Pyo Jee-Young, Kim Sung-Soo, Park Jeong Sun, Kim Jong-Moon, Song Yang-Keun, Kim Iksoo
Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea.
Research Institute for East Asian Environment and Biology, Seoul 05207, Republic of Korea.
Insects. 2023 Aug 30;14(9):733. doi: 10.3390/insects14090733.
In South Korea, both Sélys, 1841 (Odonata: Libellulidae), which is distributed throughout Europe and from Russia to the Korean Peninsula, and Sélys, 1883, which is endemic to Japan, are recorded. However, the identity of South Korean populations and the validity of listing the two species have not yet been settled. In this study, we collected seventy-four individuals of species from South Korea (five localities), Russia, The Netherlands, and Japan. These samples were examined for morphology and sequenced for partial , , and a nuclear internal spacer (ITS) region, after which these molecular data were combined with available public data from Russia, Japan, and The Netherlands. Major morphological characters that have been used to distinguish the two species and phylogenetic, network, and structure analyses all consistently suggest that South Korean populations form a single species. Consequently, it could be valid to treat South Korean populations as one species, , by applying the senior name. Nevertheless, the validity of maintaining each as an independent species in other countries may need additional study considering that our samples were focused more on South Korea and limited for Europe, Russia, and Japan.
在韩国，记录了分布于欧洲以及从俄罗斯到朝鲜半岛的1841年的赛氏（蜻蜓目：蜻科），以及日本特有的1883年的赛氏。然而，韩国种群的身份以及这两个物种列入名录的有效性尚未确定。在本研究中，我们从韩国（五个地点）、俄罗斯、荷兰和日本收集了该物种的74个个体。对这些样本进行了形态学检查，并对部分线粒体细胞色素氧化酶亚基I（COI）、细胞色素b（Cytb）和一个核内间隔区（ITS）进行了测序，之后将这些分子数据与来自俄罗斯、日本和荷兰的现有公开数据相结合。用于区分这两个物种的主要形态特征以及系统发育、网络和结构分析均一致表明，韩国种群构成一个单一物种。因此，通过应用较早的名称将韩国种群视为一个物种，即[具体物种名称]，可能是有效的。然而，考虑到我们的样本更多地集中在韩国，而对欧洲、俄罗斯和日本的样本有限，在其他国家将它们各自作为独立物种保留的有效性可能需要进一步研究。
