Munetoshi Maruyama 丸山 宗利

Munetoshi Maruyama (1974–) is assistant professor at the Kyūshū University Museum. He completed his doctorate at the Hokkaidō University Graduate School of Agriculture, and worked as a researcher at the Japanese National Museum of Nature and Science as well as the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago prior to taking up his present position in 2008. He is the leading authority in Asia on ants, termites, and the many different insects that coexist with them. Maintaining an active research program both at home and abroad, he has identified many new species and regularly publishes academic papers about them. His publications include Tsunozemi, arienai mushi (Treehoppers: Incredible Insects), Mori to mizube no kōchū shi (Beetles of Woods and Shores), Ari no su o meguru bōken (Ant Nest Adventures), and Ari no su no ikimono zukan (The Guests of Japanese Ants). Maruyama received the Entomological Society of Japan Society Fellowship Award in 2012.