Pepsis equestris Erichson

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 : 10

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.4344599

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D0C7764-FFBA-FF89-07AA-FE1BFA8FFCD1

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Pepsis equestris Erichson
status

 

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VENEZUELA: Falcon State, Coro; 8 March 2011; E. Petit. Host: Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (Strand) (Greenbottle blue tarantula) ( Theraphosidae ), juvenile. The wasp grasped the paralyzed tarantula by the base of its right forecoxa with her mandibles and pulled the spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward ( Petit 2011).

VENEZUELA: Falcon State, Paraguana Peninsula, Judibana ; 20 January 2014; X. Guerrero (@xionland). Host: Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens , juvenile. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards on the ground by the base of its left forecoxa, dorsal side upward, grasping it with her mandibles ( Guerrero 2014) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Pepsis

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