New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
Author
Kurczewski, Frank E.
Author
West, Rick C.
Author
Waichert, Cecilia
Author
Kissane, Kelly C.
Author
Ubick, Darrell
Author
Pitts, James P.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-12-07
4891
1
1
112
journal article
9376
10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1
8cd88652-1627-4fbe-891d-062b3e02e511
1175-5326
4309249
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Tachypompilus ferrugineus bicolor
(Banks)
PUERTO RICO
:
Guayanilla
; posted
31 July 2019
; D. Cales (@dc_photography_blog). Host:
Neostasina bicolor
(Banks) (Sparassidae)
, adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed huntsman spider backwards on the leaf covered ground, dorsal side upward, grasping its right pedipalp with her mandibles (
Cales 2019
; E. Talamas, Curator, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, Florida, 2019 pers. comm.).