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Cleptes
Sign in to saveCleptes is a genus of cuckoo wasps in the subfamily Cleptinae. The genus contains 100 recognized species, making it the largest genus in the subfamily.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 213
- With media
- 34
- Family
- Chrysididae
- Collections
- SDNHM, KU, EMEC, UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY GENOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLECTION OF ARTHOPODS (UCFC)
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cleptinae
- Image
- Cleptes - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBAINV0274 046 01 0043.tif
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- taxon name
- Cleptes
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Cleptes
- taxon common name
- plantegullvepser
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Morphology
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Cleptes is a genus of cuckoo wasps in the subfamily Cleptinae. The genus contains 100 recognized species, making it the largest genus in the subfamily.
==Morphology== Members of the genus can be distinguished from related genera due to their smaller eyes, head as wide as long, and tarsal claws with only one perpendicular submedial tooth.
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