A taxonomic study of Korean Mantodea using morphological and molecular characters (COI) is presented. Eight species [ (Shiraki, 1908), Westwood, 1889, Bazyluk, 1960, (Thunberg, 1784), Saussure, 1869, Saussure, 1871, Werner, 1929, (Audinet-Serville, 1838)] belonging to six genera in three families are recognized. Interspecific genetic divergence of COI using uncorrected -distance ranged from 6.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn integrative taxonomic analysis of Hierodula patellifera (Audinet-Serville) is presented based on morphological and molecular characters (COI, 28S rDNA). During repeated trips to the Korean peninsula, we collected unusual specimens from Wanju-gun. They were similar to H.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe little known raspy cricket subfamily Gryllacridinae is reviewed for Korea. Three species are confirmed through material examination and are taxonomically considered as follows: Eugryllacris japonica (Matsumura et Shiraki, 1908) comb. nov.
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