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
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Entypus aratus
(Townes)
,
E
.
austrinus
(Banks) or
E
.
texanus
(Cresson)
TX: Lubbock County, 0.5 km NE of Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport;
12 June 2019
; E. Hildebrandt (ellen5). Host:
Schizocosa mccooki
, adult or subadult female. A series of photos shows the wasp examining the paralyzed wolf spider and it laid on the ground, dorsal side upward, before grasping its chelicera with her mandibles and pulling it backwards on the ground (
Hildebrandt 2019
).