Pepsis completa Smith, 1855

Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia, Kissane, Kelly C., Ubick, Darrell & Pitts, James P., 2020, New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Zootaxa 4891 (1), pp. 1-112 : 18

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6B0E1135-8C4E-4341-9793-AB970FBCD10B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4344647
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D0C7764-FFA2-FF91-07AA-FD33FAAEFA06
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pepsis completa Smith
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Pepsis completa Smith View in CoL

BRAZIL: State of Goiás, Brasília, Núcleo Ruraldo Palha, Paranoá Lake; posted 5 April 2016; R. L. Dienstmann. Host:? Acanthoscurria sp., juvenile. The wasp examined the paralyzed tarantula with her antennae, grasped it with her mandibles by the coxa of its 1 st or 2 nd right legs, lifted the small individual off the ground, and, with it, walked backwards ( Dienstmann 2016).

BRAZIL: State of Pará; Santarém, Bosque Santa Lucia; uploaded 15 November 2011; S. W. Alexander. Host:? Linothele sp. ( Dipluridae ), adult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed curtain-web spider backwards on the ground and through low vegetation, dorsal side upward, grasping its right foreleg with her mandibles (Alexan-der 2011).

BRAZIL: State of Pará, Tucurui; 31 March 2015; H. Souza (hanierysouza). Host:? Neostenotarsus sp. ( Theraphosidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its right pedipalp with her mandibles ( Souza 2015).

BRAZIL: State of S„o Paulo, Taubaté; 2 October 2018; F. Ribeiro (feliperibeirofotografias). Host: Unidentified species ( Ctenidae ). The wasp pulled the paralyzed wandering spider along the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its chelicera with her mandibles (Ribeiro 2018).

SURINAME: District of Brokopondo, Brownsberg Nature Park ; 2 April 2014; J. Van den Heuvel. Host:? Neostenotarsus sp., adult female. The wasp examined the paralyzed tarantula with her antennae and mouthparts after it was stung and laid on the ground on its left side ( Van den Heuvel 2014) .

VENEZUELA: Amazonas State, Puerto Ayacucho, Orinoquia Lodge; 24 September 1991; R. C. West. Host: Cyriocosmus nicholausgordoni Kaderka (Theraphosidae) , adult female. The wasp tried to sting the tarantula at the entrance of its ground retreat. Both wasp and spider were collected ( R. C. West, 2018 pers. obs.).