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Pepsis purpurea Smith, 1873

Pepsis purpurea Smith, 1873:51, Lectotype ♀, examined (British Museum (Natural History) [now The Natural History Museum, London]), designated by Vardy, 2005Vardy, C.R. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta- to P. auriguttata-groups. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 79 (5):1-305.:238. - 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); Banks, 1946Banks, N. 1946. Studies of South American Psammocharidae. Part 1. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 96:311-525.:354 (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); Wahis & Rojas, 2003Wahis, R. & F. Rojas 2003. Los Pompilidos de Chile (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Rev. Chilena Ent. 29:89-103. (distribution), 91 (distribution, listed, taxonomy); Vardy, 2005Vardy, C.R. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta- to P. auriguttata-groups. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 79 (5):1-305. (distribution), 238 (listed), 240 (description female, description male), 241 (distribution), 37 (key male), 76 (key female); Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78. (distribution), 31 (listed); Corro & Cambra, 2011Corro, P.E. & R.A. Cambra 2011. Diversidad de avispas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) cazadoras de arañas del Parque Nacional Darién, República de Panamá. Tecnociencia 13 (1):77-90. (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).
Pepsis Parthenope Mocsáry, 1885:242, ♀. ♀, Brasilia (Pebas) (Mus. Hung.); ♀, Minas Geraes (Andréi), Lectotype ♀, examined (Természettudományi Múzeum, Budapest), designated by Vardy, 2005Vardy, C.R. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta- to P. auriguttata-groups. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 79 (5):1-305.:238. Synonymized with Pepsis purpurea Smith, 1873 by Vardy, 2005Vardy, C.R. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta- to P. auriguttata-groups. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 79 (5):1-305.:238. - 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), 253 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis festiva Fabricius, 1804), 259 (listed); 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), 363 (key female), 375 (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); Haupt, 1952Haupt, H. 1952. Alte und neue Pepsis-Arten (Hymenoptera-Sphecoidea) Pompilidae, olim Psammocharidae auct. Nova Acta Leopoldina 15 (109):311-414. (distribution), 338 (key female); Wahis & Rojas, 2003Wahis, R. & F. Rojas 2003. Los Pompilidos de Chile (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Rev. Chilena Ent. 29:89-103.:91 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis purpurea Smith, 1873).
Pepsis Pan Mocsáry, 1885:240, ♂. ♂, Massauary ad Amazonas Brasiliae (Mus. Hung.), Lectotype ♂, examined (Természettudományi Múzeum, Budapest), designated by Vardy, 2005Vardy, C.R. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta- to P. auriguttata-groups. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 79 (5):1-305.:238. Synonymized with Pepsis purpurea Smith, 1873 by Vardy, 2005Vardy, C.R. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta- to P. auriguttata-groups. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 79 (5):1-305.:238. - 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); Fox, 1897Fox, W.J. 1897. Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, No. 2. - Pompilidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 49:229-283. (distribution), 281 (listed); Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution), 259 (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 sagax Lucas, 1895:681, ♀. ♀, Brasilien: Piauhy (Mus. Hung.), Lectotype ♀, examined (Természettudományi Múzeum, Budapest), designated by Vardy, 2005Vardy, C.R. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta- to P. auriguttata-groups. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 79 (5):1-305.:238. Synonymized with Pepsis purpurea Smith, 1873 by Vardy, 2005Vardy, C.R. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta- to P. auriguttata-groups. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 79 (5):1-305.:238. - Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution), 262 (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 clypeata Brèthes, 1914:310, ♀. Holotype ♀, Archidona (Equateur) (Mus. São Paulo, leg. R. Haensch); Vardy, 2005Vardy, C.R. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta- to P. auriguttata-groups. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 79 (5):1-305.:238, 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.:5, Holotype ♀ (Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, MZSP 56495). Synonymized with Pepsis purpurea Smith, 1873 by Vardy, 2005Vardy, C.R. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta- to P. auriguttata-groups. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 79 (5):1-305.:238. - 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.:5 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis purpurea Smith, 1873).
Pepsis consimilis Banks, 1946:369, ♀. Paratypes ♀♀ (M. C. Z., Cornell Univ. and Mr. Williams); Paratypes ♀♀, Tena, Ecuador, 4, 27 March, 20 April (leg. Williams); Paratypes ♀♀, El Eucanto, Putumayo District, Peru (leg. Cornell Exped.); Type ♀ (M. C. Z., no. 27203); ♀, Sucria, Rio Upano, Ecuador, 3 Februrary (Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., leg. Brown), Lectotype ♀, examined (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts), designated by Vardy, 2005Vardy, C.R. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta- to P. auriguttata-groups. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 79 (5):1-305.:238. Synonymized with Pepsis purpurea Smith, 1873 by Vardy, 2005Vardy, C.R. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta- to P. auriguttata-groups. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 79 (5):1-305.:238. - 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); Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78.:31 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis purpurea Smith, 1873).
Pepsis laconia Banks, 1946:361, ♀. 1 ♀, Moyobamba Regioni, Peru, 22 December; 2 ♀♀, Achinamiza, Peru, 20 April, 4 May (leg. H. Bassler); Paratype ♀ (M. C. Z., no. 26197); Type ♀ (Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.), Lectotype ♀, examined (American Museum of Natural History, New York), designated by Vardy, 2005Vardy, C.R. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta- to P. auriguttata-groups. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 79 (5):1-305.:238. Synonymized with Pepsis purpurea Smith, 1873 by Vardy, 2005Vardy, C.R. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta- to P. auriguttata-groups. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 79 (5):1-305.:238. - Banks, 1946Banks, N. 1946. Studies of South American Psammocharidae. Part 1. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 96:311-525.:354 (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); Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78.:31 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis purpurea Smith, 1873).

