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Pepsis chrysothemis Lucas, 1895

Pepsis chrysothemis Lucas, 1895:739, ♂. ♂, Mexiko (Mus. Berol., leg. Koppe); ♂, Texas (Mus. caes. Vindob., leg. Birkmann), Lectotype ♂, examined (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna), designated by Vardy, 2000Vardy, C.R. 2000. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 1. Introduction and the P. rubra species-group. Zool. Verh. Leiden 332:1-86.:74. - Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution), 249 (listed); Fox, 1898Fox, W.J. 1898. The species of Pepsis, inhabiting America north of Mexico. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 4 (2):140-148. (distribution); Cockerell, 1898Cockerell, T.D.A. 1898. Contributions to the entomology of New Mexico. Proc. Davenport Acad. nat. Sci. 7:139-148. (distribution); Banks, 1921Banks, N. 1921. New Nearctic fossorial Hymenoptera. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 16:16-26.:22 (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), 310 (description male), 312 (description female); Townes, 1957Townes, H. 1957. Nearctic wasps of the subfamilies Pepsinae and Ceropalinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 209:1-286.:32 (listed); Hook et al., 1990Hook, A.W., H.E. Evans & J.E. Gillaspy 1990. Pompilid wasps of Brackridge Field Laboratory and of the Greater Austin Area. Sphecos 20:17-18. (distribution); Vardy, 2000Vardy, C.R. 2000. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 1. Introduction and the P. rubra species-group. Zool. Verh. Leiden 332:1-86. (distribution), 35 (key male), 57 (key female), 74 (description female, description male, listed), 75 (biology, distribution); Kurczewski et al., 2020Kurczewski, F.E., R.C. West, C. Waichert, K.C. Kissane, D. Ubick & J.P. Pitts 2020. New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Zootaxa 4891 (1):1-112. (distribution), 8 (prey). - As Pepsis chrysotemis: - 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); 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). - As Pepsis chrysothemis chrysothemis: - 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), 281 (key female, key male); Townes, 1957Townes, H. 1957. Nearctic wasps of the subfamilies Pepsinae and Ceropalinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 209:1-286.:32 (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), 170 (change of status); 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); Horta Vega et al., 2009Horta Vega, J.V., M.E.García Gutiérrez, M.I. Benavides Martínez & A. Correa Sandoval 2009. Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) de algunos municipios del centro y sur de Tamaulipas, México. Acta Zool. Mex. (n.s.) 25 (1):71-82. (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 cinnabarina Lucas, 1895:804, ♀. ♀, Mexiko (Mus. Berol., leg. Ehrenberg); ♀, Mexiko (Mus. caes. Vindob., leg. Bilimek); ♀, Californien: Coulterville, Dez. 1876 (Mus. Brem., leg. Martin v. Hagen), Lectotype ♀, examined (Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), designated by Vardy, 2000Vardy, C.R. 2000. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 1. Introduction and the P. rubra species-group. Zool. Verh. Leiden 332:1-86.:74. - Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution), 249 (listed); Fox, 1898Fox, W.J. 1898. The species of Pepsis, inhabiting America north of Mexico. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 4 (2):140-148. (distribution); Strand, 1911Strand, E. 1911. Hymenoptera aus Peru und Equador. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 1 (2. Supplementheft):141-157.:145 (description); Banks, 1919Banks, N. 1919. The Psammocharidae of western North America. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 63:229-248. (distribution), 248 (key, listed); Lucas, 1919Lucas, R. 1919. Pompiliden-Studien. I. Arch. Naturgesch., A. 83 (5):1-180+3 pls. (distribution); 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), 309 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis chrysothemis Lucas, 1895), 318 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis chrysothemis Lucas, 1895); Townes, 1957Townes, H. 1957. Nearctic wasps of the subfamilies Pepsinae and Ceropalinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 209:1-286.:32 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis chrysothemis chrysothemis Lucas, 1895); 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.:1525 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis chrysothemis chrysothemis Lucas, 1895); Vardy, 2000Vardy, C.R. 2000. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 1. Introduction and the P. rubra species-group. Zool. Verh. Leiden 332:1-86.:74 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis chrysothemis Lucas, 1895).
Pepsis circularis Fox, 1898:144, ♂. Holotype ♂, Texas; Vardy, 2000Vardy, C.R. 2000. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 1. Introduction and the P. rubra species-group. Zool. Verh. Leiden 332:1-86., Holotype ♂, examined (Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia). - Banks, 1921Banks, N. 1921. New Nearctic fossorial Hymenoptera. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 16:16-26.:23 (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.:318 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis chrysothemis Lucas, 1895); 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.:1525 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis chrysothemis chrysothemis Lucas, 1895); Vardy, 2000Vardy, C.R. 2000. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 1. Introduction and the P. rubra species-group. Zool. Verh. Leiden 332:1-86.:74 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis chrysothemis Lucas, 1895).
Pepsis lucasii Fox, 1898:145, ♀. Holotype ♀, Texas; Vardy, 2000Vardy, C.R. 2000. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 1. Introduction and the P. rubra species-group. Zool. Verh. Leiden 332:1-86., Holotype ♀, examined (Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia). Synonymized with Pepsis chrysothemis Lucas, 1895 by Vardy, 2000Vardy, C.R. 2000. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 1. Introduction and the P. rubra species-group. Zool. Verh. Leiden 332:1-86.:74. - Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. The generic position of certain Mexican Pompilidae (Hymenoptera), with description of a new genus. Notulae Naturae, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 145:1-12.:8 (listed); Townes, 1957Townes, H. 1957. Nearctic wasps of the subfamilies Pepsinae and Ceropalinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 209:1-286.:32 (listed). - As Pepsis chrysothemis lucasii: - 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), 281 (key female, key male); Townes, 1957Townes, H. 1957. Nearctic wasps of the subfamilies Pepsinae and Ceropalinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 209:1-286.:32 (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), 170 (change of status); 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); Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376. (distribution); Horta Vega et al., 2009Horta Vega, J.V., M.E.García Gutiérrez, M.I. Benavides Martínez & A. Correa Sandoval 2009. Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) de algunos municipios del centro y sur de Tamaulipas, México. Acta Zool. Mex. (n.s.) 25 (1):71-82. (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). - As Pepsis lucasi: - Banks, 1921Banks, N. 1921. New Nearctic fossorial Hymenoptera. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 16:16-26.:23 (key).

