TAKAHIDE KAMURA

TITLE:

Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanics, Otemon Gakuin University, Osaka 567, Japan.

EDUCATION:

B.A., entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto, Japan, 1983.

M.A., entomology, Institute of Entomology, Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto, Japan, 1985.

Ph.D., entomology, Institute of Entomology, Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto, Japan, 1988.

POSITIONS:

Lecturer, Otemon Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan, 1989-1993. Associate Professor, Otemon Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan, 1993-present.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

Arachnological Society of Japan, American Arachnological Society, British Arachnological Society, Centre International de Documentation Arachnologique, The Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, The Japanese Society of Soil Zoology, The Biogeographical Society of Japan.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

Many collecting trips throughout Kinki district and Ryukyu Islands of Japan.

PUBLICATIONS:

Since 1984, 18 scientific publications on the taxonomy and ecology of spiders.

Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:

• KAMURA, T. 1987. Three species of the genus Drassyllus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Japan. Acta arachnol., 35: 77-88.
• KAMURA, T. 1991. A revision of the genus Cladothela (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Japan. Acta arachnol., 40: 47-60.
• KAMURA, T. 1992. Two new genera of the family Gnaphosidae (Araneae) from Japan. Acta arachnol., 41: 119-132.
• KAMURA, T. 1994. Two new species of the genus Phrurolithus (Araneae: Clubionidae) from Iriomotejima Island, Southwest Japan. Acta arachnol., 43: 163-168.
• KAMURA, T. 1995. A new species and a newly recorded species of the genus Haplodrassus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Japan. Acta arachnol., 44: 123-127.