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 Ichneumon albidipes Walker, 1874 ( Figure 39 ) Taxonomic history. Morley (1913b) transferred I. albidipes to Goryphus Holmgren, 1868 , but Uchida (1940b) subsequently suggested that it belongs to Phygadeuontini Förster 1869 , and Townes et al. (1965) finally transferred it to Aptesis Förster, 1850 . Figure 39. Holotype male of Ichneumon albidipes Walker, 1874 (= Aptesis albidipes ( Walker, 1874 )) : (a) labels (b) lateral habitus (c) head, dorsal view (d) head, lateral view (e) mesoscutum and scutellum, dorsal view (f) propodeum, dorsal view (g) mesosoma, lateral view (h) wings (i) metasoma, dorsal view. Current taxonomy. Aptesis albidipes ( Walker, 1874 ) ( Ichneumonidae : Cryptinae : Aptesini ). Type number. Type 3b.616. Specimen # NHMUK010881024 Type status. Holotype . Sex. Male. Type locality. Japan . Label data. First label, ‘Type’ (round label, with red margin; printed); second label, ‘B.M. TYPE /HYM./3.b.616’ (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, ‘ Ichneumon /albidipes’ (square label; handwriting); sixth label, ‘ Goryphus sp. ♂ /Morley det. Xii 13’ (square label; ‘Morley det.’ printed and the remaining characters handwriting). Condition. Not good; the right antenna is missing after the 7th flagellomere, left antenna after the 10th; the face and right hand surface of the mesosoma are covered in glue; the wings are glued to a piece of card.