Pepsis mildei Stål, 1857

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 : 10

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.10793193
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF88-F746-FF14-015F9A2EF833
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pepsis mildei Stål
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Pepsis mildei Stål View in CoL (orange-winged variant)

COSTA RICA: Guanacaste Province, Abangares; 24 October 2019, 1013 AM; H. Lopez . Host: Sericopelma sp. ( Theraphosidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp grasped the immobilized tarantula by its right pedipalp, dorsal side upward, and dragged it backwards across the ground through vegetation ( Lopez 2019).

Sericopelma is a new host genus for the common spider wasp Pepsis mildei (orange-winged variant).

MEXICO: Hidalgo State, El Chico National Park, near Mirador de la Peña viewpoint; 18 July 2023, 1730 CDT; D. Barrales. Host: Hemirrhagus sp. (undescribed species) ( Theraphosidae ) [det. J. Mendoza], adult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards across leaf litter, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its second left leg with her mandibles ( Barrales 2023).

Undescribed troglobitic species of Hemirrhagus is a new host tarantula species for P. mildei (orange-winged variant).