In this study, a genus Eumasia Chrétien is reported for the first time from Korea. This study was conducted to report a newly recorded genus and species, Eumasia muscella Saigusa and Sugimoto based on the material from Haemee-castle, Seosan-si, Korea. All available information for the species including distributional ranges and host plants were presented in this study. Also the larval characteristics and DNA barcode for the species are provided.

The genus Phyllonorycter is a small sized moth among the family Gracillariidae, comprising 401 described species in the world (De Prins & De Prins 2005, 2012). In this study, Phyllonorycter styracis Kumata is reported for the first time from Korea. Material examined for this study was collected from Mt. Palgong on October, 2014 in Korea, and it is known to emerge in winter from Japan. Adult and genitalic characters are described, and available information including the distributional ranges and host plants are provided. Also, DNA barcode for the exact identification of the species was conducted in this study.

The genus Phyllocnistis belongs to the family Gracillariidae including 85 described species in the world (De Prins and De Prins 2005). The genus has been placed under the family Phyllocnistidae, which is now the subfamily of the family Gracillariidae. In Korea, only one species of the family, Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton has been listed for the first time by Ko (1969) without the taxonomic information. It was first reported by Heppner (1993) from North America, and it has become to the major pest of Rutaceae, especially damaging on the genus Citrus spp. It has been called as CLM (citrus leafminer) in the world. This study was carried out to identify and monitor CLM easily and correctly with providing the genitalic structures and DNA barcode which is now one of the major insect pest on citrus farm.

개맥문동(Liriope spicata (Thunb.))이 검정주머니나방(Mahasena aurea (Butler))의 새로운 기주식물로 처음으로 확인되었기에 보고한다. 또한 본 연구를 통해 본 종의 유충과 암컷이 우리나라에서는 처음으로 채집되었다. 이들의 암컷과 수컷에 대한 외부형태적 특징을 재기재함과 동시에 수컷생식기, 성충, 애벌레, 번데기 등의 특징을 도해하여 제시하였다.

본 연구는 산림 내에서 수종갱신 및 천연갱신 등의 산림시업을 실시한 이후 딱정벌레류 곤충분포상의 변화 양상을 군집수준으로 조사 · 분석하여 종다양성이 증대되는 시업방법의 구명을 통해 산림생물다양성 보전을 위한 효과적인 관리기법을 제시하는데 필요한 기초자료를 확보하고자 수행되었다. 이를 위해 2012년, 강원도 삼척군 하장면 일대의 소나무림 갱신임지 내에서 5개의 임업시업 방법별로 처리한 후 동일지점에서 2013년 7월부터 10월까지 딱정벌레류 곤충상 조사를 실시하였다. 조사 목적상 갱신임지 유형별로 딱정벌레류를 정량조사하기 위해 45일 간격으로 린드그렌퍼넬트랩을 이용하여 채집조사를 실시하였으며, 조사대상인 딱정벌레류의 분류군별 다양도 및 풍부도를 중심으로 분석을 실시하였다. 연구 결과, 딱정벌레류는 총 40과 156종 1,112개체가 조사되었다. 조사 초기 단계에서 각 처리방법별 뚜렷한 밀도차이는 나타나지 않았으나, 전 처리구들이 대조구에 비해 다양도 및 풍부도가 증가하는 경향을 보였고, 이 중 대상개벌을 실시한 구간에서 비교적 높은 밀도를 보이는 것으로 확인되었다.

This study was conducted to clarify the faunistic data for the genus Olethreutes from North Korea, which is one of the biggest genus in the family Tortricidae. Eventhough there have been several investigations by previous researchers, no comprehensive study on the genus from North Korea has been conducted to date. In the present study, a total of 19 species of the genus Olethreutes were recognized from North Korea. All available information for the species, including the host plants, synonymies, and distributional ranges, is also provided.

In this study, the damage on the leaves of Liriope spicata (Thunb.) Lour. by a psychid species, Mahasena aurea (Butler), is reported for the first time from Korea. Adult of both sexes and larva were redescribed with illustration of the external characteristics, including the genitalia of male, adults, larvae, pupae and all the available information.

