Pepsis cybele Banks

Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia, Kissane, Kelly C., Ubick, Darrell & Pitts, James P., 2020, New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Zootaxa 4891 (1), pp. 1-112 : 18

Pepsis cybele Banks (black-winged variant)

ECUADOR: Napo Province, east side of Rio Napo, 3 km SW of San Vincente de Puerto Rico; 14 May 2006; J. Dougherty (ecology.org). Host: Paratropis cf scruposa Simon ( Paratropididae ), adult or subadult female. A series of photographs shows the wasp either standing by the paralyzed paratropid spider or dragging it backward on the ground, ventral side upward, grasping its coxa with her mandibles ( Dougherty 2006; J. Dougherty, Androscoggin Valley Hospital, Berlin, New Hampshire, 2019 pers. comm.).