Kyu-Tek Park

Incheon National University | INU · Division of Life Sciences

Six new species of the genus Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer, 1853 (Lecithocerinae) are described from Kenya and Tanzania: five new species from Tanzania (L. kitulangaroensis Park, sp. nov., L. grisella Park, sp. nov., L. soniana Park, sp. nov., L. triasgonia Park, sp. nov., and L. majorella Park, sp. nov.) and one new species from Kenya (L. naromorue...

The genus Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer, 1853 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) is reviewed, with descriptions of four new species: Lecithocera katangaica Park, sp. nov., L. seydeliella Park, sp. nov., L. cornutispina Park, sp. nov., and L. lusingensis Park, sp. nov. Five species are already recorded from this country: 1) L. chloros...

The present study is aimed at describing lecithocerid specimens from Madagascar collected by Pierre Viette and his colleagues during the 1950’s and preserved in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN, Paris). Eighteen new species of Torodora Meyrick, 1894 are described, namely: T. hana Park & Koo, sp. nov., T. larseni Park & Koo, sp. nov.,...

Sumatra is the second largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, but it is one of the most poorly explored areas for species diversity of the family Lecithoceridae, with less than 10 known species. In the present paper, six new species of Thubana Walker, 1864 (T. sumatrana sp. nov., T. spiniosa sp. nov., T. lata sp. nov., T. prapaten...

Two new species of Gelechiidae, Stenolechia byuni Park, sp. nov. and Acanthophila hallasana Park, sp. nov. are described from Korea. Images of adults and genitalia are given.

The family Lecithoceridae is still one of the poorly known groups in the Afrotropical Region. In Ghana, only eight species of the family have been known so far. In this article, six new species of Lecithoceridae are described from Ghana: four species of the subfamily Lecithocerinae: Lecithocera minutiella Park, sp. nov.; Homaloxestis dallastai Park...

The family Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea) is a poorly known group of microlepidoptera, even though it is one of the highly diverse groups containing more than 5,000 known species worldwide. In this article, the family in the Korean Peninsula is reviewed, with a total of 215 known species, belonging 67 genera and four subfamilies.

The family Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea) is one of the more poorly known groups of microlepidoptera, even though it is a highly diverse group containing more than 1430 known species so far. During the last two decades since the end of the 20th century, the author has intensively studied the family Lecithoceridae, especially for the les...

The family Lecithoceridae is reviewed with descriptions of nine new species from Ivory Coast (Republic of Côte d’Ivoire): four new species of Thubdora Park, 2018 (T. ivoryensis Park & Karisch, sp. nov., T. pulchella Park & Karisch, sp. nov., T. tonkpiensis Park & Karisch, sp. nov., and T. cuneiformis Park & Karisch, sp. nov.); and four new species...

A new genus, Spiniola Park, gen. nov., is described from Malawi, based on the type species, S. hanaro Park, sp. nov., and three new species of Torodora Meyrick, 1894 are described: T. batillana Park & Koo, sp. nov. from Kenya, and T. chrysotes Park & Koo, sp. nov. and T. manalis Park & Koo, sp. nov. from Uganda. Images of adults and genitalia of th...

Three new species of the genera Protolychnis Meyrick, 1925, Torodora Meyrick, 1894, and Thubdora Park, 2018 (Protolychnis tangaensis Park, sp. nov., Torodora nixcrinis Park, sp. nov., and Thubdora muhezaica Park, sp. nov.) are described respectively from Tanzania. Images for adults and the genitalia of all species are provided and a list of the kno...

Four new species of Thubdora Park, 2018 and one new species of Torodora Meyrick,1894 are described from Tanzania. The new species are Thubdora forficatalis Park & Cho, sp. nov., T. mufindiensis Park & Cho, sp. nov., T. ochrospilosa Park & Cho, sp. nov., T. tanzaniana Park & Cho, sp. nov., and Torodora melanonota Park & Cho, sp. nov. Images of adult...

A review of the larval host plants of the family Gelechiidae in Korea is provided. The data is mostly based on results of the survey on the larval host plants for the lepidopteran species by the second author since 2008, and a part of them is from the previous data by the first author and co-authors (Park 1983, 1991; Park et al. 2020, 2021; Park &...

