Cleptes aerosus franciscae Linsenmaier, 1987

Rosa, Paolo, Heim, René & Bernasconi, Marco Valerio, 2020, The Palaearctic types of Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the Linsenmaier collection. Part 1. Cleptes Latreille, Zootaxa 4881 (1), pp. 54-72 : 56

Cleptes aerosus franciscae Linsenmaier, 1987

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Cleptes aerosus ssp. franciscae Linsenmaier, 1987: 133 . Holotype ♀; Morocco: Mogador [= Essaouira] (NMLU). Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 58 (cat., aerosus group); Linsenmaier 1999: 7 (key), 8 (descr., aerosus group).

Cleptes (Holcocleptes) aerosus franciscae: Móczár 1998a: 325 (cat., aerosus group), 326 (key), 334 (tax.).

Type locality. Morocco: “Maroc, ♀ Type Mogador IV.1965 Coll. m.” .

Holotype, ♀: Maroc 30.IV.65 Mogador Taftet leg. Linsenmaier // ♀ Type Cleptes Ltr. aerosus franciscae Lins. Linsenmaier det. 1965 // 406 a) // Holotypus C. aer . franciscae des. Móczár 998 // NML _ENT GBIF _Chr 00000008 .

Remarks. Cleptes aerosus franciscae is considered as a valid subspecies ( Móczár 1998a). It is clearly separated from the European subspecies by entirely dark colouration of metasoma (vs. light orange colouration on the first, second and basal third metasoma segments). Morphological characters are the reduced pits of the transversal pronotal line and of the longitudinal posterior row.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Cleptes aerosus franciscae Linsenmaier, 1987, holotype. A) Habitus, lateral view. B) Head, frontal view. C) Habitus, dorsal view. D) Metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bar 1 mm.