Cleptes semiauratus Moczar

• Main Authors: Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas, Ødegaard, Frode
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Chrysididae; Cleptes; Cleptes semiauratus; Mutilla; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5525080; https://zenodo.org/record/5525080

1. Cleptes semiauratus (Linnaeus, 1761) sensu Móczár ? Sphex semiauratus Linnaeus 1761: 413. Lectotype ♀ (designated by Day 1979: 72); Sweden: Scania (LSL) ( Cleptes semiauratus group). Remarks. The species has been reported from all Nordic and Baltic countries, but all records have turned out to refer to C. pallipes . Móczár (2001: 926) reported C. semiauratus from Denmark in his revision based on Danish specimens deposited in ZMUC in Copenhagen. We have checked these specimens, and they all belong to C. pallipes . Tumšs (1976: 23) reported both C. pallipes and C. semiauratus from Latvia. However, the record of C. semiauratus was based on Kawall’s (1864: 303) old publication, in which the species was apparently treated sensu Dahlbom (1854), i.e. as a senior synonym of C. pallipes . Kawall (1866b: 156) also reported “ Cleptes auratus L.” from Latvia, but the identity of this taxon is unclear. One specimen named as C. semiauratus was found in the collection of LMSZ in Riga, but it also belonged to C. pallipes . Cleptes semiauratus was described by Linnaeus (1761) from Scania, southern Sweden, and a lectotype was designated by Day (1979). Apparently, Kimsey later incorrectly designated another lectotype from Paris (Kimsey & Bohart 1991). However, this lectotype has not been found in the Parisian collections, where it should have been deposited. The correct lectotype in Linnaeus’ collection is morphologically similar to C. pallipes , with e.g. completely yellowish brown tibiae. This colouration was also mentioned in the original description (“ Tibiae ferruginae ”). Additionally the type locality (Scania) seems to be outside the distribution area of C. semiauratus sensu Móczár. Thus it is possible that the type of C. semiauratus is actually conspecific with C. pallipes , and the name pallipes a junior synonym of semiauratus . In this case, the name of C. semiauratus sensu Móczár should be changed. : Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433 : {"references": ["Linnaeus, C. (1761) Fauna Svecica sistens Animalia Sveciae Regni: Mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, Vermes. Distributa per Classes et Ordines, enera et Species, cum Differentiis, Specierum, Synonymis, Auctorum, Nominibus Incolarum, Locis natalium, Descriptionibus Insectorum. Editio Altera, Auctior. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholmiae, 578 pp. + 2 pls. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 46380", "Day, M. C. (1979) The species of Hymenoptera described by Linnaeus in the genera Sphex, Chrysis, Vespa, Apis and Mutilla. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 12, 45 - 84.", "Moczar, L. (2001) World revision of the Cleptes semiauratus group (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae, Cleptinae). Linzer biologische Beitrage, 33, 905 - 931.", "Tumss, V. (1976) Materiali Latvijas PSR dzelejplevsparnu (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) faunai. Zoologijas muzeja raksti, 14, 11 - 26.", "Kawall, J. H. (1864) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Hymenopteren-Fauna Russlands. Bulletin de la Societe imperiale des naturalistes de Moscou, 37, 293 - 303.", "Dahlbom, A. G. (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 Linnaeano. Friedrich Nicolai, Berlin, xxiv + 412 pp. + 12 pls. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 15890", "Kawall, J. H. (1866 b) Phanologische Beobachtungen. (Fortsetzung; vom J. 1850 - 1854.) Correspondenzblatt des Naturforschenden Vereins zu Riga, 15, 146 - 165.", "Kimsey, L. S. & Bohart, R. M. (1991 [\" 1990 \"]) The Chrysidid Wasps of the World. Oxford Press, New York, 652 pp."]}