Pepsis sumptuosa Smith, 1855
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793331 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF8B-F745-FF14-026D9F1AF9C1 |
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Felipe (2024-03-06 13:53:50, last updated 2024-03-07 11:46:47) |
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Pepsis sumptuosa Smith |
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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)
Bonilla NLC. 2021. Tarantula atrapada por un avispon. Available at https: // www. facebook. com / photo /? fbid = 440759925265 7766 & set = gm. 1436257076750886. (Last accessed 11 April 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.
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.
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