Pepsis chrysoptera Burmeister, 1872

Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia, Kissane, Kelly C., Ubick, Darrell & Pitts, James P., 2020, New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Zootaxa 4891 (1), pp. 1-112 : 17

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6B0E1135-8C4E-4341-9793-AB970FBCD10B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4344911
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D0C7764-FFA3-FF90-07AA-F99BFDFCF8EE
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pepsis chrysoptera Burmeister
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Pepsis chrysoptera Burmeister View in CoL

BRAZIL: State of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Piraí; 3 March 2017; D. Luiz. Host: Ctenus cf medius Keyserling (Ctenidae) , adult ot subadult female. The wasp grasped the paralyzed wandering spider by its right hindcoxa with her mandibles, ventral side upward, as it laid on the ground ( Luiz 2017; D. Luiz, Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2018 pers. comm.).