Pepsis terminata Dahlbom, 1843

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 : 6-7

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793331
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persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF84-F745-FF14-02C39F03FEB2
treatment provided by	Felipe (2024-03-06 13:53:50, last updated 2024-03-07 11:46:47)
scientific name	Pepsis terminata Dahlbom
status

Treatment

Pepsis terminata Dahlbom View in CoL

BRAZIL: Pará State, Novo Progresso; 3 January 2023; T. S. Peper. Host: Acanthoscurria theraphosoides (Doleschall) ( Theraphosidae ) [det. R. Bertani], adult female. A short video shows the wasp pulling the paralyzed tarantula backwards up a freshly excavated slope, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its left pedipalp with her mandibles ( Peper 2023).

ECUADOR: Napo Province, Tena, Parque Amazonico “La Isla”; 4 October 2022, 1651 PM; E. Hjalmarson. Host: Acanthoscurria theraphosoides , adult female. One photograph shows the wasp grasping the tarantula by its second left leg tibia/patella joint with her mandibles as it laid dorsal side upward on the leaf-covered rainforest floor. A second photograph shows the wasp standing in front of the paralyzed tarantula. A third photograph shows the wasp re-grasped the tarantula by the base of its second left leg with her mandibles and pulled it backwards across the ground ( Hjalmarson 2022).

Acanthoscurria theraphosoides View in CoL from Brazil and Ecuador is a new host species for Pepsis terminata View in CoL . Species of Acanthoscurria View in CoL are common host spiders for P. terminata View in CoL in Brazil, Ecuador, Martinique, and St. Lucia ( Kurczewski et al. 2020, 2022b).

Pepsis pretiosa View in CoL species-group ( Vardy 2002)

References

Hjalmarson E. 2022. Pepsis terminata. Available at https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 145871215. (Last accessed 5 January 2023.)

Kurczewski FE, West RC, Waichert C, Kissane KC, Ubick D, Pitts JP. 2020. New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Zootaxa 4891: 1 - 112.

Kurczewski FE, West RC, Waichert C, Pitts JP. 2022 b. Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Insecta Mundi 0928: 1 - 32.

Peper TS. 2023. Queria dividir essa experiencia com voces. Vespa muito comum aqui vulgo cavalo do cao capturando uma caranguejeira 2 x maior que ele. Available at https: // www. facebook. com / tiago. peper. 7 / videos / 5898369550222585 /? idor vanity = 635796423993560. (Last accessed 7 January 2023.)

Vardy CR. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa to P. deaurata groups. Zoologische Verhandelingen 337: 1 - 135.

Abbreviations

T	Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics
R	Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile
PM	Pratt Museum

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Pompilidae
Genus	Pepsis