• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.221-228
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• 1993

This study on the genus Chordodes was based on the specimens collected from four areas in Korea during the period October 1988 to October 1992. As a result, a new species is described using a scanning electron microscope and conventional method, under the name of Chordodes koreensis. And It was identified that C. japonensis Inoue, 1952 is synonymous with C. ferganensis Kirjanova and Spiridonova, 1989. This genus is reported for the first time from Korea.

• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.223-230
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• 1992

The present study of hourse-hair worms was based on the materials collected from 17 areas in Korea during the period from October 1986 to June 1992. As a result the identified Korean horse-hair worms consist of 2 species in 1 genus. One is new species, Gordius lineatus n. sp. and the other, Gordius robustus Leidy, 1851 is newly recorded in South Korea. Total 6 species in 2 genera are now listed for the gordioidean fauna of Korea.