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Subfamily Pepsinae

Pepsis Buckwheat Singles Bar - Biggie - Pepsis

Spider Wasp? - Entypus unifasciatus - female

What kind of wasp is this? View 2 - Entypus

Pepsis chrysothemis? - Pepsis thisbe - male

Blue Mud Wasp (Chalybion californicum)? - female

Female, Pepsis chrysothemis? - Pepsis - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)

Superfamily Pompiloidea (Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies)

Family Pompilidae (Spider Wasps)

Subfamily Pepsinae

Explanation of Names

Pepsinae Lepeletier 1845

Numbers

>2000 spp. in >60 genera worldwide(1)

Works Cited

1.	Pitts J.P. et al. (2013) The pompilid project

Contributed by Nick Fensler on 24 May, 2011 - 7:18am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 31 May, 2014 - 12:38pm

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