Pepsis varipennis Lepeletier, 1845

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

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF88-F746-FF14-067A9F7BFDCE

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pepsis varipennis Lepeletier
status

 

Pepsis varipennis Lepeletier View in CoL

BRAZIL: São Paulo State, Rifaina; 31 August 2021; F. Baraldi. Host: Vitalius dubius (Mello-Leitão, 1923) ( Theraphosidae ), subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards across the ground and low vegetation, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its second left leg with her mandibles. She released the spider in the entrance, entered the burrow, reappeared in the entrance, grasped the tarantula in the same manner, and dragged it inside ( Baraldi 2021).

There are two previous host records for P. varipennis , both species of Theraphosidae ( Kurczewski et al 2020). Vitalius dubius is a new host genus and species for P. varipennis .

Pepsis montezuma species-group ( Vardy 2005)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Pepsis

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