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Pepsis marginata Palisot de Beauvois, 1809

Pepsis splendens Mus. Berol. Nomen nudum.Pepsis splendens Mus. Berol. Nomen nudum.
Pepsis marginata Palisot de Beauvois, 1809:94, Krombein, 1953Krombein, K.V. 1953. The wasps and bees of the Bimini Island Group, Bahamas, British West Indies (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). American Museum Novitates 1633:1-29.:9, location of type unknown, Lectotype ♀, examined (Museo ed Istituto di Zoologia Sistematica dell’ Università, Turin), 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.:67. - Lepeletier, 1845Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, A.L.M. 1845. Histoire naturelle des Insects. Suites à Buffon. Hyménoptères, III. Roret, Paris. 1-646.:470 (listed); Smith, 1855Smith, F. 1855. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III, Mutillidae and Pompilidae. :203 pp, 5 pl. (distribution), 199 (listed); Guérin-Méneville, 1856Guérin-Méneville, M.F.E. 1856. Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba. Secunda Parte. Historia Natural. Tomo VII. Crustaceos, Aragnides é Insectos. Arthus Bertrand, Paris. 1-371. (distribution); Guérin-Méneville, 1857Guérin-Méneville, M.F.E. 1857. Animaux Articulés. Arthus Bertrand, Paris. 1-868. (distribution); Cresson, 1865Cresson, E.T. 1865. On the Hymenoptera of Cuba. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 4:200 pp. (distribution), 133 (listed); Cresson, 1867Cresson, E.T. 1867. Notes on the Pompilidæ of North America, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 1 (1867/1868):85-150. (distribution), 145 (listed); Cresson, 1872Cresson, E.T. 1872. Hymenoptera Texana. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4:153-292. (distribution); Mocsáry, 1885Mocsáry, A. 1885. Species novae vel minus cognitae generis Pepsis, Fabr. Termeszetrajzi Füzetek 9:236-271. (distribution); Gundlach, 1886Gundlach, J. 1886. Contribucion a la Entomologia Cubana. :1-394. (distribution), 121 (listed), 122 (description female, description male); Cresson, 1887Cresson, E.T. 1887. Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America, North of Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society Supplementary Volume:1-350.:274 (listed); Radoszkowski, 1888Radoszkowski, O. 1888. Révision des armures copulatrices des mâles de la famille Pompilidae. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 2:462-493.:488 (description male, listed); 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), 256 (listed); Rohwer & Holland, 1917Rohwer, S.A. & W.J. Holland 1917. List of the Hymenoptera collected on the Isle of Pines by G. A. Link, Sr., 1912-1913, and contained in the Carnegie Museum. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 11:291-296. (distribution); Lucas, 1919Lucas, R. 1919. Pompiliden-Studien. I. Arch. Naturgesch., A. 83 (5):1-180+3 pls. (distribution); Banks, 1928Banks, N. 1928. Notes on Cuban and other West Indian Psammocharidae. Studies on Cuban Insects. Studies Biol. Lab. in Cuba (Atkins Foundation) 1:3-10. (distribution), 3 (key male), 4 (key female, listed); Wolcott, 1948Wolcott, G.N. 1948. The insects of Puerto Rico. The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 32 (4):749-975. (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), 268 (prey), 279 (key male), 281 (key female), 300 (description female, description male); Haupt, 1952Haupt, H. 1952. Alte und neue Pepsis-Arten (Hymenoptera-Sphecoidea) Pompilidae, olim Psammocharidae auct. Nova Acta Leopoldina 15 (109):311-414. (distribution); Krombein, 1953Krombein, K.V. 1953. The wasps and bees of the Bimini Island Group, Bahamas, British West Indies (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). American Museum Novitates 1633:1-29. (distribution); Townes, 1957Townes, H. 1957. Nearctic wasps of the subfamilies Pepsinae and Ceropalinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 209:1-286.:30 (listed); Alayo, 1969Alayo, P.D. 1969. Estudios sobre los Himenópteros de Cuba. IV Subfamilias Pepsinae Y Ceropalinae (Familia Pompilidae). Poeyana 61:1-45. (distribution), 4 (key male), 5 (description female, description male, key female, listed), 6 (biology); Alayo, 1973Alayo, P.D. 1973. Catálogo de los Himenopteros de Cuba. Instituto Cubano del libro, La Habana. 1-218. (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); Zayas, 1982Zayas, F. de 1982. Sección Oligoneoptera - Orden Hymenoptera - Orden Strepsiptera. Editorial Científico-Técnica, Ciudad de la Habana. 1-111. (distribution); Elliott, 1992Elliott, N.B. 1992. Wasps of the Bahamas (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae, Tiphiidae, Pompilidae, Vespidae, Sphecidae). Proceedings of the fourth Symposium on the Natural History of the Bahamas :41-48. (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), 32 (key male), 54 (key female), 67 (biology, description female, description male, distribution, listed); Portuondo Ferrer & Fernández Triana, 2004Portuondo Ferrer, E. & J.L. Fernández Triana 2004. Biodiversidad del orden Hymenoptera en los macizos montañosos de Cuba oriental. