Cleptes sp.

Boustani, Mira & Rosa, Paolo, 2022, Survey of cuckoo wasps of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) with description of four new species, Zootaxa 5104 (1), pp. 1-39 : 5

Cleptes sp.

Material examined. N. Lebanon: Horch Ehden , 1686 m, 22.vii.2019, 1♀, leg. X. Van achter ( NMLU) .

Distribution. Lebanon.

Remarks. This female belongs to an undescribed species, currently under description in another paper dealing with new Mediterranean species of the genus Cleptes Latreille (Rosa, Makris & Boustani, in prep.). Collection locality in Fig. 2A .

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FIGURE 2. A) View of the Horch Ehden Forest Reserve outskirts with sparsely wooded areas of Quercus sp., and Juniperus sp., and a dense herbaceous vegetation dominated by Medicago sp. B) View of the type locality of Chrysis mirae sp. nov. in the Supra-Mediterranean vegetation level with mainly Quercus sp., Pistachia sp., and Spartium junceum. The disturbed sandy-soil hosts many bee nesting sites. C) View of the type locality of Philoctetes acuminatus sp. nov. in the Oro-mediterranean.The vegetation is steppic with mainly Astragalus sp. thorny shrubs and Asphodeline taurica bulbous flowers. D) Flowers of Asphodeline taurica on which specimens of Philoctetes acuminatus sp. nov. were found.