MASAHIRO OHARA

TITLE:

Curator of Entomology, Otaru Museum, Ironal 2-1-20, Otaru, Hokkaido 047, Japan.

EDUCATION:

B.S. entomology, Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University, 1985.

M.S. entomology, Institute of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 1987.

Ph.D. entomology, Institute of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 1991.

POSITIONS:

Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1990-1991.

Curator of Entomology, Otaru Museum, Otaru, 1991-present.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

Botanical Society of Japan, Ecological Society of Japan, Japanese Society of Phycology.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

Many informal collecting trips throughout Kokkaido plus one formal field seasons as a participant in the "Natural History Research Project in Eastern Hokkaido," sponsored by the National Science Museum, Tokyo, May-June 1992.

PUBLICATIONS:

Since 1986, 22 scientific publications on the taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of insects, with emphasis on coleopterans of the family Histeridae.

Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:

• OHARA, M., K. Shinichi, and S. Kanda. 1989. Insecta. pp. 147-174, In: Natural History of the Kariba-Motta National Park. Sapporo.

• OHARA, M. 1989. On the species of the genus Margarinotus of Japan (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Inst. Matsum., n.s., 41: 1-50.

• OHARA, M. 1992. A revision of the genus Merohister from Japan (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Parts 1 and 2. Japan. Jour. Ent., 60(2); 377-389, 60(3): 495-501.

• OHARA, M. 1992. The insect fauna of the Nagahashi Naebo area, Otaru, central Hokkaido, Japan. Bull. Otaru Mus., 6: 1-21.

• OHARA, M., and T. Yabuki. 1992. Insect faunal survey of Mt. Yotei, Hokkaido, northern Japan. Coleoptera. Bull. Otaru Mus., 6: 55-62.