Ceirotonus jambar

Welcome to DJI, Dictionary of Japanese Insect Names!

A database DJI, Dictionary of Japanese Insect Names is a dictionary searching names of Japanese insects. A user can use two methods of searching. The first method is to get a list of scientific name(s) of family and the Japanese name(s) or scientific name(s) of genus and species and the Japanese name(s), which includes the letter string inputted. The second is to get a list of scientific name(s) of family, genus and species and the Japanese name(s), which includes the letter string inputted. Therefore a user can search Japanese names from scientific ones as well as scientific names from Japanese ones.

It is based on "A Check List of Japanese Insects" (supervisor: Y. Hirashima, 1989 & 1990) and treats all the insect species or subspecies recorded from Japan.

DJI is partly supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B) (Head Investigator: Osamu Tadauchi) from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan.

The use of data in this database is free of charge if the objective is academic study or educational purposes.

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Example of Searching

Method 1

Example

Result

Andrena	aburana
Andrena	akitsushimae
Andrena	albicaudata
Andrena	amamiensis
Andrena	anzu
...	...	...

Example

Result

Andrena

kerriae

Method 2

Example

Result

Publications

• Hirashima, Y. (superviser), Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University and Japan Wild Life Research Center (eds.), 1989, A Check List of Japanese Insects. 1,767 pp, Fukuoka. (In Japanese)
• Hirashima, Y. (superviser), Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University and Japan Wild Life Research Center (eds.), 1990, A Check List of Japanese Insects. Addenda and Corrigenda. 37 pp, Fukuoka. (In Japanese)
• Tadauchi, O. & H. Inoue, 2000, On "Dictionary of Japanese Insect Names (DJI)" on INTERNET. ESAKIA, (40): 85-86.

Copyright Notice

Entomological Laboratotry, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University holds the copyright on the DJI file (Head constructor: Osamu Tadauchi, System administrator: Hitoshi Inoue).

Inquiries and Comments

Inquiries and Comments about DJI Should be the Following E-mail Address.

Link

• Entomology Database KONCHU
  • Entomology Reference Database (KONCHUR)
  • A Check List of Japanese Insects (MOKUROKU)
  • Image Database HANABACHI Based on the Japanese Bees (HANABACHI)
  • Image Database TOBIKOBACHI Based on the Japanese Encyrtid Parasitic wasps (TOBIKOBACHI)
  • Tropical bee reference database (TABR)
  • Type specimen database based on the Collection of Entomological Laboratory, Kyushu University (ELKUType)
• Full Text Database ESAKIA file (Esakia, Kyushu University Publications in Entomology)