Description of Sarcophaga koreaensis n. sp. (Sarcophagidae, Diptera) collected in Taegu, Korea

Abstract

In Korea, Dr. Harujiro Kobayashi and Dr. Katsushige Hori have classified Korean flies into 6 families, 17 genera and 45 species before World War II. Since then no further works on the family have been done in Korea. During the period from April of 1959 to September of 1960, Park had made an intensive collection of flies in the Taegu area which amounted to 4844 specimens of Sarcophagidae. A close examination of the specimens revealed that 3 species of Sarcophaga were new and 10 species were hitherto unreported from Korea. The authors will describe one of these new species in the present paper.