Masaya Yago

Masaya Yago, Entomologist, Japan

• The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 7 taxon names authored by Masaya Yago

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2000

• Yago, M., Saigusa, T. & Nakanishi, A. 2000. Rediscovery of Heliophorus yunnani D'Abrera and Its Systematic Position with Intrageneric Relationship in the Genus Heliophorus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Entomological Science 3(1) : 81-100. PDF. Reference page. 

2002

• Yago, M., Saigusa, T. & Nakanishi, A. 2002. A Revision of the Heliophorus kohimensis Group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) (Systematics, Morphology and Evolution). Entomological Science 5(3): 375-388. Abstract and full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Yago, M,, 2002. Comparative morphology and identification of the subgenus Kulua, with description of a new species from Vietnam (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Heliophorus). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 145 (2): 145-171. Reference page. 

2003

• Yago, M. & Nakanishi, A. 2003. A new species of Heliophorus Geyer from Nepal, with a key to the Nepalese species: (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 108(1): 27-34. Reference page. 

2004

• Yago, M., 2004. A new species of Horaga Moore (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Lycaeninae, Theclini) with a key to the species of the sub-tribe Horagina. Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan. 55(1): 13-25, PDF. Reference page. 
• Morita, S. & Yago, M., 2004. A new subspecies of Poritia hewitsoni Moore from Langkawi and its surrounding islands, Malaysia (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Futao 47: 16–19. Reference page. 

2010

• Morita, S. & Yago, M., 2010: Two new subspecies of Poritia erycinoides (C. & R. Felder) from Anambas Isls., Indonesia, and Langkawi Is., Malaysia (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Futao 56: 17–19. Reference page. 

2011

• Larsen, T.B., Yago, M., Vane-Wright, R.I., Williams, M., Ueda, K. & Yokochi, T. 2011. Case 3503. Papilio hesperus Westwood, 1843 (Insecta, Lepidoptera, PAPILIONIDAE): proposed conservation by the suppression of Papilio hesperus Fabricius, 1793 (NYMPHALIDAE). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 68(3): 190–196. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v68i3.a12 . ResearchGate Reference page. 

2015

• Zhuang, H-L., Yago, M. & Wang, M. 2015. Theclini butterflies from Weixi, China, with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Zootaxa 3985(1): 142–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3985.1.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

2017

• Zhuang, H-L., Yago, M., Owada, M. & Wang, M. 2017. Taxonomic review of the moth family Thyatiridae (Lepidoptera) from Yunnan province, China. Zootaxa 4306(4): 451–477. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.4.1. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

2018

• Toussaint, E.F.A., Breinholt, J.W., Earl, C., Warren, A.D., Brower, A.V.Z., Yago, M., Dexter, K.M., Espeland, M., Pierce, N.E., Lohman, D.J. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. Anchored phylogenomics illuminates the skipper butterfly tree of life. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18: 101. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1216-z Reference page. 

2019

• Huang, Z.F., Chiba, H., Guo, D., Yago, M., Braby, M.F., Wang, M. & Fan, X.L. 2019. Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of Parnara butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 139: 106545. PDF. Reference page. 
• Toussaint, E.F.A., Vila, R., Yago, M., Chiba, H., Warren, A.D., Aduse-Poku, K., Storer, C., Dexter, K.M., Maruyama, K., Lohman, D.J. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2019. Out of the Orient: Post-Tethyan transoceanic and trans-Arabian routes fostered the spread of Baorini skippers in the Afrotropics. Systematic Entomology 44(4): 926–938. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12365 Reference page. 

2020

• Ma, L., Zhang, Y., Lohman, D., Wahlberg, N., Ma, F.Z., Nylin, S., Janz, N., Yago, M., Aduse-Poku, K., Peggie, D., Wang, M., Zhang, P. & Wang, H.S. 2020a. A phylogenomic tree inferred with an inexpensive PCR-generated probe kit resolves higher-level relationships among Neptis butterflies (Nymphalidae: Limenitidinae). Systematic Entomology 45(4): 924–934. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12435 . Reference page.