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Area distribution map

map of Pepsis purpurea Smith, 1873

Distribution

BRABrazil
 (Mocsáry, 1885 [as Pepsis parthenope Mocsáry, 1885]; Mocsáry, 1885 [as Pepsis pan Mocsáry, 1885]; Lucas, 1895 [as Pepsis pan Mocsáry, 1885]; Lucas, 1895 [as Pepsis sagax Lucas, 1895]; Lucas, 1895 [as Pepsis parthenope Mocsáry, 1885]; Dalla Torre, 1897 [as Pepsis pan Mocsáry, 1885]; Dalla Torre, 1897 [as Pepsis sagax Lucas, 1895]; Dalla Torre, 1897; Dalla Torre, 1897 [as Pepsis parthenope Mocsáry, 1885]; Fox, 1897 [as Pepsis pan Mocsáry, 1885]; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis sagax Lucas, 1895]; Hurd, 1952; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis parthenope Mocsáry, 1885]; Haupt, 1952 [as Pepsis parthenope Mocsáry, 1885]; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis pan Mocsáry, 1885]; Wahis & Rojas, 2003; Vardy, 2005)
CHLChile
 (Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis parthenope Mocsáry, 1885]; Wahis & Rojas, 2003 doubt about present)
COLColombia
 (Banks, 1946 [as Pepsis parthenope Mocsáry, 1885]; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis parthenope Mocsáry, 1885]; Wahis & Rojas, 2003; Fernández et al., 2017)
ECUEcuador
 (Brèthes, 1914 [as Pepsis clypeata Brèthes, 1914]; Banks, 1946 [as Pepsis consimilis Banks, 1946]; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis clypeata Brèthes, 1914]; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis consimilis Banks, 1946]; Vardy, 2005; Andrade et al., 2018 [as Pepsis clypeata Brèthes, 1914])
GUFFrench Guiana
 (Vardy, 2005)
GUYGuyana
 (Hurd, 1952; Wahis & Rojas, 2003)
PANPanama
 (Vardy, 2005; Corro & Cambra, 2011; Fernández et al., 2017; Fernández et al., 2022)
PERPeru
 (Banks, 1946 [as Pepsis laconia Banks, 1946]; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis consimilis Banks, 1946]; Hurd, 1952 [as Pepsis laconia Banks, 1946]; Vardy, 2005; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009)
SURSuriname
 (Vardy, 2005)
VENVenezuela
 (Vardy, 2005)

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. 1946. Studies of South American Psammocharidae. Part 1. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 96:311-525.
  • Brèthes, J. 1914. Contribution â l'étude des Pepsis. Museo nacional de historia natural de Buenos Aires 26:235-360.
  • Corro, P.E. & R.A. Cambra 2011. Diversidad de avispas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) cazadoras de arañas del Parque Nacional Darién, República de Panamá. Tecnociencia 13 (1):77-90.
  • 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.
  • Fox, W.J. 1897. Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, No. 2. - Pompilidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 49:229-283.
  • 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.
  • Lucas, R. 1895. Die Pompiliden-Gattung Pepsis. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 39 (4):449-840.
  • Mocsáry, A. 1885. Species novae vel minus cognitae generis Pepsis, Fabr. Termeszetrajzi Füzetek 9:236-271.
  • 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.
  • Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78.
  • Vardy, C.R. 2005. The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 3. The P. inclyta- to P. auriguttata-groups. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 79 (5):1-305.
  • Wahis, R. & F. Rojas 2003. Los Pompilidos de Chile (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Rev. Chilena Ent. 29:89-103.