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Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry, 1888

Pepsis Cassiope Mocsáry, 1888:161, ♀, Brasilia; Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:92, ♀, lost. - Lucas, 1895Lucas, R. 1895. Die Pompiliden-Gattung Pepsis. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 39 (4):449-840. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution), 248 (listed); Lucas, 1919Lucas, R. 1919. Pompiliden-Studien. I. Arch. Naturgesch., A. 83 (5):1-180+3 pls. (distribution); Banks, 1946Banks, N. 1946. Studies of South American Psammocharidae. Part 1. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 96:311-525. (distribution), 324 (key female), 325 (listed); Hurd, 1952Hurd, P.D. Jr. 1952. Revision of the Nearctic species of the pompilid genus Pepsis (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). The American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 98 (article 4):261-334. (distribution); Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134. (distribution), 29 (key female, key male), 33 (key male), 53 (key female), 92 (listed), 93 (description female, description male), 94 (biology, distribution); Perez-Gelabert, 2008Perez-Gelabert, D.E. 2008. Arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti): A checklist and bibliography. Zootaxa 1831:1-530. (distribution); Fernández et al., 2017Fernández, F., V. Castro, J. Rodríguez, C. Waichert & J.P. Pitts 2017. Avispas cazadoras de arañas de Colombia (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Proceditor Ltda., Bogotá, D. C., Colombia. (distribution); Fernández et al., 2022Fernández, F., J. Rodriguez, C. Waichert, B. Decker & J. Pitts 2022. Twenty two years later: An updated checklist of Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Zootaxa 5116 (4):451-503. (distribution); Kurczewski et al., 2022Kurczewski, F.E., R.C. West, C. Waichert & J.P. Pitts 2022. Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Insecta Mundi 0928:1-32. (distribution, hosts).
Pepsis Lilloi Brèthes, 1908:241, ♀. ♀, Rep. Argentina, Lectotype ♀, examined (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires), designated by Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93. Synonymized with Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry, 1888 by Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93. - Brèthes, 1914Brèthes, J. 1914. Contribution â l'étude des Pepsis. Museo nacional de historia natural de Buenos Aires 26:235-360. (distribution); Lucas, 1919Lucas, R. 1919. Pompiliden-Studien. I. Arch. Naturgesch., A. 83 (5):1-180+3 pls. (distribution); Hurd, 1952Hurd, P.D. Jr. 1952. Revision of the Nearctic species of the pompilid genus Pepsis (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). The American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 98 (article 4):261-334. (distribution).
Pepsis heterochroa Brèthes, 1914:298, ♀. Holotype ♀, Espiritu Santo (Mus. São Paulo, n° 3461, leg. E. Garbe); Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93, Holotype ♀, examined (Museu de Zoologia de la Universidade de São Paulo); Andrade et al., 2018Andrade, T. de O., K.S. Ramos, H.C. Onody, A.D. dos Santos & C.R.F. Brandão 2018. Type specimens of Pompiloidea, Thynnoidea and Vespoidea (Hymenoptera) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58:1-21.:6, Holotype ♀ (Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, MZSP 56473). Synonymized with Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry, 1888 by Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93. - Hurd, 1952Hurd, P.D. Jr. 1952. Revision of the Nearctic species of the pompilid genus Pepsis (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). The American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 98 (article 4):261-334. (distribution); Andrade et al., 2018Andrade, T. de O., K.S. Ramos, H.C. Onody, A.D. dos Santos & C.R.F. Brandão 2018. Type specimens of Pompiloidea, Thynnoidea and Vespoidea (Hymenoptera) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58:1-21.:6 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry, 1888).
Pepsis elisa Montet, 1921:208, ♀. 1 ♀, sans indication de provenance et en mauvais état (Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève); Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93, Holotype ♀, examined (Museu de Zoologia de la Universidade de São Paulo). Synonymized with Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry, 1888 by Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93. - Banks, 1946Banks, N. 1946. Studies of South American Psammocharidae. Part 1. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 96:311-525. (distribution), 324 (key female), 331 (listed); Hurd, 1952Hurd, P.D. Jr. 1952. Revision of the Nearctic species of the pompilid genus Pepsis (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). The American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 98 (article 4):261-334. (distribution).
