Pepsis purpureipes Packard

COLOMBIA: Chocó Department, Condoto; 23 February 2020; M. Zieger. Host: Unidentified species ( Theraphosidae), adult male. A series of photographs shows the wasp dragging the paralyzed tarantula backward on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its right foreleg with her mandibles (Zieger 2020; M. Zieger, Stuttgart, Germany, 2020 pers. comm.) .

ECUADOR: Pichincha Province, Nanegal, Santa Lucía Ecolodge; 17 August 2012; H. Beck (holgerbeck). Host: Unidentified species ( Theraphosidae), early instar juvenile (~ 15–20 mm). The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its left foreleg with her mandibles (Beck 2012) .