Hemipepsis tamisieri
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| Hemipepsis tamisieri | |
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| Hemipepsis tamisieri with its prey, a baboon spider (Theraphosidae). | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Pompilidae |
| Genus: | Hemipepsis |
| Species: | H. tamisieri |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemipepsis tamisieri | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Hemipepsis tamisieri is a species of afrotropical pepsid spider wasp, one of the so-called tarantula hawks because its preferred prey are tarantulas of the family Theraphosidae.