Pepsis sumptuosa 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 : 15-16

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.4344845

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D0C7764-FFBD-FF8F-07AA-F90FFBEFFEA1

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Pepsis sumptuosa Smith
status

 

Pepsis sumptuosa Smith View in CoL

COLOMBIA: Antioquia Department, Envigado; 18 July 2014; J. G. Zapata. Host: Xenesthis sp. ( Theraphosidae ), adult or subadult female. A short video shows the wasp following the tarantula walking away on the ground, then turn on her back, and grappling with the spider, flipping it over, ventral side upward, and stinging it between the 3 rd and 4 th left coxa. The wasp dismounts from the paralyzed spider, rubs its venter on the ground, then stands a short distance away and preens her antennae ( Zapata 2014).

COLOMBIA: Caldas Department, Manizales, Los Alcázares Ecopark ; posted 31 July 2018; J. F. S. Duque. Host: Unidentified species ( Theraphosidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its left pedipalp with her mandibles ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–8. 1 , Duque 2018; J. F. L. Duque, Colombia, 2019 pers. comm.) .

COLOMBIA: Nariño Department, Chachag ̹í; 5 February 2015; M. Claassen. Host:? Pamphobeteus sp., adult or subadult female. The wasp prepared a nest in the ground before dragging the recently paralyzed tarantula, dorsal side upward, backwards across the ground with her mandibles ( Claassen 2015) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Pepsis

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