Pepsis brethesi Montet, 1921:216, ♂. 2 ♂♂, Habitat ? (Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève), Lectotype ♂, examined (Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva), designated by Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93. Synonymized with Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry, 1888 by Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93.
Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921:21, ♂. ♂, Huachuca Mts., Arizona (leg. Biederman), Lectotype ♂, examined (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts), designated by Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93. Synonymized with Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry, 1888 by Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93. - Banks, 1921Banks, N. 1921. New Nearctic fossorial Hymenoptera. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 16:16-26.:23 (key); Hurd, 1952Hurd, P.D. Jr. 1952. Revision of the Nearctic species of the pompilid genus Pepsis (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). The American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 98 (article 4):261-334. (distribution), 279 (key male), 281 (key female), 301 (description female, description male); Townes, 1957Townes, H. 1957. Nearctic wasps of the subfamilies Pepsinae and Ceropalinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 209:1-286.:30 (listed); Krombein, 1958Krombein, K.V. 1958. Family Pompilidae. In: Krombein, K.V. (Ed.). Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico - Synoptic Catalog. Washington: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph No. 2. First Supplement, 305 pp. 170-186. (distribution); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209. (distribution); Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021Vanoye-Eligio, M., M. del C. Gómez-Camal, B. del R. Martín-Canché, M. Rosas-Mejía, J.V. HortaVega & V. Vanoye-Eligio 2021. Current knowledge of the family Pompilidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) in Mexico: diversity and geographical distribution. Zootaxa 5071 (4):505-536. (distribution).
Pepsis hirsuta Salman, 1933:9, Holotype ♀, examined (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts), designated by Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93. Synonymized with Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921 by Hurd, 1952Hurd, P.D. Jr. 1952. Revision of the Nearctic species of the pompilid genus Pepsis (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). The American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 98 (article 4):261-334.:300. Synonymized with Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry, 1888 by Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93. - Hurd, 1952Hurd, P.D. Jr. 1952. Revision of the Nearctic species of the pompilid genus Pepsis (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). The American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 98 (article 4):261-334.:320 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921); Townes, 1957Townes, H. 1957. Nearctic wasps of the subfamilies Pepsinae and Ceropalinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 209:1-286.:30 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921); Krombein, 1958Krombein, K.V. 1958. Family Pompilidae. In: Krombein, K.V. (Ed.). Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico - Synoptic Catalog. Washington: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph No. 2. First Supplement, 305 pp. 170-186.:170 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:1526 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921).
Pepsis iolanthe Banks, 1946:330, ♀. Type ♀, Vista Nieve, San Loenzo Mt., Colombia, 20 December (M. C. Z., no. 27202, leg. Bequaert); Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93, Holotype ♀, examined (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts). Synonymized with Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry, 1888 by Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93. - Banks, 1946Banks, N. 1946. Studies of South American Psammocharidae. Part 1. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 96:311-525.:324 (key female); Hurd, 1952Hurd, P.D. Jr. 1952. Revision of the Nearctic species of the pompilid genus Pepsis (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). The American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 98 (article 4):261-334. (distribution).
Pepsis adusta Haupt, 1952:384 (key), ♀. Holotype ♀, Ecuador (Macas) (Haupt); Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93, Holotype ♀, examined (Martin-Luther Universität, Halle). Synonymized with Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry, 1888 by Vardy, 2002Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.:93.

