Jae-Cheon Sohn

Jae-Cheon Sohn, U.S. entomologist.

Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, 4112 Plant Sciences Bldg., College Park, MD 20742 USA.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 53 taxon names authored by Jae-Cheon Sohn

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2008

• Sohn, J.C. & Adamski, D. 2008. A new species of Wockia Heinemann, 1890 (Lepidoptera: Urodidae) from Korea Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 110(3): 556–561. Online. Reference page. 

2009

• Adamski, D., Boege, K., Landry, J.F. & Sohn, J.C. 2009. Two new species of Wockia Heinemann (Lepidoptera: Urodidae) from coastal dry-forests in Western México. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 111(1): 166–182. Online. Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C. & Park K.T. 2009. A new species of Wockia Heinemann, 1870 (Lepidoptera: Urodidae) from Vietnam. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 19(2): 62–63. PDF. Reference page. 

2010

• Sohn, J.C. & Park K.T. 2010. Three new species of Lycophantis Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) from Vietnam, with a key to the world species. Oriental Insects 44(1): 225–233. DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2010.10417616 Reference page. 
• Sohn, J-C., Ponomarenko, M.G., Wu, C.-S., Han, H.-L. & Wang, X.-L. 2010. Descriptions of three new species of Ypsolopha Latreille (Lepidoptera: Ypsolophidae) from East Asia, redescription of Y. contractella (Caradja) and a checklist of East Asian Ypsolopha. Zootaxa, 2511: 22–38. Preview
• Sohn, J.-C., Wu, C.-S. & Han, H.-L. 2010. Three new species of Yponomeutinae (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) from China with faunistic supplements and an updated list of the Chinese species of the subfamily. Journal of Natural History 44(45 & 46): 2803–2816. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2010.503942

2011

• van Nieukerken, E.J., Kaila, L., Kitching, I.J., Kristensen, N.P., Lees, D.C., Minet, J., Mitter, C., Mutanen, M., Regier, J.C., Simonsen, T.J., Wahlberg, N., Yen, S-H., Zahiri, R., Adamski, D., Baixeras, J., Bartsch, D., Bengtsson, B.A., Brown, J.W., Bucheli, S.R., Davis, D.R., de Prins, J., de Prins, W., Epstein, M.C., Gentili-Poole, P., Gielis, C., Hättenschwiler, P., Hausmann, A., Holloway, J.D., Kallies, A., Karsholt, O., Kawahara, A.Y., Koster, S., Kozlov, M.V., Lafontaine, J.D., Lamas, G., Landry, J-F., Lee, S., Nuss, M., Park, K-T., Penz, C.M., Rota, J., Schintlmeister, A., Schmidt, B.C., Sohn, J-C., Solis, M.A., Tarmann, G.M., Warren, A.D., Weller, S., Yaklovlev, R.V., Zolotuhin, V.V. & Zwick, A. 2011. Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. Pp 212–221 In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  PDF. Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C. 2011. The revised identity of Cyanarmostis Meyrick, 1927: transfer from Heliodinidae to Oecophoridae and its new synonym Beijinga Yang, 1977. Tinea 21(4): 215–218. Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.-C. & Ronkay, L. 2011. Two new species of Lophomilia Warren, 1913 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Hypeninae) from Asian tropics. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 57(2): 131–137. PDF.
• Sohn, J.-C. & Wu, C.-S. 2011. A taxonomic review of Prays Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea: Praydidae) China with descriptions of two new species. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 154(1): 25–32.

2012

• Sohn, J.C. 2012. Identity of Omphalocera hirta South, 1901 (Pyraloidea, Pyralidae), a little known pyralid from East Asia. Tinea 22(1): 1–5. Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C. 2012. A new genus and species of Praydidae (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea) from Vietnam. Tinea 22(2): 120–124. Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.-C., Labandeira, C., Davis, D. & Mitter, C. 2012. An annotated catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Holometabola) of the world. Zootaxa 3286(1): 1–132. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3286.1.1 . hdl: 10088/18587 . ISBN 978-1-86977-887-3 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-86977-888-0 (online edition). Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.-C. & Lewis, J.A. 2012. Catalogue of the type specimens of Yponomeutoidea (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the United States National Museum of Natural History. Zootaxa 3573: 1–17. Preview Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C. & Ronkay, L.A. 2012. Two new species of Lophomilia (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) from China and Taiwan. Oriental Insects 46(1): 63–68. DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2012.675661 Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C. & Tzuoo, H.R. 2012. Two new species of Stenoloba (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from East Asia with the first description of S. nora female genitalia. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 15(2): 241–244. DOI: 10.1016/j.aspen.2011.11.005 Reference page. 

