The jewel beetle, Trachy dilaticeps Gebhardt, 1928 has been known to occur in Japan, China, Taiwan, and Vietnam hitherto. This species is typically distributed in Oriental region. In the case of Palaearctic region, it has only been documented in Japan (Kyushu). In this study, we report T. dilaticeps for the first time from Korea, along with its diagnostic characters. Ecological and distributional information is also provided herein.

• Donguk Kim(School of Life Sciences, BK21 FOUR KNU Creative BioResearch Group, Daegu, Korea 41566, School of Life Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea 41566)
• Kwang Shik Choi(School of Life Sciences, BK21 FOUR KNU Creative BioResearch Group, Daegu, Korea 41566, School of Life Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea 41566, Research Institute for Phylogenomics and Evolution, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea)