Corrigendum to Choi, (2025)

Junhyeong Choi1 Full text link (Google Drive, English) In Choi (2025), the author mistakenly suggested that Cyclidius axillaris (currently Paracyclidius axillaris) might be a misidentification of Clinterocera discipennis. This error is corrected here. P. axillaris is a valid species occurring in the Neotropical region, and the suggestion of potential synonymy was the result of the … Read more

작은 세상의 다양성 제 1권, 제 2호 발간

작은 세상의 다양성, The Diversity of Small World의 두 번째 호가 발행됩니다. 저희 저널은 연 2회, 3월과 9월에 발간되는 아마추어 곤충 저널입니다. 일반적으로 3월과 9월보다 1~2주 먼저 공개하고 있습니다. Full text link: Google Drive Administrator & Editor 최원석 Wonseok Choie-mail: j.ofmesodiversity@gmail.com  원고 작성 요령은 출판사 사슴벌레연구소 누리집을 확인하십시오.Manuscript preparation guidelines are available on the Stag Lab … Read more

Revisionary Notes on the Stag Beetle Genus Lucanus scopoli, 1763 (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) in Taiwan, with New Records and Nomenclatural Changes

Jing-Zhi LIN (林敬智)1 DOI: 10.23332/DOSW.2025.1.2.53 Full text link (Google Drive, English) This study presents significant taxonomic updates for stag beetles of the genus Lucanus in Taiwan. The author reports a new locality record for Lucanus yulaoensis Lin, 2021 and proposes Lucanus kurosawai Sakaino, 1995 as a new junior synonym of Lucanus chuyunshanus Sakaino & Yu, … Read more

Notes on the three closely related species of Lycomedes de Breme: L. burmeisteri, L. ohausi, and L. bubeniki

Wonseok Choi11. 최원석, Seoul, Republic of Korea. (email: won0507won@gmail.com) doi: 10.23332/DOSW.2025.1.2.43 Full Text link (Google Drive, English) Lycomedes burmeisteri Waterhouse, L. ohausi Arrow, L. bubeniki Milani are closely related species of Lycomedes de Breme. As L. burmeisteri has been enigmatic in its diagnostic traits for over a century, L. burmeisteri are often confused with L. … Read more

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A New Record of Staphylinidae Species in Korea Hyeon Su Song1 1. Seo Daejeon High School, Daejeon, Korea doi: 10.23332/DOSW.2025.1.2.50 Full text link (Google Drive, English) [Retracted] This article has been retracted as it did not meet the journal’s standards for publication. Copyright. This work © 2025 by Author(s) is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives … Read more

A new species of Lissapterus Deyrolle (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) from Western Australia.

Seo-Jun Chang¹ & Antonio Polak² ¹ 장서준, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea (Email: doraji1026@naver.com) ² Mitchell, Australian Capital Territory, Australia doi: 10.23332/DOSW.2025.1.2.37 Full text link (Google Drive, English) A new Lissapterus species is described from Western Australia under the name of Lissapterus walpolensis sp. nov. Although the general morphology is similar to that of Lissotes speices, the … Read more

Note on Miridiba castanea (Waterhouse) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) from Jeju Island, Korea.

Junyoung Lee1 doi: 10.23332/DOSW.2025.1.2.31 Full text link (Google Drive, English) The genus Miridiba Reitter, 1902 is an Asian genus comprising 58 valid species, distributed from the Oriental to the Palearctic region. In Korea, M. castanea (Waterhouse, 1875) is the only recorded species in the genus, based on the literature and the examination of three female … Read more

Synopsis of the genus Aegopsis Burmeister, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)

Wonseok Choi1 1. 최원석, Seoul, Republic of Korea. (email: won0507won@gmail.com) doi: 10.23332/DOSW.2025.1.2.23 Full text link (Google Drive, English) The neotropical genus Aegopsis Burmeister, 1847 is characterized by a pronotal horn and a pair of cephalic horns. Discussions and pictorial identification keys to the Aegopsis species are provided. Introduction Aegopsis Burmeister is a Neotropical genus distributed … Read more

흰개미집살이사슴벌레족(Penichrolucanini Arrow, 1950)의 소개

장서준1 doi: 10.23332/DOSW.2025.1.2.17 Full text link (Google Drive, Korean) 흰개미사슴벌레족(Penichrolcuanini)는 Penichrolucanus, Brasilucanus, Sinolucanus 세 속을 포함하는 족이다. 족의 모식속인 Penichrolucanus속은 Deyrolle (1863) 에 의해 속의 모식종인 P. copricephalus와 함께 기재되었다. Parry (1864) 는 Penichrolucanus를 Figulidae에, Roon (1910) 과 Didier & Séguy (1953)은 이 속을 Figulinae에 포함하였다. 이후 Arrow (1935, 1938) 는 추가적으로 4개의 신종을 기재하였고, … Read more

오레곤 주의 두 사슴벌레 채집기

김준형 Full text link (Google Drive, Korean) 장수사슴벌레 산더미같은 과제가 이어지는 나날, 운이 좋게 과제를 일찍 끝나게 되었고, 따라서 이전부터 눈독을 들인, 거주중인 지역 내 사슴벌레가 서식할만한 곳으로 바로 달려가게 되었다. 북미 대륙은 전반적으로 우리가 생각하는 큰 사슴벌레가 잘 서식하지 않는다. 특히나 서북부에 오레곤(Oregon)주의 사슴벌레들은 커봐야 2cm를 넘지 못하는 경우가 많다. 그러나 턱이 커다란 비단사슴벌레, … Read more