Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Species Hemipepsis toussainti - Toussaint's Tarantula-hawk Wasp

Pepsinae with yellow antennae - Hemipepsis toussainti - female Pepsinae with yellow antennae - Hemipepsis toussainti - female Pepsinae with yellow antennae - Hemipepsis toussainti - 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
Tribe Pepsini (Tarantula-hawk Wasps and Allies)
Genus Hemipepsis (Tarantula-hawk Wasps)
Species toussainti (Toussaint's Tarantula-hawk Wasp)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Orig. comb.: Mygnimia toussainti Banks, 1928
Explanation of Names
Hemipepsis toussainti (Banks, 1928)
toussainti = likely named after François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a Haitian commander during the Haitian Revolution. He also emancipated the slaves of modern-day Haiti, set up the colony to be governed by the freed slaves, and became the ruler of Hispaniola.
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture is an important historical figure in Haiti, where this species also occurs.
Range
AZ & NM; outside our area reported from Mexico (Durango, Michoacan, Mexico) & Haiti(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Karl V. Krombein, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks. 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press.