Cleptes pallipes Lepeletier synonym of Cleptes semiauratus (Linnaeus) and description of Cleptes striatipleuris sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae, Cleptinae)

Paolo Rosa; Mattias Forshage; Juho Paukkunen; Villu Soon

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4039.4.4

Issue: Vol. 4039 No. 4: 6 Nov. 2015

Type: Article

Published: 2015-11-06

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.4.4

Page range: 543–552

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Cleptes pallipes Lepeletier synonym of Cleptes semiauratus (Linnaeus)
**and description of Cleptes striatipleuris sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae, Cleptinae)**

Paolo Rosa⁺⁻
Mattias Forshage⁺⁻
Juho Paukkunen⁺⁻
Villu Soon⁺⁻

Via Belvedere 8/d, I-20881 Bernareggio (MB), Italy.

Station Linné, Ölands Skogsby 161, SE-386 93 Färjestaden, Sweden. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.

Finnish Museum of Natural History, Zoology Unit, PO Box 17, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.

Natural History Museum and Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, 51014 Tartu, Estonia.

Hymenoptera Cleptes new species synonym

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Abstract

The interpretation of Linnaeus’ name Sphex semiaurata Linnaeus, 1761 has been controversial. After type examinations, we conclude that it is identical with the common Cleptes pallipes Lepeletier, 1806 and thus re-establish the old synonymy: Cleptes semiauratus (Linnaeus, 1761) (=Cleptes pallipes Lepeletier, 1806, syn. reinst.). We have been unable to find an available name for the species with which it has been confused. In order to be able to designate a suitable type specimen, we prefer to describe it as a new species rather than suggest a replacement name: Cleptes striatipleuris Rosa, Forshage, Paukkunen & Soon sp. nov. (=Cleptes semiauratus sensu Lepeletier, 1806, nec Linnaeus, 1761; =C. splendens sensu Linsenmaier 1959, nec Fabricius, 1798).