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Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869)

Ferreola azteca Cresson, 1869:376, ♀. Evans, 1966Evans, H.E. 1966. A revision of the Mexican and central American spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society :1-442.:29, Type ♀ (ANSP, no. 437). - Cameron, 1893Cameron, P. 1893. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. :177-257.:189 (listed); Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.:275 (listed); Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.:142 (listed). - As Aulocostethus aztecus: - Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157. (distribution), 141 (key female), 142 (comb. nov., description female). - As Epipompilus azteca: - Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.:142 (listed); Evans, 1966Evans, H.E. 1966. A revision of the Mexican and central American spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society :1-442. (distribution). - As Epipompilus aztecus: - Turner, 1917Turner, R.E. 1917. Notes on Fossorial Hymenoptera. – XXXI. On Psammocharidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8th ser. (20):357-360. (distribution); Haupt, 1930Haupt, H. 1930. Die Einordnung der mir bekannten Psammocharidae mit 2 Cubitalzellen in mein System. Mitt. zool. Mus. Berlin 16:673-787. (distribution), 762 (listed), 763 (distribution); Evans, 1961Evans, H.E. 1961. A reconsideration of the genus Epipompilus (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Psyche 68:25-37. (distribution), 30 (comb. nov.); Evans, 1967Evans, H.E. 1967. Studies on Neotropical Pompilidae III. Additional notes on Epipompilus Kohl. Breviora 273:1-15. (distribution), 6 (description male); 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); Silvestre et al., 2010Silvestre, R., T.H. Auko & V. Carbonari 2010. Insecta, Hymenoptera, Vespoidea, Pompilidae, Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869): First record in South America. Check List 6 (4):483-484. (distribution); Santos & Noll, 2010Santos, E.F. dos & F.B. Noll 2010. Additions to the known distribution of Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869) and E. excelsus (Bradley, 1944) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Psyche 2010:1-3. (distribution); Auko & Silvestre, 2013Auko, T.H. & R. Silvestre 2013. Composição faunística de vespas (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) na Floresta Estacional do Parque Nacional da Serra da Bodoquena, Brasil. Biota Neotrop. 13 (1):292-299. (distribution); Waichert et al., 2014Waichert, C., Rodriguez, J. & J.P. Pitts 2014. New additions to the Honduran fauna of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) with the description of two species. Zootaxa 3873 (5):590-600. (distribution); Silvestre et al., 2014Silvestre, R., M.F. Demétrio, B.M. Trad, F. Varussa & O. Lima 2014. Diversity and distribution of Hymenoptera Aculeata in Midwestern Brazilian dry forests. In: Greer, F.E. (Ed.). Dry Forests. 29-80. (distribution); Fensler, 2018Fensler, N.A. 2018. Distribution of Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869) (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) with a new record from Texas, United States. Check List 14 (1):225-229. (distribution); Aranda, 2018Aranda, R. 2018. New distribution record of Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) in the Brazilian Pantanal. Brazilian Journal of Biology :. (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); Kurczewski et al., 2022Kurczewski, F.E., R.C. West, C. Waichert & J.P. Pitts 2022. Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Insecta Mundi 0928:1-32. (distribution, hosts). - As Pompilus aztecus: - Cameron, 1888-1900Cameron, P. 1888-1900. Biologia Centrali-Americana - Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. R. H. Porter and Dulau & Co., London. 413pp, 14 pl.:189 (listed); Cameron, 1893Cameron, P. 1893. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. :177-257. (distribution), 189 (listed); Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.:275 (listed); Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.:142 (listed).
Epipompilus Maximiliani Kohl, 1885:57, ♀. ♀, Mexico; Evans, 1961Evans, H.E. 1961. A reconsideration of the genus Epipompilus (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Psyche 68:25-37.:30, Type ♀ (Vienna Mus.); Evans, 1966Evans, H.E. 1966. A revision of the Mexican and central American spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society :1-442.:29, Type ♀ (Vienna Mus.). - Kohl, 1886Kohl, F.F. 1886. Neue Pompiliden in den Sammlungen des k.k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 36:307-346. (distribution), 340 (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.:214 (listed); Cameron, 1893Cameron, P. 1893. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. :177-257. (distribution), 214 (listed); Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.:301 (listed); Turner, 1917Turner, R.E. 1917. Notes on Fossorial Hymenoptera. – XXXI. On Psammocharidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8th ser. (20):357-360.:360 ( listed as synonym of Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869)); Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.:146 (description female, listed); Evans, 1961Evans, H.E. 1961. A reconsideration of the genus Epipompilus (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Psyche 68:25-37.:30 ( listed as synonym of Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869)); Evans, 1966Evans, H.E. 1966. A revision of the Mexican and central American spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society :1-442.:29 ( listed as synonym of Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869)). - As Pompilus maximiliani: - Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution), 301 (comb. nov.); Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.:146 (listed).

