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FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK Volume 67 2006 pp. 5-9. Zoological collectings by the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Korea 145. A report on the collectings of the twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth expeditions G. CSORBA, Z. KORSÓS & A. KUN Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum H1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary E-mail: csorba@nhmus.hu, korsos@nhmus.hu, kuni@nhnuis.hu Abstract - A report on three zoological collecting trips to the Republic of Korea in 2003 and 2005 is given with a complete list of localities with comments. Key words - South Korea, collecting trips, Mammalia, Lepidoptcra, Diptera, Chilopoda, Diplopoda. INTRODUCTION This paper reports on three zoological collecting trips to the Republic of Korea (South Korea), which have been carried out by six researchers of the Hungarian Natural History Museum in 2003 and 2005. The aim of the trips was to collect several animal groups, including moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera), and flies (Diptera), other insect groups (such as Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Heteroptera, Neuroptera, etc.), soil arthropods (Diplopoda, Chilopoda, Isopoda), and small mammals as well as their internal parasites. In two cases, the expeditions were hosted by the Kangwon National University (Chuncheon, Kangwon Province), especially by Professor KYU-TEK PARK, whereas in September-October, 2003, the collecting trip was carried out in Kyongsangbuk and Chungchongbuk Provinces. In August 2003 we mainly focused on the field work at various localities; however, we also had the chance to visit several collections and university departments, conducting intensive research on insects (Kangwon National University, Sangju National University, Yonsei University, National Institute of Agriculture Science and