Pepsis purpureipes Packard, 1869

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 : 23

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.4344811

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D0C7764-FFA5-FF96-07AA-FA0BFEA2F8ED

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Plazi

scientific name

Pepsis purpureipes Packard
status

 

Pepsis purpureipes Packard View in CoL

COLOMBIA: Chocó Department, Condoto ; 23 February 2020; M. Zieger. Host: Unidentified species ( Theraphosidae ), adult male. A series of photographs shows the wasp dragging the paralyzed tarantula backward on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its right foreleg with her mandibles ( Zieger 2020; M. Zieger, Stuttgart, Germany, 2020 pers. comm.) .

ECUADOR: Pichincha Province, Nanegal, Santa Lucía Ecolodge ; 17 August 2012; H. Beck (holgerbeck). Host: Unidentified species ( Theraphosidae ), early instar juvenile (~ 15–20 mm). The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its left foreleg with her mandibles ( Beck 2012) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Pepsis

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