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Ten Newly Recorded Species of Insect on Dokdo Island, South Korea Journal280 of Species Research 6(3):280-290, 2017JOURNAL OF SPECIES RESEARCH Vol. 6,N No.OTE 3 Ten newly recorded species of insect on Dokdo Island, South Korea Bia Park, Gyu-Won Kang, Geun-Myeong Song, Guk-Hyang Ko, Duk-Young Park and Jong-Wook Lee* Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea *Correspondent: [email protected] A survey of insect fauna on Dokdo Island was conducted by Yeungnam University from 2009 to 2016. The survey locations were the two islands of Dokdo Island (i.e., East and West Islands), located in the East Sea of South Korea. As a result of the survey, we identified five orders, 20 families and 27 species including 10 species newly recorded on Dokdo Island, of which Eupelmus australiensis (Girault) is recorded for the first time in South Korea. In combination with the results of previous surveys made from 1981 to 2016, the insect fauna of Dokdo Island is now known to consist of 10 orders, 77 families and 164 species (and 29 additional undetermined species). In this paper, we list the insect fauna on Dokdo Island and present photographs of 10 species with brief taxonomic notes of a eupelmid species. Keywords: diversity, Eupelmus australiensis, list, new record Ⓒ 2017 National Institute of Biological Resources DOI:10.12651/JSR.2017.6.3.280 INTRODUCTION In this study, we identified five orders, 20 families and 27 species (and one undetermined species) and add- Dokdo Island, which is located in Gyeongsangbuk-do, ed 10 species belonging to three orders: [Hemiptera] Ulleung-gun, Ulleung-eup, Dokdo-ri, San 1-37, consists Psammotettix striatus (Cicadellidae); [Hymenoptera] of two main islands (East and West Islands) and 89 an- Brachymeria minuta (Chalcididae), Halticoptera circulus nexed islands. As a protected natural area, this island (Pteromalidae), Eupelmus australiensis (Eupelmi- was assigned as Natural Monument no. 336 in 1982 by dae); [Diptera] Calliphora nigribarbis (Calliphoridae), the South Korean Government. The first reports of the Campiglossa sada (Tephritidae), Coelopa frigida (Co- insect fauna on Dokdo Island were by Jolivet (1974) and leopidae), Lucilia illustris (Calliphoridae), Pegomya Yoon (1978), and these reports were followed by subse- cuniculari (Anthomyiidae), and Scathophaga stercoraria quent researchers (36 species by Lee and Kwon, 1981; (Scathophagidae). The purpose of this study is to report 16 species by Kwon et al., 1996; 49 species by An, 2000; unrecorded species on Dokdo Island including a eupelmid 69 species by Lee and Jeong, 2001; 58 species by Kim, species newly recorded in South Korea. 2004; six species by Park and Suh, 2005; eight species by Kim and Yeom, 2006; 10 species by Lee et al., 2006; 2009; 21 species by An, 2008; seven species by Park et MATERIALS AND METHODS al., 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; two species by Oh et al., 2012; five species by Kang et al., 2013; three species by Survey sites and period Yoo et al., 2013; eight species by Choi et al., 2015; three The present survey was performed along the roads, species by Park and Jang, 2016). As of 2015, 11 orders, which included flat and steep areas, on the two main 70 families and 154 species (and 28 undetermined spe- islands of Dokdo Island (Fig. 2). Using Google earth cies) had been recorded on Dokdo Island. Based on the 7.1.7.2606, a satellite photograph of Dokdo Island was list of insects on Dokdo Island (1981-2016) in the “Re- obtained (Fig. 1). The survey was conducted from 2009 port of the ecosystem survey of Dokdo Island in 2015” to 2016. published by the Ministry of Environment in 2016 (Park and Jang, 2016), we listed the total insect species on Survey methods and contents Dokdo Island with added species in this study, of which the order Collembola and 28 undetermined species are The insects were collected by sweeping and brandish- excluded. ing an insect net walking along a path. The researchers October 2017 PARK ET AL.-TEN SPECIES OF INSECT ON DOKDO ISLAND 281 Fig. 1. Map of Dokdo Island, East (right) and West (left) Islands. also performed observation and soil collection. The col- South Korea). lected specimens were preserved in 80% ethanol and taken to the Animal Systematic Laboratory at Yeungnam University, where they were exsiccated for classification RESULTS and identification. The list of insect fauna on Dokdo Is- land was organized according to the order found in the Through the present survey, five orders, 20 families Checklist of Korean Insects, 2010. and 27 species (and one undetermined species of family The morphological terminology follows Gibson and Eulophidae) were identified (Table 1). Our results, com- Fusu (2016). The adult morphology was observed with bined with the six families and 10 examined species a Stemi 2000 stereomicroscope (Carl Zeiss). The images from 