Cleptes nitidulus
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Cleptes
Name
Cleptes nitidulus (Fabricius, 1793) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Ichneumon nitidulus Fabricius, 1793: 184.
- Cleptes nitidula: Fabricius 1804[1]: 154.
Diagnosis
Length 5–7 mm. Both sexes differ from Cleptes semiauratus by not having a foveate furrow posteriorly on the pronotum (Fig. 13). The female also differs from Cleptes semiauratus by its black head and mesoscutum, non-metallic yellow or orange pronotum, mostly metallic blue mesoscutellum, metanotum and propodeum, and non-metallic black apex of the metasoma. As opposed to the female, the head and mesosoma of the male are entirely metallic green and the apex of the metasoma has faint metallic reflections laterally (Fig. 16). Both sexes differ from Cleptes semicyaneus by having pale brown or yellow (not dark brown) legs, denser punctation on the tergites (Fig. 16) and deep postocellar foveae on the vertex (Fig. 14).
Distribution
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Sweden. Rare. – West Palearctic: Europe and Turkey (Linsenmaier 1959[2]), records from China are erroneous (Rosa et al. 2014[3]).
Biology
Habitat: sparsely vegetated sandy areas, such as dry meadows and dunes (Morgan 1984[4]). Occasionally found on flowers of Apiaceae (Heinrich 1964[5]). Flight period: June to August. Host: Caliroa cerasi (Linnaeus) and Euura ribesii (Scopoli) (Tenthredinidae) (Dahlbom 1854[6], Morgan 1984[4]).
Taxon Treatment
- Paukkunen, J; Berg, A; Soon, V; Ødegaard, F; Rosa, P; 2015: An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species ZooKeys, (548): 1-116. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Fabricius J (1804) Systema Piezatorum secundum ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Apud Carolum Reichard, Brunsvigae, 439 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.12548
- ↑ Linsenmaier W (1959) Revision der Familie Chrysididae (Hymenoptera) mit besonderer Brücksichtigung der europäischen Spezies. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 32: 1–232.
- ↑ Rosa P, Wei N, Xu Z (2014) An annotated checklist of the chrysidid wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) from China. ZooKeys 455: 1–128. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.455.6557
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Morgan D (1984) Cuckoo-wasps, Hymenoptera, Chrysididae. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol. 6, Part 5. Royal Entomological Society of London, London, 37 pp.
- ↑ Heinrich J (1964) Beitrag zur Hymenopteren-fauna des westlichen Unterfranken. 1. Teil, Chrysididae. Nachrihten des Naturwissenschaftlichen Museums der Stad Aschaffenburg 71: 1–28.
- ↑ Dahlbom A (1854) Hymenoptera Europaea praecipue borealia, formis typicis nonnullis specierum generumve Exoticorum aut Extraneorum propter nexum systematicum associatis, per familias, genera, species et varietates disposita atque descripta. 2. Chrysis in sensu Linnæano. Friedrich Nicolai, Berlin, 412 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.15890
