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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Pepsis martini
Vardy
BRAZIL
: State of
Mato Grosso
, Alta Floresta, Cristalino Lodge;
24 March 2019
; S. Dantas. Host:
Diplura nigra
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge) (Dipluridae)
, subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed curtain-web spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping its right forecoxa with her mandibles (
Dantas 2019a
; A. Brescovit and S. Lucas, Instituto Butantan, S„o Paulo, Brazil, 2019 pers. comm.).