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 adjunctus
(Banks)
AZ: Pima County, Vail;
18 December 2018
, posted
4 February 2020
; (critterplug). Host:
Lauricius
cf
hooki
Gertsch (
Zoropsidae
), adult or subadult female. The wasp stood over the paralyzed partially delimbed false wolf spider, as it laid ventral side upward on the ground, preening its right foreleg with her mandibles (
Critterplug 2020
).