Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry, 1888
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Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry |
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Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry View in CoL
PANAMA: Panamá Province, Chepo District, San Francisco Reserve; 22 January 2023; H. Vandevoorde. Host: Ancylometes bogotensis (Keyserling) ( Ctenidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed wandering spider backwards across the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping its chelicerae with her mandibles ( Fig. 2 View Figures 1–6 ; Vandevoorde 2023).
Pepsis cassiope View in CoL host records are for species of Ctenidae View in CoL , including previous host records of Phoneutria boliviensis (F. O. P. Pickard-Cambridge) View in CoL and? Ancylometes bogotensis (Keyserling) ( Kurczewski et al. 2022b) View in CoL .
Pepsis sumptuosa View in CoL -group ( Vardy 2002)
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.
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.
Figures 1–6. Pompilid species with host spiders. 1) Calopompilus pyrrhomelas (Walker) with Eucteniza?panchovillai Bond and Godwin (Euctenizidae), adult female. © Miguee Sykes. 2) Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry with Ancylometes bogotensis (Keyserling) (Ctenidae), adult or subadult female. © Hilde Vandevoorde. 3) Priocnessus nuperus (Cresson) with Rabidosa punctulata (Hentz) (Lycosidae), adult or subadult female. © Rachel Miller. 4) Auplopus comparatus (Smith) with Macrinus sp. (Sparassidae). © Christian Marty. 5) Ageniella (Ageniella) cupida (Cresson) species-group with Coras sp. (Agelenidae), penultimate male. © Herschel Raney. 6)?Aridestus bergi (Holmberg) with unidentified host species (Theraphosidae, Theraphosinae), immature.© Antonino Gonçalves Medina.
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Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry
Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C. & Waichert, Cecilia 2024 |
Ancylometes bogotensis (Keyserling) (
Kurczewski et al. 2022 |
Pepsis cassiope
Mocsary 1888 |
Pepsis sumptuosa
Smith 1855 |