Pepsis martini Vardy, 2005

Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia & Pitts, James P., 2022, Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Insecta Mundi 2022 (928), pp. 1-32 : 6

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scientific name	Pepsis martini Vardy
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Pepsis martini Vardy

BRAZIL: Mato Grosso State, Alto Floresta, Cristalino Lodge; 2 May 2021, 1515; S. Dantas. Host: Diplura nigra (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge) ( Dipluridae ), adult or subadult female [det. R. Bertani]. The immobilized curtain-web spider laid dorsal side upward on the ground with legs outstretched, while the wasp stood next to it. A second photograph shows the wasp pulling the spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the trochanter of its second right leg with her mandibles ( Fig. 9; Dantas 2021; Dantas, Novo Mundo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, 2021 pers. comm.).

References

Dantas S. 2021. New World Tarantula-hawk Wasps (Genus Pepsis). Available at https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 76675120. (Last accessed 3 May 2021).