Cleptes semiauratus
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Cleptes
Name
Cleptes semiauratus (Linnaeus, 1761) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Sphex semiauratus Linnaeus, 1761: 413.
- Cleptes semi-auratus: Latreille 1802[1]: 316
- Cleptes pallipes Lepeletier, 1806: 119. Synonymised with Cleptes semiauratus by Dahlbom (1854)[2] and synonymy reinstated by Rosa et al. (2015)[3].
Diagnosis
Length 5–8 mm. Both sexes differ from Cleptes nitidulus and Cleptes semicyaneus by having a transverse foveate furrow posteriorly on the pronotum (Figs 11, 12). The female differs also by its metallic golden red head, pronotum, mesoscutum and mesoscutellum (Fig. 11), and distinctly banded wings (Fig. 11). The head and mesosoma of the male are entirely metallic blue-green. The metasoma is anteriorly non-metallic red and posteriorly black with blue reflections in both sexes (Fig. 11).
Distribution
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden. Relatively rare. – Trans-Palearctic/Holarctic? The general distribution is poorly known due to confusion of Cleptes semiauratus with Cleptes striatipleuris Rosa, Forshage, Paukkunen & Soon, 2015 (= Cleptes semiauratus sensu Lepeletier, 1806) by several authors (Rosa et al. 2015[3]). According to Móczár (2001)[4], Cleptes semiauratus has been found in the Palearctic, Nearctic and Oriental Regions (Sumatra). In the Nearctic and Oriental Regions the species has probably been accidentally introduced (Kimsey and Bohart 1991[5]).
Biology
Habitat: forest margins and clearings, gardens and parks. Flight period: June to August. Host: Endelomyia aethiops (Gmelin), Euura ribesii (Scopoli) and Pristiphora incisa (Lindqvist) (Tenthredinidae) (Alfken 1915[6], Burger and Sobczyk 2011[7], V. Vikberg, pers. obs.). Several other tenthredinid sawfly species reported as hosts for Cleptes semiauratus might actually represent hosts of Cleptes striatipleuris.
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
- ↑ Latreille P (1802) Histoire naturelle générale et particuliére des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclercq de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusiers Sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. F. Dufart, Paris, 13–467. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.15764
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rosa P, Forshage M, Paukkunen J, Soon V (2015) Cleptes pallipes Lepeletier synonym of Cleptes semiauratus (Linnaeus) and the description of Cleptes striatipleuris sp. n. (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae). Zootaxa 4039: 543–552. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.4.4
- ↑ Móczár L (2001) World revision of the Cleptes semiauratus group (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae, Cleptinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 33: 905–931.
- ↑ Kimsey L, Bohart R (1991) [1990] The Chrysidid Wasps of the World. Oxford Press, New York, 652 pp.
- ↑ Alfken J (1915) Verzeichnis der Goldwespen (Chrysiden) Nordwestdeutschlands. Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlchen Verein zu Bremen 23: 291–295.
- ↑ Burger F, Sobczyk T (2011) Zu einem syntopen Vorkommen von Cleptes pallipes Lepeletier, 1806, C. semiauratus (Linnaeus, 1761) und C. nitidulus (Fabricius, 1793) in Sachsen mit neuen Erkenntnissen zur Determination der Gattung Cleptes in Deutschland (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 55: 53–56.
