Pepsis montezuma Smith, 1855

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 : 10

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793331
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:853E1294-B73D-43B8-8D82-AFD2E0B00352
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793191
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF88-F746-FF14-048E989AFB3B
treatment provided by	Felipe (2024-03-06 13:53:50, last updated 2024-03-07 11:46:47)
scientific name	Pepsis montezuma Smith
status

Treatment

Pepsis montezuma Smith View in CoL

COLOMBIA: Antioquia Department, Puerto Nare; 30 March 2023; H. de la Peña. Host: Linothele sp. ( Dipluridae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp entered and exited a preexisting burrow in the ground while the paralyzed curtain-web spider laid, dorsal side upward, beside the burrow ( de la Peña 2023).

This is the first host record for P. montezuma from Colombia.

References

de la Pena H. 2023. Avispa caza tarantulas. Humberto _ diap. Available at https: // www. facebook. com / tropico. salvajee / videos / 473951687763616. (Last accessed 2 May 2023.)

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Taxonomy

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

Specimens