Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
Author
Kurczewski, Frank E.
1188 Converse Drive NE, Atlanta, GA 30324
Author
West, Rick C.
6365 Willowpark Way, Sooke, BC, Canada V 9 Z 1 L 9
Author
Waichert, Cecilia
Complexo Biopráticas, Universidade Vila Velha, Vila Velha, State of Espirito Santo, Brazil
Author
Pitts, James P.
Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322
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Insecta Mundi
2022
2022-04-29
2022
928
1
32
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.6533498
1942-1354
6533498
48EC3DE6-45D1-40E2-8C4D-2D8788058CAC
Priocnessus sericeus
Dreisbach
COLOMBIA
:
Cundinamarca Department
, Tena;
13 December 2020
, 1551; J. N. Rozo Pinilla. Host:
Ctenus
sp. (Ctenidae)
, adult or subadult female. The wasp straddled the immobilized wandering spider, dorsal side upward, and grasped the patella of its left foreleg with her mandibles. She then walked to the front of the spider, grasped its chelicera with her mandibles, and turned it onto its back, ventral side upward. Maintaining this grasp of the spider, she walked forward into dense vegetation, occasionally pausing and walking backwards for a short distance before turning around and walking forward (
Fig. 5
;
Rozo Pinilla 2020
).