Pepsis marginata Palisot de Beauvois, 1809

Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C. & Waichert, Cecilia, 2024, New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Insecta Mundi 2024 (34), pp. 1-32 : 6

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10793331

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:853E1294-B73D-43B8-8D82-AFD2E0B00352

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793176

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF84-F74A-FF14-03E49F64FAD6

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pepsis marginata Palisot de Beauvois
status

 

Pepsis marginata Palisot de Beauvois View in CoL

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: San Cristobal; 14 January 2022; A. M. Peguero. Host: Phormictopus sp. ( Theraphosidae ), immature [det. A. Tosto]. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards across the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its right foreleg with her mandibles (Pequero 2022a).

This is the first record of this host association from the Dominican Republic.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Pepsis

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