Junho Lee, Sang Jae Suh‡§Corresponding author: Junho Lee ( jhlee@knu.ac.kr ) Corresponding author: Sang Jae Suh ( sjsuh@knu.ac.kr ) © Junho Lee, Sang Jae Suh. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Lee J, Suh SJ (2022) First record of the genus Beris Latreille (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) from Korea, with description of a new species. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e80488 |  |
The subfamily Beridinae of the family Stratiomyidae contains about 280 known species globally, and distributed all over the biogeographical areas except polar region. In the Korean peninsula, the species diversity of this subfamily has been poorly known so far, in accordance with National species list of Korea by National Institue of Biological Resources.
In this paper, the soldier fly genus Beris Latreille is reported for the first time from Korea based on following three species: B. fuscipes Meigen, B. hirotui Ôuchi, and B. tigris Lee and Suh, sp. nov. Among them, B. tigris Lee and Suh, sp. nov. was confirmed to be newly discovered. Consequently, three species within this genus have been identified from the Korean peninsula. The identification key, description, external photographs, and taxonomic notes of these Korean species are presented herein.