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Tarantula Hawk Wasp
Pepsis heros (Fabricius, 1798)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Arthropoda - arthropods »  class Insecta - insects »  order Hymenoptera - bees, ants and wasps »  family Pompilidae - spider hunting wasps »  genus Pepsis

Scientific synonyms

Pepsis atrata Lepeletier, 1845
Pepsis magnifica Montet, 1921
Sphex heros Fabricius, 1798

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Pepsis heros - Tarantula Hawk Wasp

Author: Jiří Pirkl

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Brazil, Ecuador, Peru

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Links and literature

EN Vardy C.R. (2000): New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 1. Introduction and the P. rubra species-group, Zool. Verh. Leiden 332 [as Pepsis heros (Fabricius, 1798)]
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