2013년 하계기간 중 우리나라의 서울, 충남, 전북 지역 등지에서 유충이 두충(Eucommia ulmoides Oliv.)의 잎을 가해하며 심각한 피해를 발 생시키는 새로운 해충을 채집하여 사육한 후 우화한 성충을 분류동정 한 결과 두충밤나방(신칭) (Protegira songi Chen & Zhang)으로 확인되어 보 고한다. 또한 본 연구를 통해 상기종의 기주식물이 우리나라에서는 처음으로 확인된다. 아울러 본 종에 대한 발생 및 피해상황과 분류학적 특징을 기재함과 동시에 암수생식기의 특징을 도해하여 제시하였다.

In the present study, we report two lepidopteran pests on the cones of Abies koreana E. H. Wilson; Cydia sp. of Tortricidae and Dioryctria abietella Denis et Schiffermüller of Pyralidae. Larvae of these species bored tunnels inside the immature cones of the host plant. Damaged cones are easy to spot by reddish brown excretion from the pest entry holes, and the cones severly damaged by the larvae becomes crooked. Damage rate on the cones reached up tp 71% from the collection site. Regarding the two pests, some basic information such as collection records, morphological characters, and ecology were provided.

We investigated the insect community along altitudinal gradient to gather basic data for distributional monitoring of insect species in the forest ecosystem. The investigation area was Seon-gaksan (Mt.) in Jinan-gun, Jeollabuk-do province, where the bucket-light trap and pit-fall trap for quantification were installed in Quercus vegetation at altitude of 300m, 600m and 900m. The field collecting was performed on May, July and September 2013 respectively. ANOVA analysis was conducted to analyze the significance between insect species along altitude using the collected insect community data. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) results showed statistically significant differences among ground-beetles and ants abundance with altitude as a response variable. Although we expected a distinct cluster with the difference of altitude at each study site, nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMS) showed distinct clusters with the moth, ground-beetles, and ant assemblage at altitudinal increase and sampling month. In the result, a total of 309 species in 18 families of nocturnal moths were collected by bucket-light trap. The insects collected in pit-fall trap were ground-beetles with 196 individuals of 26 species and ants with 11,276 individuals of 14 species respectively.

As a result of investigation on the larvae attacking leaves of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. and causing serious damage on the plant in Seoul, Chungnam and Jeonbuk Province in Korea during summer in 2013, Protegira songi Chen & Zhang of the family Noctuidae was identified. In this study, we report the host plants of it for the first time from Korea, with larval damage and taxonomic information by illustrating the characteristics of male and female genitalia. Also we will conduct to extract and analyse the DNA barcode for correct identification in forest pest monitoring in near future.

In this study, the following four species are reported for the first time in Korea: Diplopseustis perieresalis (Walker, 1859), Dolicharthria bruguieralis (Duponchel, 1833), Herpetogramma ochrimaculale (South, 1901), and Omiodes diemenalis (Guenée, 1854). All of the known species were enumerated with their available information including the collecting localities, host plants, illustrations of adults, and genitalia.

This study was conducted to review the Korean Psychidae. In the present study, a total of 10 species belonging to seven genera were recognized from Korea. Among them, three species, Eumeta tamraensis sp. nov., Proutia unhongae sp. nov., and Psyche yeongwolensis sp. nov. are described as new to sciences. All known species were described with illustrations of external and genital characters including ecological characteristics, distributional ranges, and host plants.

This study was carried out to provide accurate identification of Noctuidae, using the DNA barcode. In total, 2,040 adult specimens of 443 species were collected from 13 forest areas in Korea. In this study, we conducted the correct identification using external morphology and genitalic characters. In addition, we observed and compared the voucher specimens, preserved in the major entomological collections in Korea, including Hannam university Natural History Museum (102 species), Korea Forest Research Institute (8 species) and the National Science Museum (27 species) for correct identification. For extracting DNA sequences of the mitochondrial gene COI, the hind legs were detached and sampled with tweezers, providing about 25 mg of tissue sample. We amplified and sequenced the standard DNA barcode fragment of 648 basepairs. As a result, we have complete DNA barcodes for all 331 species. These results will be presented in Forest Pests Information Data Sheets for Noctuidae, containing DNA Barcode information, external morphology, ecological characteristics and phenology.

Caloptilia Hübner, 1825 is one of the largest group in Gracillariidae. 314 species have been known around the world. To date, 15 species were known from Korea. In the present study, four species of Caloptilia are newly recognized from Korean insect fauna: C. fidella (Reutti), C. hidakensis Kumata, C. illicii Kumata, and C. pulverea Kumata. All of 19 Korean species, including four newly recognized species, are redescribed with illustrations of adults and genitalic structures.

