New records of five species of Lepidoptera (Cosmopterigidae, Tortricidae, Pyralidae and Erebidae) from sand-dunes along the western coastline of Korea Author Sohn, Jae-Cheon text Journal of Species Research 2022 11 1 61 66 journal article 10.12651/JSR.2022.11.1.061 2713-8615 13140191 Noduliferola abstrusa Kuznetzov, 1973 Ċffinjjnj ḋẘḑ나ḏ ( Figs. 1B , 2D , 3A ) Noduliferola abstrusa Kuznetzov, 1973: 685 . Type locality: China , Kiangsu Prov. , Nanjing . Description ( Fig. 1B ). Head with vertex and frons pale brownish gray; labial palpus pale brownish gray, with scale-tufts on 2 nd segment; antenna half length of forewing, pale brownish gray. Thorax with tegula and mesonotum purplish gray. Forewing length 4.5 - 5 mm , protruding apically, pale brownish gray, striolated with dark brown; costa with dark brown strigulae; dark brown oblique bar present between discal area and middle of costa; apical area dark brown; cilia pale brownish gray. Hindwing fuscous; fringe pale brownish gray. Male genitalia ( Fig. 2D ) with uncus small, triangular; gnathos band like, with lateral arms broadened basally; tegumen converged to uncus; pedunculus with enlarged pocket and long-scale tufts; valva rectangular in basal half, enlarged in distal half, with triangular apex; cucullus setose; distal end of sacculus with a patch of spiniform setae above and long spine on ventral edge; phallus stout, conical, with numerous needle-like cornuti. Female genitalia ( Fig. 3A ) with papillae anales large, flat, setose; apophysis posterioris shorter than apophysis anterioris; ostium bursae large, subquadrate, surrounded by sclerotized ring, densely spinulate caudally; ductus bursae sclerotized, broadened to corpus bursae, with a pair of keels anteriorly; corpus bursae long-oval, 2 × longer than ductus bursae, spinulate, with two horn-shaped signa at caudal 1/3. Material examined. 1♂ 1$, Chungcheongnam-do , Seocheon-gun , Seo-myeon , Sinhap-ri sand-dunes ( N36°08 ʹ 47.6 ʺ , E126°32 ʹ 33.6 ʺ ), 16 July 2020 ( JC Sohn ), [ GSN ] SJC-1251 ($), GJUE ; 1♂ , ditto , 20 August 2020 ( JC Sohn ), [ GSN ] SJC-1252, GJUE ; 2$, Jeollanam-do , Sinan-gun , Is. Jaeundo , Jaeun-myeon , Gojang-ri , Oegi sand-dunes ( N34° 53 ʹ 44.5 ʺ , E126°00 ʹ 27.4 ʺ ), 16 July 2017 ( JC Sohn ), GJUE & NIBR . Distribution. Korea (new record), Japan , China . Host plants. Verbenaceae - Vitex trifolia subsp. litoralis Steenis ( Nasu et al. , 2005 ) . Remarks. The genus Noduliferola Kuznetzov, 1973 was established with the type species, N. abstrusa . The genus currently comprises nine species occurring in East and Southeast Asia, Australia and Micronesia ( Brown, 2005 ). It is introduced for the first time for the Korean fauna. Given the larval host plants, N. abstrusa can play role of a indicator species for coastal dunes.