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Originally from Tokyo, Japan, he’s an evolutionary biologist whose work focuses on aleocharine rove beetles, with a particular fondness for myrmecophilous and termitophilous groups.

From Scientific American • Dec. 10, 2012

Certainly, there are myrmecophilous butterflies, bugs, crickets, millipedes, silverfish, spiders; many different taxonomic groups include a myrmecophilous species or two.

From Scientific American • Dec. 10, 2012

In some myrmecophilous aleocharines, including many advanced myrmecoid species, the number and types of abdominal glands have multiplied, presumably as part of elaborate colony integration mechanisms.

From Scientific American • Dec. 10, 2012

Most aleocharine tribes with myrmecophilous members possess a defensive gland close to the tip of the abdomen.

From Scientific American • Dec. 10, 2012

He hopes that understanding basal aleocharine relationships will prepare a future in myrmecophilous and termitophilous aleocharine research.

From Scientific American • Dec. 10, 2012