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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Entypus dumosus
(Spinola)
CHILE
:
Valparaíso Region
,
San Antonio Province
,
El Quisco
;
23 November 2018
;
O. A. Gato
(odaalgato). Host:
Lycosa
sp., adult or subadult female. A series of photographs and short video shows the wasp pulling the paralyzed wolf spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, and eventually into a hole amongst short vegetation, grasping its chelicera with her mandibles (
Gato 2018
)
.