Three new species, Torodora pakiaensis Park, T. puiana Park and Abrachmia kerasista Park are described and illustrated from Thailand.

In this study, two new species of the family Gelechiidae are described from Korea. The new species are Teleiodes juglansivora Park & Byun, sp. nov. and Encoplata najuensis Park & Byun, sp. nov. For the new species, some biological data concerning on their larval food plants are given.

Five new species belonging to the subfamily Torodorinae of Lecithoceridae are described from Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea), based on specimens which were collected during a short expedition on the island by the second author in 1994. The new species are three species of the genus Thubdora Park, 2018 (T. biocoica sp. nov., T. vernaculella sp. nov...

The family Lecithoceridae in Bhutan is reviewed, with descriptions of a new species of Torodora Meyrick, 1894 ( T. namgaydemae Park & Gielis, sp. n.), and a new species of Thubana Walker, 1864 ( Th. bhutanica Park & Gielis, sp. n.). In addition, eight species are reported for the first time: Torodora multispinata Park, 2020; T. macrosigna Gozmány,...

A new genus Viperinus Park, gen. nov., belonging to Torodorinae (Lecithoceridae), is proposed, with descriptions of two new species, V. orbiosus Park & Koo sp. nov. from Kenya and V. pyknoistus Park & Koo, sp. nov. from Uganda. Furthermore, two new species of Protolychnis Meyrick, 1925, P. oculiella Park & Koo, sp. nov. and P. morogorensis Park & K...

A checklist of 180 species belonging to the family Lecithoceridae (68 species of the subfamily Lecithocerinae and 112 species of the subfamily Torodorinae) is provided, with references to the original description, type species, and distribution. Twelve species which were described in Lecithocera Herrich-Shäffer by Viette (1954–1988) from Madagascar...

A new species of the genus Tisis Walker is described from Sumatra, Indonesia, which is very close to T. sumatraensis Park, 2007.

Five new species of the family Lecithoceridae are described from Thailand: two new species of Torodorinae (Lepidozonates verberis Park, sp. n. and Torodora hispiduana Park, sp. n.) and three new species of Lecithocerinae (Lecithocera indanonensis Park, sp. n., Lecithocera petalialis Park, sp. n., and Opacoptera kerastiodes Park, sp. n.). In additio...

Five new species of the genus Torodora Meyrick of the family Lecithoceridae are described from Cambodia. The new species are T. helvinotula Park, sp. nov., T. spathiana Park, sp. nov., T. alterniella Park, sp. nov., T. triquetrella Park, sp. nov., and T. cupriella Park, sp. nov.. In addition, Torodora macrosigna Gozmány, 1973 is reported for the fi...

A new genus, Thrombialis Park, gen. n., with type species, T. sylvestrana Park & Koo, sp. n., and a new species of Furcalis Park, Furcalis mpangensis Park & Koo, sp. n., are described from Uganda. Adults and male and female genitalia of the new species are illustrated.

A small Oriental genus Pompographa Gozmány, 1971 is reviewed, with three known species including a new species P. concaviella Park, sp. nov. described from Thailand. The recently described species from Laos, Torodora barathrona Park, 2020 is transferred to Prompographa, P. barathrona Park, comb. nov. Adult images of the three known species and geni...

Two species of Thubdora Park (T. onsemiro Park, sp. nov. and T. elgozmanyi Park, sp. nov.) and one species of Ptilothyris Walsingham (P. galbiplatella Park, sp. nov.) are described from Uganda.

The Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, located in the Dalma Hills about 10 km north of the city of Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India, is topographically and climatically unique. It encompasses a forested area of over 195 km2 east of the Singhbhum and Saraikela-kharsawan districts of Jharkhand, extending from Chandil about 40 km eastward, running nearly parallel...

The Eurasian apple, birch forest, and hawthorn pest moth, Choreutis pariana (Clerck) (Choreutidae), is newly reported from Korea. A larva of the species was reared from Betula davurica Pall.

