illustrated.

著者

Tadasu K. Yamada Tint Tun Nyo-Nyo Tun Yin Yin Toke Deliver Htwe Mu Mu Aung Yuko Tajima

出版者

National Museum of Nature and Sciece

雑誌

国立科学博物館研究報告A類(動物学) (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.48, no.4, pp.235-247, 2022-11-22 (Released:2022-11-22)

参考文献数

39

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Balaenopterid whale specimens preserved in several institutions totaling 19 were examined. Specimens identified to species level were 14, i.e. 3 Balaenoptera musculus, 6 B. edeni, and 5 B. omurai. The remaining 5 specimens were not identified. The existence of B. omurai from Myanmar waters was confirmed based on the morphological characters of the skull and the first rib. This article is the first confirmation of this species in Myanmar. Among the two already “confirmed” species, B. musculus was identified by Smith et al. (1997) based on the actual specimen in the Natural History Museum, however for B. edeni, the specimens we examined were not observed for species identification and no preceding work reported the existence of B. edeni, except for the type specimen collected in Mon state in 1871 and now preserved in the Indian Museum, Kolkata (Anderson, 1879).

著者

Morino Hiroshi Miyamoto Hisashi

出版者

National Museum of Nature and Science

雑誌

Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.41, no.1, pp.1-13, 2015-02

著者

Morino Hiroshi Miyamoto Hisashi

出版者

National Museum of Nature and Science

雑誌

Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.41, no.2, pp.105-121, 2015-05

著者

Masatsune Takeda Hironori Komatsu

出版者

独立行政法人 国立科学博物館

雑誌

国立科学博物館研究報告A類(動物学) (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.49, no.4, pp.161-178, 2023-11-22 (Released:2023-11-22)

参考文献数

92

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The known crab species of the Ogasawara (= Bonin) Islands, Tokyo, Japan, are updated, with the literature and localities concerned. In Table 1 are the definitely identified 314 species from the three island groups, Muko-jima (= Keetaa I.), Chichi-jima (= Peel I.) and Haha-jima (= Coffin I.) Groups, and also, 35 species from the southernmost Iwo-jima (= Sulhur I.) Group, and two solitary islands, Nishino-shima (= Rosario) Island and Okino-Torishima (= Parece Veta) Island are listed in Table 2. Otherwise, in Table 3, the deep-sea 10 species reported from the seamounts off the Ogasawara Islands are listed. Eight of 35 species (in Table 2) and 4 of 10 species (in Table 3) are unrecorded from three main island groups, and thus a total of 326 species are known from the sea around the Ogasawara Islands.

著者

Hideho Hara Shinichi Ibuki Akihiko Shinohara

出版者

National Museum of Nature and Sciece

雑誌

国立科学博物館研究報告A類(動物学) (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.49, no.2, pp.57-74, 2023-05-22 (Released:2023-05-22)

参考文献数

46

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Nematus yokohamensis (Konow, 1895) is redescribed. Pristiphora geniculata (Hartig, 1840) is recorded from Japan (Hokkaido and Honshu) for the first time. New distribution records within Japan are Nematus yokohamensis from Kyushu and Pristiphora conjugata (Dahlbom, 1835) from Hokkaido. New host plant records are given for Abia fasciata (Linné, 1758), Athalia yanoi Takeuchi, 1952, Macrophya fascipennis Takeuchi, 1933, M. katayamai Shinohara, 2020, M. timida Smith, 1874, Mesoneura shishikuensis Togashi, 1965, Nematus japonicus (Takeuchi, 1921), N. yokohamensis, Perineura okutanii Takeuchi, 1959, P. pictipennis Takeuchi, 1959, Pristiphora geniculata, Profenusa thomsoni (Konow, 1886) and Taxonus japonicus Takeuchi, 1929. Additional information on the larval food plant is given for Nesoselandria morio (Fabricius, 1781). The larvae of Fagineura glabella Hara, 2022, Macrophya fascipennis, M. katayamai, M. timida, Mesoneura shishikuensis, Nematus yokohamensis, Perineura okutanii, P. pictipennis and Taxonus japonicus are figured and briefly described for the first time.

著者

Masatsune Takeda Shane T. Ahyong Naoya Ohtsuchi Hironori Komatsu

出版者

National Museum of Nature and Sciece

雑誌

国立科学博物館研究報告A類(動物学) (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.48, no.4, pp.147-191, 2022-11-22 (Released:2022-11-22)

参考文献数

165

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The crabs collected by the RV Hakuhō Maru (KH-72-1 cruise) in the South China Sea are recorded as the fourth part following the previous three parts of the series (Sulu Sea and Sibutu Passage, Timor Sea, and Sahul Shelf). They are mostly shallow water inhabitants, representing 35 species of 31 genera in 13 families, with two new species of the family Epialtidae, Naxioides elongatus sp. nov. and Samadinia hakuhoae sp. nov. Taxonomic comments are given for each species. In this fourth and final part, biogeographic notes on all the species collected by RV Hakuhō Maru (KH-72-1 cruise) are briefly summarized, together with a list of the crabs collected by the RV Hakuhō Maru (KH-73-2 cruise) in the South China Sea.

