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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Auplopus striatus
Dreisbach
BRAZIL
:
State
of
Santa Catarina
,
Florianopolis
;
14 May 2018
;
D. A. Gass
(douglasalencargass). Host: Unidentified species (
Anyphaenidae
), adult or subadult female. The wasp held the ghost spider, venter to venter, with all legs amputated at coxa-trochanter joints, grasping its spinnerets with her mandibles (
Gass 2014
)
.
VENEZUELA
:
Sucre State
, CumanĂ¡;
27 April 2017
; C. A. C. Rosales. Host:?
Parnaenus
sp. (
Salticidae
), adult or subadult female. The wasp straddled the dismembered paralyzed jumping spider on the ground, venter to venter, grasping its spinnerets with her mandibles (Rosales 2016).