From the result of a study based on the material reared from larval stages of some microlepidoptera, two new species of Gelechiidae (Dichomeris cuneatiella Park, sp. nov. and Euscrobipalpa lyratumella Park, sp. nov.) are described, and three species of the family (Paralida triannulata Clarke, 1958, Dichomeris okadai Moriuti, 1982, and D. ochthophor...

Four new species of the genus Paniculata Park, 2018 are described from the Afrotropical Region: P. biaensis Park and Kim, sp. nov., from Ghana; P. hesperusalis Park and Kim, sp. nov. and P. africanus Park and Kim, sp. nov., from Uganda; and P. mulanjensis Park and Kim, sp. nov., from Malawi. Images of all of the new species, depicting adults and ma...

Genus Torodora Meyrick of the family Lecithoceridae in Laos is reviewed, describing five new species and reporting two unrecorded species of the genus. The new species are T. barathrona Park, sp. nov., T. canalis Park, sp. nov., T. cordisigna Park, sp. nov., T. digitalis Park, sp. nov., and T. multispinata sp. nov. In addition, T. metasaris (Meyric...

The holotypes of the Malagasy Lecithoceridae described by Pierre Viette (from 1954 to 1988) are reviewed, which represents a total of 23 specimens originally assigned to the genera Idiopteryx Walsingham, 1891 (4 named species) and Lecithocera Herrich-Shäffer, 1853 (19 named species). The holotype of Nemophora janineae Viette, 1954, erroneously desc...

In this study, a genus Eretmocera Zeller, 1852, is reported for the first time from Korea, with a newly recorded species of E. artemisiae Li, 2019. External and genitalic characteristics of the newly recorded genus and species were illustrated and redescribed briefly, with biological information.

Twelve new species of the genus Dichomeris Hübner, 1818 and one new species of the genus Helcystogramma Zeller, 1877 of the subfamily Dichomeridinae of Gelechiidae are described from Vietnam, in combination with Chinese specimens. The new species are D. fascialobella Park & Li, sp. nov., D. flavimaculata Park & Li, sp. nov., D. infundibularis Park...

Family Coleophoridae, commonly known as “casebearers”, is one of the largest families of Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera), with more than 1,450 described species worldwide, but it has been poorly known in Korea, with only 32 known species of the genus Coleophora Hübner, 1822. Here we present Coleophora fasciella Koo & Baldizzone, sp. nov., a new species...

Two new genera, Halista Park, gen. nov. (type species: Ephalista batillosa Park & Kim, sp. nov.) and Mireana Park, gen. nov. (type species: Miraena tawitawiensis Park & Kim sp. nov.), and four new species, assigned to the previously known genera: Lecithocera wolframmeyi sp. nov, L. bipunctata sp. nov., Torodora platiella sp. nov. and Chrysonasma oc...

A new species of Zanclognatha Lederer, 1857 of the family Erebidae, Z. querciella sp.n., one species of Family Erebidea, Asota egens (Walker, 1854) and two species of Family Noctuidae: Meganephria retinea Gyulai and Ronkay, 1999 and Amphipyra subrigua Bremer and Grey, 1853, are reported for the first time from Korea. In addition, larval feeding hab...

The genus Dragmatucha Meyrick is reviewed and 11 species of a total of 13 are described as new. The new species originate from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda. Based on morphological characters, especially the color pattern of both wings, the genus is divided into two species-groups: the proaula species-group with five sp...

Fourteen new species of the Afrotropical genus Thubdora Park, 2018 (Lecithoceridae: Torodorinae) are described from Uganda: Thubdora afropyralidis Park, sp. nov., T. fruticosa Park, sp. nov., T. kibalensis Park, sp. nov., T. klenodes Park, sp. nov., T. latidiscalis Park, sp. nov., T. mirinae Park, sp. nov., T. nemorosa Park, sp. nov., T. retusivalv...

Two new species of the genus Protolychnis Meyrick are described: P. petiliella Park, sp. nov. from Uganda and P. bastini Park, sp. nov. from Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya. Adults, male and female genitalia of both new species are illustrated. A check-list for all known species of the genus is provided.