2013

• Sohn, J.C., Regier, J.C., Mitter, C., Davis, D., Landry, J.F., Zwick, A. & Cummings, M.P. 2013. A Molecular Phylogeny for Yponomeutoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Ditrysia) and Its Implications for Classification, Biogeography and the Evolution of Host Plant Use. PLoS ONE 8(1): e55066. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055066 Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C. 2013. Two new species of Wockia Heinemann (Lepidoptera: Urodidae) from Jamaica. Neotropical Entomology 42(3): 300–303. Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C. 2013. A New Genus and Species of Urodidae (Lepidoptera: Urodoidea) from Argentina with the First Report of Asymmetric Male Genitalia in the Superfamily. Florida Entomologist 96(2): 469–476. Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.-C. & Lamas, G. 2013. Corrections, additions, and nomenclatural notes to the recently published world catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera. Zootaxa 3599(4): 395–399. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3599.4.8 Reference page. 
• Sohn J.-C. & Wu, C.-S. 2013. A taxonomic review of Attevidae (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea) from China with descriptions of two new species and a revised identity of the Ailanthus webworm moth, Atteva fabriciella, from the Asian tropics. Journal of Insect Science 13(66): 1–16. PDF.
• Zhang, W., Shih, C., Labandeira, C.C., Sohn, J.-C., Davis, D.R., Santiago-Blay, J.A., Flint, O., Ren, D. 2013. New fossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Amphiesmenoptera) from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of northeastern China. PLoS ONE 8(11): e79500. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079500 Reference page. 

2014

• Regier, J.C., Mitter, C., Davis, D.R., Harrison, T.L., Sohn, J.-C., Cummings, M.P., Zwick, A. & Mitter, K.T. 2014. A molecular phylogeny and revised classification for the oldest ditrysian moth lineages (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea), with implications for ancestral feeding habits of the mega-diverse Ditrysia. Systematic Entomology 40(2): 409–432. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12110 Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.-C. 2014. Two new species of Incawockia Heppner (Lepidoptera: Urodidae) from Costa Rica and Brazil. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 116(1): 126–132. DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.116.1.126 Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.-C. 2014. Three new species of Spiladarcha Meyrick, 1913 (Lepidoptera: Urodidae) from Costa Rica. Zootaxa 3884(1): 73–80. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.1.6 Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.-C. 2014. A taxonomic review of Stachyotis (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea: Plutellidae) with description of a new species from China. Floridae entomologist 97(4): 1588–1593. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C. 2014. A new genus and species of Urodidae (Lepidoptera: Urodoidea) from Sri Lanka. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 17(3): 441–443.Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.-C. 2014. Morphology-based phylogeny and biogeography of Wockia (Lepidoptera: Urodidae) with description of a new species from Japan and South Korea. Zoological Science 31(4): 258–265. DOI: 10.2108/zs130199 Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C. 2014. A taxonomic review of the Neotropical genus Anchimacheta (Lepidoptera: Urodidae) with descriptions of a new congener and an allied, new genus and species from Sri Lanka. Journal of Natural History 48(43–44): 2617–2631.DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2014.939730 Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.-C. & Alba, M.P. 2014. A New Species of Atemelia (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutoidea, Praydidae) Feeding on the Ornamental Shrub Mahonia (Ranunculales: Berberidaceae) in Chile. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 107(2): 339–346. DOI: 10.1603/AN13069 . Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C. & Gershenson, Z.S. 2014. A taxonomic review of Rhabdocosma Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Ypsolophidae) with description of a new species from Japan Entomological Science 17(3): 354–358. DOI: 10.1111/ens.12070 Reference page. 

