Elegant Tarantula-hawk Wasp
Pepsis menechma Lepeletier, 1845
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Pepsis menechma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Pompilidae
Genus: Pepsis
Species:
P. menechma
Binomial name
Pepsis menechma
Synonyms

Pepsis elegans Lepeletier, 1845
Pepsis dubitata Cresson, 1867
Pepsis prismatica Smith, 1855
Pepsis advena Mocsáry, 1885
Pepsis cinctipennis Mocsáry, 1885
Pepsis guatemalensis Cameron, 1893
Pepsis nestor Mocsáry, 1894
Pepsis nigricornis Mocsáry, 1894
Pepsis auranticornis Lucas, 1895
Pepsis cerberus Lucas, 1895
Pepsis concolor Lucas, 1895
Pepsis euchroma Lucas, 1895
Pepsis fruhstorferi Lucas, 1895
Pepsis mordax Lucas, 1895
Pepsis nigrocincta Lucas, 1895
Pepsis inermis Fox, 1898
Pepsis cultrata Brèthes, 1908
Pepsis janira Brèthes, 1908
Pepsis roberti Brèthes, 1908
Pepsis novitia Banks, 1921

Pepsis menechma, the elegant tarantula hawk, is a species of spider wasp in the family Pompilidae, widely distributed from North America through South America.[1]

Taxonomy and phylogeny

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In 2005, Vardy synonymized what had been 18 valid species under the resurrected name of P. menechma, thus treating a single widespread, transamerican species with numerous very different color forms over its range.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Vardy, C.R. (2005). "The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)". Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden.
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