Epipompilus aztecus
Epipompilus aztecus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Pompilidae |
Subfamily: | Pepsinae |
Genus: | Epipompilus |
Species: | E. aztecus
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Binomial name | |
Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson 1869)
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Synonyms | |
Epipompilus aztecus is a Neotropical spider wasp belonging to the Pompilid subfamily Ctenocerinae.
Description[]
A black and reddish brown wasp.[1]
Distribution[]
From southern Mexico to Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil.[2] and eastwards to the .[3]
Habitat[]
Tropical deciduous forest.
References[]
- ^ Evans H.E 1967 Studies on the Neotropical Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) Additional Notes on Epompilus Kohl Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Brevoria 273
- ^ Silvestre, R. ; Auko, T.H. ; Carbonari, V. 2010 Check List 6(4) 483-484
- ^ Eduardo Fernando dos Santos and Fernando Barbosa Noll, “Additions to the Known Distribution of Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869) and E. excelsus (Bradley, 1944) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae),” Psyche, vol. 2010, Article ID 562869, 3 pages, 2010.
Categories:
- Pompilidae
- Hymenoptera of North America
- Hymenoptera of South America
- Insects of Central America
- Insects of Mexico
- Fauna of the Atlantic Forest (biome)
- Insects described in 1869
- Taxa named by Ezra Townsend Cresson
- Apocrita stubs