Cleptes albonotatus, Wei, Na-sen, Rosa, Paolo & Xu, Zai-fu, 2013

Wei, Na-sen, Rosa, Paolo & Xu, Zai-fu, 2013, Revision of the Chinese Cleptes (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) with description of new species, ZooKeys 362, pp. 55-96 : 60-62

Cleptes albonotatus sp. n. Plate 1

Material examined.

Holotype ♀ (SCAU), Guangdong, Nanling National Nature Reserve (24°55'43"N, 113°1'1"E), 10-14.V.2006, Zai-fu Xu leg., No. SCAU-C0001.

Diagnosis.

Cleptes albonotatus sp. n. is similar to Cleptes satoi Tosawa based on the blackish colour of the body, coarse punctures on head, and irregular punctures along the posterior margin of pronotum; it resembles Cleptes japonicus Tosawa based on the transversely punctuate mesopleuron. However, Cleptes albonotatus sp. n. can be distinguished from these two species and others of the satoi species-group ( Cleptes flavolineatus sp. n. and Cleptes niger sp. n.) by the combination of the following characteristics: body mostly blackish, without metallic reflections, face with close and coarse punctures, pronotum with indistinct posterior pit row, metanotum without anteromedian pit and pale tints on lateral sides of T-II.

Description.

Female. Holotype. Body length 6.1 mm (Plate 1A). Forewing length 4.1 mm. HW: HH: HL = 37: 25: 50. POL: OOL: OCL = 8: 17: 18. MS = 1 MOD. Width of clypeal lower margin = 1.4 ASD. L/W of Ped, F-I, F-II, and F-III are 1.8, 1.3, 1.0, and 0.9, respectively.

Head. Face, ocellar area, and vertex with big, deep, close and coarse punctures (0-0.5 PD). Clypeus with lower margin truncate, without acute teeth at corners. Frontal sulcus complete (Plate 1B). Mandibles mostly polished, with few fine punctures and with four teeth. Ocellar triangle isosceles, without post-ocellar sulcus.

Mesosoma. Pronotum with punctures slightly smaller and sparser than those on vertex. Pronotum with distinct anterior pit row and indistinct posterior pit row; with irregular punctures along the posterior margin (Plate 1C); without longitudinal median sulcus (Plate 1C). Mesonotum and mesoscutellum with punctures similar to pronotum; notauli complete; parapsidal lines incomplete, 2/3 length of notauli; admedian lines incomplete and indistinct, 1/5 length of notauli (Plate 1C); axillary trough longitudinally striate. Mesopleuron transversely punctate, with short and indistinct scrobal sulcus (Plate 1D). Metanotum without anteromedian pit, with two foveae along the posterior margin; axillary trough longitudinally striate (Plate 1E). Metapleuron transversely striate (Plate 1D). Dorsal surface of propodeum with dense and irregular wrinkles. Propodeal angles short and blunt, slightly divergent (Plate 1E).

Metasoma. T-I impunctate; T-II–T-IV with small punctures (Plate 1F). Punctures on T-III denser than those on T-II and T-IV.

Pubescence. Head on vertex and clypeus with long (2.0-2.5 MOD), sparse and whitish hairs. Metasoma laterally on T-I and T-II with short (1 MOD), sparse and white hairs; dorsally and laterally on T-III and T-IV with long (2.2 MOD) and dense hairs.

Colouration. Head and mesosoma black, without metallic reflections. Mandibles black, with anterior half testaceous. Antennae black, with ventral sides of F-IV to F-XI testaceous. Tegulae blackish-brown. Legs blackish-brown, with trochanters, tibiae and tarsi testaceous. Metasoma blackish-brown, T-I laterally and on the anterior half testaceous, T-II laterally with distinct pale torus.

Male.Unknown.

Distribution.

Oriental part of China (Guangdong).

Biology.

Collected in May.

Etymology.

The specific name is referring to the pale torus on lateral T-II.

Remarks.

According to Móczár (2000b), Cleptes albonotatus sp. n. belongs to the satoi species-group based on the typical irregular punctures along the posterior margin of pronotum and black body.