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Pepsis elevata Fabricius, 1804

Pepsis elevata Fabricius, 1804:213, sex not indicated.America meridionali (Mus. Dom. de Sehestedt, leg. Smidt). - Dahlbom, 1845Dahlbom, 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. (distribution), 464 (listed); Schomburgk, 1848Schomburgk, R. 1848. Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844. Dritter Theil. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Webre, Leipzig. (distribution); Smith, 1855Smith, F. 1855. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III, Mutillidae and Pompilidae. :203 pp, 5 pl.:189 (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), 283 (listed); Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.:252 (listed); Brèthes, 1914Brèthes, J. 1914. Contribution â l'étude des Pepsis. Museo nacional de historia natural de Buenos Aires 26:235-360. (distribution); Banks, 1944Banks, N. 1944. The Psammocharidae (Hymenoptera) taken at Kartabo and other localities in British Guiana. Zoologica 29:97-112. (distribution), 100 (listed), 99 (key); 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), 337 (key female), 344 (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); Haupt, 1952Haupt, H. 1952. Alte und neue Pepsis-Arten (Hymenoptera-Sphecoidea) Pompilidae, olim Psammocharidae auct. Nova Acta Leopoldina 15 (109):311-414. (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), 64 (listed), 65 (description female, description male, distribution); Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78. (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., 2024Kurczewski, F.E., R.C. West & C. Waichert 2024. New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Insecta Mundi 1034:1-32. (distribution, hosts [Lycosa erythrognathus Lucas (Lycosidae), Acanthoscurria natalensis Chamberlin (Theraphosidae)]).
Pepsis Sciron Mocsáry, 1885:250, ♀. ♀, Obidos ad Amazonas Brasiliae (Mus. Hung.). - Lucas, 1895Lucas, R. 1895. Die Pompiliden-Gattung Pepsis. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 39 (4):449-840.:686 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis elevata Fabricius, 1804); Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.:252 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis elevata Fabricius, 1804); 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.:322 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis elevata Fabricius, 1804); 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.:64 ( listed as synonym of Pepsis elevata Fabricius, 1804).
Pepsis cristata Haupt, 1952:396 (key), ♂. Holotype ♂, Paraguay (Villa Rica) (Haupt). Synonymized with Pepsis elevata Fabricius, 1804 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.:64.

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Area distribution map

map of Pepsis elevata Fabricius, 1804

Distribution

ARGArgentina
 (Brèthes, 1914; Hurd, 1952; Vardy, 2002; Fernández et al., 2017; Fernández et al., 2022)
BRABrazil
 (Dahlbom, 1845; Mocsáry, 1885 [as Pepsis sciron Mocsáry, 1885]; Lucas, 1895; Fox, 1897; Banks, 1944; Banks, 1946; Hurd, 1952; Vardy, 2002; Fernández et al., 2022; Kurczewski et al., 2024)
COLColombia
 (Vardy, 2002; Fernández et al., 2017; Fernández et al., 2022)
GUFFrench Guiana
 (Hurd, 1952; Vardy, 2002)
GUYGuyana
 (Schomburgk, 1848; Lucas, 1895; Banks, 1944; Banks, 1946; Hurd, 1952; Vardy, 2002)
PERPeru
 (Vardy, 2002; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009; Fernández et al., 2022)
PRYParaguay
 (Haupt, 1952; Haupt, 1952 [as Pepsis cristata Haupt, 1952]; Vardy, 2002)
SURSuriname
 (Vardy, 2002)
TTOTrinidad and Tobago
 (Banks, 1946; Hurd, 1952)
URYUruguay
 (Vardy, 2002; Fernández et al., 2022)

Literature

  • Banks, N. 1944. The Psammocharidae (Hymenoptera) taken at Kartabo and other localities in British Guiana. Zoologica 29:97-112.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fabricius, J.C. 1804. Systema Piezatorum secundum Ordines, Genera, Species adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus. Apud Carolum Reichard, Brunsvigae. xiv + 440 + 30 pp.
  • 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.
  • Kurczewski, F.E., R.C. West & C. Waichert 2024. New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Insecta Mundi 1034:1-32.
  • 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.
  • Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78.
  • Schomburgk, R. 1848. Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844. Dritter Theil. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Webre, Leipzig.
  • Smith, F. 1855. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III, Mutillidae and Pompilidae. :203 pp, 5 pl.
  • 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.