Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry, 1888

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

Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry

PANAMA: Panamá Province, Chepo District, San Francisco Reserve; 22 January 2023; H. Vandevoorde. Host: Ancylometes bogotensis (Keyserling) ( Ctenidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed wandering spider backwards across the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping its chelicerae with her mandibles ( Fig. 2 ; Vandevoorde 2023).

Pepsis cassiope host records are for species of Ctenidae , including previous host records of Phoneutria boliviensis (F. O. P. Pickard-Cambridge) and? Ancylometes bogotensis (Keyserling) ( Kurczewski et al. 2022b) .

Pepsis sumptuosa -group ( Vardy 2002)

Figures

Figures 1–6. Pompilid species with host spiders. 1) Calopompilus pyrrhomelas (Walker) with Eucteniza?panchovillai Bond and Godwin (Euctenizidae), adult female. © Miguee Sykes. 2) Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry with Ancylometes bogotensis (Keyserling) (Ctenidae), adult or subadult female. © Hilde Vandevoorde. 3) Priocnessus nuperus (Cresson) with Rabidosa punctulata (Hentz) (Lycosidae), adult or subadult female. © Rachel Miller. 4) Auplopus comparatus (Smith) with Macrinus sp. (Sparassidae). © Christian Marty. 5) Ageniella (Ageniella) cupida (Cresson) species-group with Coras sp. (Agelenidae), penultimate male. © Herschel Raney. 6)?Aridestus bergi (Holmberg) with unidentified host species (Theraphosidae, Theraphosinae), immature.© Antonino Gonçalves Medina.