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Taxonomy of the genus Scathophaga Meigen (Diptera: Scathophagidae) in Korea
Author(s) -
SUH Sang Jae,
KWON Yong Jung,
JO TaeHo
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
entomological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1748-5967
pISSN - 1738-2297
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-5967.2007.00126.x
Subject(s) - biology , taxonomy (biology) , zoology , key (lock) , ecology
Three species of the genus Scathophaga – S. mellipes (Coquillet), S. scybalaria (Linnaeus) and S. stercoraria (Linnaeus) – are treated in this study. Of these, S. scybalaria (Linnaeus) is reported for the first time from Korea. A key to the Korean species, their domestic localities and some illustrations are given.