FAMILY POMPILIDAE (Spider Wasps)

Hymenoptera-Pompilidae-Pepsis FEMALE-Tarantula Hawks (C)

Pepsis

Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Coordinates: 31.335333, -110.937993
Elevation: 3,932 ft
June 19, 2017
Size: 27 mm (to tip of abdomen)
Attracted to mercury vapor and ultraviolet lights
Determined by Salvador Vitanza
Confirmed by Bob Biagi to genus. He said: “She looks like (maybe) a female Pepsis basifusca.”

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