Cleptes americana Cresson, 1879:x, ♂♀. 14 ♂♀, Colorado, Nevada; Kimsey, 1981Kimsey, L.S. 1981. The Cleptinae of the Western Hemisphere. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94 (3):801-818.:811, Lectotype ♀ (ANSP); Kimsey, 2006Kimsey, L.S. 2006. California Cuckoo Wasps in the Family Chrysididae (Hymenoptera). University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. 1-311.:13, Holotype ♀ (ANSP). - Cresson, 1879Cresson, E.T. 1879. Description of new species of Oryssus and Cleptes. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 7:ix-x. (distribution); Kimsey, 1981Kimsey, L.S. 1981. The Cleptinae of the Western Hemisphere. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94 (3):801-818.:811 ( listed as synonym of Cleptes purpuratus Cresson, 1879). - As Cleptes americanus: - Kimsey, 2006Kimsey, L.S. 2006. California Cuckoo Wasps in the Family Chrysididae (Hymenoptera). University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. 1-311.:13 ( listed as synonym of Cleptes purpuratus Cresson, 1879).
Cleptes purpurata Cresson, 1879:x, ♀. Holotype ♀, Vancouver's Island (leg. Henry Edwards); Kimsey, 1981Kimsey, L.S. 1981. The Cleptinae of the Western Hemisphere. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94 (3):801-818.:811, Holotype ♀ (ANSP); Kimsey, 2006Kimsey, L.S. 2006. California Cuckoo Wasps in the Family Chrysididae (Hymenoptera). University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. 1-311.:13, Holotype ♀ (ANSP). - As Cleptes purpuratus: - Kimsey, 1981Kimsey, L.S. 1981. The Cleptinae of the Western Hemisphere. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94 (3):801-818. (distribution); Kimsey, 2006Kimsey, L.S. 2006. California Cuckoo Wasps in the Family Chrysididae (Hymenoptera). University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. 1-311. (distribution).
Cleptes insperatus Aaron, 1885:212, Kimsey, 1981Kimsey, L.S. 1981. The Cleptinae of the Western Hemisphere. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94 (3):801-818.:811, Holotype ♀ (ANSP); Kimsey, 2006Kimsey, L.S. 2006. California Cuckoo Wasps in the Family Chrysididae (Hymenoptera). University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. 1-311.:14, Holotype ♀ (ANSP). Synonymized with Cleptes purpuratus Cresson, 1879 by Kimsey, 1981Kimsey, L.S. 1981. The Cleptinae of the Western Hemisphere. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94 (3):801-818.:811. - Kimsey, 2006Kimsey, L.S. 2006. California Cuckoo Wasps in the Family Chrysididae (Hymenoptera). University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. 1-311.:13 ( listed as synonym of Cleptes purpuratus Cresson, 1879). - As Cleptes insperata: