Pepsis aciculata Taschenberg, 1869

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 : 11

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793331
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793199
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scientific name	Pepsis aciculata Taschenberg
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Pepsis aciculata Taschenberg View in CoL

ARGENTINA: Córdoba Province, San Javier; 18 February 2021; P. Scazzina. Host: Plesiopelma longisternale (Schiapelli and Gerschman) ( Theraphosidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp examined the paralyzed tarantula as it laid on its left side on the ground. She then dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards across a dirt road, grasping the base of its right foreleg with her mandibles ( Scazzina 2022).

Pepsis aciculata has been reported previously with Plesiopelma longisternale and Grammostola vachoni Schiapelli and Gerschman in Argentina ( Copperi et al. 2011).

References

Copperi S, Pompozzi G, Barneche JA, Ferretti NE. 2011. Datos preliminares acerca de interacciones entre dos avispas pompilidas y tarantulas en el sur de Buenos Aires, Argentina. BioScriba 4: 13 - 20.

Scazzina P. 2022. Pepsis aciculata. Available at https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 143533589. (Last accessed 7 December 2022.)