Pepsis? chrysoptera Burmeister, 1872

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 : 8-10

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-FF8A-F746-FF14-015A9F1FFEB2
treatment provided by	Felipe (2024-03-06 13:53:50, last updated 2024-03-07 11:46:47)
scientific name	Pepsis? chrysoptera Burmeister
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Pepsis? chrysoptera Burmeister View in CoL

BRAZIL: Rio Grande do Sul State, Rio Grande County ; 27 August 2017, 1328–1500 PM ; V. S. Domingues. Host: Unidentified species ( Pycnothelidae ) [det. R. Bertani], adult or subadult female. The wasp stung the funnel-web trapdoor spider in its ventral cephalothorax near the base of its left foreleg as it laid on its left side on the bare sand. She then dragged the immobilized trapdoor spider across the sand for 3 m, leaving an impression trail in the sand surface, grasping the base of its left hindleg with her mandibles. She released the funnel-web trapdoor spider on the sand, during transport, and examined it with her antennae ( Domingues 2023) .

Pepsis chrysoptera Burmeister View in CoL (BL, 21–30 mm; Vardy 2005) captured Ctenus? medius Keyserling View in CoL ( Ctenidae View in CoL ) (BL, ~ 25 mm) in southeastern Brazil ( Luiz 2017; Kurczewski et al. 2020), if the wasp identification is correct ( Luiz 2017; Kurczewski et al. 2020). Based on our more recent study of P.? chrysoptera View in CoL from the same region of Brazil the host spider is a funnel-web trapdoor spider in the family Pycnothelidae (Domingues 2017) View in CoL , a new host family

Pepsis lampas View in CoL species-group ( Vardy 2005)

References

Domingues VS. 2023. Subfamily Pepsinae. Available at https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 151210192. (Last accessed 15 March 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.

Luiz D. 2017. Pepsis chrysoptera Burm., 1872 cacando. Available online at www. biofaces. com / post / 77176 / pepsis-chrysopteraburm- 1872 - cacando /. (Last accessed 5 June 2018.)

Vardy CR. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta to P. auriguttata groups. Zoologische Verhandelingen 79: 1 - 305.

Abbreviations

PM	Pratt Museum
V	Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium
R	Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

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Taxonomy

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