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 pratens
Dreisbach
BRAZIL
:
State
of
EspĂrito Santo
,
Municipality of
Serra,
3 km
NE of Aroaba
;
16 March 2018
; Sckel. Host: Unidentified species (
Salticidae
), adult or subadult female. A series of photographs shows the wasp straddling the paralyzed jumping spider on a leaf, venter to venter, dismembering its limbs with her mandibles (
Sckel 2018
)
.