Pepsis terminata Dahlbom

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 : 14-15

Pepsis terminata Dahlbom

MARTINIQUE: 6 March 2010; C. Lainé. Host: Acanthoscurria cf maga Simon ( Theraphosidae ) (Pinkpatch tarantula), adult female. The wasp stung the tarantula as it attempted to walk away. She mounted the spider’s body at a 90º angle, wasp and spider both being dorsal side upward, bent the end of her abdomen underneath it, and inserted her sting in the spider’s ventral cephalothorax. The spider acquiesced immediately. The wasp dismounted and cleaned her antennae alternately using her forelegs ( Lainé 2010).

MARTINIQUE: 16 February 2015; SuperYanoch. Host: Acanthoscurria cf maga adult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed tarantula backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping its left forecoxa with her mandibles (SuperYanoch 2015) .

MARTINIQUE: 12 March 2018; R. M. Anderson. Host: Acanthoscurria cf maga, adult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed tarantula backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its chelicerae with her mandibles ( Anderson 2018) .

MARTINIQUE: Le Diamant ; 30 June 2018; C. Courageux (Insectoidex). Host: Acanthoscurria cf maga, adult male. The wasp stood near the paralyzed tarantula as it laid on the ground, ventral side upward, and examined it with her antennae ( Courageux 2018) .

MARTINIQUE: Le Vauclin ; 21 July 2018; J.-M. Perramant (jeanma29200). Host: Acanthoscurria cf maga, adult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula across the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its right foreleg with her mandibles ( Perramant 2018) .

MARTINIQUE: Les Trois Îlets ; 28 February 2008; G. David and B. Thiebaut. Host: Acanthoscurria cf maga, adult female. The wasp grasped the paralyzed tarantula by its left forecoxa with her mandibles and dragged it backwards, dorsal side upward, on the ground ( David and Thiebaut 2008a) .

MARTINIQUE: Les Trois Îlets ; 8 June 2008; G. David and B. Thiebaut. Host: Acanthoscurria cf maga, adult female. The wasp stung and paralyzed the tarantula and stood on the ground beside it. The immobilized tarantula laid dorsal side upward ( David and Thiebaut 2008b) .

MARTINIQUE: Les Trois Îlets ; 23 June 2008; G. David and B. Thiebaut. Host: Acanthoscurria cf maga, adult female. The wasp stood over the paralyzed tarantula, which was ventral side upward, with raised wings ( David and Thiebaut 2008c) .

MARTINIQUE: Pointe d’Alet , Les Trois Îlets; 8 June 2008; G. David. Host: Acanthoscurria cf maga, adult female. The wasp attacked the tarantula, turned it onto its back, stung and paralyzed it, and examined it with her antennae as it laid dorsal side upward on the ground (David 2008) .

MARTINIQUE: Rivière Salée ; 7 May 2012; C. Rustal. Host: Acanthoscurria cf maga, adult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping a chelicera with her mandibles ( Rustal 2012) .

ST. LUCIA: Micoud, Anse Ger ; 3 June 2015; J. Henry (eljeffebsg). Host: Acanthoscurria cf maga, adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of a foreleg with her mandibles ( Henry 2015) .

TRINIDAD: Sandre Grande Region, Salybia; 8 April 2017; E. Brown. Host: Spinosatibiapalpus trinitatis (Pocock) (Theraphosidae) (Trinidad copper top tarantula), adult or subadult female. The wasp examined the paralyzed tarantula as it laid on the ground, dorsal side upward. She then dug a burrow in the sand with the paralyzed tarantula lying nearby on the ground (E. Brown, Trincity, Trinidad, 2018 pers. comm.)

TRINIDAD: Tunapuna-Piarco Region , Mount St. Benedict Abbey; 12 October 1993, posted 28 March 2020; M. Cock (matthewcock). Host: Spinosatibiapalpus trinitatis , adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed tarantula spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping it left from foreleg with her mandibles ( Cock 2020) .