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
6B0E1135-8C4E-4341-9793-AB970FBCD10B
Ageniella
(
Ageniella
)
euphorbiae
(Viereck)
CA: Amador County, Eldorado National Forest, Kirkwood Lake, hillside covered with boulders, elevation
2336 m
;
30 July 2017
; A. J. Abela. Host:
Alopecosa kochi
(Keyserling) (Lycosidae)
, juvenile, with all but forelegs cut off at coxa-trochanter joints. The wasp grasped the paralyzed wolf spider’s left foreleg midway from the end or the base of its right chelicera with her mandibles and walked forward on the ground, maintaining the spider dorsal side upward and keeping her wings flat on the dorsum. The pair disappeared into a crevice among boulders (
Abela 2017
).