Riou MIZUNO

Researcher Information

Degree

• Ph. D（2021/08 Ehime University）

ORCID ID

•  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7196-0194

J-Global ID

• 202201002853368605

Academic & Professional Experience

• 2026/01 - Today  Kagawa UniversityFaculty of AgricultureAssistant Professor
• 2023/06 - 2025/12  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate UniversityBiodiversity and complexity research unit
• 2023/04 - 2023/05  Kagawa UniversityFaculty of AgricultureAssociate Researcher
• 2021/10 - 2023/03  JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD, transfer from DC2)
• 2020/04 - 2021/09  JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2)愛媛大学連合農学研究科

Education

• 2018/04 - 2021/09  Ehime University  The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences
• 2016/04 - 2019/08  Chiang Mai University  Graduate School  Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
• 2016/04 - 2018/09  Kagawa University  Graduate School of Agriculture
• 2012/04 - 2016/03  Kagawa University  Faculty of Agriculture

Association Memberships

• 日本進化学会   日本蟻類研究会   International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Japanese Section   日本昆虫学会   

Published Papers

• Pumping Venom: Valvilli Architecture and Implications for Stinger Functionality

  Alexandre Casadei-Ferreira; Johan Billen; Sebastian Büsse; Julian Katzke; Riou Mizuno; Adrian Richter; Evan Economo

  2025/09
• Temporary social parasitism in the ant Strumigenys mutica: colony composition and behavioral interactions with host species Strumigenys solifontis and Strumigenys lewisi

  Riou Mizuno; Kunio Sadahiro; Ryota Hosokawa; Shogo Makita; Hiroki Matsumura; Chung-Chi Lin; Fuminori Ito

  Myrmecological News Austrian Society of Entomofaunistics 2025/04
• Armaddilloniscus notojimensis (Nomura, 1990) collected from Seto Inland Sea costal area, Japan

  Yuta WAKI; Riou MIZUNO

  Niche Life 12 137 - 138 2024/10
• Three new species of the ant genera Ooceraea and Syscia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) from Sabah, Borneo

  Seiki Yamane; Riou Mizuno

  Asian Myrmecology PENERBIT UMS 2024
• Evolution of meconium removal from cocoons in ants

  A. Gotoh; F. Ito; R. Mizuno; Y. Shimamoto; K. Kinomura; E. Katsura; R. Hashim

  Insectes Sociaux Springer Science and Business Media LLC 0020-1812 2023/08
• Four rare ant species unrecorded from Shikoku Island, collected in Kagawa Prefecture

  Hayato SHINOHARA; Mitsuhiro OBIKA; Shogo MAKITA; Ryota HOSOKAWA; Riou MIZUNO; Mamoru TERAYAMA; Fuminori ITO

  Ari 44 53 - 55 2023/06 [Refereed]
  
• Colony composition, phasic reproduction, caste dimorphism, and prey preferences of the oriental non-army doryline ant Yunodorylus eguchii (Borowiec, 2009) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae)

  R. Mizuno; K. Eguchi; R. Satria; A. V. Dang; V. T. Bui; L. T. H. Phung; F. Ito

  Insectes Sociaux 2023/02
• Field observations on nestmate recruitment to millipedes in the chain- assembling ponerine ant Leptogenys cyanicatena (Formicidae: Ponerinae) in northern Thailand

  {Riou Mizuno}; {Natdanai Likhitrakarn}; {Piyawan Suttiprapan}; {Weeyawat Jaitrong}; Peeters, Christian

  Asian Myrmecology PENERBIT UMS 2022/03
• Trophic eggs in three ponerine ant species: Harpegnathos venator, Odontomachus simillimus and Odontoponera denticulata

  Mitsuhiro Obika

  PENERBIT UMS 2022/02
• Colony composition, phasic reproduction, and queen–worker dimorphism of an oriental non-army ant doryline Cerapachys sulcinodis species complex in northern Thailand

  R. Mizuno; P. Suttiprapan; W. Jaitrong; A. Yamada; F. Ito

  Insectes Sociaux Springer Science and Business Media {LLC} 0020-1812 2021/11
• Notes on the biology of Protanilla sp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) collected in Ulu Gombak, Peninsular Malaysia

  F. Ito; R. Hashim; R. Mizuno; J. Billen

  Insectes Sociaux Springer Science and Business Media {LLC} 0020-1812 2021/10
• Daily and Seasonal Foraging Activity of the Oriental Non-army Ant Doryline Cerapachys sulcinodis Species Complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

  Riou Mizuno; Piyawan Suttiprapan; Weeyawat Jaitrong; Fuminori Ito

  Sociobiology Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana 66 (2) 239 - 239 2447-8067 2019/08
• Colony composition, brood production and caste dimorphism in two species of the doryline genus Lioponera in the Oriental tropics (Formicidae: Dorylinae)

  {Fuminori Ito}; {Weeyawat Jaitrong}; { Rosli Hashim}; {Riou Mizuno}

  Asian myrmecology Penerbit UMS 2018
• First Discovery Of Subdichthadiigyne In Yunodorylus Xu, 2000 (Formicidae: Dorylinae)

  Eguchi, Katsuyuki; {Riou Mizuno}; {Fuminori Ito}; {Rijal Satria}; An, Dang Van; {Bui Tuan Viet}; Luong, Phung Thi Hong

  Zenodo Zenodo 2016/12

MISC

• クビレハリアリ類の比較研究から迫る, 軍隊アリの進化の歴史

  水野理央  比較生理生化学  36-  (3)  182  -183  2019
• 若手の会「秋の合宿」印象記

  水野理央  比較生理生化学  36-  (1)  48  -49  2019

Awards & Honors

• 2024 XXVII International Congress of Entomology Presentation Awards for Young Scientists (poster)
  
• 2023 日本進化学会 2023 年大会ポスドク口頭発表賞優秀賞
  
• 2020 日本昆虫学会四国昆虫研究会 学生最優秀発表賞, 日本昆虫学会四国支部会
  
• 2018/07 日本昆虫学会四国支部会 学生最優秀発表賞
  

Research Grants & Projects

• Mechanism of diversification of social life history strategy: a comparative study of the most diverse ant genus Strumigenys.

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

  Date (from‐to) : 2024/04 -2027/03 

  Author : 水野 理央
• Evolution and mechanism of the army ant adaptive syndrome, from comparative research on biology of cerapachyine ants.

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

  Date (from‐to) : 2020/04 -2022/03 

  Author : 水野 理央

Committee Membership

• 2026/05 - Today   Asian Myrmecology   Editor

Other link

researchmap

https://researchmap.jp/Riou_Mizuno