Pepsis grossa is a very large species of pepsine spider wasp from the southern part of North America, south to northern South America. It preys on tarantula...
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Tarantula hawk (redirect from Digger wasp pepsis)
Pepsis and three species of Hemipepsis are found in the United States, primarily in the deserts of the southwestern United States, with Pepsis grossa...
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Pepsis (from Ancient Greek πέψι lit. pepsis meaning 'digestion, cooking') is a genus of spider wasps belonging to the family Pompilidae. Species within...
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spiders of the same size and frequency being present. In studies on Pepsis grossa (formerly P. formosa), a pompilid of the southwestern United States...
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males. The wings of P. mildei are duller overall than those of Pepsis grossa or Pepsis cinnabarina. Per Edward Essig, Milde's tarantula-hawk wasp usually...
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peptide. Schmidt later gave the sting of a tarantula hawk species, Pepsis grossa, a rating of a 4, which he described as "blinding, fierce [and] shockingly...
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threatens them. It is the main species preyed upon by the tarantula hawk, Pepsis grossa, in areas where the two species overlap. Bites from the Texas brown...
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Male Pepsis grossa, a typical milkweed-pollinating wasp...
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[which?] Florida harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex badius) 4.0 Tarantula hawk (Pepsis grossa), Bullet ant (Paraponera clavata), Warrior wasp (Synoeca septentrionalis)...
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States). They resemble red-winged Pepsis species and are possibly Batesian mimics. They occur in sympatry with Pepsis grossa. Loew, Hermann (1866). "Diptera...
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