New Record of a Limacodid Moth, Hampsonella takemurai (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae) from Korea
Sei-Woong Choi1,2,*, Bora Shin3, Jae-Young Lee4, Sung-Soo Kim5, Alexey V. Solovyev6
1Department of Environmental Education, Mokpo National University, Muan 58554, Korea
2Institute of Coastal Environment, Mokpo National University, Muan 58554, Korea
3Department of Biology, Mokpo National University, Muan 58554, Korea
4National Institute of Ecology, Seocheon 33657, Korea
5Research Institute for East Asian Environment and Biology, Seoul 05264, Korea
6Samara State Medical University, Samara 443099, Russia
We report a limacodid moth, Hampsonella takemurai (Inoue) for the first time in Korea based on four males from the southwestern islands of Shinan-gun, Jeollanam-do. The genus Hampsonella Dyar was designated with the type species Parasa dentata Hampson and comprises six species, H. acatharta (Hampson, 1897), H. albidula Wu and Fang, 2009, H arizana (Wileman, 1916), H. dentata (Hampson, 1893), H. membra Solovyev and Witt, 2009, and H. takemurai (Inoue, 1986). Hampsonella takemurai can be diagnosed by the bipectinate male antennae, the blackish forewing with a large, dark blackish postmedial marking, and the blackish hindwing. The male genitalia can be diagnosed by the short triangular uncus, the long digitate gnathos, and the simple membranous valva. We provided the diagnosis and photographs of adult and male genitalia and COI gene sequence.
Limacodidae, Korea, Hampsonella takemurai, new record