Pepsis aciculata Taschenberg, 1869

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 : 11

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10793331

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793199

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF8F-F741-FF14-01D6980CF8C4

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pepsis aciculata Taschenberg
status

 

Pepsis aciculata Taschenberg View in CoL

ARGENTINA: Córdoba Province, San Javier; 18 February 2021; P. Scazzina. Host: Plesiopelma longisternale (Schiapelli and Gerschman) ( Theraphosidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp examined the paralyzed tarantula as it laid on its left side on the ground. She then dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards across a dirt road, grasping the base of its right foreleg with her mandibles ( Scazzina 2022).

Pepsis aciculata has been reported previously with Plesiopelma longisternale and Grammostola vachoni Schiapelli and Gerschman in Argentina ( Copperi et al. 2011).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Pepsis

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