Two species of the genus Argyresthia Hübner are reported for the first time from Korea: A. albicomella Moriuti, A. alpha Friese & Moriuti. Up to now, unknown information of male genitalia of A. albicomella is firstly described herein. Illustration of adults and genitalia are provided.

1996년에 창설된 타이페이 비엔날레(TB)의 기획 메커니즘은 타이완 출신 큐레이터들의 공동 기획 체제(1996)로부터 일본 출신의 단일 큐레이터 체제(1998), 그리고 해외 큐레이터와 국내 큐레이터가 협업하는 이원 큐레이터 체제(2000-2010)를 거쳐서 다시 단일 큐레이터 체제(2012-2016)으로 회귀하기까지 다양한 과정을 겪었다. 특히 최근 단계에서는 서구 출신의 큐레이터들이 주도권을 장악해 왔다. 본 논문에서는 타이페이 비엔날레의 창립 당시 목표와 후대의 전개 양상 사이의 괴리 현상을 분석한다. 연구자는 이 행사가 타이완의 복합적인 지역 담론과 쟁점들을 제대로 반영하지 못하고 단순히 동시대 국제 비엔날레의 추세를 수용하는데 머 물러 왔으며, 그 배경에 타이페이 비엔날레의 기획 메커니즘 뒤에 작용하고 있는 ‘자기 식민 지화’의 경향이 존재한다고 주장한다.

We report here one species, Ampelodesmus cf. granulosus myrmecophilus millipede (Pyrgodesmidae) collected fromcolonies of Brachyponera chinensis (Formicidae: Hymenopera). The family Pyrgodesmidae contained over 500 speciesdistribute mainly in tropics (Shear, 2011). Some species are found only in ant colonies, and are considered obligate myrmecophiles(Stoev et al. 2005). Myrmecophilus pyrgodesmid millipedes are known to scavenger as they feed on debris of host ants.Largely unknown is how millipedes can avoid from aggression of host ants, but host ants completely ignoring their invader(Komatsu, unpublished data). Two genera and four species of family Pyrgodesmidae were known from Japan which werecompletely unknown from South Korea. In this study, we provide description, especially gonopods of male, host informationand breeding records of Ampelodesmus cf. granulosus.

The genus Testudobracon (Braconidae: Braconinae) is reported for the first tine in Korea. The genus is a small genuswith 12 species distributed in the world, of which species are known as ectoparasitoids of the cecidomyiid (Diptera).Testudobracon species are distinguished from other braconid genus by the following characters: terminal flagellomere pointedbut without a prominent spine; mesoscutum largely setae, notauli well developed.In this study, a braconid genus, Testudobracon, is recorded from Korea for the firs time based on Testudobracon pleuralis(Ashmead, 1906). we provided diagnosis, host list and photographs of diagnostic characteristics for this species.

Bethylus Latreille, a type genus of the family Bethylidae, is represented by about 32 species and is recorded fromthe Palaearctic and the Nearctic regions. In East Asia, the genus has been reported from Far Eastern Russia, China andJapan. The genus was well-known as ectoparasitoid of micro-lepidopteran insects including gelechiids, coleophorids.As results of taxonomic study on Korean Bethylinae, the distribution of Bethylus is newly confirmed in South Koreaand the species was identified as B. fuscicornis (Jurine, 1807). We provide the description, diagnostic illustrations of B.fuscicornis and a key to Korean genus of Bethylinae.

Monsoma is a small and rarely collected genus within Allantinae, consisting of four species widely distributed in Palaearcticand Nearctic regions: M. faustum Zhelochovtsev, 1961; M. inferentium (Norton, 1868); M. pallipes (Matsumura, 1912);M. pulveratum (Retzius, 1783). This genus is morphologically similar to Empria Lepeletier & Serville, however, can bedistinguished by the abdominal terga without pale detached paired patches, cross-vein m-cu present and cell M closedon the hind wing.In the present study, the genus Monsoma is reported from South Korea for the first time based on M. pallipes. Adetailed redescription, photographs of the diagnostic characters are provided.

