Three Ethmia species have been found in new materials from Korea: Ethmia comitella Caradja, 1927 (= Ethmia xanthopleura Meyrick, 1931, syn. n.; Ethmia comitella steppella Dubatolov, Ustjuzhanin & Zintschenko, 1997, syn. n.), Ethmia septempunctata (Christoph, 1882), and Ethmia cirrhocnemia (Lederer, 1870) found at the Korea-China border. Taxonomic comments and new distribution data of these three species are given, with illustrations of male and female genitalia.
Five species of Blastobasis are described: Blastobasis murcyae, B. moffetti, B. christou, B. orladelaneae from New Caledonia and B. lososi from Fiji Islands. These descriptions represent, for the first time, a report of Blastobasinae (Coleophoridae) on these islands. Photographs of the imagos, illustrations of wing venation, male and female genitalia are provided as available.
Fifteen species of the genus Torodora Meyrick (karsholti sp. nov., loeica sp. nov., fuscobasalis sp. nov., epiphorana sp. nov., epitriona sp. nov., spinula sp. nov., longilobella sp. nov., lineata sp. nov., epicharis sp. nov., aritai sp. nov., chumponica sp. nov., pentagona sp. nov., moriyasu sp. nov.; sagmaria sp. nov., and chiangdoica sp. nov.) are described from Thailand, and three species of the genus (flavescens Gozmany, parotidosa Wu, and pegasana Wu & Liu) are reported for the first time from Thailand. The genus Toxotarca Wu is synonymized with Torodora Meyrick. Photographs of the imagos and illustrations of male and female genitalia are given as available.
In a review of the genus Pyrausta (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Pyraustinae) in the Korean peninsula, 12 species including three species of North Korea are recognized. Among them, P. nigrimaculata Bae et Kim is described as new to science, and P. chrysitis Butler is reported for the first time from Korea. A Key to species of the genus, based on the external characters, is provided. Morphological descriptions with illustrations of the genitalia for the all known species are given.
A taxonomic study of the genus Anisotoma Panzer in Korea is presented. Six species are recognized in Korea. Five species [Anisotoma besucheti Angelini and De Marzo, A. castanea niponensis Hisamatsu, A. frontalis (Portevin), A. rubromaculata Hisamatsu, and A. smetanai Angelini and De Marzo] are reported for the first time in Korea. Anisotoma curta (Portevin) is redescribed. A key, descriptions, and drawings of diagnostic characters of known Korean Anisotoma species are given.
A new species, Frankliniella gilva sp. nov. on Gramineae is described with illustrations of external characters from Korea. The species is distinguishable from other related species by the uniformly pale-yellow body, the prolonged head between compound eyes, five ventral pigmented facets on compound eyes, and the absence of mesosternal spinula.