Pepsis garbei Brèthes, 1914: 297

Andrade, Tamires de O., Ramos, Kelli S., Onody, Helena C., dos Santos, Alvaro D. & Brandão, Carlos Roberto F., 2018, Type specimens of Pompiloidea, Thynnoidea and Vespoidea (Hymenoptera) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58, pp. 1-21 : 6

Pepsis garbei Brèthes, 1914: 297

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Lectotype: ♀ (# MZSP 56497) ‘[ Brazil], Espírito Santo, 9.309 [ Brazil, Espírito Santo, 1906, E. Garbe col.]’ ‘ Pepsis garbei Brèthes, Brèthes det. 17.’ ‘ Lectotype, ♀, Pepsis garbei, Brèthes = viridis Lep. , det. C.R.Vardy, 1991’.

Paralectotypes: 2♀ (# MZSP 56498, 56499) ‘[ Brazil], Espírito Santo, 3.537[ Brazil, Espírito Santo, 1906, E. Garbe col.]’ ‘ Pepsis garbei Br., Brèthes det. 17.’ ‘ Paralectotype, ♀, Pepsis garbei Brè. = viridis Lep. , det. C.R. Vardy, 1991’.

Current status: Pepsis viridis Lepeletier, 1845 .

Comments: Lectotype designated byVardy,2005:248.The original publication listed incorrectly the number 3.537 as 3.573. The type series is composed by different species being the paralectotype (# MZSP 56505) female with the following labels identified as Pepsis festiva Fabricius, 1804 ‘[ Brazil], São Paulo, Raiz da Serra, xii, 18.523[ Brazil, São Paulo, Estação Raiz da Serra, xii.1907, H. Lüderwaldt col.]’ ‘ Pepsis garbei Br, Brèthes , det. 17.’‘ Paralectotype, ♀, Pepsis garbei Brè. = festiva F., det. C.R.Vardy, 1991’.