Pepsis atalanta Mocsáry, 1885

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 : 7

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.10793180

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF8B-F745-FF14-01C9993BF837

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pepsis atalanta Mocsáry
status

 

Pepsis atalanta Mocsáry View in CoL

COSTA RICA: San Jose Province, Cerro de Escazu Protected Zone; 29 March 2023; A. Delgado. Host: Megaphobema peterklaasi Scmidt ( Theraphosidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its left pedipalp with her mandibles ( Delgado 2023a, b).

The only previous host record for P. atalanta is Aphonopelma seemanni (F. O. P.-Cambridge) ( Theraphosidae ) ( Kurczewski et al. 2020).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Pepsis

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