2015

• Baraniak, E. & Sohn, J-C. 2015. Redescription of Eidophasia syenitella (Herrich-Schaffer, [1854]) (Lepidoptera, Plutellidae). Zootaxa 4057(4): 585–589. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.4.9. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Doorenweerd, C., van Nieukerken, E.J., Sohn, J-C. & Labandeira, C.C. 2015. A revised checklist of Nepticulidae fossils (Lepidoptera) indicates an Early Cretaceous origin. Zootaxa 3963(3): 295–334. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.3.2. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Lewis, J.A. & Sohn, J.-C. 2015. Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea I (Argyresthiidae. Attevidae Praydidae, Scythropiidae, and Yponomeutidae). World Catalogue of Insects. Vol. 12. Brill, Leiden, Boston. 253 pp. DOI: 10.1163/9789004264267 . Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C. 2015. A catalogue of the type specimens of Yponomeutoidea (Lepidoptera) in the Museum of Comparative Zoology with revised status of Pluteloptera ochrella. Breviora 542: 1–19. PDF. Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C., Davis, D.R., Lopez-Vaamonde, C. 2015. Revision of the genus Philonome Chambers and its proposed reassignment to the familyTineidae (Lepidoptera, Tineoidea). Zookeys 494: 69–106. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.494.8748 Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C. & Heppner, J.B. 2015. Two new species of Cotaena Walker (Lepidoptera: Glyphipterigidae) from Brazil. Tropical lepidoptera Research 25(1): 5–7. Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C. & Powell, J.A. 2015. Review of Euceratia Walsingham (Lepidoptera, Ypsolophidae) with description of a new species. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 69(2): 131–139. PDF. Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C. & Wu, C.S. 2015. A new genus and species of Epermeniidae (Lepidoptera, Eperrnenoidea) from China. Tinea 23(2): 85–88. Reference page. 

2016

• Baraniak, E. & Sohn, J-C. 2016. Revised taxonomic status of Eidophasia zukowskyi Amsel, 1938 (Lepidoptera, Plutellidae) with first description of its male and female genitalia. Zootaxa 4162(1): 164–172. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4162.1.8. Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.-C. 2016. Review of the genus Eumonopyta (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) with descriptions of two new species. Entomological Science 19(3): 155–160. DOI: 10.1111/ens.12188. Reference page. 
• Sohn, J-C. & Stănescu, M. 2016. Revised status of Oridryas Meyrick, 1938: new synonyms of Ypsolopha Latreille, 1796, and Ypsolopha parenthesella (Linnaeus, 1761) (Yponomeutoidea: Ypsolophidae). Zootaxa 4168(3): 589–593. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4168.3.12. Reference page. 

2017

• Kawahara, A.Y., Plotkin, D., Ohshima, I., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Houlihan, P.R., Breinholt, J.W., Kawakita, A., Xiao, L., Regier, J.C., Davis, D.R., Kumata, T., Sohn, J.C., de Prins, J. & Mitter, C. 2017. A molecular phylogeny and revised higher-level classification for the leaf-mining moth family Gracillariidae and its implications for larval host-use evolution. Systematic Entomology 42, 60–81. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12210 Reference page. 
• Sohn, J-C. & Choi, S-W. 2017. A new species of Naryciodes Matsumura, 1931 (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae) from Korea. Zootaxa 4273(3): 439–442. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.3.9. Reference page. 

2018

• Adamski, D. & Sohn, J.C. 2018. Anchimacheta suppletella (Zeller, 1877), N. Comb., (Lepidoptera: Urodoidea: Urodidae): Transferred from Blastobasis Zeller, 1855 (Gelechioidea: Blastobasidae), with Redescription and Diagnosis. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 120(2): 245–250. DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.120.2.245 Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.-C. 2018. Taxonomic review of the genus Thecobathra (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae) from Taiwan. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 21(1): 374–379. DOI: 10.1016/j.aspen.2018.01.020 Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C. & Park K.T. 2018. Two new species of Gisilia Kasy, 1968 (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae) from Korea with first report of piercing oviscapts in Gelechioidea. Zootaxa 4418(2): 179–186. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.2.7. Reference page. 

2019

• Sohn, J.C. & Epstein, M.E. 2019. Atemelia casimiroae sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea: Praydidae): A new pest species on white sapote (Casimiroa edulis) in California, United States, reveals unique morphology of spinneret and ventral eversible gland. Zoologischer Anzeiger 279: 52–58. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2019.01.001 . Reference page. 
• Sohn, J.C., Ponomarenko, M.G. & Sakamaki, Y. 2019. A new genus of Pexicopiini (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) for “Gelechia” acanthopis Meyrick, 1932, with review of functional morphology of male genitalia in allied genera. Zootaxa 4638(1): 125–135. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.1.6 Reference page. 

2020

• Huemer, P. & Sohn, J.C. 2020. Eidophasia assmanni sp. nov., the first alpine representative of the genus, detected in the Russian Altai Mountains (Lepidoptera, Plutellidae). ZooKeys 959: 99–111. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.959.54259. . Reference page. 

2021

• Sohn, J.C. & Lvovsky, A.L. 2021. Review of Lypusinae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Lypusidae) from Korea with a description of a new species of Agnoea Walsingham, 1907. Zootaxa 4966(3): 385–391. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4966.3.10. . Reference page.