The subfamily Prometopinae Böving and Craighead, 1931 (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Nitidulidae) is newly recorded from Korea. We recognized two species in two different genera; Prometopia unidentata Hisamatsu, 1959, Parametopia x-rubrum Reitter, 1884. In this study, we provide re-description, photographs and a key to species based on Korean specimens.

The genus Nirvana Kirkaldy, 1900 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) has been reported through the Oriental and Austalian regions with few species known from Korea and Japan. Recently, we newly recognized Nirvana pallida Melichar, 1903, which is collected on Pueraria thunbergiana Benth (Rosales: Leguminosae). In this study, we provide redescription, illustration and biological notes, based on Korean materials.

종의장거리산포는집단의확산과집단간개체의흐름에중요한역할을한다. 본연구는독도에서발견된식물을형태학적특징과핵및엽록체DNA의분자마커를이용하여종을식별한결과, 참빗살나무(노박덩굴과)로확인되었다. 얕은토양층과험준한지형등입지적으로열악한대양섬인독도에서목본의분포는의미있는결과이며, 향후외부유입종의지속적인모니터링이요구된다.

Anoplophora isa moderate-sized genus with 36 species of woodboring cerambycid beetles that occur throughout Asia, with the highest diversity in the tropical and subtropical region. Two species, A. chinensis (Forster) and A. glabripennis (Motchulsky) are known in the Korean peninsula. The latter is an infamous invasive species, commonly called the Asian longhorned beetle, in the U.S. causing economic damage on hard woods. For the present study, we carried out field surveys from 2010 to 2013 and literature review on the host plants of Korean Anoplophora species. A. chinensis is associated with 14 host plant species in 4 families and A. glabripennis 17 species of 11 families. Most importantly, the Manchurian striped maple, Acer tegmentosum Maxim. (Aceraceae), is newly recognized as a host of the Asian longhorned beetle. In the present study, a revised host plant checklist of Korean Anoplophora species is provided, with correction of scientific and Korean names of the host plants.

통나방과의 1종, Coleophora virgaureae Stainton의 국내분포를 처음으로 보고한다. 경기도 수리산에서 채집된 암컷 표본을 근거로 본 종의 종 동정에 필요한 성충과 생식기 사진을 함께 기재한다.

울릉도 성인봉의 토양 시료에서 발견한 육각사다리응애 (신칭, Punctoribates hexagonus Brelese, 1908)를 국내에서 처음으로 보고한다. 이종의 형태적 특징을 기재하고 지리적 분포 정보를 제시한다.

Duplachionaspis속(屬)의 D. divergens (Green, 1899) 1종을 국내분포로 처음 보고하고, 동 속과 종의 특징, 동아시아산 Duplachionaspis속(屬)의 종 동정에 필요한 검색표, 사진자료, 분포 및 기주 정보를 함께 기재하였다.

 ,  , Pseudanostirus ecarinatus (Stepanov, 1930) is recognized for the first time in Korea. A redescription and illustrations of the species are presented based on a single male specimen collected from Mt. Bangtae Gangwon-do. We also provide diagnostic characteristics of the genus, which clearly separate it from other closely related genera, Calambus Thomson, 1859 and Anostrius Thomson, 1859.

 ,  , A taxonomic review of Bolitotrogus kurosonis Miyatake 1964 is presented. B. kurosonis is a fungivorous tenebrionid beetle and is a rare inhabitant of fungi on deciduous trees (Quercus, Carpinus laxiflora, etc.) in Korea. Sporophores of Inonotus mikadoi (Lloyd) Imaz. was the obligate feeding and breeding sites for this species in Jeju-do. A description, an additional key to the Korean Bolitophagini, fungal host, photographs of adult, and illustrations of diagnostic characteristics are provided.

This study treated the list and key to the 8 species of the subfamily Typhlodrominae from Korea including a newly recorded species, T. coryli Wu and Lan, 1991. This subfamily comprises four genera: Kuzinellus Wainstein, Paraseiulus Muma, Galendromus Muma, Typhlodromus Scheuten. Key characters of the genera in Typhlodrominae have been well known as the number and position of the dorsal setae. Therefore, Typhlodrominae was previously referred to one genus, Typhlodromus in Korea. However, the nominal species in the Phytoseiidae has increased in number exponentially more than 2,280 in the world today, so the current classification of the family is taken more genera by other characters, not only dorsal chaetotaxy but also the setation and the nature of the posterior margin of the sternal shield, the shape and setation of the ventrianal shield, setation of legs I-IV and the relative lengths of the setae Z4 and Z5. Thus, Korean Typhlodrominae includes four genera, Kuzinellus Wainstein, Paraseiulus Muma, Galendromus Muma and Typhlodromus Scheuten.

