ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e62027

The Insect database in Dokdo, Korea: An updated version includes 22 newly recorded species on the island and one species in Korea

Jihun Ryu^‡, Young-Kun Kim^§, Sang Jae Suh^§, Kwang Shik Choi^|¶#

‡ Kyungpook National Uvinersity, Daegu, South Korea§ School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea| School of Life Science, BK21 Plus KNU Creative BioResearch Group, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea¶ Research Institute for Dok-do and Ulleung-do Island, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea# Research Institute for Phylogenomics and Evolution, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

Corresponding author: Jihun Ryu ( apobi812@gmail.com )

Corresponding author: Kwang Shik Choi ( ksc@knu.ac.kr )

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Citation: Ryu J, Kim Y-K, Suh SJ, Choi KS (2020) The Insect database in Dokdo, Korea: An updated version includes 22 newly recorded species on the island and one species in Korea. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e62027

Abstract

Dokdo, an island toward the East Coast of South Korea, comprises 89 small islands. Dokdo is a volcanic island created by a volcanic eruption that promoted the formation of Ulleungdo (located in the East sea), which is ~87.525 km away from Dokdo. Dokdo is an important island because of geopolitics; however, because of certain investigation barriers such as weather and time constraints, the awareness of its insect fauna is less compared to that of Ulleungdo. Dokdo’s insect fauna was obtained as 10 orders, 74 families, and 165 species until 2017; subsequently, from 2018 to 2019, 23 unrecorded species were discovered via an insect survey.

As per a recent study, the database of insect species on Dokdo has been identified as 10 orders, 81 families, 188 species, and 23 undetermined species. This database has been registered to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF; www.GBIF.org), and is the first record for Dokdo’s insect fauna.

Keywords

Biodiversity, Dokdo, insect fauna, newly recorded species, insect database