Ryoichi Takahashi Explained

(April 6, 1898—July 17, 1963) was a Japanese entomologist. His research focused on hemiptera, including aphids, whiteflies, and scale insects. He published more than 420 articles.^[1]

Taxa named after him include:^[2]

• Takahashilecanium ^[3]
• Xenolecanium takahashii ^[3]
• Rhachisphora takahashii ^[4]
• Melanaphis takahashii ^[5]
• Aclerda takahashii ^[6]
• Dicranomyia takahashii ^[7]
• Rhyacobates takahashii ^[8]
• Ormosia takahashii ^[9]
• Aleurotuberculatus takahashii ^[10]
• Aleyrodes takahashii ^[11]
• Rhinopsylla takashii
• Setaleytodes takahashia ^[12]
• Isotomurus takahashii
• Asterobemisia takahashii ^[13]
• Dialeurolonga takahashi ^[14]
• Togepsylla takahashii ^[15]

Further reading

• Dr. Ryoichi Takahashi (1898–1963) . Aphidologists' Newsletter . 1964 . 3 . 3.
• Hasegawa . Hitoshi. Kontyû . 1967 . 35 . 3, Suppl . 49–50 . Materials on the lives and contributions of the deceased Japanese entomologists since the Meiji Era . ja:明治以降物故昆虫学関係者経歴資料集 . ja . none . https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/10650777/1 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220206072037/https://dl.ndl.go.jp/view/download/digidepo_10650777_po_ART0003850408.pdf?contentNo=1&alternativeNo= . 6 Feb 2022 . live.
• Ito . S. . Sorin . M. . List of Papers of Dr. Ryoichi Takahashi . Mushi . 1963 . 37 . 17 . 167–190 . none.
• Kuwayama . Satoru. ja:高橋良一博士を悼む. Mourning Dr. Ryoichi Takahashi. Japanese Journal of Applied Entomology and Zoology . 7 . 4 . 358–359 . 1963 . none.
• Minagawa . Y. . In remembrance of Dr. Ryoichi Takahashi . Kontyû. 1963 . 31 . 3 . 230–231 . ja:高橋良一博士を偲びて . ja . https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/10650273/1 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210729210058/https://dl.ndl.go.jp/view/download/digidepo_10650273_po_ART0005665092.pdf?contentNo=1&alternativeNo= . 29 July 2021 . live . none.
• Sartiami . Dewi . Watson . Gillian W. . Roff . Mohamad N. M. . Ghani . Idris A. B. . A taxonomic update of Takahashi's historic collection of mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) from Malaysia And Singapore . Serangga . 2017 . 22 . 2 . 91–114 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20200701234226/http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13403/1/23166-67183-1-SM.pdf . 1 Jul 2020 . 1394-5130 . none.
• Takahashi . R. . ja:新昆虫 . Shin konchū . ja:わが10代を語る . 1957 . 10 . 2 . 18–19 . none.
• Williams . Douglas J. . The change of depository of a collection of scale insects by Ryoichi Takahashi (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) . Zootaxa . 2017 . 4358 . 3 . 598–600 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.3.13 . 29245466 . none.

Notes and References

1. Web site: https://digiins.tari.gov.tw/Inscet_Collection/tariMuseum005E.php. zh:農業試驗所昆蟲標本館. Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute. Government of Taiwan. Chinese, English. 6 Feb 2022.
2. Ito . S. . Sorin . M. . A list of insects named in honour of Prof. R. Takahashi . Mushi . 1963 . 37 . 17 . 185–190 . none.
3. Kondo . Takumasa . Williams . Michael L. . Gullan . Penny J. . Taxonomic review of the genus Xenolecanium Takahashi and description of the new genus Takahashilecanium Kondo (Hemiptera: Coccidae; Coccinae, Paralecaniini) . Entomological Science . 2005 . 8 . 1 . 116 . 10.1111/j.1479-8298.2005.00105.x. 54036079 .
4. Martin . Jon H. . Lau . Clive S.K. . The Hemiptera-Sternorrhyncha (Insecta) of Hong Kong, China—an annotated inventory citing voucher specimens and published records . Zootaxa . 2011 . 2847 . 1 . 16 . 10.11646/zootaxa.2847.1.1. free .
5. Skvarla . Michael . Kramer . Matthew . Owen . Christopher . Miller . Gary . Reexamination of Rhopalosiphum (Hemiptera: Aphididae) using linear discriminant analysis to determine the validity of synonymized species, with some new synonymies and distribution data . Biodiversity Data Journal . 2020 . 8 . e49102 . 10.3897/BDJ.8.e49102 . 32042252 . 6997245 . free .
6. Kuwana . Inokichi . The Genus Aclerda in Japan, including Formosa . The Philippine Journal of Science . 1932 . 48 . 1 . 64 .
7. Alexander . Charles P. . New or Little-Known Crane-Flies from Japan (Tipulidae, Diptera) . Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 1920 . 46 . 1 . 2 . 25077024 . free.
8. Esaki . Teiso . An interesting new water-strider from Formosa . The Philippine Journal of Science . 1923 . 22 . 4 . 387-391; Pl. 1 .
9. Alexander . Charles P. . Undescribed Species of Japanese Crane-Flies. (Tipulidæ, Diptera) . Annals of the Entomological Society of America . 1919 . 12 . 4 . 337–338 . 10.1093/aesa/12.4.327 . free .
10. David . B. Vasantharaj . Subramaniam . T. R. . Studies on Some Indian Aleyrodidae . Record of the Zoological Survey of India . 1976 . 70 . 174–175 .
11. Ossiannilsson . Frej . A new name in the Aleyrodidae (Hem.) . Opuscula Entomologica . 1966 . 31 . 155.
12. Singh . Karam . On four new Rhynchota of the family Aleyrodidae from Burma . Records of the Indian Museum . 1933 . 35 . 344–345.
13. Dantsig . Ye. M. . ru:К фауне алейродид (Homoptera, Aleyrodoidea) южного Приморья . ru:Энтомологическое обозрение . 1966 . 45 . 376–377 . The whiteflies (Homoptera, Aleyrodoidea) of the southern Primor'ye (Soviet Far East).
14. David . B. Vasantharaj . Jesudasan . R. W. Alexander . Dialeurolonga maculata (Singh) comb. nov. and Dialeurolonga takahashi nom. nov. for Dialeurolonga maculata Takahashi (Aleyrodidae: Homoptera) from Madagascar . Entomon . 1989 . 14 . 371 . 0377-9335.
15. Kuwayama . Satoru . A Revision of the Psyllidae of Taiwan . Insecta Matsumurana . 1931 . 5 . 3 . 121–122 . 2115/9213 . free.