11-2. Caraphia lepturoides babai Makihara, 1982

(Figs 34, 124)

Caraphia babai Makihara, 1982: 127, figs. 3, 5-D (Type locality: Takeda, Ishigaki Island, Ryukyu, Japan); Hayashi & Villiers, 1985: 24, 25, 26.

Caraphia lepturoides babai: N. Ohbayashi, 1992: 5, figs. 11-13; N. Ohbayashi, 2007: 389, pl. 14, fig. 2; Chou & N. Ohbayashi, 2008: 140.

Diagnosis. Male: BL= 9.9–11.6 mm; EW= 2.6–3.1 mm. Body mostly dark reddish brown. Close to the nominotypical subspecies, but can be distinguished by the shape of pronotum which is widest at middle instead of at base. Male genitalia (Fig. 124) very similar to the nominotypical subspecies except for more or less shorter basal struts of median lobe.

Female: BL= 12.2 mm; EW= 3.2 mm.

Material examined. Is. Ishigaki-jima: 1♂, Mt. Banna, 29-VI-1985, T. Itô leg. (EUMJ); 2 ♂♂, same locality, reared and emerged on 11-V-1989, K. Mori leg. (EUMJ); 1♂, 1♀, Sanwa, 12-IV-2013, T. Miyamoto leg. (PCST); 1♂, same locality, 30-III-2 0 13, A. Toba leg. (PCST).

Distribution. Japan (Is. Ishigaki-jima, Okinawa Pref.).

Remarks. This subspecies was first described as an independent species by Makihara (1982), but the differences from C. lepturoides are slight and it is appropriate to treat the taxon as a subspecies.