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Artonini Tarmann 1994

  • 1. Division of Life Sciences, College of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Incheon National University, Songdo-dong, Incheon 22014, Republic of Korea & Convergence Research Center for Insect Vectors, Division of Life Sciences, College of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Incheon National University, Songdo-dong, Incheon 22014, Republic of Korea
  • 2. Department of Biochemistry and Laboratory of Biotechnology, V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Prospekt Vernadskogo 4, Simferopol 29007, Republic of Crimea
  • 3. Division of Life Sciences, College of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Incheon National University, Songdo-dong, Incheon 22014, Republic of Korea & Sammlungs- und Forschungszentrum der Tiroler Landesmuseen, Ferdinandeum, 6060 Hall in Tirol, Austria
  • 4. Research Institute of Basic Sciences, Incheon National University, Songdo-dong, Incheon 22012, Republic of Korea

Description

Tribe

Artonini Tarmann, 1994

Type genus.

Artona Walker, 1854.

Notes.

The tribe Artonini was established by Tarmann (1994) with Artona Walker, 1854, as the type genus. It comprises approximately 86 species, 12 genera, and five subgenera (Efetov and Tarmann 2024). The members of this tribe are primarily restricted to the Afrotropical and Indo-Australian regions, although a few species also occur in the eastern Palaearctic region (Tarmann 2004).

The latest Korean insect checklist by KSAE and ESK (2021) includes three species of two genera of this tribe, viz. Balataea Walker, 1865, and Fuscartona Efetov & Tarmann, 2012. Byun et al. (2010) reported one genus of Artonini, viz. Artona Walker, 1854, with a single species, Artona martini Efetov, 1997, from Seoul, Korea. However, this species was omitted in the KSAE and ESK (2021) checklist. According to Efetov and Tarmann (2024), the two previously recorded genera in Korea are now treated as subgenera within Artona Walker. In this study, we report an additional genus, Amuria Staudinger, 1887, with a new species, A. baei sp. nov. from Goeje Island, Korea. Totally five species of two genera from the tribe Artonini are currently known from Korea.

Diagnosis.

Head dorsoventrally compressed, chaetosema extended between compound eye and ocellus; forelegs have epiphysis and single medial spur in hindlegs; in male genitalia, valva has the ‘ Artona - finger’; in female genitalia, sclerotized praebursa has a double row of pointed spines (Efetov and Tarmann 2024).

Host plants.

Poaceae, Zingiberaceae, Pittosporaceae, Lauraceae, Musaceae, Arecaceae.

Notes

Published as part of Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal, Efetov, Konstantin A., Tarmann, Gerhard M., Lee, Tak-Gi, Ko, Jae-Ho & Kwon, Hyung Wook, 2026, Tribe Artonini Tarmann, 1994 in Korea (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae), pp. 239-260 in ZooKeys 1285 on pages 239-260, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1285.189091

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References

  • Tarmann GM (1994) A preliminary review of the classification of the zygaenid subfamily Procridinae (Lepidoptera). Nota Lepidopterologica, Supplement 5: 115–123 [figs 1–4].
  • Efetov KA, Tarmann GM (2024) An annotated catalogue of the Procridinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 52 (207): 409–547. https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.956
  • Tarmann GM (2004) Zygaenid Moths of Australia: A revision of the Australian Zygaenidae (Procridinae: Artonini). CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, 248 pp.
  • KSAE, ESK [The Korean Society of Applied Entomology and The Entomology Society of Korea] (2021) Check list of Insects from Korea. Paper and pencil, Daegu, 623–626.
  • Byun BK, Lee BW, Kim IK, Kim J, Park IK, Shin SC (2010) A first discovery of Artona martini Efetov (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae) from Korea. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 13: 391–393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aspen.2010.06.003