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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Spider Wasps (Pompilidae) » Pepsinae » Tarantula-hawk Wasps and Allies (Pepsini) » Tarantula-hawk Wasps (Pepsis) » Elegant Tarantula-hawk Wasp (Pepsis menechma) » "cerberus" (Pepsis menechma "cerberus")
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Male 'Pepsis cerberus' specimen from the CAS - Pepsis menechma - male
Copyright © 2015 Aaron Schusteff

Male 'Pepsis cerberus' specimen from the CAS - Pepsis menechma - Male
La Paz, "Lower" (= Baja) California
June 23, 1919
Note the tuft of long, backward-angled, hairs on the 4th tergite (referred to as a "hair brush" in the literature)...which form a distinctive (posterad-facing) semi-circular pattern in males of P. menechma. (Such hair brushes are absent in females.)

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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 27 November, 2015 - 1:28am
Last updated 24 August, 2021 - 3:34pm

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