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Pepsis sommeri Dahlbom, 1845

Pepsis Sommeri Dahlbom, 1845:465 (key), ♀. Holotype ♀, Mexico, Lectotype ♂, examined (Museum of Zoology and Entomology, Lund), 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.:96. - Costa, 1864Costa, A. 1864. Anno II. - 1862. Annuario del Museo Zoologico della R. Università di Napoli :176 pp + 4 Tavole. (distribution); 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), 146 (listed); Cresson, 1869Cresson, E.T. 1869. Notes on Mexican Pompilidae with descriptions of new species. The Boston Society of Natural History, Proceedings 12:366-380. (distribution), 379 (listed); Cameron, 1888-1900Cameron, P. 1888-1900. Biologia Centrali-Americana - Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. R. H. Porter and Dulau & Co., London. 413pp, 14 pl.:218 (listed); Cameron, 1893Cameron, P. 1893. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. :177-257. (distribution), 218 (listed); Mocsáry, 1894Mocsáry, A. 1894. Species novae vel minus cognitae generis Pepsis Fabr. Természetrajzi Füzetek 17:1-14 .:12 (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), 263 (listed); 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); Haupt, 1952Haupt, H. 1952. Alte und neue Pepsis-Arten (Hymenoptera-Sphecoidea) Pompilidae, olim Psammocharidae auct. Nova Acta Leopoldina 15 (109):311-414. (distribution); Wahis, 1995Wahis, R. 1995. Nouvelles mentions de Pompilides du Nicaragua (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 33:1-6. (distribution), 3 (listed); 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), 27 (key male), 75 (key female), 96 (description male, listed), 98 (description female, 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); 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).

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Area distribution map

map of Pepsis sommeri Dahlbom, 1845

Distribution

COLColombia
 (Vardy, 2005; Fernández et al., 2017; Fernández et al., 2022)
CRICosta Rica
 (Haupt, 1952; Vardy, 2005; Fernández et al., 2022)
ECUEcuador
 (Hurd, 1952; Vardy, 2005 needs confirmation; Fernández et al., 2017)
GTMGuatemala
 (Cameron, 1893; Lucas, 1895; Lucas, 1919; Hurd, 1952; Vardy, 2005)
HNDHonduras
 (Vardy, 2005)
MEXMexico
 (Dahlbom, 1845; Costa, 1864; Cresson, 1867; Cresson, 1869; Cameron, 1893; Lucas, 1895; Dalla Torre, 1897; Hurd, 1952; Vardy, 2005; Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021; Fernández et al., 2022)
MEX-MorMexico - Morelos
 (Lucas, 1919)
MEX-VdIMexico - Veracruz
 (Lucas, 1919)
NICNicaragua
 (Lucas, 1895; Lucas, 1919; Hurd, 1952; Wahis, 1995; Vardy, 2005)
PANPanama
 (Vardy, 2005)
PERPeru
 (Vardy, 2005 needs confirmation; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009; Fernández et al., 2017; Fernández et al., 2022)
USAUnited States
 (Vardy, 2005)
USA-TXUnited States - Texas
 (Fernández et al., 2017)
VENVenezuela
 (Vardy, 2005; Fernández et al., 2017; Fernández et al., 2022)

Literature

  • Cameron, P. 1888-1900. Biologia Centrali-Americana - Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. R. H. Porter and Dulau & Co., London. 413pp, 14 pl.
  • Cameron, P. 1893. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. :177-257.
  • Costa, A. 1864. Anno II. - 1862. Annuario del Museo Zoologico della R. Università di Napoli :176 pp + 4 Tavole.
  • 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. 1869. Notes on Mexican Pompilidae with descriptions of new species. The Boston Society of Natural History, Proceedings 12:366-380.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. 1894. Species novae vel minus cognitae generis Pepsis Fabr. Természetrajzi Füzetek 17:1-14 .
  • Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78.
  • 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. 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. 1995. Nouvelles mentions de Pompilides du Nicaragua (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 33:1-6.