• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.61 no.4
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• pp.601-604
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• 2022

The tribe Rhyparini is one of the well-known termitophilous tribes in Aphodiinae. The genus Rhyparus has the largest number of species in the tribe Rhyparini, and only one species, Rhyparus azumai Nakane, 1956 was recorded in Korea. In this study, we report Rhyparus helophoroides Fairmaire, 1893 from Korea for the first time. Diagnosis, photographs of diagnostic characters, key to the Korean Rhyparus, and brief ecological information of the species are provided.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.54 no.4
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• pp.425-429
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• 2015

A termitophilous tribe, Rhyparini Schmidt, 1910 of the subfamily Aphodiinae Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) is newly recorded from Korea for the first time, based on Rhyparus azumai azumai Nakane, 1956. A redescription, illustrations of diagnostic characteristics including male genitalia, and a key to Korean tribe of the subfamily are provided.

• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.1 no.1_2
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• pp.79-86
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• 1985

The present report, which is the 4 th one of the serial reports of Korean SCarabaeoidea, is concerned with an introduction to the aphodiidae and with the systematic account six species which belong to the genus Aphodius and have a large scutellum. It is discussed that the subspecies of Aphodius apicalis are no more than the aberrant forms of this species, and then an aberrant form, Aphodius (Otophorus) brachysomus ab. Flavelytrus, is described.