Pepsis completa 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 : 10

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.10793189

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF88-F746-FF14-05F69E93FC07

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pepsis completa Smith
status

 

Pepsis completa Smith View in CoL

PERU: Madre de Dios Region, Tambopata Province ; 3 October 2023, 0741 AM ; G. Gallice. Host: Unidentified species of Dipluridae , adult or subadult female. The wasp grasped the immobilized curtain web spider, dorsal side upward, by the base of its second right leg with her mandibles and dragged it backwards across the soil ( Gallice 2023).

Although unidentified, Dipluridae from Peru probably represents a new host genus and species for Pepsis completa . Pepsis completa from Brazil and Venezuela is rather polyphagous in host selection with previous host records for Dipluridae , Pycnothelidae , Nemesiidae , Theraphosidae , and Ctenidae ( Kurczewski et al. 2020, 2022b).

AM

Australian Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Pepsis

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