A new record of Lyssa zampa (Butler) from Korea

An Uraniinae moth, a subfamily of Uradniidae is of large sized moth with slender body and deep triangular forewings and tailed or angled hindwings. They are characterized by having the sexual dimorphism in the position of the tympanal organ (the ventral base of the abdomen in female and the lateral tergites between 2nd and 3rd abdomen in male) and the forewing venation that shows the lacking areole, having R3 + R4 as the terminal bifurcation of the Rs system, with R5 well separate from this system, sharing a common stalk or more rarely being connate with M1 (Holloway, 1998). The Uraniidae is comprised four subfamilies: Auzeinae, Epipleminae, Microniinae and Uraniinae (Minet and Scoble, 1999). In Korea, one species of Microniinae and 11 species of Epipleminae are known. However, no species of the subfamily Uraniinae was known. The genus Lyssa Hübner, one of the largest uraniids is mainly nocturnal and widely distributed in Indo-Australian tropics (Holloway, 1998). Both foreand hindwings are striking with straight, narrow white bands on brownish gray background color of wings and the hindwings tailed at M1 as well as M3, with vein CuA1 strongly incorporated in M3 and tails are tipped with white (Holloway, 1998). Recently one of us has found a male specimen at a valley of southern aspect of Mt. Hallasan, Jejudo. Thus we report the occurrence of this species, Lyssa zampa for the first time in Korea. DNA extraction, PCR, and sequencing