Aphalara avicularis Ossiannilsson, 1981

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Aphalara avicularis OSSIANNILSSON, IN OSSIANNILSSON & JANSSON, 1981: 24.

Aphalara polygoni SENSU PARK & LEE, 1982B: 13; KWON 1983: 18, P.P., NEC FOERSTER, 1848: 90, misidentifications.

Material examined. South Korea (all identified as Aphalara polygoni): 1 ♂, 3 ♀, GB, Gyeongsan-gun, Hayangeup, 21.v.1980, 5.vii.1980 (Y. J. Kwon) (NHMB) ; same data but 2 ♂, 3 ♀, 5.vii.1980 (Y. J. Kwon) (NIBR); 1 ♀, GN, Samnam-myeon, 21.iii.1982 (Y. J. Kwon) (NIBR) ; 1 ♀, GB, Cheongsong-gun, Budong-myeon, Mt. Juwang, 19.vii.1981 (Y. J. Kwon) (NIBR) ; 1 ♂, 3 ♀, GB, Daegu City, 22.iii.1982 (Y. J. Kwon) (NIBR). — South Korea (GB, GN, JN) (NHMB, NIBR, SNU).

Host plant. Polygonum aviculare L. ( Polygonaceae).

Comments. Park & Lee (1982b) list Aphalara polygoni Foerster, 1848 collected on Polygonum aviculare which suggests that their specimens belong to A. avicularis . Their material was not available for examination for confirmation. Kwon (1983) reported Aphalara polygoni from seven provinces in South Korea, indicating that the host plants are Polygonum spp. Kwon’s (1983: 179, plate XXXI fig. 11) illustration of the distal portion of the aedeagus resembles that of A. avicularis . We examined specimens identified by Kwon as A. polygoni that are A. avicularis . We do not know, however, whether the material listed by Kwon (1983) under A. polygoni contains also A. freji Burckhardt & Lauterer, 1997, another species associated with Persicaria spp. and Polygonum spp. or genuine A. polygoni which develops on Rumex spp. (Burckhardt & Lauterer 1997). We have not seen specimens of the latter and its presence in Korea is currently not confirmed.