 ,  , Synanthedon velox (Fixsen) is redescribed and the genus Bembecia is reported for the first time from Korea with B. pavicevia Tosevski, Description, images of the adult, genitalia, and the Korean common names of two species are provided. Their host plants are listed and their biology is briefly summarized.

 ,  , The family Brachyceridae is reported for the first time in Korea and is represented by Desmodophorus hebes(Fabricius, 1781). A revised description, morphological photographs of adults, illustrations of genitalia, a key to the families of Korean Curculionoidea, and a key to the East Asian species of Desmidophorus are provided.

Addition of ammonia or any nitrogenous materials to the soil that release ammonia causing alkaline condition during decomposition stimulates the fruiting of a particular chemoecological group of fungi, called ammonia fungi (Sagara 1975). The study of ammonia fungi by artificial application of urea in forest soil has been done in diverse geographical regions such as in Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand, Western Australia, and UK. Up to date about 70 species of ammonia fungi have been recorded in those regions. However, ammonia fungi in the boreal forest of American continent have not yet been investigated. Thus, we collected the soils of A0 and the upper layer of HA horizons in plant pots from aspen forest near Edmonton, Canada. Thereafter, we applied urea (granular fertilizer; 46% nitrogen, 10 mg/g dry soil) in plant pots and incubated at 25˚C under 12 hours dark and light regime. After 40 days of incubation, several basidiomata of Coprinopsis species appeared. Among them one specimen was identified as C. rugosobispora based on macro- and microscopic features. Morphologically this species was very similar to C. phlyctidospora which was characterized by warty, ovoid basidiospores, and diverticulate veil elements. C. phlyctidospora has 4-spored basidia while C. rugosobispora had only 2-spored. In the beginning, it was thought probably it was only a 2-spored form of C. phlyctidospora. The basidiospore of C. rugosobispora (9.8-11.7×8.3-9.6㎛) was distinctly larger than that of C. phlyctidospora (8.4-10.6×6.0-7.6 ㎛). It was therefore separated from the C. phlyctidospora. Furthermore in this study we investigated its phylogenetic relationship based on the nuclear rDNA sequence in ITS regions and mating reactions among its close allies and further confirmed it as a distinct species. This is the first record of C. rugosobispora from American continent since it has been collected only from Europe (Belgium and Netherlands). Although urea effectively stimulated its occurrence but it has not yet been reported any other urea application studies so far. This indicates it is a new record in ammonia fungi as well.

A total of four Perigrapha species were found in Northeast China. Among them, Perigrapha extincta Kononenko, 1989 is reported for the first time in China. The species is briefly redescribed with adult and male genitalia pictures, key, and geographic distributions

The genus Dichrorampha Guenée, 1845 belong to subfamily Olethreutinae, family Tortricidae described about 110 species in the Holarctic region (Brown, 2005). In Palaearctic region, there are about 90 species and about 20 species found in Nearctic region; 54 species are recorded from Europe (Razowski, 2003). Danilevesky and Kuznetsov (1968) established the subtribe Dichroramphae by the genus Dichrorampha Guenée. Razowski (1989), proposed the usage of Lipoptychina instead of Dichroramphae since the former name is older. Komai (1999) referred to the group as the Dichrorampha genus-group and added Pammenemima Diakonoff (= Titanotoca Diakonoff) to the group (Horak, 2006). Since Park (1983) reported two species of the genus for the first time from Korea, they are mainly studied by Park and Ahn (1986), Byun, Bae and Park (1998), Oh, Bae and Park (2001). Four species have been reported to present from the Korean peninsula. In this study, Dichrorampha gueneeana Obraztsov, 1953 is report for the first time from Korea. D. gueneeana Obraztsov, 1953 resembles with D. latiflavana Caradja, 1916 superficially, but the former is easily distinguished from the latter by following characters: dorsal patch of forewing color pale yellowish, and smaller than D. latiflavana Caradja, 1916; sclerite of colliculum slender; bent proximally and ductus bursae broader than D. latiflavana Caradja, 1916. Morphological characters of this species are redescribed with illustrations of wing venation and genitalia.

