Hemipepsis tamisieri
| Hemipepsis tamisieri | |
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| Hemipepsis tamisieri with its prey, a Baboon Spider (Theraphosidae). | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Superfamily: | Pompiloidea |
| Family: | Pompilidae |
| Subfamily: | Pepsinae |
| Tribe: | Pepsini |
| Genus: | Hemipepsis |
| Species: | H. tamisieri |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemipepsis tamisieri (Guérin, 1848)[1] | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Hemipepsis tamisieri is a species of Afrotropical pepsid spider wasp, one of the so-called tarantula hawks because its preferred prey are tarantulas of the family Theraphosidae.
Distribution
This was p has been recorded from Uganda, Ethiopia, Angola, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, but is probably widespread in Africa south of the Sahara.[2]
Biology
The adults feed on the nectar of various flowers, many of which are specialised to be pollinated by this species and its cogeners.[3] The females hunt on the ground for spiders of the family Theraphosidae.[4]
References
- 1 2 "Hemipepsis tamisieri (Guerin, 1848)". GBIF.org. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ↑ "Taxonomy for Hemipepsis tamisieri (Guérin, 1848)". insectoid.org. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ↑ Shuttleworth, Adam; Johnson, Steven D. (2012). "The Hemipepsis wasp-pollination system in South Africa: a comparative analysis of trait convergence in a highly specialized plant guild". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 168 (3): 278–279.
- ↑ Gess, Sarah K.; Gess, Fredereich W. (2014). "Wasps and Bees in Southern Africa" (PDF). SANBI Biodiversity Series. 24.
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