Cheiloneurus ceroplastis Ishii, 1923

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 : 367

Cheiloneurus ceroplastis Ishii, 1923

Cheiloneurus ceroplastis Ishii, 1923: 103 .

Type material examined. LECTOTYPE: ♀ (here designated), (No. 18), Nagasaki, ex. Ceroplastes ceriferus , 15.x.1922, T. Ishii lgt. ( NIAES). PARALECTOTYPES: 1 ♀, Nagasaki, 18.vii.1922, T. Ishii lgt.; 1 ♀, Nagasaki, ex. C. ceriferus , 18.x.1922, T. Ishii lgt.; 1 ♀, antennae of paralectotype on slide ( NIAES).

Additional material examined. 1 ♀, Tsukumi , Oita, 19.vi.1954, T. Tachikawa lgt. & det .; 1 ♀, Matsuyama , 27.ix.1955, T. Tachikawa lgt. & det. ( ELKU) .

Distribution. Japan: Kyushu, Shikoku ( TACHIKAWA 1963a). Iran ( NOYES 2016).

Comments. In the type material of this species the frontovertex is slightly wider (about 0.17–0.20× head width) than the ratio (about 0.13× head width) given by TRJAPITZIN (1989) in his key for species. It is also worth noting that the apical 1/10 of the fore wing is hyaline and ovipositor is clearly exserted with the exserted part about 0.17× as long as the gaster. Cheiloneurus ceroplastis is very close to C. boldyrevi , and may be conspecific with it. The only difference we could find between these species is that C. ceroplastis has F 6 dark brown whilst in C. boldyrevi it is white.