Cleptes townesi Kimsey, 1987

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 : 87-88

Cleptes townesi Kimsey, 1987 Plate 15

Cleptes townesi Kimsey, 1987: 58; Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 64; Móczár 2000a: 330.

Material examined.

2 ♂ (SCAU), Zhejiang, Hangzhou (30°16'32.72"N, 120°9'16.38"E), 21.V.1981, Yun Ma leg., No. 810679; 1 ♂ (SCAU), Fujian, Chong’an, Mt. Wuyi, Jiuqu (27°39'12.88"N, 117°56'24.43"E), 27.IV.1984, Xiu-fu Zhao leg., No. 20007514.

Diagnosis.

Metallic blue reflection restricted to face. Pronotum with anterior pit row distinct and posterior pit row absent. Mesopleuron polished, with sparse, shallow and aligned punctures on anterior half, with short scrobal sulcus. Metanotum without anteromedian pit, with a broad fovea along the posterior margin. T-V with posterior margin emarginate medially.

Description.

Redescribed after a male from Zhejiang. Body length 5.6 mm (Plate 15A). Forewing length 4.6 mm. HW: HH: HL = 13.5: 10: 5.5. POL: OOL: OCL = 9.5: 16.5: 15.5. MS = 0.6 MOD. Width of clypeal lower margin = 1.7 ASD. L/W of Ped, F-I, F-II, and F-III are 1.2, 2.6, 2.0, and 2.1, respectively.

Head. Face and vertex with small and sparse punctures (0.5-1.0 PD). Clypeus with lower margin truncate, without acute teeth at corners. Frontal sulcus complete (Plate 15B). Mandibles mostly polished, with few punctures and four teeth. Ocellar area with punctures similar to those on vertex but denser (0.5 PD). Ocellar triangles isosceles, almost equilateral, bulging in frontal view, without post-ocellar sulcus.

Mesosoma. Pronotum with shallow and sparse punctures (1-2 PD). Pronotum with anterior pit row distinct and posterior pit row absent (Plate 15C); without longitudinal median sulcus (Plate 15C). Mesonotum and metanotum with smaller punctures than those on pronotum. Mesoscutum with notauli complete; parapsidal lines incomplete, 3/4 length of notauli; admedian lines incomplete, 1/4 length of notauli (Plate 15C); axillary trough weakly reticulate. Mesopleuron polished, with sparse, shallow and aligned punctures on anterior half, with scrobal sulcus short (Plate 15D). A foveate transverse sulcus present between mesoscutellum and metanotum (Plate 15E). Metanotum without anteromedian pit, with a broad fovea along the posterior margin; axillary trough with few weak and oblique transverse wrinkles (Plate 15E). Metapleuron mostly smooth and polished (Plate 15D). Dorsal surface of propodeum irregularly reticulate; lateral margins parallel. Propodeal angles short and stumpy, slightly divergent (Plate 15E).

Metasoma. T-I and T-V nearly impunctate. T-II with sparse punctures. T-III and T-IV with dense punctures (Plate 15F). T-V with posterior margin emarginate medially.

Pubescence. Head on vertex with long (1.0-1.5 MOD), sparse and brownish hairs. Metasoma on T-I and T-II laterally, on T-III to T-V laterally and dorsally with long (1.0-1.5 MOD) and brownish hairs.

Colouration. Metallic blue reflections restricted to face. Vertex and mesosoma black, without metallic reflections. Mandibles brown, with teeth testaceous. Antennae blackish-brown, with scapes and pedicels brown. Tegulae brown. Legs brown, with coxae and trochanters testaceous. Metasoma brown.

Variation. Body length 5.6-6.7 mm. Forewing length 4.4-5.1 mm.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution.

Oriental part of China (Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan).

Biology.

Collected in April and May.

Remarks.

Cleptes townesi Kimsey belongs to the townesi species-group ( Móczár 2000a).