Encyrtus aurantii (Geoffroy, 1785)

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 : 370

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scientific name	Encyrtus aurantii (Geoffroy, 1785)
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Encyrtus aurantii (Geoffroy, 1785) View in CoL

Material examined. 1 ♀, Nagasaki, ex Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus, 1758 , 25.ix.1920, T. Ishii lgt., T. Tachikawa det.; 1 ♀, Kyushu, Hakozaki, Fukuoka-city, 27.x.1956, Y. Murakami lgt., T. Tachikawa det. ( ELKU).

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

Encyrtus hokkaidonis Tachikawa, 1963 , stat. restit.

Encyrtus hokkaidonis Tachikawa, 1963: 91 .

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♀, Mt.Yuo, Hokkaido, swept, 17.vii.1955, K. Morimoto lgt. ( ELKU). PARA- TYPE: 1 ♀, Mt. Yuo, Akan. Nat. Park , Hokkaido, swept, 17.vii.1955, Y. Murakami lgt. ( ELKU).

Additional material examined. 1 ♀, Honshu, Mt. Hakusan, Ishikawa pref., 31.vii.1956, Y. Murakami lgt., G. Japoshvili det. ( ELKU).

Distribution. Japan: Hokkaido ( TACHIKAWA 1963a). Endemic.

Comments. Encyrtus hokkaidonis was synonymized with E. infidus (Rossi, 1790) by TRJA- PITZIN (1989), but we believe that the synonymy was incorrect and reinstate the species name as valid. The two species can be separated relaibaly using the characters presented by TACHIKAWA (1963).