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POMPILIDAE - SPIDER WASPS
Identification keys to the New World species in this family are found online as part of Utah University´s Pompilid project. The three-volume publication by Vardy (2000-2005) dealing with the Tarantula-Hawks Genus Pepsis Fabricius can be downloaded here.
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FIGURE 1 - Unidentified sp in subfamily Pepsinae - Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith September 2007).
FIGURE 2&3 - Pepsis sp. - Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith October 2007).
FIGURE 4 - Pepsis sp. - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (David Gill February 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).