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 35:121-136. (distribution); Snelling & Torres, 2004Snelling, R.R. & J.A. Torres 2004. The Spider Wasps of Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77 (4):356-376. (distribution), 367 (discussion); Fong et al., 2005 2005. Cuba: Parque Nacional 'Alejandro de Humboldt'. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 14. The Field Museum, Chicago. 1-368. (distribution); Maceira et al., 2005 2005. Cuba: Pico Mogote. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 09. The Field Museum, Chicago. 1-190. (distribution); Perez-Gelabert, 2008Perez-Gelabert, D.E. 2008. Arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti): A checklist and bibliography. Zootaxa 1831:1-530. (distribution); Leavengood, Jr. J.M. et al., 2011Leavengood, Jr. J.M., Waichert, C. & Rodriguez, J. 2011. A distributional checklist of the spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Florida. Insecta Mundi 0161 (March 2011):1-8. (distribution); Leavengood et al., 2011Leavengood, J.M., C.Waichert & J. Rodriguez 2011. A distributional checklist of the spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Florida. Insecta Mundi 0161:1-8. (distribution); Waichert et al., 2012Waichert, C., Rodriguez, J. & J.P. Pitts 2012. Spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of the Dominican Republic. Zootaxa 3353:1-47. (distribution), 17 (listed), 6 (key); Medina, 2016Medina Rosa, J.R. 2016. Avispas de Puerto Rico - Hymenoptera: Symphyta, Apocrita (Aculeata). Ediciones Digitales, 1-23. (distribution); Perez-Gelabert, 2020Perez-Gelabert, D.E. 2020. Checklist, bibliography and quantitative data of the arthropods of Hispaniola. Zootaxa 4749:1-668. (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), 13 (prey); 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).
Pepsis Reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845:465 (key), ♀. Holotype ♀, America merid., Lectotype ♀, examined (Museum of Zoology and Entomology, Lund), 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.:67. Synonymized with Pepsis marginata Palisot de Beauvois, 1809 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.:67. - Taschenberg, 1869Taschenberg, E.L. 1869. Die Pompiliden des Museums der Universität Halle. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 34:25-75.:29 (listed); 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), 260 (listed); Brèthes, 1909Brèthes, J. 1909. El género Pepsis en Chile. Revist Chilena de Historia Natural (Organo del Museo de Valparaiso) 13 (3):201-210. (distribution); 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); 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), 338 (key female), 348 (listed), 402 (key male); 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), 268 (prey); Haupt, 1952Haupt, H. 1952. Alte und neue Pepsis-Arten (Hymenoptera-Sphecoidea) Pompilidae, olim Psammocharidae auct. Nova Acta Leopoldina 15 (109):311-414. (distribution); Snelling & Torres, 2004Snelling, R.R. & J.A. Torres 2004. The Spider Wasps of Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77 (4):356-376.:367 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis marginata Palisot de Beauvois, 1809); Waichert et al., 2012Waichert, C., Rodriguez, J. & J.P. Pitts 2012. Spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of the Dominican Republic. Zootaxa 3353:1-47.:17 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis marginata Palisot de Beauvois, 1809).
Pepsis splendens Lucas, 1895:749 (Mus. Berol.). Nomen nudum (no valid species description). - Lucas, 1895Lucas, R. 1895. Die Pompiliden-Gattung Pepsis. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 39 (4):449-840.:749 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845); 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.:323 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845); 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.:67 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis marginata Palisot de Beauvois, 1809).Pepsis splendens Lucas, 1895:749 (Mus. Berol.). Nomen nudum (no valid species description). - Lucas, 1895Lucas, R. 1895. Die Pompiliden-Gattung Pepsis. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 39 (4):449-840.:749 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845); 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.:323 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845); 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.:67 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis marginata Palisot de Beauvois, 1809).

