Pepsis sumptuosa 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 : 7

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-FF8B-F745-FF14-026D9F1AF9C1
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pepsis sumptuosa Smith
status

Treatment

Pepsis sumptuosa Smith View in CoL

COLOMBIA: Cundinamarca Department, Tequendama Province, San Antonio del Tequendama; 8 October 2021; B. L. C. Bonilla. Host: Pamphobeteus sp. ( Theraphosidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its left foreleg with her mandibles ( Bonilla 2021).

There are several other host records for P.sumptuosa from Colombia with various genera of Theraphosidae ( Kurczewski et al. 2020) .

Pepsis inclyta species-group ( Vardy 2005)