Pepsis

Pepsis
Pepsis albocincta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily: Vespoidea
Family: Pompilidae
Subfamily: Pepsinae
Genus: Pepsis
Fabricius, 1804

Pepsis is a genus of spider wasps belonging to the family Pompilidae.

Species within this genus are also called tarantula hawks, as they usually hunt tarantulas, similarly to many species in the genus Hemipepsis.

These wasps are present throughout the Americas, Australia, Africa and India to Southeast Asia.[1]

Selected species

Species within this genus include:[2][3][4]

Bibliography

References

  1. Vardy, C. R. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 1. Introduction and the P. rubra species-group. Zoologische Verhandelingen 2000 pp. 86 pp.
  2. Biolib
  3. Hymenoptera Online Database
  4. NCBI
  5. Vardy, C.R. (2002). "The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups." http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/46718

External links

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