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Pepsis equestris Erichson
Description
Pepsis equestris Erichson
VENEZUELA: Falcon State, Coro; 8 March 2011; E. Petit. Host: Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (Strand) (Greenbottle blue tarantula) (Theraphosidae), juvenile. The wasp grasped the paralyzed tarantula by the base of its right forecoxa with her mandibles and pulled the spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward (Petit 2011).
VENEZUELA: Falcon State, Paraguana Peninsula, Judibana; 20 January 2014; X. Guerrero (@xionland). Host: Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens, juvenile. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards on the ground by the base of its left forecoxa, dorsal side upward, grasping it with her mandibles (Guerrero 2014).
Notes
Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia, Kissane, Kelly C., Ubick, Darrell & Pitts, James P., 2020, New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-112 in Zootaxa 4891 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4309249
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2014-01-20
- Verbatim event date
- 2014-01-20
- Scientific name authorship
- Erichson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Pompilidae
- Genus
- Pepsis
- Species
- equestris
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Petit, E. (2011) Eliud D 90. Pompilidae vs Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens. Available from: https: // www. flickr. com / photos / eliud 19 / 5509636604 / in / dateposted / (accessed 17 August 2017)
- Guerrero, X. (2014) # AvispaAzul # AranaAzul. Available from: https: // www. instagram. com / p / jZC 3 AxkVEA / (accessed 17 November 2018)