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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Cuckoo Wasps & allies (Chrysidoidea) » Cuckoo Wasps (Chrysididae) » Cleptinae » Cleptes

Genus Cleptes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
Cleptes purpuratus Cleptes - female Wasp - Cleptes rufigaster Wasp - Cleptes rufigaster Wasp - Cleptes rufigaster Cleptes sp. - Cleptes speciosus - female Cleptes sp. - Cleptes speciosus - female Cleptes sp. - Cleptes speciosus - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Chrysidoidea (Cuckoo Wasps & allies)
Family Chrysididae (Cuckoo Wasps)
Subfamily Cleptinae
Genus Cleptes
Explanation of Names
Cleptes Latreille 1802
Numbers
8 spp. (of which one adventive) in our area, ~70 spp. worldwide(1)
Range
primarily Holarctic, by far most diverse in Eurasia(1)
Food
hosts: tenthredinid and diprionid sawflies(2)
Internet References
Taxon page [data from(1)]
Works Cited
1.The chrysidid wasps of the world
Kimsey L.S., Bohart R.M. 1990. Oxford University Press. 652 pp.
2.California Cuckoo Wasps in the Family Chrysididae (Hymenoptera)
Lynn S. Kimsey. 2006. UC Press.
Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 15 January, 2008 - 4:06pm
Additional contributions by kschnei, v belov
Last updated 19 November, 2013 - 11:13am

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