The genus Ypsolopha Latreille 1796, belongs to the family Ypsolophidae, small to medium sized micro-moth, with more than 140 described species around the world. More than 70% of the species are described from the Palearctic and Oriental Regions (Jin et al., 2013). Major taxonomic study of Ypsolopha carried out by following scholars. In the end of 18th to early of 20th century, Fabricius (1798), Hübner (1826), Agassiz (1846), Walshingham (1881, 1889), Busck(1903, 1906) and Meyrick (1914-1937). Furthermore, Moriuti (1964, 1977) studied total 17 Japanese Ypsolopha species and he divided 3 groups which based on fore- and hind- wing venations and shape of labial palpus.
The first systematic study of the genus Ypsolopha carried out by K. T. Park (1983), discovered with four species, Ypsolopha blandella (Christoph), Y. yasudai Moriuti, Y. strigosa (Butler), Y. acuminata (Butler) in ‘Illustrated Flora & Fauna of Korea vol. 27 Insecta (Ⅸ)’ and ‘Check List of Insects from Korea’. After than, Ypsolopha longa Moriuti was discovered by Jeong et al.(1995). In 2001, Byun and Park, they described new species, Ypsolopha nigrimaculata Byun and Park. At the same time, Byun and Bae reported 3 newly recorded species; Y. cristata Moriuti, Y. japonica Moriuti, Y. parenthesella (Linnaeus). Up to date, 14 species have been recorded from Korea by Sohn (2010, 2011) with Y. amoenella (Christoph), Y. asperella (Linnaeus), Y. contractella (Caradja) and Y. acerella (Ponomarenko and Sohn). In the present study, we identified 14 species belonging to the genus, with some unidentified species. The materials examined come from the collection of Incheon National University.

• Sol-Moon Na(Division of Life Science, Incheon National University)
• Bo-sun Park(Division of Life Science, Incheon National University)
• Dong-June Lee(Division of Life Science, Incheon National University)
• Yang-Seop Bae(Division of Life Science, Incheon National University)