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Published: 2021-07-15
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Four species of Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera), new to Korea

Department of Environmental Education, Mokpo National University, Muan, Jeonnam 58554, Republic of Korea
Independent Researcher, Gangdong-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Research Institute for East Asian Environment and Biology, Gangdong-gu, Seoul 05264, Republic of Korea
Arctiinae Erebidae Lymantriinae Noctuidae Lepidoptera

Abstract

One species of Noctuidae, Chytonix brunneofascia Choi and Heo sp. nov., and three species of Erebidae, Gynaephora atrata Choi, Heo and Kim sp. nov., Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, and Pilipectus prunifera (Hampson) were newly recorded from Korea. This paper provides the diagnosis, descriptions of the adult and larva, and genitalia of the available species.

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