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

  • Lee, Seung-Gyu (Division of Forest Biodiversity, Korea National Arboretum) ;
  • Lee, Heejo (Invasive Alien Species Research Team, Division of Ecological Safety, Bureau of Survey and Safety, National Institute of Ecology) ;
  • Ban, Young-Gyu (Invasive Alien Species Research Team, Division of Ecological Safety, Bureau of Survey and Safety, National Institute of Ecology) ;
  • Kim, Dong Eon (Invasive Alien Species Research Team, Division of Ecological Safety, Bureau of Survey and Safety, National Institute of Ecology)
  • Received : 2020.04.07
  • Accepted : 2020.06.29
  • Published : 2020.07.31
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Abstract

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.

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