A marine ulvalean species (Chlorophyta) was collected from Imgok, which is located on the eastern coast of Korea. This species is morphologically characterized by distromatic, filiform to strap compressed or tubular thallus. Many branches were found near the base, but lacked proliferations. Cells were longitudinally aligned in the younger part of the branch and were disordered in the older part of the branch. A cap-like parietal chloroplast with one or two pyrenoids was contained in each cell. In a phylogenetic tree based on ITS and rbcL sequences, this species was nested in the same clade as Ulva torta and U. clathratioides from Australia, but formed a sister clade to U. torta from Japan. However, the genetic divergence between them was included in an intraspecific variation range within Ulva. This finding suggests that U. clathratioides should be reduced to a synonym of U. torta. Accordingly, the Korean alga was identified as U. torta based on the morphological and molecular data. This investigation is the first record of U. torta in the Korean marine algal flora.

The hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a leading causative agent of acute hepatitis in humans. Zoonotic HEV strains have been isolated from several animal species, including pigs. New HEV variants have been recently isolated from camels in the Middle East. In the present study, fecal samples from fallow deer, formosan deer, alpaca, and guanaco were analyzed for the detection of HEV. One HEV strain was detected from guanaco, a species of camelids. The nucleotide sequence of guanaco HEV was identical to those of deer HEV-3 strains, which implied the cross-species transmission of HEV-3 from deer to guanaco.

한국산 총채벌과의 미기록종인 긴턱총채벌(Eubroncus prodigiosus (Yoshimoto, Kozlov and Trjapitzin, 1972)) (신칭)을 확인하고, 그에 따라 미기록속인 긴턱총채벌속(Eubroncus Yoshimoto, Kozlov and Trjapitzin, 1972) (신칭)을 처음으로 보고한다. 식별형질의 기재와 주요 형 질에 대한 사진을 함께 제공한다.

Embryo transfer (ET) could be a relevant tool for genetic improvement programs in horses similar to those already underway in other species and produce multiple foals from the same mare in one breeding season. However, there have been no reports describing equine embryo transfer performed in Korea. In the present study, we performed an equine embryo collection and transfer procedure for the first time. We examined the embryo collection and pregnancy, size of embryo during the incubation period after collection, and progesterone (P4) and estradiol-17ß (E2) concentrations in mare’s serum at embryo collection and transfer. A total of 16 donors responded to estrus synchronization; estrus was induced in 12 donors and 4 recipients, and artificial insemination was successful in 10 donors and six blastocysts were collected from donors. Of these blastocysts, we monitored the size of blastocysts for 3 day during incubation and transferred 2 blastocysts to a recipient, with 1 successful pregnancy and foal achieved. The dimensions of equine embryo at day 7 to day 9 were 409 μm, 814 μm and 1,200 μm. The serum P4 and E2 concentrations were 7.91±0.37 ng/μL and 45.45±12.65 ng/μL in the donor mare, and 16.06±3.27 ng/μL and 49.13±10.09 ng/μL in the recipient mare.

북미지역에서 저장곡물해충으로 잘 알려진 거저리과의 북미쌀거저리[Cynaeus angustus (LeConte)]가 국내 여러 정미소에 발생하고 있음을 새롭게 보고하며, 이 미기록종에 대한 성충과 유충 사진 및 진단형질과 저장산물을 검역하는 과정에서 검출되는 거저리과 해충 17종에 대하여 도해 검색자료를 제공하였다.

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a best-first search algorithm to evaluate states of the game tree in game playing, and has been successfully applied to various games, especially to the game of Go. Upper Confidence Bounds for Trees (UCT), which is a variant of MCTS, uses the UCB1 formula as selection policy, and balances exploitation and exploration of the states. Rapid Action-Value Estimation (RAVE), which is a All-Moves-As-First (AMAF) heuristic, treats all moves in a simulation as the first move, and therefore updates the statistics of all children of the root node. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of RAVE and UCT playing against each other in the game of Tic-Tac-Toe. The experimental results show that the first player RAVE is much inferior to the second player UCT (13.0±0.7%); on the other hand, the first player UCT is far superior to RAVE (99.9±0.1%).