''Epipompilus aztecus'' is a Neotropical spider wasp belonging to the

Pompilid Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, or pompilid wasps. The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species in six subfamilies. Nearly all species are solitary (with the exception of some group-ne ...

subfamily

Ctenocerinae The Ctenocerinae are a subfamily of spider wasps, Pompilidae, which contains a small number of genera, two in the Neotropics, four in Australia and the remainder in Africa. Ctenocerine wasps have evidently evolved from a common ancestor with the ...

Description

A black and reddish brown wasp.

Distribution

From southern Mexico to

Mato Grosso do Sul Mato Grosso do Sul () is one of the Midwestern states of Brazil. Neighboring Brazilian states are (from north clockwise) Mato Grosso, Goiás, Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Paraná. It also borders the countries of Paraguay, to the southwest, and ...

in Brazil. and eastwards to the Atlantic Forest (biome).Eduardo Fernando dos Santos and Fernando Barbosa Noll, “Additions to the Known Distribution of ''Epipompilus aztecus'' (Cresson, 1869) and ''E. excelsus'' (Bradley, 1944) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae),” Psyche, vol. 2010, Article ID 562869, 3 pages, 2010.

Habitat

Tropical deciduous forest.

References

Pompilidae Hymenoptera of North America Hymenoptera of South America Insects of Central America Insects of Mexico Fauna of the Atlantic Forest Insects described in 1869 Taxa named by Ezra Townsend Cresson {{apocrita-stub