Cleptes pallipes Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1806

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), Zootaxa 3864 (1), pp. 1-67 : 9

3. Cleptes pallipes Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1806

? Sphex semiauratus Linnaeus 1761: 413 . Lectotype ♀ (designated by Day 1979: 72); Sweden: Scania (LSL).

Cleptes pallipes Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau 1806: 119 . Lectotype ♀ (designated by Morgan 1984: 10); France: Paris (MNHN) (examined). Tumšs 1976: 23, Móczár 2001: 920, Soon 2004: 17, 44, Fritz & Larsson 2010: 151, Orlovskytė et al. 2010: 145, Molander 2011: 95, Ranta 2012: 32, Rosa & Soon 2012, Dyntaxa 2013.

Cleptes semiaurata [nec ( Linnaeus, 1761)?] : Billberg 1820: 103, Dahlbom 1831: 23, Boheman 1851: 185, Forsius 1922: 94, Forsius 1925: 182–183, Frey 1936: 250.

Cleptes semiauratus [nec ( Linnaeus, 1761)?]: Zetterstedt 1840: 434, Dahlbom 1854: 16, Thomson 1862: 296, Kawall 1864: 303, Thomson 1870: 102, Borries 1891: 90, Sahlberg 1910: 99, Aurivillius 1911: 5, Hellén 1920: 206, Hellén 1935: 8, Valkeila 1951: 37, Tjeder 1954: 64, Valkeila 1962: 63, Kangas 1963: 199, Erlandsson 1971: 88, Tumšs 1976: 23, Vikberg 1986b: 67, Hedström 1987: 156, Móczár 2001: 926, Söderman & Vikberg 2003: 44, Abenius 2004 a, Soon 2004: 44, Abenius & Larsson 2005, Abenius & Larsson 2007, Hallin 2007: 21, Sörensson 2008a: 80, Franzén & Norén 2009: 40, Hallin 2009: 10, Allearter.dk 2010, Artsdatabanken 2010, Ødegaard et al. 2011: 64, Hallin 2012, Rosa & Soon 2012.

Distribution. Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Russian Fennoscandia.—Transpalearctic/holarctic? The general distribution is poorly known due to confusion of C. pallipes and C. semiauratus by several authors. According to Móczár (2001) C. pallipes has been found from the palearctic, nearctic and oriental regions (Sumatra). In the nearctic and oriental regions the species is probably accidentally introduced ( Kimsey & Bohart 1991).

Remarks: The species has been recorded from all the Nordic and Baltic countries, but it is relatively rare and usually found in small numbers. Until recently, it was confused with C. semiauratus ( sensu Móczár , see Cleptes semiauratus below for more details). Dahlbom (1854) synonymized C. pallipes with C. semiauratus , but du Buysson (1891 –1896) reinstated C. pallipes as a valid species, and Móczár (1949, 2001) supported the validity on the basis of the male genitalia. However, Linsenmaier (1959) used the name semiauratus for pallipes and splendens for semiauratus , while Kimsey & Bohart (1991) presented illustrations of semiauratus , which were actually of pallipes ( Rosa 2006) . These mistakes have caused many incorrect determinations in collections and the subsequent literature. So far, all specimens collected from Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries and checked by the authors have proven to belong to C. pallipes .