Pepsis menechma

Pepsis menechma, the elegant tarantula hawk, is a species of spider wasp in the family Pompilidae, widely distributed from North America through South America.

Taxonomy and phylogeny

In 2005, Vardy synonymized what had been 18 valid species under the resurrected name of P. menechma, thus treating a single widespread, transamerican species with numerous very different color forms over its range.