Hemipepsis
Hemipepsis is a genus of large pepsine spider wasps found primarily 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, the Apocynaceae, Orchidaceae, and Asparagaceae subfamily Scilloideae are pollinated exclusively by Hemipepsis wasps.
File:Spider-hunting Wasp .jpg|thumb|right|A Hemipepsis sp. wasp, Kruger National Park, South Africa
File:Hemipepsis_with_Baboon_Spider.jpg|thumb|right|A female Hemipepsis sp. wasp dragging a paralyzed tarantula, Sandy Bay, South Africa
Species
About 180 species are placed in Hemipepsis, including:- Hemipepsis acer India
- Hemipepsis aenea Sikkim
- Hemipepsis aeruginosa Sumatra, Assam
- Hemipepsis aethiops Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe Zambia, Ethiopia
- Hemipepsis amamiensis Japan
- Hemipepsis analis New Guinea
- Hemipepsis anthracina Indonesia
- Hemipepsis approximata Borneo
- Hemipepsis ascensoi Zimbabwe, Uganda
- Hemipepsis atrox
- Hemipepsis audax south-east Asia Indonesia
- Hemipepsis aurosericea Java
- Hemipepsis australasiae Indonesia, Australia, giant spider wasp
- Hemipepsis bakeri Philippines
- Hemipepsis bellicosus India, Myanmar
- Hemipepsis braunsi Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Hemipepsis brunnea Middle East, Turkmenistan
- Hemipepsis brunniceps Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Hemipepsis buchardi Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
- Hemipepsis caelebs Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Hemipepsis capensis Uganda, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Hemipepsis ceylonicus India, Sri Lanka, Singapore
- Hemipepsis combusta Zimbabwe
- Hemipepsis commixta Uganda
- Hemipepsis consanguineous Sri Lanka
- Hemipepsis convexa Sri Lanka, Myanmar
- Hemipepsis corallipes Yemen
- Hemipepsis crassinervis Java, Sumatra
- Hemipepsis curvinervis Taiwan, Assam
- Hemipepsis dahlbomi
- Hemipepsis deceptor Sulawesi
- Hemipepsis dedjas Senegal, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Hemipepsis dubitans Philippines
- Hemipepsis elizabethae India, Myanmar, Java
- Hemipepsis erythropyga Nigeria
- Hemipepsis exasperate Indonesia
- Hemipepsis excepta Philippines
- Hemipepsis eximia India
- Hemipepsis fallax Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Hemipepsis fenestratus Sikkim
- Hemipepsis ferox Zimbabwe
- Hemipepsis ferruginea New Guinea
- Hemipepsis fervida China, Taiwan, Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Hemipepsis fischeri Indonesia
- Hemipepsis flavopicta India
- Hemipepsis fulvipennis India, Sri Lanka
- Hemipepsis fumipennis Sulawesi
- Hemipepsis gigas Java, Borneo
- Hemipepsis glabrata Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, South Africa
- Hemipepsis hanedai Japan
- Hemipepsis heros Ethiopia, Senegal
- Hemipepsis heteroneura Uganda
- Hemipepsis hilaris Lesotho, Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Hemipepsis hottentota Yemen
- Hemipepsis ichneumonea New Guinea, Australia
- Hemipepsis indica India, Myanmar, Indonesia, New Guinea
- Hemipepsis insignis West Africa
- Hemipepsis intermedia Sri Lanka, India
- Hemipepsis iodoptera Uganda, South Africa, Ghana
- Hemipepsis jacobsoni Java
- Hemipepsis kangeanensis Java
- Hemipepsis kiogae Yemen
- Hemipepsis lacaena Ambon Island
- Hemipepsis laeta Myanmar
- Hemipepsis latirostris Uganda, Zimbabwe
- Hemipepsis lucernaris Yemen
- Hemipepsis luctuosa Zimbabwe
- Hemipepsis lusca India
- Hemipepsis luzonica Philippines
- Hemipepsis martini Sumatra
- Hemipepsis mashonae Kenya, Zimbabwe
- Hemipepsis matangensis Borneo
- Hemipepsis mauritanica Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Italy, Spain, Turkey
- Hemipepsis mexicana Mexico, Colombia
- Hemipepsis minora Philippines
- Hemipepsis misera Singapore
- Hemipepsis mlanjiensis Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique
- Hemipepsis momentosa Borneo
- Hemipepsis negritos Philippines
- Hemipepsis nigricornis Java
- Hemipepsis obscurus Tanzania
- Hemipepsis obsolete Sri Lanka
- Hemipepsis obsonator India
- Hemipepsis ocellata Cameroon
- Hemipepsis ochropus Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon
- Hemipepsis odin Malaya
- Hemipepsis opulenta Misool
- Hemipepsis perhirsuta Madagascar
- Hemipepsis perplexa India, Myanmar, Taiwan
- Hemipepsis petri Assam
- Hemipepsis pilosipes Zimbabwe
- Hemipepsis placida Tenasserim
- Hemipepsis procera Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia
- Hemipepsis quadridentata Java
- Hemipepsis refulgens Uganda
- Hemipepsis robertiana Borneo
- Hemipepsis rubida Sri Lanka
- Hemipepsis rufofemoratus Zanzibar
- Hemipepsis sabulosa Egypt, Iran, Yemen. Benin, Eritrea
- Hemipepsis sericeipennis Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Hemipepsis severa
- Hemipepsis simpsoni Ghana
- Hemipepsis sinuosa Nigeria
- Hemipepsis sogdiana China, Taiwan, Japan, India, Kyrgyzstan
- Hemipepsis speculifer Java, Malaya
- Hemipepsis sublivida Zimbabwe
- Hemipepsis sulfureicornis Democratic Republic of Congo
- Hemipepsis sycophanta Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Malaya
- Hemipepsis tagala Philippines
- Hemipepsis taiwanensis Taiwan
- Hemipepsis tamisieri Uganda, Ethiopia, Angola, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, Sierra Leone
- Hemipepsis taprobanae Sri Lanka
- Hemipepsis thione Ambon Island
- Hemipepsis toussainti Hispaniola
- Hemipepsis turneri South Africa
- Hemipepsis unguicularis Democratic Republic of Congo
- Hemipepsis unifasciata Angola, Ethiopia
- Hemipepsis ustulata Dahlbom, 1843 United States of America
- Hemipepsis vanuana Banks 1941 Solomon Islands
- Hemipepsis variabilis Uganda
- Hemipepsis vechti
- Hemipepsis veda India
- Hemipepsis velutina Indonesia
- Hemipepsis venatoria Myanmar
- Hemipepsis vespertilio Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Hemipepsis vestitipennis Uganda, Somalia, Yemen
- Hemipepsis vindex Sub-Saharan Africa and Yemen
- Hemipepsis viridipennis Tanzania
- Hemipepsis vulcanica Java
- Hemipepsis yayeyamana Japan
- Hemipepsis yemenita Somalia, Yemen