A new species of Lecithocera Herrich-Shäffer, L. atriptera Park, sp. nov., is described from Korea, and two species, Homaloxestis myeloxesta Meyrick, 1932 and Lecitholaxa indigens (Meyrick, 1914) are reported for the first time from Korea. Halolaguna sublaxata Gozmány is newly known from Isl. Jeju-do. In addition, new localities for the six previou...

From a result of surveys on the biodiversity monitoring for moths in Korea, six species of micro-moths that were never known from Korea are reported here for the first time from this country. They are: Udea pseudocrocealis (South, 1901) of the family Crambidae, which has been known as endemic to Japan; Epinotia albiguttata (Oku, 1974) of the family...

The new genus Corymbus Park, gen. n., including six new species from the Afrotropical Region - Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda - is described. The new species are: C. deprinsi Park & Aarvik, sp. n., C. malmoius Park & Aarvik, sp. n., C. hirtitibia Park & Aarvik, sp. n., C. kenyaensis Park & Aarvik, sp. n., C. hallicis Park & Aarvik, sp. n., and...

Two new species of the genus Homaloxestis Meyrick, 1910 are described from Uganda, Africa: H. arcuatus sp. nov. and H. lactizonalis sp. nov. A previously known species of the genus from Uganda, H. hemigastra Meyrick, 1931 is transferred to the genus Furcalis Park as F. hemigastra (Meyrick, 1931), comb. nov. The female of F. hemigastra is reported f...

The Lecithoceridae of southern Africa are reviewed, based on material preserved in the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. A total of 22 species are recognized including three new species: Idiopteryx jansei sp. nov., Lecithocera minyodes sp. nov. and Protolychnis natalensis sp. nov. Isotypa Janse, 1954 sy...

Seven new species of the genus Deltoplastis Meyrick are described: D. acutangulata Wang et Yu, sp. nov., D. anatoliana Wang et Park, sp. nov., D. multidentalis Wang et Yu, sp. nov. and D. similihoristis Wang et Yu, sp. nov. from China; D. aculeata Wang et Yu, sp. nov. and D. spatuliunca Wang et Yu, sp. nov. from Malaysian Borneo; and D. ovidiscalis...

Three new species of the genus Empalactis Meyrick (Empalactis backanensis Park, sp. nov., Empalactis curvatilis Park, sp. nov., and Empalactis scolosetes Park, sp. nov.) and one new species of the genus Bagdadia Amsel (Bagdadia globulibasis Park, sp. nov.) are described from the northern Vietnam. These two genera are reported for the first time fro...

Three new species of the Pacificulla Park, P. dohertyi Park, sp. nov., P. kumusiensis Park, sp. nov., and P. galbidorsalis Park, sp. nov. of subfamily Crocanthinae (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) are described from the island of New Guinea. The female of Hannara buloloensis Park is reported and illustrated for the first time. Descriptions and illustr...

Two species of the genus Frisilia Walker have been known in Africa: Frisilia compsostoma Meyrick, 1921 from Zimbabwe, 1921 and Frisilia triturata Meyrick, 1914 from Malawi. In the present study, F. compsostoma is reported for the first time from Malawi, and F. triturate from Kenya, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Images of adult...

The type specimens of Lecithoceridae which are deposited in the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Tervuren, Belgium (five species of Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer and two of Homaloxestis Meyrick) were re-examined. The results are: 1) two species of Lecithocera are transferred to Thubdora Park and Torodora Meyrick respectively, with new combina...

Ptilothyris Walsingham, 1897, a poorly known Afrotropical genus of Lecithoceridae, is revised. Eight new species are described and illustrated: P., P. pilosa Park, sp. nov., and P. vokaensis Park, sp. nov. Each species is compared with type specimens of the related species deposited in various museums worldwide. COI barcode sequences of six species...

Se revisan tres géneros orientales poco conocidos de Lecithoceridae; Tiriza Walker, 1864, Siovata Walker, 1886 y Trypherogenes Meyrick, 1931. Desde que los dos géneros fueron descritos y después fueron puesto en sinonimia con Lecithocera Herrich-Shäffer por MEYRICK (1910), ha existido mucha confusión tanto sobre la identidad genérica como sobre las...

