Clausenia purpurea 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 : 368

Clausenia purpurea Ishii, 1923

Clausenia purpurea Ishii, 1923: 100 .

Type material examined. LECTOTYPE: ♀ (here designated), Nagasaki, 15.v.1922, T. Ishii lgt. ( NIAES). PARALECTO- TYPES: 4 ♀♀, 18.vii.1922, T. Ishii lgt.; 1 ♀, on slide, without data ( NIAES).

Additional material examined. 2 ♀♀, Matsuyama, ex Pseudococcus cryptus (Hempel, 1918) ( Hemiptera : Pseudococcidae ), 27.vii.1958, T. Tachikawa lgt. & det.; 1 ♀, Matsuyama, ex P. cryptus , 25.ix.1958, T. Tachikawa lgt. & det. ( ELKU).

Distribution. Japan: Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku ( TACHIKAWA 1963a). Holarctic ( NOYES 2016). Comments. All type specimens were reared from Pseudococcus on Citrus (ISHII 1923) .

In TRJAPITZIN’ S (1989) key to Palaearctic genera this species does not run to Clausenia , because in his key Clausenia has a postmarginal vein longer than the marginal vein (couplet 280), which is not correct. In the examined material the marginal vein is considerably longer than postmarginal. In TRJAPITZIN’ s (1989) key to species of Clausenia he states that F 1 is not longer or slightly longer than wide, whereas in the type material F 1 is 1.4–1.6× as long as wide and F

2

and F

3

each 1.5× as long as wide.