Pepsis albocincta Smith, 1855

Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C. & Waichert, Cecilia, 2024, New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Insecta Mundi 2024 (34), pp. 1-32 : 4

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10793331
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:853E1294-B73D-43B8-8D82-AFD2E0B00352
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793168
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF86-F748-FF14-03C899F1FA00
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pepsis albocincta Smith
status

Treatment

Pepsis albocincta Smith View in CoL (black-winged variant)

BRAZIL: Minas Gerais State, Betim; 1 December 2020, 14 March 2023; V. F. Rodrigues. Host:? Actinopus sp. ( Actinopodidae ), adult or subadult female. Photographs show the wasp standing beside or straddling the paralyzed mouse spider, venter to dorsum, while examining it with her antennae as it laid dorsal side upward on the ground. Two videos show the wasp manipulate, then grasp the host spider’s leg with the mandibles, and drag the spider backwards ( Rodrigues 2023a, b, c, d).

This is the first host record and new host family and genus for Pepsis albocincta and indicates a selectivity for species of Actinopodidae (mouse spiders).