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Area distribution map

map of Pepsis marginata Palisot de Beauvois, 1809

Distribution

ARGArgentina
 (Brèthes, 1914 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845]; Lucas, 1919 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845]; Banks, 1946 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845]; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845])
BHSBahamas
 (Krombein, 1953; Elliott, 1992)
BRABrazil
 (Lucas, 1895 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845]; Dalla Torre, 1897 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845]; Brèthes, 1914 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845]; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845])
CHLChile
 (Lucas, 1895 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845]; Brèthes, 1909 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845]; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845])
CUBCuba
 (Guérin-Méneville, 1856; Guérin-Méneville, 1857; Cresson, 1865; Cresson, 1867; Mocsáry, 1885; Gundlach, 1886; Lucas, 1895; Rohwer & Holland, 1917; Lucas, 1919; Banks, 1928; Haupt, 1952; Alayo, 1969; Alayo, 1973; Zayas, 1982; Vardy, 2002; Portuondo Ferrer & Fernández Triana, 2004; Fong et al., 2005; Maceira et al., 2005; Kurczewski et al., 2020)
DOMDominican Republic
 (Smith, 1855; Mocsáry, 1885; Lucas, 1895; Dalla Torre, 1897; Lucas, 1919; Vardy, 2002; Snelling & Torres, 2004; Waichert et al., 2012)
HISHispaniola
 (Perez-Gelabert, 2008; Perez-Gelabert, 2020)
HTIHaiti
 (Vardy, 2002)
PANPanama
 (Vardy, 2002 doubt about present)
PRIPuerto Rico
 (Lucas, 1895; Lucas, 1919; Wolcott, 1948; Vardy, 2002; Snelling & Torres, 2004; Medina, 2016; Kurczewski et al., 2020)
PRYParaguay
 (Lucas, 1895 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845]; Dalla Torre, 1897 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845]; Brèthes, 1914 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845]; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845]; Haupt, 1952 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845])
TTOTrinidad and Tobago
 (Vardy, 2002 doubt about present)
URYUruguay
 (Lucas, 1895 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845]; Dalla Torre, 1897 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845]; Brèthes, 1914 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845]; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis reaumuri Dahlbom, 1845])
USAUnited States
 (Hurd, 1952; Vardy, 2002)
USA-FLUnited States - Florida
 (Hurd, 1952; Krombein, 1953; Krombein et al., 1979; Leavengood, Jr. J.M. et al., 2011; Leavengood et al., 2011)
USA-TXUnited States - Texas
 (Cresson, 1872; Mocsáry, 1885; Lucas, 1895; Lucas, 1919)
WIIWest Indies
 (Hurd, 1952; Krombein et al., 1979; Fernández et al., 2022)