The Lecithoceridae of the Philippine Islands are reviewed, including details of the genera and a check list of the known species. Type localities, depositories of types, geographic distributions, diagnostic key characters and historical records are given for each species. Three new species of Torodora Meyrick are described and illustrated: T. rhaph...

Three genera Megacraspedus Zeller, 1839, Aulidiotis Meyrick, 1925, and Cuprina Sinev, 1988 and four species of the superfamily Gelechioidea are reported for the first time from the Korean Peninsula. They are Megacraspedus coleophorodes (Li and Zheng, 1995) and Aulidiotis phoxopterella (Snellen, 1903) of Gelechiidae; Martyringa ussuriella Lvovsky, 1...

Based on the material collected from Cameroon in 1913–1918 and Congo in 1993 which are preserved in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, USA, a new genus Thubdora Park, gen. nov. and seven new species of the subfamily Torodorinae (Lecithoceridae) are described. They are Torodora efulenensis sp. nov., Dragmatucha hispidula sp. nov.; a...

Seven species of Adelidae (Lepidoptera) are reported as new to Korea: Adela nobilis Christoph, Nemophora albiantennella Issiki, N. chalyebeella (Bremer), N. smaragdaspis (Meyrick), N. tyriochrysa (Meyrick), N. wakayamensis (Matsumura), and Nematopogon dorsiguttella (Erschoff). With an introductory systematic review of the Adelidae family, this stud...

Three new species of Lecithocera Herrich-Shäffer, 1853; L. quadratiella sp. nov., L. nantouensis sp. nov., and L. meishanensis sp. nov., are described from Taiwan. External and genital features of the new species are illustrated. A check list of the known species of Lecithocera in Taiwan is provided.

Two new species of Gisilia Kasy, 1968, G. melanobasis n. sp. and G. tamrae n. sp., are described from Korea. Ascalenia thoracista (Meyrick, 1915) is transferred to Gisilia and compared to two Korean congeners. External and genital features of two new species and G. thoracista are illustrated. Piercing oviscapts are reported from Gelechioidea for th...

Based on material collected in Cameroon, Africa in 1913-18 and deposited in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, USA, three new genera and 10 new species of Lecithocerinae (Lecithoderidae) are described and illustrated. The new genera are Paniculata gen. nov., Furcalis gen. nov., and Notioseus gen. nov. The new species are Homaloxest...

A catalogue of the Indian species of the genus Frisilia Walker is provided, with eight previously known and one new species, F. chandrai sp. nov. described from India. In addition, the other new species, F. yangbaei sp. nov. described from Cambodia and Thailand is also included. A key for the Indian species is given. Images of adults and male genit...

A total of thirteen species of the genus Stathmopoda (Lepidoptera, Stathmopodidae) is reviewed from the Korean Peninsula including two new species, Stathmopoda baegunica Park & Kim sp. nov. and S. euryzoister Park & Kim sp. nov., and five newly recorded species, S. commoda Meyrick, S. neohexatyla Li & Wang, S. pedella (Linnaeus), S. persona Terada...

The genus Anarsia Zeller (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) in Laos is reviewed, with 11 species including one new species: Anarsia laosana sp. nov. Additionally another 10 species of the genus, namely, Anarsia choana Park, A. decora Li & Zheng, A. isogona Meyrick, A. kepensis Park, A. ovula Park and Ponomarenko, A. paraisogona Park and Ponomarenko, A. pat...

Four new species of Lecithoceridae: two new species of the subfamily Torodorinae (Lepidozonates landryi sp. nov. and Torodora longidiscalis sp. nov.) and two of the subfamily Lecithocerinae (Homaloxestis lactarius sp. nov. and Lecithocera pahiaensis sp. nov.) are described from Vietnam. In addition, Frisilia moriutii Park, 2005 and Tisis nielseni P...

Eight new species of Promalactis were discovered from Indonesia: Promalactis diazomatis sp. nov., Promalactis hamatella sp. nov., Promalactis ingenticula sp. nov., Promalactis laetusella sp. nov., Promalactis latifundus sp. nov., Promalactis minutispina sp. nov., Promalactis mooatana sp. nov. and Promalactis trigonilancis sp. nov. Illustrations of...

