As a result of investigation on the larvae attacking leaves of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. and causing serious damage on the plant in Seoul, Chungnam and Jeonbuk Province in Korea during summer in 2013, Protegira songi Chen & Zhang of the family Noctuidae was identified. In this study, we report the host plants of it for the first time from Korea, with larval damage and taxonomic information by illustrating the characteristics of male and female genitalia. Also we will conduct to extract and analyse the DNA barcode for correct identification in forest pest monitoring in near future.

• Bong-Kyu Byun(Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Hannam University, Korea)
• Huilin Han(School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, China)
• Jun Hyoung Jeon(Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Hannam University, Korea)
• Young-Jae Kim(Chungnam Forest Environment Research Institute, Korea)
• Sung-Jong Cho(Jeonbuk Forest Environment Research Institute, Korea)
• Sang-Hyun Koh(Korea Forest Research Institute, Korea)
• Jae-Ho Park(Chungnam Forest Environment Research Institute, Korea)
• Eun Bi Bae(Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Hannam University, Korea)
• Min Je Kim(Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Hannam University, Korea)