집나방과(Yponomeutidae)에 속한 작은상제집나방(Saridoscelis sphenias Meyrick)은 2016~2017년 전남 진도와 완도에서 채집된 개체를 동정하여 2020 국내 미기록 종으로 보고되었으며, 마취목(Pieris japonica)과 진달래과에 속한 모새나무(Vaccinium bracteatum Thunb.)와 Leucothoe grayana Maxim. var oblongifolia (Miq.)가 기주식물로 알려져 있었다. 이 종은 2014년 8월 제주특별자치도 블루베리 재배지에서 처음 발견된 후 미정착된 것으로 취급되었으나, 2018년에 이어 2019년에도 제주시와 서귀포시 여러 블루베리 농장에서 발생이 확인되었다. 그 후 2020 년부터는 노지 과원에서도 발견되고 있다. 부화유충이 처음 신초 줄기 속으로 침입하여 가해하다가 중간크기로 자란 후 탈출하여 몇 개의 신초를 그 물로 철하고 집단적으로 가해하는 등 특이한 피해증상이 나타난다. 향후 피해가 우려되는 해충으로 피해증상과 생활사를 간단히 보고한다.

Human sacrifice in the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC – 1046 BC) refers to the practice of killing of human beings in rituals such as slaves, war prisoners as offerings to divine patrons and ancestors. The reason for this is the worship of the ancestors and the sacrifice of slaves to the gods to expand the ranks of their ancestors in another world. This paper aims to demonstrate that the Shang culture was based on human sacrifice to the wife of a king of Shang called Female Ancestors(xianbi 先妣) and the focus of this article is qualified xianbi of enjoying sacrifice in oracle inscriptions of Shang Dynasty. This research shows that xianbi had a quite high status in Shang dynasty, they enjoyed the same species of human sacrifices and animals with male ancestors(xianwang 先王). These results are evidence showing that the status of men and women were equal in the royal system of Shang Dynasty.

Human sacrifice is a religious practice in which living human individuals are consumed to worship natural and ancestral spirits. Ample evidence of this practice during the Yin-Shang period is furnished by oracle-bone inscriptions, which are extant from ca. 1200 B.C.E. This paper addresses the issue of female human sacrifice in Shang-dynasty oracle-bone inscriptions both from the point of view of religious studies and from a socio-historical perspective. Proceeding from a systematic overview of the various categories of female human sacrifice in the inscriptional record, the paper analyzes the social status and origins of the victims in order to better understand the specific functions and peculiarities of female human sacrifice under the Shang.