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First Record of the Soft-Wing Flower Beetle Genus Kuatunia (Coleoptera: Melyridae) in Korea

  • Lee, Seung-Gyu;Lee, Heejo;Ban, Young-Gyu;Kim, Dong Eon
    • Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.232-235
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    • 2020
  • The family Melyridae Leach includes more than 300 genera and 6,000 species consisting of four subfamilies (Dasytinae, Malachiinae, Melyrinae, Rhadalinae). Members of the subfamily Malachiinae is distributed all over the world except for New Zealand and prefer warmer, arid or semi-arid regions. Among the malachiine genera, a genus Kuatunia Evers includes 17 species worldwide, mainly distributed in East Asia. In this study, the genus and its described species, Kuatunia oblongula (Kiesenwetter), is newly added to the Korean fauna. A diagnosis, habitus photographs, and illustrations of diagnostic characters are provided, with a key to species of the genus in East Asia.

New Record of a Rare Hypogean Gobiid, Luciogobius pallidus from Jeju Island, Korea (제주도에서 처음 발견된 지하수계 서식 희귀 망둑어류 한국미기록종, Luciogoius pallidus)

  • Kim, Byung-Jik
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.306-310
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    • 2012
  • A hypogean gobiid, Luciogobius pallidus was described as the first record from Korea and also as the westernmost record of the species from the world, based on four specimens (31.2~53.6 mm SL) collected from Jeju Island, Korea. The species is characterized by having yellowish orange body color with I, 10~11 second dorsal fin rays, I, 10~12 anal fin rays, 13~15 pectoral fin rays, and 36 vertebrae as well as small embedded eyes beneath the skin. A new Korean name, "Juhong-mi-ggeun-mang-dug" was proposed for the species.

A New Record of Species of the Microplitis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) in Korea

  • Choi, Subin;Kim, Hyojoong
    • Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.159-161
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    • 2018
  • The genus Microplitis (Braconidae: Microgastrinae) is reported for the first time from Korea. The Microplitis has often quite small hypopygium, very short ovipositor and rugose propodeum with large aleola. The genus contains 190 described species, among them 19 speceis were recorded in Korea. Microplitis varicolor was established by Viereck in 1917. The species is found as new to Korea in this study. Microplitis varicolor is endoparasitoid, especially attacking species of Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) including pests of leguminous crop. In this study, diagnosis, photographs and host lists are included.

New Record of Nomeus gronovii (Pisces: Nomeidae) from Korea

  • Lee, Soo Jeong;Kim, Jin-Koo;Lee, Won-Chan;Kim, Jeong Bae;Kim, Hyung Chul
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.317-320
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    • 2015
  • A new record of Nomeus gronovii is described here based on a single specimen collected off the Jeju Island, Korea. The species has a blotched and spotted pattern on the body, 41 vertebrae, and a large pectoral fin with a white lower part. A molecular analysis of the partial (500 bp) cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene showed that this specimen is closely related to specimens of N. gronovii collected in South Africa (Kimura-two-parameter distance = 0.006-0.012). A new Korean name, "Ga-neun-dong-gang-yeon-chi", is proposed for this species.

New Record of a Marine Algal Species, Ahnfeltiopsis linearis (Phyllophoraceae, Gigartinales), in Korea

  • Kang, Pil Joon;Nam, Ki Wan
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.521-525
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    • 2017
  • A marine algal species belonging to Gigartinales was collected from Geoje, Korea. This shares the generic features of Ahnfeltiopsis, such as multiaxial thalli with a compact and pseudoparenchymatous medulla, densely cytoplasmic secondary medullary cells around immersed cystocarps with a carpostome, and is distinct from similar species within the genus by a combined feature of small (up to 4 cm tall) and tuft thalli, compressed to subcompressed branches except for ultimate branchlets and base of main axes, cartilaginous in texture, dichotomous branches, rarely produced proliferations, absence of hypha-like filament in the medulla and internal cystocarps with a carpostome. In phylogenetic tree based on rbcL sequence, the Korean species nests in the same clade with Ahnfeltiopsis linearis. The genetic distance between both sequences within the clade was 1.5%, considered to be within the intra-species range for the genus. This morphological and molecular evidence confirms the Korean alga to be identified as A. linearis originally described from California. This is the first record of A. linearis in Korea.

A New Species of the Spider Genus Ebrechtella Dahl and First Record of Ozyptila utotchkini Marusik, with the First Description of the Male of Ozyptila geumoensis Seo and Sohn (Araneae, Thomisidae) from Korea

  • Seo, Bo Keun
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.112-118
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    • 2015
  • A new species of the genus Ebrechtella Dahl, Ebrechtella juwangensis n. sp. and the male of Ozyptila geumoensis Seo and Sohn, 1997 are reported new to science. Ozyptila utotchkini Marusik, 1990 is reported for the first time in Korea. Habitus photos and illustrations of these three species are provided.

New Record of a Squillid Species, Oratosquilla fabricii (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae) from Korea

  • Hwang, Hee-seung;Kim, Hyun Kyong;Jung, Jongwoo
    • Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.267-270
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    • 2022
  • A squillid stomatopod, Oratosquilla fabricii, collected from Jindo Island, is reported for the first time in Korea. The family Squillidae differs from other families by the presence of more than four intermediate denticles of telson. This species is distinguished from O. oratoria, another Oratosquilla species recorded in Korea, by the presence of an armed submedian carinae on the fourth abdominal somite and dark patches on the second abdominal somite. In the present study, detailed descriptions and illustrations of O. fabricii are provided. A key to the species of Korean Oratosquilla species is also presented. With this new record, the number of stomatopod species in the Korean fauna has increased to 16.

Morphological description and molecular identification of juvenile of the previously unrecorded species Hoplolatilus chlupatyi (Malacanthidae) in the South Sea of Korea (한국 남해에서 출현한 옥돔과(Malacanthidae) 어류 1 미기록종 Hoplolatilus chlupatyi 치어의 형태기재 및 분자동정)

  • KIM, Yi-Jung;YU, Hyo-Jae;KIM, Jin-Koo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.56 no.4
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    • pp.316-321
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    • 2020
  • A single juvenile malacanthid specimen (Hoplolatilus chlupatyi) was collected from the South Sea of Korea and identified by DNA barcoding. This species is readily distinguished from other malacanthid species in having well developed rostral spine and elongated spines in the posttemporal and preopercle. A molecular analysis based on mitochondrial DNA COI sequences showed that this species is matched to adult H. chlupatyi (genetic distance = 0.005). Therefore, this is the first record of H. chlupatyi in Korea. We propose new Korean names, "Mu-ji-gae-og-dom-sog" for the genus Hoplolatilus and "Mu-ji-gae-og-dom" for the species H. chlupatyi.