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Cleptes dauriensis Móczár, 1997a - South-east Russia Cleptes dooi Tsuneki, 1959 - Korea Cleptes femoralis Mocsáry, 1890 - Asia Minor, Greece, Russia (Kasan), Caucasus Cleptes antakyensis Linsenmaier, 1968 - Turkey Cleptes ignitus (Fabricius, 1787) - South Europe, southern parts of Central Europe, North Africa, Palestine, West Asia, South Russia Cleptes insidiosus Buysson, 1891 - South-west Russia Cleptes kusdasicus Móczár, 1968 - Turkey Cleptes maroccanus Linsenmaier, 1987 - Morocco Cleptes mayeti Buysson, 1891 - Algeria (?synonym of afer Lucas, 1849) Cleptes muti Móczár, 1968 - Turkey Cleptes nitidulus (Fabricius, 1793) - Europe, Turkey, Manchuria Cleptes nyonensis Móczár 1997a- France Cleptes obsoletus Semenow, 1891 - Russia (Sarepta), South-east Asia Cleptes scutellaris Mocsáry, 1889 - Hungary, Austria, South Europe, Israel ?Cleptes scutellaris gurunensis Linsenmaier, 1987 (cf. anceyi Buysson, 1891) - Turkey Cleptes semicyaneus Tournier, 1879 - Central and West Europe, Bulgaria, Ukraine, South Russia Cleptes elegáns Mocsáry, 1901 - Russia (Kasan) Cleptes nitidulus var. erdoesi Móczár, 1951 - Hungary Cleptes splendidus (Fabricius, 1794) - Italy Cleptes consimilis Buysson, 1887 - Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Israel, Russia Cleptes syriacus Buysson, 1887 - Israel Cleptes morawitzi group Cleptes canadensis Kimsey, 1987 - Central Canada Cleptes morawitzi Radoszkowski, 1877 - Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan Cleptes rugulosus group Cleptes rugulosus Linsenmaier, 1968 - Palestine, Israel, Syrian Arab Republic Key to the species groups 1 (4) Abdomen entirely dark brown to black, (except T-I-III in Cleptes canadensis, 6), with or without metallic highlights. Head and thorax usually concolorous. 2 (3) Abdomen with metallic green, blue or purple highlights along lateral margins and (or) also last tergites (except in some specimen, cf. Cleptes speciosus). Head and thorax usually blue to purple or bright green to bluish green (cT), bronze to copper (in Cleptes speciosus, 9) T-III rarely with double punctures "alienus" group 1 (2) Abdomen without metallic highlights. Head and thorax unicoloured coppery with greenish reflection, except dark greenish propodeum with bluish reflection (in Cleptes canadensis, 6) or flame red with golden reflection including propodeum. Lateral tooth of propodeum stumpy. T-III normally, not with double punctures "morawitzi" group