Pepsis pretiosa Dahlbom

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 : 15

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6B0E1135-8C4E-4341-9793-AB970FBCD10B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4344643
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D0C7764-FFBD-FF8E-07AA-FD33FE89FBD5
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pepsis pretiosa Dahlbom
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Pepsis pretiosa Dahlbom View in CoL

BRAZIL: State of Bahia, Cachoeira, Paraguaçu River Valley; 11 July 2010; D. Ru. Host:? Trechona sp. ( Dipluridae ) (Curtain-web spider), adult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed curtain-web spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping its right pedipalp with her mandibles ( Ru 2010).

BRAZIL: State of Paraná, Curitiba: 10 April 2020; B. K. de Souza (Aventurando_pakm). Host: Trechona rufa Vellard (Dipluridae) , adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed curtain-web spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its left front foreleg with her mandibles ( Souza 2020; R. Bertani, IBB, S„o Paulo, Brazil, 2020 pers. comm.; Denis Pedroso, UFRJ. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2020 pers. comm.).