Cleptes semicyaneus Tournier 1879

• Main Authors: Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas, Ødegaard, Frode
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Chrysididae; Cleptes; Cleptes semicyaneus; Fennoscandia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6646665; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/443187C9A841FFCFBAFAF945FE9EE940

2. Cleptes semicyaneus Tournier, 1879 Cleptes semicyanea Tournier 1879: 88. Holotype ♂; Russia: Sarepta (MHNG) (examined). Cleptes semicyaneus : Soon 2004: 44, Ødegaard et al. 2009: 41, Fritz & Larsson 2010: 151, Artsdatabanken 2010, Allearter.dk 2010, Hansen et al. 2010: 338, Ødegaard et al. 2011: 64, Rosa & Soon 2012. Material examined. Denmark: NEJ: Skagen, VI.1839, 1 ♀ (Schiödte); NEZ : Tisvilde, Stengehus, 24.VI.1970, 1 ♀ (H. Enghoff). Distribution. Denmark, Norway, Sweden.—Transpalearctic: from West Europe to Siberia (Irkutsk) (Móczár 1997). Remarks. The species has been recorded from two localities in Denmark (see data above), two localities in southern Norway ( VAY : Lista and RY : Jaeren) (Ødegaard et al. 2009), and one locality in southwest Sweden (Halland) (Fritz & Larsson 2010). The closest records outside the Nordic countries are from northern Poland (Pomerania) (Noskiewicz & Puławski 1958). In Norway, the species has been classified as vulnerable (Hansen et al. 2010). 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 pages 8-9, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433