Anagyrus subalbipes Ishii, 1928

Japoshvili, George, Higashiura, Yoshimitsu & Kamitani, Satoshi, 2016, A review of Japanese Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera), with descriptions of new species, new records and comments on the types described by Japanese authors, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1), pp. 345-401 : 353-354

Anagyrus subalbipes Ishii, 1928

Anagyrus subalbipes Ishii, 1928: 90 .

Type material examined. LECTOTYPE: ♀ (here designated) (No. 24), Nagasaki, ex Pseudococcus sp. on Citrus , vi.1922, T. Ishii lgt. ( NIAES).

Additional material examined. 1 ♀, Akasaki, Honshu, ex Pseudococcus comstocki , 27.viii.–18.ix.1962, E.Murakami lgt., T. Tachikawa det. ; 1♀, Fujikasi nr. Hirosaki, Honshu, 24.vii.–10.viii.1960, Y. Murakami lgt., T. Tachikawa det. ; 1 ♀ (on slide), Akasaki, Honshu, ex P. comstocki , 27.viii.–18.ix.1962, Y. Murakami lgt., T. Tachikawa det. ( ELKU) .

Distribution. Japan: Honshu, Kyushu ( TACHIKAWA 1963a). China, Taiwan, USA ( NOYES 2016).

Comments. TACHIKAWA (1963) supposed that A. subalbipes may be a synonym of A. sawadai , later NOYES & HAYAT (1994) also mentioned that these two names could be synonymous, however they were unable to examine the type material. The species is indeed close to A. sawadai , but it differs in the relative width of the frontovertex, ocellar angle, relative scape width and length of the malar space. In A. subalbipes the frontovetex is 0.38× head width, the ocelli form a slightly obtuse angle, the scape is about 1.87× as long as broad and the malar space is about 0.41× as long as an eye. In A. sawadai frontovertex is 0.25× head width, scape much longer than 2× as long as broad and malar space about 0.5× as long as an eye.