Anicetus ceroplastis 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 : 355

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scientific name	Anicetus ceroplastis Ishii, 1928
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Anicetus ceroplastis Ishii, 1928: 150 View in CoL .

Type material examined. LECTOTYPE: ♀ (here designated) (No. 7), Nagasaki, ex Ceroplastes pseudoceriferus , 1.x.1922, T. Ishii lgt. ( NIAES). PARALECTOTYPE: 1 ♀ (on slide), same data as lectotype ( NIAES).

Additional material examined. 5 ♀♀, Nagasaki, ex Ceropastes japonicus , 27.x.1926, T. Ishii lgt., T. Tachikawa det.; 1 ♀, Matsuyama, ex Ceroplastes ceriferus , 5.vii.1957, T. Tachikawa lgt. & det.; 8 ♀♀, Matsuyama, vii.1958, T. Tachikawa lgt. & det.; 5 ♀♀, Kozaki, Kyushu, vi.1954, T. Tachikawa lgt. & det.; 1 ♀, Fukuoka, Kyushu, ix.1960. T. Kato lgt., T. Tachikawa det. ( ELKU); 1 ♀ (on slide), Maidashi, Fukuoka-city, Fukuoka Pref., ex C. japonicus on Ilex rotunda , vi.1993, Y. Higashiura lgt., G. Japoshvili & Y. Higashiura det. ( YHYJ).

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

Comments. In this species the exserted part of the ovipositor is 1.5× as long as the mid tibial spur. TACHIKAWA (1963a) states that Anicetus ceroplastis exclusively parasitizes Ceroplastes pseudoceriferus Green, 1935 and suggests that records of C. japonicus (Green, 1921) as host are based on misdentifications of C. pseudoceriferus .