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
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1175-5326
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Priocnemella fairchildi
(Banks)
BRAZIL
:
Amazonas State
,
Manaus
,
PetrĂ³polis
;
22 February 2020
;
A. M. Gomes
(arthurmgomes). Host: Unidentified species (
Ctenidae
), adult or subadult. A series of photographs shows the wasp detaching the limbs of the wandering spider with her mandibles as it laid, dorsal side upward, on the ground (
Gomes 2020
)
.
FRENCH GUIANA
: Cayenne State,
RĂ©gina Commune
,
13 km
W of Bita on Aratai Creek;
2 October 2015
; S. Meierotto (smeierotto). Host: Unidentified species (
Ctenidae
), adult or subadult female. Two photographs show the wasp straddling the paralyzed wandering spider, venter to dorsum, grasping the base of its chelicera with her mandibles (
Meierotto 2020
).