Cleptes flavolineatus, 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 : 63-65

Cleptes flavolineatus sp. n. Plate 3

Material examined.

Holotype ♀ (ZJUH), Zhejiang, Hangzhou Botanical Garden (30°15'7.94"N, 120°7'40.48"E), 18.VI.1993, Jun-hua He leg., No.934793.

Diagnosis.

Cleptes flavolineatus sp. n. is similar to Cleptes satoi Tosawa, Cleptes albonotatus sp. n. and Cleptes niger sp. n. based on the blackish body, coarse punctures on head and rugose on pronotum. However, it can be easily distinguished by the combination of the following characteristics: with distinct yellow stripes on head, pronotum and mesoscutellum (absent in Cleptes satoi , Cleptes albonotatus sp. n. and Cleptes niger sp. n.); without anteromedian pit on metanotum (with an anteromedian pit in Cleptes satoi ); with four longitudinal ridges and numerous transverse wrinkles dorsal surface of propodeum (propodeum coarsely striate in Cleptes satoi ).

Description.

Female. Holotype. Body length 5.7 mm (Plate 3A). Forewing length 4.1 mm. HW: HH: HL = 3.3: 2.9: 1.4. POL: OOL: OCL = 4: 10: 9. MS = 1.3 MOD. Width of clypeal lower margin = 1.4 ASD. L/W of Ped, F-I, F-II, and F-III are 1.9, 2, 1, and 0.78, respectively.

Head. Face with dense and coarse punctures (0-0.5 PD). Clypeus with lower margin indistinctly convex medially, without acute teeth at corners. Frontal sulcus incomplete, interrupted by coarse punctures (Plate 3B). Mandibles with few punctures and two teeth. Ocellar area with punctures similar to those on face. Ocellar triangle equilateral, without post-ocellar sulcus. Vertex with punctures similar to those on face.

Mesosoma. Pronotum rugose, with punctures merging in irregular lines. Pronotum with distinct anterior pit row and indistinct posterior pit row; with irregular punctures along the posterior margin (Plate 3C); without longitudinal median sulcus (Plate 3C). Mesonotum and metanotum with smaller, sparser and shallower punctures than those on pronotum; notauli complete; parapsidal lines incomplete, 3/4 length of notauli; admedian lines incomplete, 1/4 length of notauli (Plate 3C). Mesopleuron with dense and coarse punctures and transversely striate, with short scrobal sulcus (Plate 3D). Mesoscutellum longitudinally polish in the middle; axillary trough irregularly reticulate (Plate 3E). Metanotum without anteromedian pit, with a broad fovea along the posterior margin; axillary trough longitudinally and weakly striate (Plate 3E). Metapleuron strongly striate (Plate 3D). Dorsal surface of propodeum with four longitudinal ridges, with numerous transverse wrinkles. Propodeal angles short and blunt (Plate 3E).

Metasoma. T-I and posterior half of T-II nearly impunctate. Anterior half of T-II–T-IV with dense punctures (Plate 3F).

Pubescence. Head with long (1-1.5 MOD) and brown hairs. Metasoma dorsally and laterally on T-III and T-IV with short (0.8-1.0 MOD) and brown hairs.

Colouration. Head black, with two oblique yellow stripes dorsally. Mandibles brown. Antennae blackish-brown, with pedicels, F-I–F-III and ventral sides of F-IV–F-XI testaceous. Mesosoma mostly black, with a transverse yellow stripe near the posterior margin of pronotum, a transverse brown stripe on posterior mesoscutellum, and brown tints on mesoscutum between notauli and metanotum. Mesopleuron and metapleuron mostly black, with yellow tint on anterior corner of mesopleuron. Tegulae brown. Legs brown, with apical coxae and apical femora pale, tibiae and tarsi testaceous. Metasoma blackish-brown, with pale tint laterally on each segment.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution.

Oriental part of China (Zhejiang).

Biology.

Collected in June.

Etymology.

The specific name refers to the yellow stripes on head and pronotum.

Remarks.

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