1981 to 2015, indicate that a total of 10 orders, 77 were captured with an AxioCam HRc camera through a families and 164 species (and 29 undetermined species) SteREO Discovery V20 stereomicroscope (Carl Zeiss) have now been identified on Dokdo Island (Table 3 and and were produced with AxioVision64SE software (Carl Figs. 4, 5). Of the species added by this study, Eupelmus Zeiss). Final plates were prepared in Adobe Photoshop australiensis (Girault) is a newly recorded species in CS6 (Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, United South Korea and we describe this species below. States of America). The following abbreviations are used: MCSN, Museo Order Hymenoptera Linnaeus, 1758 Civico di Storia Naturale “Giacomo Doria”, Genoa, Italy; Family Eupelmidae Walker, 1833 MNHN, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Genus Eupelmus Dalman, 1820 France; NMPC, Narodni Muzeum v Praze, Prague, Czech Republic; QMBA, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Aus- Eupelmus australiensis (Girault, 1913) (Fig. 4) tralia; USNM, United States National Entomological Idoleupelmus australiensis Girault, 1913: 94-95. Lecto- Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, type: ♀; TL: Australia; TD: QMBA. Washington DC, USA; ZINR, Zoological Institute of Eupelmus listeri Girault, 1915: 13. Syntype: ♀; TL: Aus- Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia; tralia; TD: QMBA. TD: Type Depository; TL: Type Locality. All insect Eupelmus australicus Girault, 1915: 8. Lectotype: ♀; TL: specimens were housed at the Animal Systematic Lab- Australia; TD: QMBA. oratory in Yeungnam University (YNU, Gyeongsan, Eupelmus popa Girault, 1917: 4. Syntype: ♀; TL: Dutch 282 JOURNAL OF SPECIES RESEARCH Vol. 6, No. 3 A C B D F E Fig. 2. View of the survey areas of Dokdo Island, South Korea. A-C, East Island; D-F, West Island. October 2017 PARK ET AL.-TEN SPECIES OF INSECT ON DOKDO ISLAND 283 Table 1. Categorization of insects surveyed on Dokdo Island. No. Order Family Species Individuals 1 Odonata 1 1 1 2 Hemiptera 5 6 52 3 Coleoptera 3 3 30 4 Hymenoptera 5 6 60 5 Diptera 6 11 21 Total 5 20 27 164 Table 2. Comparison of appearance of insects on the two main is- lands of Dokdo Island. Site Order Family Species Individuals East Island 5 10 1 68 West Island 4 15 15 96 Fig. 3. The component ratio (%) of insect orders in the number of species in the present survey. Antilles; TD: USNM. Eupelmus Zangherii Masi, 1946: 27-28. Syntype: ♀; TL: Italy; TD: MCSN. subbasal region, mesotarsal pegs reddish-brown and Eupelmus alboannelatus Belanovsky & Dyadechko, tarsomeres dark apically (Figs. 4D-E). Gaster entirely 1951: 293. Syntypes: ♀, ♂; TL: unknown; TD: NMPC, smooth to slightly coriaceous. Ovipositor sheaths simi- ♀ and ZINR, ♂. lar to length of gaster and about twice as long as mv. Brasema leersiae garouae Risbec, 1955: 224. Syntype: Material examined. South Korea: 1♀, Gyeongsang- ♀; TL: Cameroon; TD: MNHN. buk-do, Ulleung-gun, Ulleung-eup, Dokdo-ri, Western Island, N37°14ʹ28.9ʺ, E131°51ʹ53.2ʺ, 5.IX.2016, Park Diagnosis of female. Length about 2.37 mm, including DY (YNU). ovipositor sheath (Fig. 4A). Head entirely golden-green Biology. [Primary hosts] Cecidomyiidae (Diptera): except vertex with coppery luster between anterior and Contarinia caudata, C. sorghicola, C. sp., Stenodiplosis posterior ocelli, anterior margin of lower face metallic panici, S. sorghicola; Noctuidae (Lepidoptera): Celama blue, and scrobal depression slightly bluish-green with sorghiella; [Parasitoid hosts] Eulophidae (Hymenoptera): bluish luster (Fig. 4B); in dorsal view with interocular Aprostocetus diplosidis, Tetrastichus sp.; [Plant asso- distance about 0.30-0.50× as long as head width; ver- ciates] Poaceae: Oryza sativa, Panicum sp., Sacchrum tex meshlike reticulate posteriorly; frons to parascrobal officinarum, Sorghum halepense, S. sp.; Polygonaceae: region very finely meshlike coriaceous-reticulate except Polygonum sp. (Gibson, 2011). scrobal depression finely, transversely wrinkled above Distribution. South Korea (new record), Antilles, Ar- interantennal region; lower face slightly and longitudi- gentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cam- nally meshlike coriaceous-reticulate; OOL : POL : LOL : eroon, Caribbean, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, El MPOD=1.5 : 2.9 : 1.7 : 1.0. Antenna dark brown except Salvador, Ghana, Hawaii, Hungary, India, Italy, Mexico, anellus and apical two-third region of pedicel yellow, Micronesia, Moldova, Netherlands Antilles, Nigeria, and scape with metallic bluish-green luster (Fig. 4B). Papua New Guinea, Peru, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Mesoscutum variably golden-green to greenish-blue with Ukraine, USA, Uruguay, Venezuela. coppery luster; mostly meshlike coriaceous-reticulate Remarks. E. australiensis is a common species in
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