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Pepsis martini Vardy 2005

  • 1. 1188 Converse Drive NE, Atlanta, GA 30324
  • 2. 6365 Willowpark Way, Sooke, BC, Canada V 9 Z 1 L 9
  • 3. Complexo Biopráticas, Universidade Vila Velha, Vila Velha, State of Espirito Santo, Brazil
  • 4. Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322

Description

Pepsis martini Vardy

BRAZIL: Mato Grosso State, Alto Floresta, Cristalino Lodge; 2 May 2021, 1515; S. Dantas. Host: Diplura nigra (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge) (Dipluridae), adult or subadult female [det. R. Bertani]. The immobilized curtain-web spider laid dorsal side upward on the ground with legs outstretched, while the wasp stood next to it. A second photograph shows the wasp pulling the spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the trochanter of its second right leg with her mandibles (Fig. 9; Dantas 2021; Dantas, Novo Mundo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, 2021 pers. comm.).

Notes

Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia & Pitts, James P., 2022, Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (928) on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6533498

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Vardy
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Pompilidae
Genus
Pepsis
Species
martini
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pepsis martini Vardy, 2005 sec. Kurczewski, West, Waichert & Pitts, 2022

References

  • Dantas S. 2021. New World Tarantula-hawk Wasps (Genus Pepsis). Available at https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 76675120. (Last accessed 3 May 2021).