Three species of Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) newly recorded from the Republic of Korea Author Bellis, Glenn Author Kim, Heung-Chul Author Kim, Myung-Soon Author Klein, Terry A. Author Lee, Dong-Kyu Author Gopurenko, David text Zootaxa 2013 3718 2 171 182 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3718.2.5 a7721740-8c16-4df5-a962-b1427f2c15ac 1175-5326 221512 2ED9EC13-1317-425F-B5FC-93EC65EB0567 Culicoides jacobsoni Macfie. ( Fig. 6 ). Culicoides jacobsoni Macfie, 1934:215 ; Delfinado 1961:655; Wirth & Hubert 1961:15; McDonald & Lu 1972:406; McDonald et al . 1973:639; Lee 1978:57; Kitaoka 1980:20; Wirth & Hubert 1989:275; Yu et al. 2005:938; Dyce et al . 2007:19. Culicoides buckleyi Macfie, 1937:117 ; Tokunaga 1959:238; 1962:505; Lee 1978:34 Culicoides kitaokai Tokunaga, 1955:6 ; Arnaud 1956:109. Culicoides unisetiferus Tokunaga, 1959:236 ; 1963:136. Culicoides orientalis Macfie : (misident.), Tokunaga 1962:514. Non type material examined. Republic of Korea , Yangsan, Gyeongnam Province, 35.4040o N , 129.0050o E , 25.Aug.2010 , D.K. Lee, black light trap ( 1 female , NTQIC). Distribution. This species is widespread throughout Asia and Australasia. Remarks. This specimen from Yangsan is in poor condition, lacking a complete wing, antennae, legs and other important morphological characters. Identification is based on wing pattern ( Fig 6 ) and DNA barcode which showed 100% similarity to that for C. jacobsoni from Japan (GenBank accessions AB360990 – AB360991 ; Matsumoto et al. 2009).