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
Priocnemis
(
Priocnemis
)
germana
(Cresson)
TX: Hardin County, Big Thicket National Preserve, sandy soil in pine woods;
20 April 2015
; J. Gallagher. Host:
Arctosa
sp. (
Lycosidae
), penultimate female. The wasp grasped the wolf spider with her mandibles and dragged it rapidly backwards on the ground over plant debris. She paused to examine the paralyzed spider using her antennae and mouthparts. Continuing to pull the spider backwards on the ground, she disappeared into a burrow beneath plant debris (
Gallagher 2016
; J. Gallagher, Woodbridge, VA, 2017 pers. comm.).