著者

Hiroshi Namikawa

出版者

National Museum of Nature and Sciece

雑誌

国立科学博物館研究報告A類(動物学) (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.48, no.1, pp.1-4, 2022-02-22 (Released:2022-02-22)

参考文献数

9

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In addition to polyps of the anthoathecate hydroid Koellikerina bouilloni previously reported exclusively on old, eroded shells of live gastropods (Nassarius festivus) in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, the polyps of three additional epizoic anthoathecate hydroid species (Dicoryne conybearei, Stylactaria misakiensis and Leuckartiara sp.) were found on similar condition N. festivus shells in different localities in Japan. Because polyps of these hydroid species were not found on fresh shells, it is suggested that N. festivus could avoid colonization by the hydroids whilst occupying fresh shells, but not older eroded ones, the latter therefore providing a suitable substrate for the hydroid polyps.

著者

Akihiko Shinohara Akihiko Watanabe

出版者

National Museum of Nature and Sciece

雑誌

国立科学博物館研究報告A類(動物学) (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.48, no.1, pp.25-27, 2022-02-22 (Released:2022-02-22)

参考文献数

5

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A collection record of Cephalcia antennata Shinohara, 1994, from Ochiai-toge, Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, is given. This is the second specimen of the species ever known and represents the first distribution record from Shikoku. Corrections are made to the description and key by Shinohara (1994, 2020).

著者

Hideho Hara Shinichi Ibuki Akihiko Shinohara

出版者

National Museum of Nature and Sciece

雑誌

国立科学博物館研究報告A類(動物学) (ISSN:18819052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.47, no.4, pp.163-188, 2021-11-22 (Released:2021-11-22)

参考文献数

76

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Two larch sawflies, Euura imperfecta (Zaddach, 1876) and E. itoi (Okutani, 1955) (Tenthredinidae), are redescribed. New distribution records are: Arge similis (Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1860) (Argidae) from Amami-Oshima Island and Phylloecus etorofensis (Takeuchi, 1955) (Cephidae), Apareophora nebuta Togashi, 1964, Ardis pallipes (Serville, 1823), Eriocampopsis subtruncata Takeuchi, 1952, Eutomostethus pumicosus Seiyama, 1981, Stethomostus babai Togashi, 1984 and Tomostethus nigritus (Fabricius, 1804) (Tenthredinidae) from Hokkaido. Information on the distribution of Phymatocera nipponica Togashi, 1958 (Tenthredinidae) is given. New host records are Rosa multiflora Thunb. (Rosaceae) for Sterictiphora nipponica Takeuchi, 1939 (Argidae), Alnus japonica (Thunb.) Steud. (Betulaceae) and Juglans mandshurica Maxim. var. sachalinensis (Komatsu) Kitam. (Juglandaceae) for Tremex apicalis Matsumura, 1912 (Siricidae), Actinidia polygama (Siebold et Zucc.) Planch. ex Maxim. (Actinidiaceae), Symplocarpus renifolius Schott ex Tzvelev. (Araceae) and Impatiens textorii Miq. (Balsaminaceae) for Aglaostigma albicinctum (Takeuchi, 1953) (Tenthredinidae), Sanguisorba officinalis L. (Rosaceae) for Allantus meridionalis (Takeuchi, 1933) (Tenthredinidae), Quercus serrata Murray (Fagaceae) for Apethymus kunugi Togashi, 2005 (Tenthredinidae), Sanguisorba officinalis L. (Rosaceae) for Corymbas nipponica Takeuchi, 1936 (Tenthredinidae), Alnus hirsuta (Spach) Turcz. ex Rupr. var. hirsuta (Betulaceae) for Masaakia longivaginata Takeuchi, 1950 (Tenthredinidae), Rubus hirsutus Thunb. (Rosaceae) for Metallus albipes (Cameron, 1875) (Tenthredinidae), Rubus microphyllus L.f. (Rosaceae) for Metallus pumilus (Klug, 1816) (Tenthredinidae), Rubus parvifolius L. (Rosaceae) for Monophadnoides montanus Togashi, 1980 (Tenthredinidae) and Corylus sieboldiana Blume var. sieboldiana (Betulaceae) for Pristiphora fulviceps Takeuchi, 1933 (Tenthredinidae), Actinidia polygama (Siebold et Zucc.) Planch. ex Maxim. (Actinidiaceae) and Glechoma hederacea L. subsp. grandis (A. Gray) H. Hara (Lamiaceae) for Siobla ferox (Smith, 1874) (Tenthredinidae), Impatiens textorii Miq. (Balsaminaceae) and Circaea mollis Siebold et Zucc. (Onagraceae) for Siobla japonica Shinohara, Wei & Niu, 2013 (Tenthredinidae) and Agrimonia pilosa Ledeb. var. japonica (Miq.) Nakai (Rosaceae) for Taxonus shinoharai Togashi, 2009 (Tenthredinidae). Information on the host plants of Strongylogaster moiwana Matsumura, 1912 (Tenthredinidae) is given. The larvae of Sterictiphora nipponica, Aglaostigma albicinctum, Allantus meridionalis, Apethymus kunugi, Corymbas nipponica, Masaakia longivaginata, Monophadnoides montanus, Siobla ferox, Siobla japonica, Strongylogaster moiwana and Taxonus shinoharai are briefly described and their color photographs are given for the first time.