Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity

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Three Species of the Subfamilies, Lithocolletinae and Ornixolinae (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae), New to Korea

  • Da-Som Kim (Basic Science Division, National Science Museum of Korea) ;
  • Ji-Young Lee (Department of Biological Science and Biotechnology, Hannam University) ;
  • Bong-Kyu Byun (Department of Biological Science and Biotechnology, Hannam University)
  • Received : 2023.06.07
  • Accepted : 2023.10.10
  • Published : 2023.10.31
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Abstract

The subfamilies Lithocolletinae and Ornixolinae belong to the family Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera). In this study, one species in the subfamily Lithocolletinae, Neolithocolletis hikomonticola Kumata, 1963 and two species in the subfamily Ornixolinae, Conopomorpha flueggella Li, 2011 and Epicephala nudilingua Kawakita & Kato, 2016 are reported for the first time from Korea. Also, two genera, Neolithocolletis Kumata, 1963 and Conopomorpha Meyrick, 1885 are reported as new to Korea. All available information of these taxa, including details on their host plants and distributional regions are provided with the descriptions and illustrations of the adults, male and female genitalia of these taxa.

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Acknowledgement

We thank to Prof. Kyu-Tek Park (The Korean Academy of Science and Technology) for his preliminary work on the Korean Gracillariidae. We are also grateful to Prof. Yang-Seop Bae (Incheon National University); Dr. Gwan-Seok Lee (National Institute of Agricultural Sciences); Dr. Bong-Woo Lee (Korea National Arboretum) for providing specimens with access to examine specimens. This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) (grant number: NRF-2021R1I1A2059745) funded by the Government of Korea.

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