Intybia tsushimensis (Satô & Ohbayashi, 1968)

Kim, Donguk, Kim, Dooyoung, Kim, Dongmin, Kim, Young-Kun, Suh, Sang Jae & Choi, Kwang Shik, 2025, Faunistic study of Coleoptera (Buprestidae, Carabidae, Cerambycidae, Lucanidae and Melyridae) on Gageodo Island, south-westernmost Korean Peninsula, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 146229-e 146229 : e146229-

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e146229
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15113499
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scientific name	Intybia tsushimensis (Satô & Ohbayashi, 1968)
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Treatment

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 2 males, 1 female; occurrenceID: 1C14E266-6849-5024-B9F1-5DFEE7B5C847; Location: island: Gageodo Island; country: South Korea; stateProvince: Jeollanam-do; locality: Shinan-gun, Heuksan-myeon, Gageodo-ri, Sang Jae Suh Coll. ; Identification: identifiedBy: Donguk Kim; Event: eventDate: 13. VIII. 2023; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Dried Specimens

Notes

This species was first recorded in Korea by Kang (2014) and subsequently listed in the national Korean insect checklist ( National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR) 2019, Korean Society of Applied Entomology (KSAE) and The Entomological Society of Korea (ESK) 2021). However, it was determined to be a misidentification of Intybia kishii (Nakane, 1955) , based on a reference image and diagnosis. Therefore, I. tsushimensis (Satô & Ohbayashi, 1968) is a new record for Korea, as revealed by this study. Our recent extensive survey has uncovered that I. tsushimensis , previously known as an endemic species of Japan (specifically Tsushima Island), is distributed throughout the Korean Peninsula (Kim and Suh, unpublished data). It was collected by sweeping along the evergreen broad-leaved forest roads in the mid-mountainous areas of Mt. Doksilsan (Fig. 2 View Figure 2 C).

Diagnosis

Elytra with a reddish-orange or yellowish fascia, slightly or gradually narrowed to suture and sometimes divided into two fasciae by suture; legs entirely black; antennae yellow, with black or dark brown antennomeres V – XI; endophallus without spinous plate; spinous area composed with short triangular spines (Fig. 9 View Figure 9 F).