Pepsis heros (Fabricius)

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 : 4

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6533498

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:48EC3DE6-45D1-40E2-8C4D-2D8788058CAC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6533484

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AA87D0-FFF0-FF99-FF71-FC2DFC67534C

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pepsis heros (Fabricius)
status

 

Pepsis heros (Fabricius) View in CoL

FRENCH GUIANA: 3 km S of Nancibo, Sourou Creek, Le Sourou Ecolodge; 24 October 2021; C. Leblond. Host: Theraphosa blondi (Latreille) (Theraphosidae) , adult or subadult female. A photograph and video show the wasp dragging the paralyzed Goliath birdeater tarantula, dorsal side upward, over leaf litter on the ground, grasping the base of its left pedipalp with her mandibles ( Leblond 2021).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Pepsis

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