The Blastobasidae from Jeju Island, Korea are reviewed and Syncola beljaevi Sinev, 2007 is reported for the first time. Lateantenna spiniharpella (Kuznetsov & Sinev, 1985) and Neoblastobasis biceratala (Park, 1984) are also newly reported from Jeju Island. Lateantenna songi (Park, 2014), which was described from Jeju Island, is synonymized with L....

In a faunal study of the micromoths in Cambodia, thirteen species of the genus Dichomeris (Gelechiidae, Dichomeridinae) are recognized, including associated Chinese species. Eight species are described as new: D. arcuata sp. nov., D. splendiptera sp. nov., D. samkosensis sp. nov., D. foliforma sp. nov., D. magnimacularis sp. nov., D. hainanensis sp...

Two new species of Torodorinae: Caveana plenalinea Park, sp. nov. and Antiochtha hemitatos Park, sp. nov., are described from Laos. At the same time, three species of the genus Torodora are reported for the first time from Laos.

Three new species of the genus Anarsia Zeller (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) are described: A. huensis Park, sp. nov. from Vietnam, and A. pursatica Park, sp. nov. and A. degeneralis Park, sp. nov. from Cambodia. Images of adults and genitalia for the new species are illustrated. A check list of the known species from both countries is provided.

Three species of genus Gonaepa Walker, 1866 belonging to Lecithoceridae Crocanthinae: G. nagaensis Park, sp. n., G. ochrorhytisma Park, sp. n., and G. cordata Park, sp. n., are described from the Philippines. The Crocanthinae comprises more than 80 species which are mostly known from the Australian and Oceanian region, with few exceptions. Images o...

Two species of Gelechiidae, Teleiodes cylindiata Park, sp. n. and Helcystogramma haryensis Park, sp. n., are described, based on specimens collected by light trap in Jeju Island which is the largest island located in the Southwest of the Korean Peninsula. At the same time, a species of Depressariidae, Agonopterix holoceana Park, sp. n., which was r...

Two new species of Gelechiidae; Cnaphostola chujaensis Park, sp. nov. and Stenolechia insulalis Park, sp. nov. were described from Korea, based on specimens collected from Jeju-do which is the largest island located in the south-western part of the Korean Peninsula. The Cnaphostola Meyrick, 1918 is very similar to Polyhymno Chambers in the external...

The Family Lecithoceridae of the Oceanian region, which includes New Guinea (Papua and Papua New Guinea) together with some islands east of Borneo and SW Pacific islands, is reviewed, with a description of Thubana brunalis Park, sp. Nov. T. brunalis is the second species of the Torodorinae introduced to the region. Also included a historical review...

Two species belonging to Meleonoma Meyrick; M. tamraensis Park, sp. nov. and M. brevicula Park, sp. nov., are described from Jeju Isl., Korea, and Meleonoma facialis Li & Wang, 2002 is reported for the first time from Korea. The genus Meleonoma is still some debatable in the taxonomic position of its family level, and is tentatively placed in the f...

The Vietnamese species belonging to the genus Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer of the family Lecithoceridae (Gelechioidea) are reviewed. Thirteen species of Lecithocera including eight new species: Lecithocera alpina Park, sp. nov., L. canitia Park, sp. nov., L. criniptera Park, sp. nov., L. hana Park, sp. nov., L. haviensis Park, sp. nov., L. nara Par...

Fifteen species of the genus Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer, 1853 including seven new species (L. leytensis Park & Mey, sp. n., L. insulana Park & Mey, sp. n., L. lunulata Park & Mey, sp. n., L. distigmata Park & Mey, sp. n., L. strigana Park & Mey, sp. n., L. luzonica Park & Mey, sp. n., and L. stenocaltalexis Park & Mey, sp. n.), one newly recorded...

In a study on material of the microlepidoptera in North Korea which was collected during the zoological expeditions (1970’-1980’) by a scientific agreement between Polish and N Korean academies of Science, 17 species belonging to the superfamily Gelechioidea are recognized. Of them, 11 species of Gelechiidae, two species of Oecophoridae, and two sp...