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Area distribution map

map of Pepsis chrysothemis Lucas, 1895

Distribution

BRABrazil
 (Hurd, 1952)
MEXMexico
 (Lucas, 1895; Lucas, 1895 [as Pepsis cinnabarina Lucas, 1895]; Dalla Torre, 1897; Dalla Torre, 1897 [as Pepsis cinnabarina Lucas, 1895]; Fox, 1898; Fox, 1898 [as Pepsis cinnabarina Lucas, 1895]; Lucas, 1919 [as Pepsis cinnabarina Lucas, 1895]; Hurd, 1952; Hurd, 1952; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis chrysothemis lucasii Fox, 1898]; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis cinnabarina Lucas, 1895]; Krombein, 1958; Krombein, 1958 [as Pepsis chrysothemis lucasii Fox, 1898]; Krombein et al., 1979; Krombein et al., 1979 [as Pepsis chrysothemis lucasii Fox, 1898]; Vardy, 2000; Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021; Fernández et al., 2022)
MEX-BaCMexico - Baja California
 (Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021)
MEX-ChsMexico - Chiapas
 (Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021)
MEX-NuLMexico - Nuevo León
 (Kurczewski et al., 2020; Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021)
MEX-PueMexico - Puebla
 (Kurczewski et al., 2020; Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021)
MEX-SonMexico - Sonora
 (Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021)
MEX-TamMexico - Tamaulipas
 (Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002 [as Pepsis chrysothemis lucasii Fox, 1898]; Horta Vega et al., 2009; Horta Vega et al., 2009 [as Pepsis chrysothemis lucasii Fox, 1898]; Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021; Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021 [as Pepsis chrysothemis lucasii Fox, 1898])
USAUnited States
 (Hurd, 1952; Vardy, 2000)
USA-AZUnited States - Arizona
 (Kurczewski et al., 2020)
USA-CAUnited States - California
 (Dalla Torre, 1897 [as Pepsis cinnabarina Lucas, 1895]; Fox, 1898; Fox, 1898 [as Pepsis cinnabarina Lucas, 1895]; Banks, 1919 [as Pepsis cinnabarina Lucas, 1895]; Lucas, 1919 [as Pepsis cinnabarina Lucas, 1895]; Hurd, 1952; Hurd, 1952; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis cinnabarina Lucas, 1895]; Krombein et al., 1979; Kurczewski et al., 2020)
USA-NMUnited States - New Mexico
 (Cockerell, 1898)
USA-OKUnited States - Oklahoma
 (Fox, 1898; Krombein et al., 1979; Kurczewski et al., 2020)
USA-TXUnited States - Texas
 (Dalla Torre, 1897; Fox, 1898; Hurd, 1952; Hurd, 1952; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis chrysothemis lucasii Fox, 1898]; Krombein et al., 1979; Krombein et al., 1979 [as Pepsis chrysothemis lucasii Fox, 1898]; Hook et al., 1990)

Literature

  • Banks, N. 1919. The Psammocharidae of western North America. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 63:229-248.
  • Banks, N. 1921. New Nearctic fossorial Hymenoptera. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 16:16-26.
  • Bradley, J.C. 1944. The generic position of certain Mexican Pompilidae (Hymenoptera), with description of a new genus. Notulae Naturae, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 145:1-12.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1898. Contributions to the entomology of New Mexico. Proc. Davenport Acad. nat. Sci. 7:139-148.
  • 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.
  • Fox, W.J. 1898. The species of Pepsis, inhabiting America north of Mexico. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 4 (2):140-148.
  • Hook, A.W., H.E. Evans & J.E. Gillaspy 1990. Pompilid wasps of Brackridge Field Laboratory and of the Greater Austin Area. Sphecos 20:17-18.
  • Horta Vega, J.V., M.E.García Gutiérrez, M.I. Benavides Martínez & A. Correa Sandoval 2009. Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) de algunos municipios del centro y sur de Tamaulipas, México. Acta Zool. Mex. (n.s.) 25 (1):71-82.
  • 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, K.C. Kissane, D. Ubick & J.P. Pitts 2020. New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Zootaxa 4891 (1):1-112.
  • 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.
  • Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376.
  • Strand, E. 1911. Hymenoptera aus Peru und Equador. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 1 (2. Supplementheft):141-157.
  • 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. 2000. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 1. Introduction and the P. rubra species-group. Zool. Verh. Leiden 332:1-86.