• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.92-98
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• 2023

Larvae of shoot flies are known to live on decaying plants or to infest the stems of wild and crop plants. Among them, some species are economically very important pests that damage fruits or cereal crops in Old world tropics and subtropics. In Korea, three species, Atherigona orientalis, A. oryzae, and A. soccata, are managed as quarantine pests. To date, a total of five species, A. (Acritochaeta) orientalis Schiner, A. (Atherigona) bifurca Suh and Kwon, A. (A.) biseta Karl, A. (A.) falcata (Thomson) and A. (A.) oryzae Malloch, including two quarantine pests, have been recorded in Korean fauna. During the survey of Korean houseflies, the authors discovered two new unrecorded species, A. (A.) miliaceae Malloch and A. (A.) reversura Villeneuve. The diagnoses and illustrations of these species are provided in addition to the key to the Korean Atherigona species.