The establishment of insect population in certain region is affected by three major characteristics, the host spectrum, the phenological plasticity and the overwintering strategy. The geographical distribution of insect population is directly affected by their successful establishment in local environment, thus, in case of development of potential geographical distribution models, three major characteristics should be considered carefully. In this study, we developed geographical distribution model using CLIMEX system with well-known insect species, Carposina sasakii. Its geographical distribution is limited to northeast Asia including Korea, Japan, China and the Soviet Far East. C. sasakii overwinters as a full-grown larva within spherical and compactly woven larval-cocoons in the soil. We calculated Diapause Index (DI) then incorporated DI into CLIMEX system to simulate Ecoclimatic Index (EI), which stands for ability of establishment in a certain area for further studies of geographical distribution of insect populations which have overwintering strategy in their life history.

• Wonseok Choi(Department of Plant Medicine, Gyeongsang National University)
• Dong-Soon Kim(Faculty of Bioscience and Industry, College of Applied Life Science, SARI, Jeju National University)
• Kijong Cho(Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University)
• Jung-Joon Park(Department of Plant Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Insitute of Agriculture and Life Science, Gyeongsang National University) Corresponding author