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Area distribution map

map of Pepsis cassiope Mocsáry, 1888

Distribution

ARGArgentina
 (Brèthes, 1908 [as Pepsis lilloi Brèthes, 1908]; Brèthes, 1914 [as Pepsis heterochroa Brèthes, 1914]; Brèthes, 1914 [as Pepsis lilloi Brèthes, 1908]; Lucas, 1919 [as Pepsis lilloi Brèthes, 1908]; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis lilloi Brèthes, 1908]; Vardy, 2002)
BOLBolivia
 (Banks, 1946; Hurd, 1952; Vardy, 2002; Fernández et al., 2022)
BRABrazil
 (Mocsáry, 1888; Lucas, 1895; Dalla Torre, 1897; Lucas, 1919; Banks, 1946 [as Pepsis elisa Montet, 1921]; Hurd, 1952; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis heterochroa Brèthes, 1914]; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis elisa Montet, 1921]; Vardy, 2002; Fernández et al., 2017; Andrade et al., 2018 [as Pepsis heterochroa Brèthes, 1914])
COLColombia
 (Lucas, 1895; Dalla Torre, 1897; Banks, 1946 [as Pepsis iolanthe Banks, 1946]; Hurd, 1952; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis iolanthe Banks, 1946]; Vardy, 2002; Fernández et al., 2017; Kurczewski et al., 2022)
CRICosta Rica
 (Vardy, 2002)
ECUEcuador
 (Haupt, 1952 [as Pepsis adusta Haupt, 1952])
GUFFrench Guiana
 (Vardy, 2002)
GUYGuyana
 (Vardy, 2002)
HISHispaniola
 (Perez-Gelabert, 2008 needs confirmation)
MEXMexico
 (Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921]; Krombein, 1958 [as Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921]; Krombein et al., 1979 [as Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921]; Vardy, 2002; Fernández et al., 2022)
MEX-ChiMexico - Chihuahua
 (Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021 [as Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921])
MEX-DurMexico - Durango
 (Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021 [as Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921])
PANPanama
 (Vardy, 2002)
SURSuriname
 (Vardy, 2002)
USAUnited States
 (Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921]; Vardy, 2002; Fernández et al., 2017)
USA-AZUnited States - Arizona
 (Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921]; Krombein et al., 1979 [as Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921])
USA-CAUnited States - California
 (Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921]; Krombein et al., 1979 [as Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921])
USA-TXUnited States - Texas
 (Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921]; Krombein et al., 1979 [as Pepsis arizonica Banks, 1921])
VENVenezuela
 (Vardy, 2002)

Literature

  • Andrade, T. de O., K.S. Ramos, H.C. Onody, A.D. dos Santos & C.R.F. Brandão 2018. Type specimens of Pompiloidea, Thynnoidea and Vespoidea (Hymenoptera) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58:1-21.
  • Banks, N. 1921. New Nearctic fossorial Hymenoptera. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 16:16-26.
  • Banks, N. 1946. Studies of South American Psammocharidae. Part 1. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 96:311-525.
  • Brèthes, J. 1908. Contribución preliminar para el conocimiento de los Pepsis. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 10 (3):233-243.
  • Brèthes, J. 1914. Contribution â l'étude des Pepsis. Museo nacional de historia natural de Buenos Aires 26:235-360.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.
  • Fernández, F., J. Rodriguez, C. Waichert, B. Decker & J. Pitts 2022. Twenty two years later: An updated checklist of Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Zootaxa 5116 (4):451-503.
  • Fernández, F., V. Castro, J. Rodríguez, C. Waichert & J.P. Pitts 2017. Avispas cazadoras de arañas de Colombia (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Proceditor Ltda., Bogotá, D. C., Colombia.
  • Haupt, H. 1952. Alte und neue Pepsis-Arten (Hymenoptera-Sphecoidea) Pompilidae, olim Psammocharidae auct. Nova Acta Leopoldina 15 (109):311-414.
  • Hurd, P.D. Jr. 1952. Revision of the Nearctic species of the pompilid genus Pepsis (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). The American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 98 (article 4):261-334.
  • Krombein, K.V. 1958. Family Pompilidae. In: Krombein, K.V. (Ed.). Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico - Synoptic Catalog. Washington: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph No. 2. First Supplement, 305 pp. 170-186.
  • Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.
  • Kurczewski, F.E., R.C. West, C. Waichert & J.P. Pitts 2022. Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Insecta Mundi 0928:1-32.
  • Lucas, R. 1895. Die Pompiliden-Gattung Pepsis. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 39 (4):449-840.
  • Lucas, R. 1919. Pompiliden-Studien. I. Arch. Naturgesch., A. 83 (5):1-180+3 pls.
  • Mocsáry, A. 1888. Species sex novae generis Pepsis Fabr. e collectione Musaei Bremensis. Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom naturwissenschaftlichen Vereine zu Bremen 10:161-163.
  • Montet, G. 1921. Hyménoptères nouveaux du genre Pepsis Latr. de la Collection du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 28 (11):205-219.
  • Perez-Gelabert, D.E. 2008. Arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti): A checklist and bibliography. Zootaxa 1831:1-530.
  • Townes, H. 1957. Nearctic wasps of the subfamilies Pepsinae and Ceropalinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 209:1-286.
  • Vanoye-Eligio, M., M. del C. Gómez-Camal, B. del R. Martín-Canché, M. Rosas-Mejía, J.V. HortaVega & V. Vanoye-Eligio 2021. Current knowledge of the family Pompilidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) in Mexico: diversity and geographical distribution. Zootaxa 5071 (4):505-536.
  • Vardy, C.R. 2002. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool. Verh. 337:1-134.