Literature

  • Alayo, P.D. 1969. Estudios sobre los Himenópteros de Cuba. IV Subfamilias Pepsinae Y Ceropalinae (Familia Pompilidae). Poeyana 61:1-45.
  • Alayo, P.D. 1973. Catálogo de los Himenopteros de Cuba. Instituto Cubano del libro, La Habana. 1-218.
  • Banks, N. 1928. Notes on Cuban and other West Indian Psammocharidae. Studies on Cuban Insects. Studies Biol. Lab. in Cuba (Atkins Foundation) 1:3-10.
  • 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. 1909. El género Pepsis en Chile. Revist Chilena de Historia Natural (Organo del Museo de Valparaiso) 13 (3):201-210.
  • Brèthes, J. 1914. Contribution â l'étude des Pepsis. Museo nacional de historia natural de Buenos Aires 26:235-360.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1865. On the Hymenoptera of Cuba. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 4:200 pp.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1867. Notes on the Pompilidæ of North America, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 1 (1867/1868):85-150.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1872. Hymenoptera Texana. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4:153-292.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1887. Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America, North of Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society Supplementary Volume:1-350.
  • Dahlbom, A.G. 1845. Hymenoptera Europaea Praecipue Borealia-per familias, genera, species et varietates disposita atque descripta. Sphex Linn. Fasciculus III.: Crabronidarum continuatio et finis, Supplementum I. 353-528.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.
  • Elliott, N.B. 1992. Wasps of the Bahamas (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae, Tiphiidae, Pompilidae, Vespidae, Sphecidae). Proceedings of the fourth Symposium on the Natural History of the Bahamas :41-48.
  • 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.
  • 2005. Cuba: Parque Nacional 'Alejandro de Humboldt'. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 14. The Field Museum, Chicago. 1-368.
  • Guérin-Méneville, M.F.E. 1856. Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba. Secunda Parte. Historia Natural. Tomo VII. Crustaceos, Aragnides é Insectos. Arthus Bertrand, Paris. 1-371.
  • Guérin-Méneville, M.F.E. 1857. Animaux Articulés. Arthus Bertrand, Paris. 1-868.
  • Gundlach, J. 1886. Contribucion a la Entomologia Cubana. :1-394.
  • 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. 1953. The wasps and bees of the Bimini Island Group, Bahamas, British West Indies (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). American Museum Novitates 1633:1-29.
  • 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.
  • Leavengood, J.M., C.Waichert & J. Rodriguez 2011. A distributional checklist of the spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Florida. Insecta Mundi 0161:1-8.
  • Leavengood, Jr. J.M., Waichert, C. & Rodriguez, J. 2011. A distributional checklist of the spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Florida. Insecta Mundi 0161 (March 2011):1-8.
  • Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, A.L.M. 1845. Histoire naturelle des Insects. Suites à Buffon. Hyménoptères, III. Roret, Paris. 1-646.
  • 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.
  • 2005. Cuba: Pico Mogote. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 09. The Field Museum, Chicago. 1-190.
  • Medina Rosa, J.R. 2016. Avispas de Puerto Rico - Hymenoptera: Symphyta, Apocrita (Aculeata). Ediciones Digitales, 1-23.
  • Mocsáry, A. 1885. Species novae vel minus cognitae generis Pepsis, Fabr. Termeszetrajzi Füzetek 9:236-271.
  • Perez-Gelabert, D.E. 2008. Arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti): A checklist and bibliography. Zootaxa 1831:1-530.
  • Perez-Gelabert, D.E. 2020. Checklist, bibliography and quantitative data of the arthropods of Hispaniola. Zootaxa 4749:1-668.
  • Portuondo Ferrer, E. & J.L. Fernández Triana 2004. Biodiversidad del orden Hymenoptera en los macizos montañosos de Cuba oriental. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 35:121-136.
  • Radoszkowski, O. 1888. Révision des armures copulatrices des mâles de la famille Pompilidae. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 2:462-493.
  • Rohwer, S.A. & W.J. Holland 1917. List of the Hymenoptera collected on the Isle of Pines by G. A. Link, Sr., 1912-1913, and contained in the Carnegie Museum. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 11:291-296.
  • Smith, F. 1855. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III, Mutillidae and Pompilidae. :203 pp, 5 pl.
  • Snelling, R.R. & J.A. Torres 2004. The Spider Wasps of Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77 (4):356-376.
  • Taschenberg, E.L. 1869. Die Pompiliden des Museums der Universität Halle. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 34:25-75.
  • Townes, H. 1957. Nearctic wasps of the subfamilies Pepsinae and Ceropalinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 209:1-286.
  • 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.
  • Waichert, C., Rodriguez, J. & J.P. Pitts 2012. Spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of the Dominican Republic. Zootaxa 3353:1-47.
  • Wolcott, G.N. 1948. The insects of Puerto Rico. The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 32 (4):749-975.
  • Zayas, F. de 1982. Sección Oligoneoptera - Orden Hymenoptera - Orden Strepsiptera. Editorial Científico-Técnica, Ciudad de la Habana. 1-111.