Photographic catalogue of the oldest primary types of Japanese Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), those described by Frederick Smith and Francis Walker in 1874 Author Shimizu, So Laboratory of Insect Biodiversity and Ecosystem Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kôbe University, Kôbe, Hyôgo, Japan; Research Fellow (DC 1 and Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tôkyô, Japan; Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK parasitoidwasp.sou@gmail.com Author Broad, Gavin R. Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK text Journal of Natural History 2020 2020-10-16 54 17 1115 1198 journal article 9719 10.1080/00222933.2020.1776905 ccef5905-96d5-4ea8-b438-168afd46d3fc 1464-5262 4116141 22F74559-4F79-47B2-81DB-34C6C3B5729F Macrus apicifer Walker, 1874 ( Figure 44 ) Taxonomic history. Morley (1913b) transferred this species to Syzeuctus Förster, 1869 . Current taxonomy. Syzeuctus apicifer ( Walker, 1874 ) ( Ichneumonidae : Banchinae : Atrophini ). Type number. Type 3b.1077. Specimen # NHMUK010881030 Type status. Holotype . Figure 44. Holotype female of Macrus apicifer Walker, 1874 (= Syzeuctus apicifer ( Walker, 1874 )) : (a) labels (b) lateral habitus (c) head, frontal view (d) head, dorsal view (e) head, lateral view (f) mesoscutum and scutellum, dorsal view (g) propodeum, dorsal view (h) mesosoma, lateral view (i) wings (j) metasoma, dorsal view. Sex. Female. Type locality. Japan . Label data. First label, ‘Type’ (round label, with red margin; printed); second label, ‘B.M. TYPE /HYM./3.b.1077.’ (square label; first and second lines printed and third line handwriting); third label, ‘ Japan ./Coll.F. Walker./ 1913–71 .’ (square label; printed); fourth label, ‘262’ (square label; handwriting); fifth label, ‘ Macrus /apicifer’ (square label; handwriting). Condition. Not bad; right antenna 6th flagellomere, left antenna after 7th flagellomere, hind tarsi and one ovipositor sheath missing, but one flagellomere and an ovipositor sheath glued to card.