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Pepsis
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyPompilidae
Охота осы Pepsis на тарантула Pepsis (лат.) — род дорожных ос (Pompilidae).
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 654
- With media
- 138
- Family
- Pompilidae
- Collections
- MHNCA, IIZD-UASLP
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Wikidata facts
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- taxon name
- Pepsis
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- Tarantula Hawks
- Commons category
- Pepsis
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Encyclopedic overview
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thumb|Pepsis versus tarantula in Arizona
Pepsis (from Ancient Greek πέψι lit. pepsis meaning 'digestion, cooking') is a genus of spider wasps belonging to the family Pompilidae. Species within this genus are also called tarantula hawks, as they usually hunt tarantulas, similarly to many species in the genus Hemipepsis. These wasps are restricted to the Americas, with the related genus Hemipepsis occurring in both Old and New Worlds.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pepsis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.