Hemipepsis toussainti ( Banks, 1928 )

Waichert, Cecilia, Rodriguez, Juanita, Von Dohlen, Carol D. & Pitts, James P., 2012, Spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of the Dominican Republic, Zootaxa 3353 (1), pp. 1-47 : 17

Hemipepsis toussainti ( Banks, 1928)

Mygnimia toussainti Banks, 1928 , Notes on Cuban and other West Indian Psammocharidae , p. 5 [Holotype: ♀, HAITI, Port au Prince (MZC)]

Diagnosis. This species can be recognized by the following unique combination of characters: the integument is black; the pubescence on the body is black, long, and abundant; the pronotum is not elongated and has the collar differentiated from the disc; the wings are yellow, broadly black at the base and the apex; and the first radial sector of the fore wing is occupied basally by a distinct subcircular irregularity in the membrane. Additionally, the female has the antenna orange. The male has the antenna black; the clypeus with long suberect setae basally; and the black area on wings broader than in the female.

Distribution. Southern USA, Mexico ( Townes 1957), Haiti, Dominican Republic?

Host. Unknown.

Remarks. Although there is no record of this species for the Dominican Republic, and we have not seen specimens in our studied sample, H. toussainti is described for Haiti and likely occurs in the Dominican Republic. This species is found from southern USA to Mexico, and, as it is a large species, it is very likely to be distributed throughout Hispaniola.