Pepsis completa Smith, 1855

Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia & Pitts, James P., 2022, Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Insecta Mundi 2022 (928), pp. 1-32 : 5-6

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6533498

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:48EC3DE6-45D1-40E2-8C4D-2D8788058CAC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6533508

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AA87D0-FFF3-FF9B-FF71-F92CFB525651

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pepsis completa Smith
status

 

Pepsis completa Smith View in CoL

BRAZIL: São Paulo State, Salto, Parque de Lavras; 21 October 2015; C. Carlinhos. Host: Unidentified species ( Pycnothelidae ), adult or subadult female [det. R. Bertani]. The wasp grasped the immobilized spider by the base of its left hindfemur with her mandibles as it laid ventral side upward on the ground. She also stood next to the paralyzed spider as it laid on the ground on its left side ( Carlinhos 2015a, 2015b).

BRAZIL: Sergipe State, Ribeirópolis ; 21 November 2021; Í. Lorran. Host: Unidentified genus/species ( Nemesiidae ), adult or subadult female. A series of photographs shows the wasp examining the paralyzed funnel-web trapdoor spider with her antennae as it laid on its right side on the ground ( Lorran 2021)

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Pepsis

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