Pepsis clypeata Brèthes, 1914: 310
(http://hol.osu.edu/spmInfo.html?id=MZSP%2056495)
Holotype: ♀ (# MZSP 56495) ‘ Ecuador, Archidona, R. Haensch S. [col]’‘Holotype’‘ Pepsis clypeata Br., Breth. Det. 17’‘ Holotype, ♀, Pepsis clypeata Brè. = purpurea Sm., det. C. R. Vardy, 1990’.
Current status: Pepsis purpurea Smith, 1873 .