Pepsis varipennis Lepeletier

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 : 17-18

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.4344901

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D0C7764-FFA3-FF91-07AA-F85CFC13FE85

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Pepsis varipennis Lepeletier
status

 

Pepsis varipennis Lepeletier View in CoL

BRAZIL: State of Bahia, Paramirim; 22 February 2016; L. C. M. Cardoso. Host:? Iridopelma sp. ( Theraphosidae ),

female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards, ventral side upward, on the ground through low vegetation and leaf litter, grasping a coxa with her mandibles ( Cardoso 2016).

BRAZIL: State of Paraiba, Teixeira ; 13 March 2018; J. Gomes (josegomespb). Host: Unidentified species ( Theraphosidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula on the ground, ventral side upward, grasping its left hindleg with her mandibles ( Gomes 2018) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Pepsis

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