An Oriental genus Paraleprodera Breuning, 1935 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Monochamiini) has been found for the first time in Korea in the form of Paraleprodera diophthalma diophthalma (Pascoe, 1857) from South Korea. We provide the first description of the genital structure and immature stage of Paraleprodera. A diagnosis of the genus, re-description, biological information and illustrations of P. diophthalma diophthalma are also provided.
The Lamiine subgenus Pseudale Schwarzer, 1925 from Korean peninsula is reviewed. Along with the only recorded species Pterolophia (Pseudale) jiriensis Danilevsky, 1996, we found two additional new species based on morphological and genital difference. Descriptions, photographs of habitus and male genitalia of each species and a key to species of Korea are provided herein. Hence, genital variation of 4 different geographical populations of Pterolophia (Pseudale) jiriensis is discussed.
Generally, Cerambycidae inhabites in tropical and subtropical zones, and they are large family among Coleoptera and distributed over 20,000 species worldwide. They typically characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than the beetle's body. Order Cerambycidae are divided into 11 subfamilies in the world, among them, there are 304 species of the 159 genera in 7 subfamilies from Korea up to date. The genus Anoplophora is belonging to the tribe Agniini in the subfamily Lamiinae. Most species of Anoplophora are showed their beautiful colors on the elytra, pronotum, antennae and ventral parts etc. These colors superficially seems like mere patterns of the integument. Usually, colored pubescent patches of the elytra in Anoplophora are arranged in round spots, in others they are arranged in transverse bands. And also, the species of this genus have very long antennae (about 1.3-1.6 times the body length in males, 1.0-1.5 times the body length in females of most species) then others and mostly body size are large, some species is over 50mm. In this paper Anoplophora freyi is newly recorded in Korea. Consequently, a total of three species of the genus Anoplophora are recorded in Korea.
The genus Oberea belongs to the tribe Saperdini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) and contains about 270 described species in the world. The genus can be defined by the combination of the following characters: body elongate, cylindrical; legs very short, apex of hind femur not reaching beyond abdominal sternite II. O. vittata Blessig was reconfirmed its distribution in South Korea during the study. Two species are newly reported here: O. heyrovskyi Pic and O. tsuyukii Takashi & Ohbayashi. We provide a revised checklist of 12 species and a pictorial key to species for the identification, with diagnostic characters of O. heyrovskyi and O. tsuyukii.
The genus Eutetrapha belong to the subfamily Lamiinae of the family Cerambycidae was established in 1884 by Bates, based on a new species, Eutetrapha variicornis Bates, 1884 (= Saperda sedecimpunctata Motschulsky, 1860). Until now, the genus has been known only from Asia, and two species, Eutetrapha metallescens (Motschulsky) and Eutetrapha sedecimpunctata (Motschulsky) are presented in Korea. In this study, we report one species of the genus, Eutetrapha ocelota (Bates), for the first time from Korea with key to the Korean Eutetrapha species, short descriptions, and photographs.