Hemipepsis

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Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Pompiloidea Subfamily Pepsinae Phylum Arthropoda Order Hymenopterans		Class Insecta Family Pompilidae Tribe Pepsini Rank Genus

Similar Hemipepsis ustulata, Hymenopterans, Pepsinae, Spider wasp, tarantula hawk

Hemipepsis wasp vs chaetopelma spider and ants

Hemipepsis is a genus of large pepsid spider wasps found throughout the tropics. They are commonly known as tarantula hawks. Hemipepsis wasps are morphologically similar to the related genera Pepsis and Entypus, but distinguishable by the pattern of wing venation. In South Africa 18 plant species from three plant families, Apocynaceae, Orchidaceae and Asparagaceae subfamily Scilloideae are pollinated exclusively by Hemipepsis wasps.

Tarantula hawk pepsis hemipepsis wasp drags spider prey to den

Species

There are 180 species in Hemipepsis and among those included are:

Hemipepsis acer (Bingham, 1897) India

Hemipepsis aenea (Cameron, 1904) Sikkim

Hemipepsis aeruginosa (Smith, 1855) Sumatra, Assam

Hemipepsis aethiops (Kohl, 1913) Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe Zambia, Ethiopia

Hemipepsis amamiensis (Tsuneki, 1990) Japan

Hemipepsis analis (Haupt, 1933) New Guinea

Hemipepsis anthracina (Smith, 1855) Indonesia

Hemipepsis approximata (Haupt, 1941) Borneo

Hemipepsis ascensoi (Zavattari, 1907) Zimbabwe, Uganda

Hemipepsis atrox (Drury, 1782)

Hemipepsis audax (Smith, 1855) south-east Asia (Sikkim, Tenasserim

Hemipepsis aureomicans (Haupt, 1953) Indonesia

Hemipepsis aurosericea (Guérin, 1838) Java

Hemipepsis australasiae (Smith, 1873) Indonesia, Australia, Giant Spider Wasp

Hemipepsis bakeri (Banks, 1934) Philippines

Hemipepsis bellicosus (Smith, 1873) India, Myanmar

Hemipepsis braunsi (Arnold, 1932) Zimbabwe, South Africa

Hemipepsis brunnea (Klug, 1834) Middle East, Turkmenistan

Hemipepsis brunniceps (Taschenberg, 1869) Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Hemipepsis buchardi (Wahis, 2000) Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

Hemipepsis caelebs (Arnold, 1932) Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Hemipepsis capensis (Fabricius, 1781) Uganda, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Hemipepsis ceylonicus (Saussure, 1867) India, Sri Lanka, Singapore

Hemipepsis combusta (Smith, 1855) Zimbabwe

Hemipepsis commixta (Arnold, 1932) Uganda

Hemipepsis consanguineous (Saussure, 1867) Sri Lanka

Hemipepsis convexa (Bingham, 1890) Sri Lanka, Myanmar

Hemipepsis corallipes (Wahis, 2000) Yemen

Hemipepsis crassinervis (van der Vecht & Wilcke, 1953) Java, Sumatra

Hemipepsis curvinervis (Cameron, 1902) Taiwan, Assam

Hemipepsis dahlbomi (Stål, 1857)

Hemipepsis deceptor (Smith, 1859) Sulawesi

Hemipepsis dedjas (Guérin, 1848) Senegal, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Hemipepsis dubitans (Banks, 1934) Philippines

Hemipepsis elizabethae (Bingham, 1893) India, Myanmar, Java

Hemipepsis erythropyga (Arnold, 1932) Nigeria

Hemipepsis exasperate (Smith, 1863) Indonesia

Hemipepsis excepta (Banks, 1934) Philippines

Hemipepsis eximia (Wahis, 1960) India

Hemipepsis fallax (Saussure, 1892) Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Hemipepsis fenestratus (Smith, 1855) Sikkim

Hemipepsis ferox (Arnold, 1948) Zimbabwe

Hemipepsis ferruginea (Smith, 1861) New Guinea

Hemipepsis fervida (Smith, 1861) China, Taiwan, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Hemipepsis fischeri (Wahis, 1968) Indonesia

Hemipepsis flavopicta (Smith, 1891) India

Hemipepsis fulvipennis (Fabricius, 1793) India, Sri Lanka

Hemipepsis fumipennis (Smith, 1859) Sulawesi

Hemipepsis gigas (Taschenberg, 1869) Java, Borneo

Hemipepsis glabrata (Klug, 1834) Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, South Africa

Hemipepsis hanedai (Tsuneki, 1990) Japan

Hemipepsis heros (Guérin-Méneville, 1849) Ethiopia, Senegal

Hemipepsis heteroneura (Turner, 1918) Uganda

Hemipepsis hilaris (Smith, 1879) Lesotho, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Hemipepsis hottentota (Taschenberg, 1869) Yemen