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Area distribution map

map of Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869)

Distribution

BRABrazil
 (Silvestre et al., 2010; Santos & Noll, 2010; Auko & Silvestre, 2013; Waichert et al., 2014; Silvestre et al., 2014; Fensler, 2018; Aranda, 2018; Fernández et al., 2022)
CRICosta Rica
 (Waichert et al., 2014)
GTMGuatemala
 (Evans, 1967; Silvestre et al., 2010; Waichert et al., 2014; Fensler, 2018)
HNDHonduras
 (Waichert et al., 2014)
MEXMexico
 (Kohl, 1885 [as Epipompilus maximiliani Kohl, 1885]; Kohl, 1886 [as Epipompilus maximiliani Kohl, 1885]; Cameron, 1893 [as Epipompilus maximiliani Kohl, 1885]; Cameron, 1893; Dalla Torre, 1897 [as Pompilus maximiliani (Kohl, 1885)]; Turner, 1917; Haupt, 1930; Bradley, 1944; Evans, 1961; Evans, 1967; Silvestre et al., 2010; Waichert et al., 2014; Fensler, 2018; Fernández et al., 2022)
MEX-MéxMexico - México
 (Kurczewski et al., 2022)
MEX-MorMexico - Morelos
 (Evans, 1966; Evans, 1966 [as Epipompilus maximiliani Kohl, 1885]; Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021)
MEX-TamMexico - Tamaulipas
 (Horta Vega et al., 2009; Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021)
MEX-VdIMexico - Veracruz
 (Evans, 1966; Evans, 1966; Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021)
PANPanama
 (Evans, 1967; Silvestre et al., 2010; Waichert et al., 2014; Fensler, 2018)
USA-TXUnited States - Texas
 (Fensler, 2018)

Literature

  • Aranda, R. 2018. New distribution record of Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) in the Brazilian Pantanal. Brazilian Journal of Biology :.
  • Auko, T.H. & R. Silvestre 2013. Composição faunística de vespas (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) na Floresta Estacional do Parque Nacional da Serra da Bodoquena, Brasil. Biota Neotrop. 13 (1):292-299.
  • Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.
  • 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.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1869. Notes on Mexican Pompilidae with descriptions of new species. The Boston Society of Natural History, Proceedings 12:366-380.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.
  • Evans, H.E. 1961. A reconsideration of the genus Epipompilus (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Psyche 68:25-37.
  • Evans, H.E. 1966. A revision of the Mexican and central American spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society :1-442.
  • Evans, H.E. 1967. Studies on Neotropical Pompilidae III. Additional notes on Epipompilus Kohl. Breviora 273:1-15.
  • Fensler, N.A. 2018. Distribution of Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869) (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) with a new record from Texas, United States. Check List 14 (1):225-229.
  • 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.
  • Haupt, H. 1930. Die Einordnung der mir bekannten Psammocharidae mit 2 Cubitalzellen in mein System. Mitt. zool. Mus. Berlin 16:673-787.
  • 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.
  • Kohl, F.F. 1885. Die Gattungen der Pompiliden. Ver. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 34:33-58.
  • Kohl, F.F. 1886. Neue Pompiliden in den Sammlungen des k.k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 36:307-346.
  • Kurczewski, F.E., R.C. West, C. Waichert & J.P. Pitts 2022. Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Insecta Mundi 0928:1-32.
  • Santos, E.F. dos & F.B. Noll 2010. Additions to the known distribution of Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869) and E. excelsus (Bradley, 1944) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Psyche 2010:1-3.
  • Silvestre, R., M.F. Demétrio, B.M. Trad, F. Varussa & O. Lima 2014. Diversity and distribution of Hymenoptera Aculeata in Midwestern Brazilian dry forests. In: Greer, F.E. (Ed.). Dry Forests. 29-80.
  • Silvestre, R., T.H. Auko & V. Carbonari 2010. Insecta, Hymenoptera, Vespoidea, Pompilidae, Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869): First record in South America. Check List 6 (4):483-484.
  • Turner, R.E. 1917. Notes on Fossorial Hymenoptera. – XXXI. On Psammocharidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8th ser. (20):357-360.
  • 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.
  • Waichert, C., Rodriguez, J. & J.P. Pitts 2014. New additions to the Honduran fauna of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) with the description of two species. Zootaxa 3873 (5):590-600.