The genus Scolytus of the family Scolytidae comprises more than 120 species through the world. Fifteen species of the genus Scolytus are revised from Korean peninsula. The genus Scolytus can be distinguished from the other genera by combination of following characteristics: frons slightly concave or convex with vertical wrinkles; club longer than 7-segmented funicle; pronotum fairly large, shining, punctured, narrowed towards the front, turning into a more slight or distinct neck-like constriction; vicinity of scutellum deeply impressed; elytra flat with punctures densely or sparsely arranged in rows; abdominal sternites from 2nd to 5th obliquely, convexly, concavely or vertically ascendant and with or without process or tubercles at middle. Scolytus frontalis Blandford, 1894 is new record to Korea. This species was collected from living Zelkova tree, Zelkova serrata which were planted along the street. We provide the habitus of this species and its biological informations.

Up to days, 15 species of the genus Xylotrechus, which have most diverse species among the tribe Clytini, have been recorded from Korean peninsula. The genus Xylotrechus can be distinguished from the other genera by combination of following characteristics: length of antennal socket longer than 1st segment of antenna; antennae reaches about 2/3 of elytra or less; carinae on frons well developed; 1st segment of hind tarsus 2 times longer than total length of 2nd+3rd segment; carinae on frons exceeding vertex; compound eye joined prothorax. In 2007, we collected a specimen which is belong to the genus Xylotrechus from Goyang-si, Gyeonggi province and we identified this specimen with Xylotrechus pavlovskii Plavilstshikov. Xylotrechus pavlovskii Plavilstshikov is easily distinguished from the congeneric species by following characteristics: femora black except basal half pale brown; antennal socket with yellow pubescence patch; pronotum black with distinct six yellow pubescence patches; elytra black with four pairs of yellowish linear pubescence patches except anterior 1/5 part reddish, apice blunt with inner and outer small sharpen projection. As a result of this study, we report this species for the first time from Korea with description and illustrations of diagnostic characters.

In the Old World, there are many bamboo-inhabiting phlaeothripine thrips mainly from the tropics and subtropics. Bamboosiella Ananthakrishnan and Podothrips Hood belonging to the subfamily Phlaeothripinae are well known genera in the East Asia. It is interesting that some of them are carnivorous and have the bodies bicolorous, usually the head, thorax and some of distal abdominal segments brown and the remaining abdominal segments yellow. In Korean peninsular, only two species, B. longiosanum Shin & Woo 1999 and P. sasa Okajima 1995, have been recorded from bamboo habitat. During the study of thysanopteran fauna, a newly recorded bamboo-inhabiting thrips P. odonaspicola (Kurosawa, 1937) is found from southern parts of Korea. The species have body bicolored brown and yellow, especially showing anteromedian brown marking on each of yellow abdominal segments II to V. It is known to occur under bamboo leaf sheaths and be a predator of Odonaspis secreatus Cockerell (Coccidae) in the temperate region (Okajima, 2006). In this study, taxonomic information on P. odonaspicola are presented with photos of specimens and the Korean bamboo-inhabiting thrips are briefly reviewed.

The genus pammene Hübner, [1825] is one of the genera related to Grapholita Treitschke, 1829, belonging to the tribe Grapholitini of the subfamily Olethreutinae (Bae & Park, 1998). The genus is mostly distributed in the Holarctic region, with about 100 species in the world. Danilevsky & Kuznetzov (1968) divided the genus into the two subgenera, Pammene and Eucelis. Komai (1999) discussed the phylogenetic position within the tribe. Since Park (1983) reported one species of the genus for the first time from Korea, they are mainly studied by Byun & Park (1993), Byun et al. (1998) and Bae & Park (1998). Up to date nine species have been reported from the Korea by Bae and park (1998). In this study, Pammene gallicolana Lienig & Zeller, 1846 is report for the first time from Korea. This species resembles with Pammene ignorata superficially, but P. gallicolana is easily distinguished from the latter by following characters: dorsal patch much larger, basal cavity much bigger, and apophysis posterior longer than P. ignorata, respectively. Morphological characters of this species are redescribed with illustrations of genitalia.