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Jing-Fu Tsai I am a PhD student at the Department of Entomology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung. My thesis is about the functional morphology of external male genitalia of the Pentatomoidea and its phylogenetic significance for family-level relationships within the infraorder. I am interested in various topics of comparative morphology, especially the male and female genitalia, as well as in the descriptive taxonomy and faunistic research of the Heteroptera of Taiwan. Currently, I focus on the Pentatomoidea of Taiwan and adjacent areas of Southeast Asia and the Pacific; most of these studies are in collaboration with my friend David Rédei. Among our long-term plans are the re-consideration of the systematic position of various interesting taxa and some problems about the phylogeny of several pentatomoid groups. We also plan to build an image catalog of Taiwanese Pentatomoidea on the web. |
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Current Projects:
1) Monograph of the Scutelleridae of Taiwan (book in preparation).
2) Revision of the Oriental Scutelleridae.
3) Revision of Priassus (Pentatomidae: Pentatominae: Pentatomini) and some related taxa.
4) Revision of the Pentatomoidea of Taiwan with description of new taxa.
5) Revisions of various genera of Old World Pentatomoidea with descriptions of new taxa.
6) Catalogue
and bibliography of the Heteroptera of Taiwan.
Publications:
Tsai, J. F. 2003. The higher classification of Dinidoridae (Hemiptera: Pentatomoidea). M.S. thesis, National Chung-Hsing University Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China [in Chinese].
Tsai, J. F., M. M. Yang, and C. T. Yang. 2004. Redefinition of ejaculatory reservoir s. str. in Pentatomomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97(4): 790-795.
Tsai, J. F. and D. Rédei. 2009. The identity of shield bugs described by Francis Walker from Taiwan (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Zootaxa 2152: 43-54.
Tsai, J. F. and D. Rédei. 2009. The identity of jewel bugs described by Shonen Matsumura from Taiwan (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae). Zootaxa 2299: 44-52.
Rédei, D. and J. F. Tsai. 2010. Callidea lateralis Guerin-Meneville, 1838 (currently Lamprocoris lateralis; Insecta, Heteroptera): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 67(3): 213-217.
Tsai, J. F. and D. Rédei. 2010. Taxonomical notes on Oriental and Pacific jewel bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae). Zootaxa 2572: 25-47.
Tsai, J. F. and D. Rédei. 2010. An introduction to immature stages of Heteroptera. Pp. 95-124, in: Wu, W. J. and H. T. Shih (eds.), Morphology of the Immature Stages of Insects of Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine Importance (General Introduction). Bureau of Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine and National Taiwan University, Taipei, IV + 211 pp [in Chinese].
Rédei, D. and J. F. Tsai. 2014. The identity of Calliphara bipunctata, with proposal of a new synonymy (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae). Andrias 20: 213-220.
Tsai, J. F. and D. R
édei. 2014. A revision of the genus Amblycara (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54(1): 133-155.Tsai, J. F. and D. Rédei. 2015. The genus Acanthosoma in Taiwan (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55(2): 625-664.
Tsai, J. F. and D. Rédei. 2015. The identity of Acanthosoma vicinum, with proposal of a new genus and species level synonymy (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae). Zootaxa 3936(3): 375-386.
Tsai, J. F. and D. Rédei. 2015. Redefinition of Acanthosoma and taxonomic corrections to its included species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae). Zootaxa 3950(1): 1-60.
Tsai, J. F., D. Rédei, B. Aukema, A. Carapezza, M. A. Carvajal, E. I. Faúndez, S. Jung, E. Kanyukova, P. Kment, S-I. Kudo, G-q. Liu, D. A. Rider, J. Vilímová, N. N. Vinokurov, X-j. Wang, and A. Yamamoto. 2015. Case 3684. Elasmostethus dorsalis Jakovlev, 1876 (currently Elasmucha dorsalis; Insecta, Heteroptera): proposed precedence over Acanthosoma vicinum Uhler, 1861 (currently Elasmucha vicina). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 72(2):115-120.
Rédei, D. and J. F. Tsai. 2016. A revision of Lamprocoris (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae). Entomologica Americana 122(1-2): 262-293.
Rédei, D. and J-F. Tsai. 2018. A revision of Graptophara (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae). Zootaxa 4407(3): 346-360.
Rédei, D., J-F. Tsai, and Z. Jindra. 2018. The genus Alphocoris in the Indomalaya (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae). Zootaxa 4382(2): 299-320.
Rédei, D. and J-F. Tsai. 2021. Zhengica cornuta gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus and species of Pentatomidae from East Asia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Zootaxa 5071(2): 271-282.
Rédei, D. and J-F. Tsai. 2022. A revision of Scutellera (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae). Zootaxa 5092(1): 1-40.
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