The genus Anarsia Zeller in Vietnam and Cambodia is reviewed, with 19 species including 10 new species: A. deuterodes Park, sp. nov., Anarsia diversiola Park, sp. nov., A. porthmista Park, sp. nov., A. melanodes Park, sp. nov., A. gryphodes Park, sp. nov., A. campestra Park, sp. nov., A. similicampa Park, sp. nov., A. kepensis Park, sp. nov., A. pu...

The genus Deltoplastis Meyrick is reviewed from China and its neibouring countries. Fifteen species are recognized, including nine new species: D. angustifoliacea sp. nov., D. conjugata sp. nov., D. dentata sp. nov., D. curviloba sp. nov., D. gyroflexa sp. nov., D. hippocrepica sp. nov., D. mamillata sp. nov., D. acutiprocessa sp. nov., and D. maeh...

A new subfamily, Crocanthinae n. subf., is proposed for Crocanthes Meyrick and its allies, which have been considered as a monophyletic group with a unique genital character—an absent or remarkably reduced gnathos in the male genitalia. The subfamily includes Aprosoesta Turner, Lamprista Park, Pacificulla Park, Hannara Park, and Gonaepa Walker. Apr...

Three species of Lepidoptera: Hendecaneura impar Walsingham of Tortricidae, Deltoplastis apostatis (Meyrick) of Lecithoceridae, and Doratoptera virescens Marumo of Geometridae, are reported for the first time from Korea. Styrax obassia Siebold and Zucc. is known for the first time for the larval host plant of H. Impar: Larvae were collected from th...

The Gelechioidea (>18 000 species), one of the largest superfamilies of Lepidoptera, are a major element of terrestrial ecosystems and include important pests and biological model species. Despite much recent progress, our understanding of the classification, phylogeny and evolution of Gelechioidea remains limited. Building on recent molecular stud...

Trichoboscis Meyrick belongs to the subfamily Lecithocerinae of Lecithoceridae. It is a small, poorly known genus, comprising two known species described from India. In this study, three new species are described: T. multispina Park & Wang, sp. nov. and T. phliuensis Park & Wang, sp. nov. from Thailand, and T. cultriformis Park & Wang, sp. nov. fro...

Seven species of Olethreutinae: Bactra venosana (Zeller), Eudemis brevisetosa Oku, Gypsonoma dealbana (Frölich), Hedya iophaea (Meyrick), Lobesia takahirai Bae, Pammene nemorosa Kuznetsov, and Phaecadophora fimbrata Walsingham, 1900, are reported from Korea for the first time. Photos of adult habitus and genitalia are provided if available.

Two new species of Torodora (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Lecithoceridae) are described from Taiwan, i.e., T. meifengensis Park, sp. nov., and T. parasciadosa Park, sp. nov., and two additional species are reported from Taiwan for the first time, i.e., T. frustrans (Diakonoff, 1952) and T. flavescens Gozmány, 1978. The female of T. frustran...

The Korean species of Schoenobiinae are reviewed. A total of four genera and 10 species are recognized. Among these, three species: Schoenobius sasakii Inoue, Scirpophaga excerptalis (Walker), and Scirpophaga gotoi Lewvanich, are reported for the first time from Korea, and Scirpophaga praelata (Scopoli) is reported for the first time from South Kor...

Four micromoths: Elachista similis Sugisima and E. phalaridis Parenti (Elachistidae), Sitotroga zhengi Li & Wang (Gelechiidae), and Coleophora hoeneella Baldizzone (Coleophoridae), are reported for the first time from Korea. All the known species were enumerated with their available information including the collecting localities, distributional ra...

Genus Neoblastobasis Kuznetsov & Sinev of the family Blastobasidae has been known with three species in Korea. In this study, a new species of the genus, Neoblastobasis songi Park, sp. nov. is described, and N. camelliae Chen & Wu, 2013 is reported for the first time from Korea. A key for the species and a tentative catalogue of the genus in Korea...

In a faunal survey of the Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) from Is. Ulleung-do in the East Sea of Republic of Korea, one species of Gelechiidae, Bagdadia gnomia Ponomaranko, is reported for the first time from Korea and an unknown species of the genus Bryotropa was discovered. In addition, eight species of Gelechiidae including a little know...