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''Pepsis menechma'', the elegant tarantula hawk, is a species of spider wasp in the family Pompilidae, widely distributed in 
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
and Central America
Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. ...
. It has numerous very different color forms over its range, and has been historically classified as several species.
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* Pepsinae Insects described in 1845 {{hymenoptera-stub