Hemipepsis toussainti (Banks)

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 : 12

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.10793201

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF8E-F740-FF14-07B7991DFE62

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scientific name

Hemipepsis toussainti (Banks)
status

 

Hemipepsis toussainti (Banks) View in CoL

MEXICO: Veracruz, Huatusco; 27 June 2020, 1143 CDT; G. U. Tejada Sartorius. Host: Cupiennius salei Keyserling ( Trechaleidae ), adult or subadult male. The wasp pursued the potential host spider on the ground through dense undergrowth ( Tejada Sartorius 2020).

Five of six host records for H. toussainti from Costa Rica and Mexico are for species of Ctenidae or Trechaleidae , including Cupiennius ( Kurczewski et al. 2020) . There is one other record of Cupiennius salei from Pueblo, Mexico ( Kurczewski et al. 2020).

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.

Tejada Sartorius GU. 2020. Thisbe's Tarantula-hawk Wasp (Pepsis thisbe). Available at https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 133132346. (Last accessed 31 August 2022.)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Hemipepsis