Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry, 1888

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 : 5

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.6533500
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AA87D0-FFF3-FF9A-FF71-FC76FDBF524C
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry
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Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry View in CoL

COLOMBIA: Antioquia Department, Yondó, El Silencio Nature Reserve; 24 April 2021; P. J. C. Camancho. Host: Phoneutria boliviensis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge) (Ctenidae) , adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed armed spider over and through low grass, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its right pedipalp with her mandibles ( Camancho 2021a, 2021b, 2021c).

COLOMBIA: Casanare Department, Yopal; 22 November 2020; T. C. Bedoya. Host: Ancylometes ? bogotensis (Keyserling) ( Ctenidae ), adult or subadult female. Two photographs show the wasp straddling the wandering spider on the ground, dorsal side upward, while stinging it between the bases of its 1 st and 2 nd left legs. The 3 rd –6 th photographs show the wasp examining the paralyzed wandering spider with her antennae as it laid, dorsal side upward, on the ground ( Bedoya 2020).