Hemipepsis ichneumonea (Guérin-Méneville, 1831) New Guinea, Australia

Hemipepsis indica (Linnaeus, 1758) India, Myanmar, Indonesia, New Guinea

Hemipepsis insignis (Smith, 1855) West Africa

Hemipepsis intermedia (Smith, 1873) Sri Lanka, India

Hemipepsis iodoptera (Stål, 1857) Uganda, South Africa, Ghana

Hemipepsis jacobsoni (van der Vecht & Wilcke, 1953) Java

Hemipepsis kangeanensis (van der Vecht & Wilcke, 1953) Java

Hemipepsis kiogae (Arnold, 1932) Yemen

Hemipepsis lacaena (Smith, 1861) Ambon Island

Hemipepsis laeta (Smith, 1873) Myanmar

Hemipepsis latirostris (Arnold, 1932) Uganda, Zimbabwe

Hemipepsis lucernaris (Wahis, 2000) Yemen

Hemipepsis luctuosa (Arnold, 1948) Zimbabwe

Hemipepsis lusca(Fabricius, 1804) India

Hemipepsis luzonica (Banks, 1934) Philippines

Hemipepsis martini (Bingham, 1896) Sumatra

Hemipepsis mashonae (Arnold, 1932) Kenya, Zimbabwe

Hemipepsis matangensis (Cameron, 1905) Borneo

Hemipepsis mauritanica (Linnaeus, 1767) Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Italy, Spain, Turkey

Hemipepsis mexicana (Cresson, 1867) Mexico, Colombia

Hemipepsis minora (Banks, 1934) Philippines

Hemipepsis misera (Cameron, 1901) Singapore

Hemipepsis mlanjiensis (Turner, 1918) Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique

Hemipepsis momentosa (Smith, 1873) Borneo

Hemipepsis negritos (Banks, 1934) Philippines

Hemipepsis nigricornis (van der Vecht & Wilcke, 1953) Java

Hemipepsis obscurus (Lucas, 1898) Tanzania

Hemipepsis obsolete (Saussure, 1867) Sri Lanka

Hemipepsis obsonator (Bingham, 1897) India

Hemipepsis ocellata (Fabricius, 1782) Cameroon

Hemipepsis ochropus (Stål, 1857) Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon

Hemipepsis odin (Strand, 1914) Malaya

Hemipepsis opulenta (Smith, 1863) Misool

Hemipepsis perhirsuta (Banks, 1940) Madagascar

Hemipepsis perplexa (Smith, 1855) India, Myanmar, Taiwan

Hemipepsis petri (Schulz, 1906) Assam

Hemipepsis pilosipes (Arnold, 1948) Zimbabwe

Hemipepsis placida (Bingham, 1896) Tenasserim

Hemipepsis procera (Wahis, 1968) Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia

Hemipepsis quadridentata (van der Vecht & Wilcke, 1953) Java

Hemipepsis refulgens (Turner, 1918) Uganda

Hemipepsis robertiana (Cameron, 1903) Borneo

Hemipepsis rubida (Bingham, 1890) Sri Lanka

Hemipepsis rufofemoratus (Lucas, 1898) Zanzibar

Hemipepsis sabulosa (Smith, 1855) Egypt, Iran, Yemen. Benin, Eritrea

Hemipepsis sericeipennis (Bingham, 1902) Zimbabwe, South Africa

Hemipepsis severa (Drury, 1782)

Hemipepsis simpsoni (Arnold, 1932) Ghana

Hemipepsis sinuosa (Kohl, 1913) Nigeria

Hemipepsis sogdiana (Zonstein, 2000) China, Taiwan, Japan, India, Kyrgyzstan

Hemipepsis speculifer (Lepeletier) Java, Malaya

Hemipepsis sublivida (Arnold, 1948) Zimbabwe

Hemipepsis sulfureicornis (Arnold, 1960) Democratic Republic of Congo

Hemipepsis sycophanta (Gribodo, 1884) Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Malaya

Hemipepsis tagala (Gribodo, 1884) Philippines

Hemipepsis taiwanensis (Tsuneki, 1989) Taiwan

Hemipepsis tamisieri (Guérin, 1848) Uganda, Ethiopia, Angola, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, Sierra Leone

Hemipepsis taprobanae (Cameron, 1901) Sri Lanka

Hemipepsis thione (Smith, 1861) Ambon Island

Hemipepsis toussainti (Banks, 1928) Hispaniola

Hemipepsis turneri (Arnold, 1936) South Africa

Hemipepsis unguicularis (Kohl, 1913) Democratic Republic of Congo

Hemipepsis unifasciata (Radoszkowski, 1881) Angola, Ethiopia

Hemipepsis ustulata (Dahlbom, 1843) United States of America

Hemipepsis vanuana Banks 1941 Solomon Islands

Hemipepsis variabilis ((Arnold, 1932) Uganda

Hemipepsis vechti (Wahis, 1959)

Hemipepsis veda (Cameron, 1891) India

Hemipepsis velutina (van der Vecht & Wilcke, 1953) Indonesia

Hemipepsis venatoria (Bingham, 1896) Myanmar

Hemipepsis vespertilio (Gerstaecker, 1857) Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Hemipepsis vestitipennis (Turner, 1918) Uganda, Somalia, Yemen

Hemipepsis vindex (Smith, 1855) Sub-Saharan Africa and Yemen

Hemipepsis viridipennis (Lucas, 1898) Tanzania

Hemipepsis vulcanica (van der Vecht & Wilcke, 1953) Java

Hemipepsis yayeyamana (Tsuneki, 1990) Japan

Hemipepsis yemenita (Wahis, 2000) Somalia, Yemen

References

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