Family Micropterigidae is a most archaic family of Lepidoptera and purely known through the world. The family previously had been placed in a proper ordinal rank as Zeugloptera (Chapman, 1917, Hinton, 1946, 1958), but this family is a member of the Lepidopetera (Kristensen, 1984). Adults has typical shaped antenna with ‘ascoid’ sensilla (branched basiconic sensilla). They are usually diurnal, but noctunal activity is reported for some species. They mostly pollen eaters (Kristensen, 1999). The family consist of about 120 described species in 10 genera, but about half as many are recognized and still unnamed (Kristensen, 1999). The genus Micropterix known 67 species from the Palaearctic region and mainly from the Mediterranean sub-region. In Asia, seventeen species belonging to five genera of the family were reported from Japan, but it has not been known from Korea. Recently, we catched a specimen of genus Micropterix of the family Micropterigidae from Mt. Gariwang-san, Prov. Gangwon. The purpose of this study is to introduce about the family Micoropterigidae new to Korea.

제주지역을 중심으로 실시한 나방류 조사결과 포충나방과의 2종(Daulia afralis Walker, Herpetogramma cynaralis Walker)이 우리나라에서는 처음으로 발견되었기에 보고한다. 본 연구에서는 이들 종의 외부형태 및 암수생식기의 특징을 검경하여 도해하고 간략히 재기재하였다. 또한 각 종별로 분류학적 정보 및 국내외 분포범위에 대하여 정리하여 보고한다.

The first record of the subfamily Tortricinae from North Korea was reported by Zhu (1969), comprising 17 species. Later Park and Byun (1991) added 11 species of the subfamily. And Park and Razowski (1991) added 16 species of the tribe Tortricini. Jaros et al. (1992) reported 11 species of Tortricinae from North Korea, based on the material Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic(CAS). Byun et al. (1998) enumerated 350 species of Korean Tortricidae, citing 63 species of Tortricinae and 40 species of Olethreutinae from North Korea. Later Razowski (1999) provided a list of Korean Tortricidae with 176 of North Korea. Despite these studies, much of the North Korean Tortricidae deposited in the HNHM remained unstudied. Recently the first author examined the totricid material in the HNHM and reported 7 newly recorded species from North Korea (Byun et al., 2007). In the present study, we provide the faunistic information for ten species of Tortricinae, including their localities. This study was carried out under the support of Korea National Arboretum and Korea Forestry Research Institute.

In North Korea, the Tortricidae has been poorly studied until Byun et al. (1998) reviewed 350 species from Korea, including 63 species of Tortricinae and 40 species of Olethreutinae. Then Razowski (1999) presented a checklist of 358 species of Tortricidae from Korea, including 176 species of the North Korean Tortricidae with mostly based on the avaialble materials in Poland and previous literatures. Later, a serial studies on the family Tortricdae of North Korea with the material deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum provided several additional data for the North Korean tortricid fauna (Byun 2009; Byun 2011a; Byun 2011b; Byun 2011c; Byun et al. 2007) During the course of the study on the Tortricidae of North Korea deposited in Hungarian Natural History Museum, the author found three species of Olethreutes for the first time from North Korea. Of them, Olethreutes aviana Falkovitsh is also newly reported to the Korean peninsula. The aim of the present study is to report the three species of Olethreutes as new to North Korean fauna. In the present study, three species of the genus Olethreutes: O. aviana Falkovitsh, O. obovata (Walsingham), and O. orthocosma (Meyrick), based on the material deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, are reported for the first time from North Korea. Among them, O. aviana Falkovitsh is recorded as new to the Korean peninsula. Photographs of the adults and genitalia of the species are presented.

The family Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera), plume moths, consist of 1,136 species listed in the ‘world catalogue’ by Gielis (2003), and a few more described since then. Approximately 250 species are known in the Palaearctic Regions (Arenberger, 1995). In this study, 35 species of 21 genera have been reviewed from Korea (Matsumura 1931, 1938; Zoological Society of Korea 1968; Park 1983; Arenberger 1991; Kim et al., 2010a, 2010b, 2012a, 2012b). We suggest the problematic species, Platyptilia ignifera, is morphologically and genetically separated from congeneric species supporting the possibility as a new genus, and employ the classification system of Arenberger (1995) rather than that of Gielis (1993) using parsimony based on morphological characters.