Short Communication Discovery of Rhopobota toshimai Kawabe, 1978 (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) in Korea Frans Groenen a , Bong-Kyu Byun b, ⁎ a Dorpstraat 171, NL-5575 AG Luyksgestel, Netherlands b Korea National Arboretum, Jikdong-Ri 51-7, Soheul-Eup, Pocheon City, Korea ABSTRACT ARTICLE INFO Article history: Received 7 January 2008 Revised 8 April 2008 Accepted 28 April 2008 Keywords: Lepidoptera Tortricidae Rhopobota New record Korea We report an olethreutine species, Rhopobota toshimai Kawabe, 1978 for the first time in Korea. Photos of adult, male and female genitalia are provided with brief comments on the distribution. © Korean Society of Applied Entomology, Taiwan Entomological Society and Malaysian Plant Protection Society, 2008. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Introduction Brown (2005) listed 42 species of Rhopobota in the world. Only two species, R. unipunctata (Haworth) and R. relicta (Kuznetsov), have been recorded in Korea to date (Byun et al., 1998). In 1978, Kawabe described Griselda toshimai with a male of holotype collected from Japan. He placed the species under the genus Griselda Heinrich, 1923, probably because of the bifurcate shape of the uncus. Later Kawabe et al. (1992) transferred Griselda toshimai Kawabe, 1978 to the genus Epinotia Hübner. Brown (1983) considered the presence of tegumentary projections in the male genitalia and the caudal sclerotized bands of the corpus bursae in the female as apomorphic characteristics of Rhopobota Lederer. For this reason, Kuznetsov (2001) placed this species under the genus Rhopobota. Outside Japan, Zhang et al. (2005) recently reviewed the Chinese species of Rhopobota, including R. toshimai Kawabe, 1978 from Taiwan. During the study on the genus Spilonota Stephens, we found several specimens of R. toshima Kawabe among the material series of Spilonota ocellana [Denis and Schiffermüller] from South Korea. Based on this examination, we report R. toshima Kawabe for the first time in Korea. In the present study, we provide a brief description of the species with data of distributional ranges. Material examined here will be preserved in the entomological collection of Korea National Arboretum, Korea. Species account Rhopobota toshimai Kawabe, 1978 (Figs. 1–3). Griselda toshimai Kawabe, 1978, TINEA 10(19): 186. TL: Japan (Shikoku-Okushioiri, Kawaga Prefecture). Epinotia toshimai: Kawabe et al., 1992: 107. Rhopobota toshimai: Brown, 1983: 104; Kuznetsov, 2001: 419; Brown, 2005: 536. Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from other Rhopo- bota species by the characteristics of cucullus with stout rectangular projection and long triangular socius of the male genitalia. Adult (Fig. 1). Length of forewing 16 mm in male. Head and antenna dark grayish brown; frons of head white. Labial palpus dark grayish brown with white apex. Thorax and abdomen dark brownish gray. Forewing grayish white, basal patch dark grayish brown, covering about 1/4 of forewing, outer margin slightly swollen near middle then sharply concaved near dorsum; medial fascia grayish white suffused with light grayish brown streaks, rather broader near costa then narrowed after middle of forewing, with brownish small dots and narrow streaks along the costa; several small blackish spots scattered along the outer margin of medial fascia medially; apex somewhat round; cilia grayish brown, a little bit whitish towards tornus. Hindwing pale grayish brown; cilia paler, with a pale basal line. Male genitalia (Fig. 2). Uncus short, horn-like. Socius broad, with some hairs. Valva broad, rectangular basally, deeply concaved near middle ventrally forming a neck. Sacculus thick, with dense long hairs along the ventral margin. Cucullus consisting of two distinct sub- rectangular plates, upper plate somewhat membranous covered with numerous long hairs, lower plate rather sclerotized projecting Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 11 (2008) 97–98 ⁎ Corresponding author. Fax: +82 31 540 1070. E-mail address: bkbyun@korea.kr (B.-K. Byun). 1226-8615/$ – see front matter © Korean Society of Applied Entomology, Taiwan Entomological Society and Malaysian Plant Protection Society, 2008. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.aspen.2008.04.007 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jape