Pepsis rubra (Drury)

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

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF84-F74A-FF14-061F9F1CFD05

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pepsis rubra (Drury)
status

 

Pepsis rubra (Drury) View in CoL

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: San Cristobal; 28 January 2022; A. M. Peguero. Host: Phormictopus sp. ( Theraphosidae ), immature. A series of photographs and a short video show the wasp pulling the paralyzed tarantula backwards up a vertical wooden wall, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its right pedipalp with her mandibles ( Peguero 2022b).

This is the first host record for P. rubra from the Dominican Republic and for the genus Phormictopus Pocock. Previous host records for P. rubra from other Caribbean Islands are for the genus Cyrtopholis Simon ( Kurczewski et al. 2020) .

Pepsis elevata species-group ( Vardy 2002)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Pepsis

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