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

Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry

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).