Masuko, K.; Kannari, T. 1980. A new local record and some notes on the behavior of Lordomyrma azumai (Santschi). [In Japanese.]. Ari 9:5-6. PDF

Masuko, K. 1982. Data on the myrmecofauna of Miyake Island. [In Japanese.]. Ari 10:1-2.

Masuko, K.; Terayama, M. 1984. Ants from Izu and Ogasawara Islands. [In Japanese.]. Ari 12:7-12.

Masuko, K. 1985 ("1984"). Studies on the predatory biology of oriental dacetine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). I. Some Japanese species of Strumigenys, Pentastruma, and Epitritus, and a Malaysian Labidogenys, with special reference to hunting tactics in short-mandibulate forms. Insectes Sociaux 31:429-451.

Masuko, K. 1986. Larval hemolymph feeding: a nondestructive parental cannibalism in the primitive ant Amblyopone silvestrii Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 19:249-255.

Masuko, K.; Terayama, M. 1986. Ants from Izu and Ogasawara Islands (Supplement). [In Japanese.]. Ari 14:7.

Masuko, K. 1987. Leptanilla japonica: the first bionomic information on the enigmatic ant subfamily Leptanillinae. Pp. 597-598 in: Eder, J.; Rembold, H. (eds.) 1987. Chemistry and biology of social insects. München: Verlag J. Peperny, xxxv + 757 pp.

Morisita, M.; Kubota, M.; Onoyama, K.; Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Kondoh, M.; Imai, H. T.; Yamauchi, K.; Masuko, K. 1988. A list of the ants of Japan with common Japanese names. [In Japanese.]. Tokyo: Myrmecologists Society (Japan), 50 pp.

Hölldobler, B.; Palmer, J. M.; Masuko, K.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1989. New exocrine glands in the legionary ants of the genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae). Zoomorphology (Berlin) 108:255-262.

Masuko, K. 1989. Larval hemolymph feeding in the ant Leptanilla japonica by use of a specialized duct organ, the "larval hemolymph tap" (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 24:127-132. PDF

Masuko, K. 1990a. Behavior and ecology of the enigmatic ant Leptanilla japonica Baroni Urbani (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae). Insectes Sociaux 37:31-57. PDF

Masuko, K. 1990b. The instars of the ant Amblyopone silvestrii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 17:221-244. PDF

Masuko, K. 1993. Predation of centipedes by the primitive ant Amblyopone silvestrii. Bulletin of the Association of Natural Science, Senshu University 24:35-44. PDF

Satoh, T.; Masuko, K.; Matumoto, T. 1994. DNA polymorphism of the ants, Camponotus nawai complex. [Abstract.] [In Japanese.]. Ari 18:33-34.

Masuko, K. 1995 ("1994"). Specialized predation on oribatid mites by two species of the ant genus Myrmecina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 101:159-173.

Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Masuko, K. 1995. The ant genus Leptanilla: discovery of the worker-associated male of L. japonica, and a description of a new species from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae). Systematic Entomology 20:27-34. PDF

Satoh, T.; Masuko, K.; Matsumoto, T. 1997. Colony genetic structure in the mono- and polygynous sibling species of the ants Camponotus nawai and Camponotus yamaokai: DNA fingerprint analysis. Ecological Research 12:71-76.

Masuko, K.; Terayama, M. 2002. Behavioral notes and redescription of the socially parasitic ant Myrmica luteola (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 110:224-233. PDF

Masuko, K. 2003. Observations on antennal tipping, an aberrant behavior in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 41:491-493.

Masuko, K. 2010. Nest density and distribution of subterranean ants in an evergreen broadleaf forest in Japan with special reference to Amblyopone silvestrii. Entomological Science 13:191-198. PDF

Okita, I.; Murase, K.; Sato, T.; Kato, K.; Hosoda, A.; Terayama, M.; Masuko, K. 2013. The spatial distribution of mtDNA and phylogeographic analysis of the ant Cardiocondyla kagutsuchi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Japan. Sociobiology 60:129-134. PDF