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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)
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Female Pepsis? - Pepsis - female
Copyright © 2017 Salvador Vitanza

Female Pepsis? - Pepsis - Female
Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
June 19, 2017
Size: 27 mm (to tip of abdomen)
Attracted to mercury vapor and ultraviolet lights
Coordinates: 31.335333, -110.937993
Elevation: 3,932 ft

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Contributed by Salvador Vitanza on 21 June, 2017 - 12:40pm
Last updated 24 June, 2017 - 10:22am

Moved
Moved from Pepsini.

Nice catch! I'm hoping that you are sending this to BOLDSYSTEMS for a DNA test. She looks like (maybe) a female Pepsis basifusca.
However, I have never filmed this species and Aaron has more experience identifying them.
See here: ♀ Your very nice shots might just help us to ID the females of this species, excellent job!
… Bob Biagi, 24 June, 2017 - 10:22am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you Bob!
I hadn't thought about sending any of my specimens to BOLDSYSTEMS. Luckily, I hadn't discarded this wasp and I'll be able to follow your suggestion. Thanks again for your compliments and your kind help.
… Salvador Vitanza, 24 June, 2017 - 10:56am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… John S. Ascher, 21 June, 2017 - 7:32pm login or register to post comments

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