Pepsis completa 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 : 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.10793189
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF88-F746-FF14-05F69E93FC07
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pepsis completa Smith
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Pepsis completa Smith View in CoL

PERU: Madre de Dios Region, Tambopata Province ; 3 October 2023, 0741 AM ; G. Gallice. Host: Unidentified species of Dipluridae , adult or subadult female. The wasp grasped the immobilized curtain web spider, dorsal side upward, by the base of its second right leg with her mandibles and dragged it backwards across the soil ( Gallice 2023).

Although unidentified, Dipluridae from Peru probably represents a new host genus and species for Pepsis completa . Pepsis completa from Brazil and Venezuela is rather polyphagous in host selection with previous host records for Dipluridae , Pycnothelidae , Nemesiidae , Theraphosidae , and Ctenidae ( Kurczewski et al. 2020, 2022b).