Pepsis albocincta Smith, 1855

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 : 4

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.10793168

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF86-F748-FF14-03C899F1FA00

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pepsis albocincta Smith
status

 

Pepsis albocincta Smith View in CoL (black-winged variant)

BRAZIL: Minas Gerais State, Betim; 1 December 2020, 14 March 2023; V. F. Rodrigues. Host:? Actinopus sp. ( Actinopodidae ), adult or subadult female. Photographs show the wasp standing beside or straddling the paralyzed mouse spider, venter to dorsum, while examining it with her antennae as it laid dorsal side upward on the ground. Two videos show the wasp manipulate, then grasp the host spider’s leg with the mandibles, and drag the spider backwards ( Rodrigues 2023a, b, c, d).

This is the first host record and new host family and genus for Pepsis albocincta and indicates a selectivity for species of Actinopodidae (mouse spiders).

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Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Pepsis

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