Cleptes seoulensis Tsuneki, 1959

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 : 74-76

Cleptes seoulensis Tsuneki, 1959 (New to China)Plate 9

Cleptes seoulensis Tsuneki, 1959: 13; Kim 1970: 506; Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 64; Móczár 1998a: 340; Ha et al. 2011: 492.

Material examined.

1 ♂ (SCAU), Anhui, Jinzhai, Tiantangzhai (31°8'19.23"N, 115°46'35.82"E), 1000 m, 2.VI.2006, Hu Zhou leg., No. SCAU-C0007.

Diagnosis.

Body mostly metallic greenish-blue, with some purple tints. Ocellar area yellowish-green. Pronotum with longitudinal median sulcus complete and foveate. Female with complete V-shape loop on mesopleuron. Male with incomplete V-shape loop, missing the upper branch, not reaching anterior corner. Metanotum with a big and oval anteromedian pit, with a fovea along the posterior margin. Metapleuron mostly smooth and polished.

Description.

Redescribed after a male from Anhui. Body length 10.0 mm (Plate 9A). Forewing length 7.5 mm. HW: HH: HL = 30.3: 24.3: 15. POL: OOL: OCL = 7: 12: 16. MS = 1.6 MOD. Width of clypeal lower margin = 1.3 ASD. L/W of Ped, F-I, F-II, and F-III are 1.2, 2, 1.4, and 1.5, respectively.

Head. Face and ocellar area with dense and coarse punctures (0-0.5 PD), punctures shallower on lower face. Frontal sulcus complete (Plate 9B). Clypeus with lower margin truncate, with shallow and sparse punctures (1 PD), without acute teeth at corners. Mandibles with sparse punctures and four teeth. Ocellar triangle isosceles, without post-ocellar sulcus. Vertex with punctures similar to those on face, but shallower.

Mesosoma. Pronotum with punctures smaller and sparser (0.5-1.0 PD) than those on vertex. Pronotum with distinct anterior and posterior pit rows (Plate 9C); with longitudinal median sulcus complete and foveate (Plate 9C). Mesonotum and metanotum with punctures gradually smaller and sparser than those on pronotum. Mesoscutum with notauli complete; parapsidal lines incomplete, 4/5 length of notauli; admedian lines incomplete, 2/5 length of notauli; indistinct longitudinal and slightly foveate sulcus present medially on posterior part of mesoscutum, 1/4 length of notauli (Plate 9C); axillary trough longitudinally striate. Mesopleuron with foveate V-shape loop incomplete, missing of upper branch, not reaching anterior corner (Plate 9D). Metanotum with a big and oval anteromedian pit, with a fovea along the posterior margin; axillary trough longitudinally striate (Plate 9E). Metapleuron mostly smooth and polished (Plate 9D). Dorsal surface of propodeum irregularly reticulate; lateral margins parallel, slightly concave before propodeal angles (Plate 9E).

Metasoma. T-I, T-IV and T-V with sparse punctures. T-II and T-III with dense punctures (Plate 9F).

Pubescence. Head with long (1-2 MOD) and brown hairs, except upper face, and vertex with short (0.8-1.0 MOD), erect and black bristles. Metasoma on T-III and T-IV dorsally and laterally with long (1.0-1.5 MOD), sparse and white hairs.

Colouration. Body mostly metallic greenish-blue, with some purple tints. Ocellar area yellowish-green. Mandibles metallic blue, with teeth blackish-brown. Antennae black, with scapes and pedicels metallic bluish-green. Tegulae metallic bluish-green. Legs metallic bluish-green, with tarsi testaceous.

Female. Not available specimens for this study.

Distribution.

China (Anhui); Korea.

Biology.

Collected in June at 1000 m.

Remarks.

Cleptes seoulensis Tsuneki belongs to the fudzi species-group ( Móczár 1998a).