Executive Curator/Researcher Kyoichiro Ueda (PhD.) Insects Research Interests Primary research interests are the systematics and phylogeny of Lepidoptera, especially Hepialidae, Bombycidae and Noctuidae (Eustrotiinae). Other interests include systematics of fossil insects with emphasis on fossil insects of the Mesozoic; database of the Japanese insect collections in foreign Museums; biodiversity research and database of the Lepidoptera in South-East Asia. Current Research Focuses Current research projects include revision of some Lepidoptera, including Hepialidae of Japan, Bomyx , Hepialiscus and Endoclita, etc.; faunistic studies on Lepidoptera of Hainan Is., China (with Prof. O. Yata, Kyushu University and Prof. Wang Min, South China Agric. University); database of Siebold collection in the Naturalis, Leiden. Selected Publications and Reports 1991: A Triassic fossil of scorpion fly from Mine, Japan. Bull. Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History. 10: 99-103. 1992: Hepialidae and Cossidae. in Heppner, J. B. & H. Inoue (ed.), Lepidoptera of Taiwan 1(2): 62 & 100. 1996:A new species of Thitarodes Viette (Lepidoptera, Hepialidae) from Japan. Bull. Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, 15: 35-41. 1997: A new Palaeontinid species from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil (Homoptera: Palaeontinidae). Bull. Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, 16: 99-104. 1999: A new monobasic Hepialid genus from Taiwan (Insecta: Lepidoptera; Hepialidae) with a redescription Hepialus arizanus Matsumura. Bull. Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, 18: 137-146. 1999: T. Nakamura, Y. Banno, T. Nakada, s. K. Nho, M. K. Xue, K. Ueda, T. Kawarabata, Y. Kawaguchi, and K. Koga; Geographic dimorphism of the wild silkworm, Bombyx mandarina, in the chromosome number and the occurrence of a retroposon-like insertion in the arylphorin gene. Genome 42 (6): 1117-1120. 2000: Hepialidae. in Haruta, T. (ed.), Moths of Nepal Part 6: 70-93, plate 169. Tinea 16 (Supplement 1) The Japan Heterocerists' Society. 2000:K. Ueda, Y. Yoshiyasu & T. Hirowatari; A list of Japanese Insect Collection by P. F. von Siebold and H. Bürger preserved in Nationaal Natuur historisch Museum, Leiden, the Netherlands. Part 1. Lepidoptera. Bull. Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, 19: 47-75. pls. 5. 2001:K. Ueda & Y. Yoshiyasu; A list of Japanese Insect Collection by P. F. von Siebold and H. Bürger preserved in National Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden, the Netherlands. Part. 3. Other Orders. Bull. Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, 20: 81-143. pls. 3-9. 2002: Bechly, G. & K. Ueda; The first fossil record and first New World record for the dragonfly clade Chlorogomphida (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera: Araripechlorogomphidae n. fam.) from the Crato Limestone (Lower Cretaceous, Brazil). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (328): 1-11, 2 figs. 2003: Ueda, K. & S. Koiwaya; Examination of the specimens of Zephyrus pavo de Nicéville and Zephyrus zoa de Nicévlle. Bull. Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History & Human History Ser. A. 1. (: 13-22.) 2007: K. Ueda & S. Koiwaya; Examination of the type specimens of Thecla caelestis Leech, 1890 and Zephyrus melli Forster, 1940. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A, 5: 13-31. 2008: New species and additional specimens of giant cicadas from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadomorpha: Palaeontinidae). Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A, 6: 23-31. 2011: Komoto, N., Yukihiro, K., Ueda, K. & S. Tomita; Exploring the molecular phylogeny of phasmids with whole mitochondrial genome sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58 (2011): 43-52.